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FABFEST-Charlotte's Beatles Festival - 2019 Highlights

FABFEST

Visit FABFESTCharlotte.org for details of the inaugural FabFest as well as ticket information for  #FABFESTCharlotte which will be held June 19-21, 2020.

In 2019, Tosco Music expanded our annual Tosco Music Beatles Tribute into FABFEST, a full weekend of events drawing Beatles fans from across the Southeast to Charlotte!

FABFEST 2019 included two evening events at Knight Theater - The Fab Four on Friday evening and Tosco Music Beatles Tribute on Saturday evening - and a full weekend of daytime live music, speakers and activities on Saturday and Sunday:
Bands & Speakers
Rare concert footage
Memorabilia & Vinyl
Beatles Art Contest 
Beatles Trivia
Beatle Brains panel discussions
Name That Beatles Tune
Family Fun Room

FABFEST 2020 will have two evening concerts at Knight Theater, along with next year 3 full days of live music, speakers and activities. All of the daytime festival activities will take place at Spirit Square. 

Peter Asher joined us for the inaugural event June 14-16, 2019, along with The Cyrkle, Beatlesque, Vivek Tiwary and Anthony Robustelli! Several full performances are now posted online and subscribe to Tosco Music's YouTube Channel to see more as they are posted:

Kate Lee and Forrest O'Connor
Steve Stoeckel & Keith Shamel with the TMP House Band & Singalong Choir
Randy Franklin & The Sardines
Beatlesque
Ellie Morgan

Photos from the weekend by several area photographers are also online:

Monty Chandler
Jimi Nedoff
Steve Moore
Laura Lynn Music Photography (all photos above)
Brad Nathanson Photography
Kristine Summer's Video Blog

All proceeds from FABFEST - Charlotte's Beatles Festival support Tosco Music's nonprofit programs year-round: Tosco Music Parties, Tosco Music Open Mic, TMP ticket scholarships, youth and adult music scholarships to The Swannanoa Gathering and Arts+ summer music camps, performance opportunities for local talent, access to music programs in senior communities and throughout Charlotte at events and activities that are free and open to the public.


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