MACRoCk
The Mid-Atlantic College Radio Conference (MACRoCk) is an annual music conference held in the downtown area of Harrisonburg, Virginia every April since 1997. It features local, regional, and national musical acts as well as a music label exposition and panels addressing issues of the media, music, DIY projects, and the independent music scene. MACRoCk gives underground, indie, punk, and metal bands a chance to gain exposure and publicity by showcasing them during two days of performances around the city of Harrisonburg, Virginia. The event gives bands a much wider audience than would occur during a normal show.
Notable bands to perform at MACRoCk include mewithoutYou, Q and Not U, Fugazi (in 2002), Animal Collective, The Faint, Archers of Loaf, Dismemberment Plan, Sufjan Stevens, Prefuse 73, Mates of State, John Vanderslice, The Wrens, Converge, Give up the ghost, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Of Montreal, Norma Jean, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Poison the Well, Bane, Superchunk, Elliott Smith (in 1997),[1] An Albatross, Coheed and Cambria, Avail, Denali, and Engine Down.[2]
