Legendary HFStival will be revived this summer, concert organizers hint

Nbcwashington · Jun 05, 2024 · 468 words · By Carissa DiMargo

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What to know about Legendary HFStival will be revived this summer, concert organizers hint

Editor's Note: HFStival dropped the full lineup for the 2024 festival on Tuesday, June 11.

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What happened

Editor's Note: HFStival dropped the full lineup for the 2024 festival on Tuesday, June 11.

Why it matters

Figure out your 'fit for the mosh pit, because the D.C.

Common ground

and Baltimore area's iconic (and long dead) HFStival is coming back to life this summer, concert planners say.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that A documentary about WHFS, "Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3," won Best Documentary Feature at the DC Independent Film Festival this year?
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Claim 1: “A documentary about WHFS, "Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3," won Best Documentary Feature at the DC Independent Film Festival this year.”

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While the documentary 'Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3' exists and was screened at the DC Independent Film Festival, one source explicitly states it won 'Best Documentary Short at the Santa Fe International Film Festival', not 'Best Documentary Feature' at the DC festival.

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web search NEUTRAL — A documentary about WHFS Radio 102.3, a Washington, DC station popular in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s for their free-form progressive style and many rare rock star interviews.Want to see this fil…
https://feastyourearsthefilm.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — FEAST YOUR EARS: The Story of WHFS 102.3 is a feature length documentary film that will take you on a trip back to the '60s, '70s and '80s when "free form" progressive FM radio was in its heyday in Am…
https://www.wifv.org/manage/assets/uploads/2024/02/Mar24News…

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web search NEUTRAL — Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3 FM. Where: Avalon Theater, 5612 Connecticut Ave., NW. When: Thursday, February 22, at 7:15 PM.The film, which Frimpong collaborated on, won Best Documentary Sh…
https://washingtonian.com/2024/02/16/3-local-documentaries-t…

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Claim 2: “the equally iconic music venue 9:30 Club, as well as Nationals Park, both teased the festival's return on Instagram, sharing on Wednesday: "HFSTIVAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024 • NATIONALS PARK."”

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Web search results explicitly state that the 9:30 Club and Nationals Park social media accounts teased the festival's return for Saturday, September 21, 2024, at Nationals Park.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Orchard Park High School is a secondary school in Orchard Park, New York. The school has approximately 1725 children in grades 9–12. The students are divided among three houses with a principal for ea…
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Claim 3: “Even MTV's website previewed the festival in 1997. Artists that year included Beck, The Prodigy, The Cardigans and the Squirrel Nut Zippers.”

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Two independent web search results confirm that the 1997 lineup included Beck, The Prodigy, The Cardigans, and the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The HFStival is an annual rock festival in the Washington–Baltimore area. It was held every summer from 1990 through 2006 by radio station WHFS. It was held again in 2010 and 2011 in commemoration of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFStival

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — KROQ Weenie Roast is a multi-artist music concert, presented annually in May by the Los Angeles, California, modern rock radio station KROQ-FM. Since its beginning in 1993, it has been traditionally h…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Acts performing at the HFStival, a Washington, DC/Baltimore outdoor alternative rock festival, 1990–2006. It was resurrected in 2010. Bold text indicates a headlining artist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HFStival_performers

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Claim 4: “But in 2005, under a different ownership group, it abruptly switched formats to a Spanish-language station without warning, famously playing Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" as its final song.”

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Web search results confirm that WHFS switched to a Spanish-language format in 2005 and that Jeff Buckley's 'Last Goodbye' was the final song played.

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web search NEUTRAL — WHFS was the call sign for three successive FM stations in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore markets that broadcast on various frequencies for nearly 50 years. The first station in the area to broad…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHFS_(historic)

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web search NEUTRAL — Since its founding in the 1960s, WHFS’s airwaves had been centered on the freewheeling deejay.At noon, after the final chords of Jeff Buckley’s 1995 hit, “Last Goodbye,” faded, listeners heard an ener…
https://boundarystones.weta.org/2018/07/05/whfs-sells-out-de…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jeff Buckley- Grace (First Listen).Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye (HD) THE WOLF HUNTERZ Reactions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ZF6SE8660

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Claim 5: “A series of D.C.-area radio stations used the call letters WHFS across several decades.”

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Multiple sources, including a web search result and a Wikipedia snippet, confirm that WHFS was the call sign for three different FM stations in the DC/Baltimore area over nearly 50 years.

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web search NEUTRAL — WHFS was the first station in the D.C. area to broadcast in FM stereo — resulting in the Washington High Fidelity Stereo call letters. Cerphe says the station wasn’t just technologically ahead of its …
https://feastyourearsthefilm.com/PressNews.html

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web search NEUTRAL — Mention the call letters “WHFS” to music lovers of a certain age, and don’t be surprised if a smile instantly appears on their face, or a twinkle seems to light up their eye.
https://priuschat.com/threads/whfs.190278/

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web search NEUTRAL — WHFS was the call sign for three different FM stations in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore, Maryland markets on various frequencies for nearly 50 years.
https://studio10bocaraton.com/dyxUSu/whfs-tapes

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Claim 6: “HFStival — pronounced H-F-estival — was a massive music festival held annually for more than a decade in the DMV, including several years at the District's now-shuttered RFK Stadium.”

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Wikipedia and web search results confirm HFStival was an annual rock festival in the Washington-Baltimore (DMV) area from 1990-2006 (over a decade) and was held at RFK Stadium.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Northwest Stadium is a stadium near Landover, Maryland, in the census-designated place of Summerfield 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Washington, D.C. It is the home venue of the Washington Commanders of the…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, commonly known as RFK Stadium and originally known as District of Columbia Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C. It was located along the Anacost…
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Claim 7: “HFStival dropped the full lineup for the 2024 festival on Tuesday, June 11.”

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Two independent web search results confirm the HFStival 2024 lineup was announced on Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

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Claim 8: “MTV's Kurt Loder... is now 79 years old”

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