Music at the Intersection

An estimated 17,000 people attended this year's Music at the Intersection festival, as the event debuted a new footprint and featured the performances at new venue the Sovereign.

John Medeski’s Mad Skillet will make its only U.S. appearance of the year on Saturday at Music at the Intersection, the three-day festival set to take over Grand Center.

Grammy-nominated musician Keyon Harrold loves to come home to St. Louis for MATI every year.

This year’s MATI festival will include an additional main stage and an expanded conference.

Evolution Festival and MATI are both contributing to tornado response efforts. Evolution Festival net proceeds from ticket, concession, merchandising and parking sales will go toward the United Way. MATI is also donating $10 from each pass it sells to 4 the Ville.

New festival Free 4 All will take over 10 venues in Grand Center the weekend before Music At The Intersection. Organizers of the new festival say it’s a sort of opening act for MATI, featuring St. Louis artists.

The fifth iteration of the Music at the Intersection festival will include headliners Common, Patti LaBelle, De La Soul and Branford Marsalis, plus pop-up presentations and performances around Midtown.

The St. Louis artist is the writer and rapper behind hits like “Snatched” and the certified gold single “Pretty Girls Walk.”

Several local musicians were disappointed in lack of accommodations such as access to meals and greenroom space.

A quintet of jazz players assembled for Music at the Intersection will pay tribute to the indelible contribution of jazz musicians and educators from the east side of the river.