Music at the Intersection

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.

The rapper is set to headline Music at the Intersection Saturday.

Headliners at Music at the Intersection include genre-busting jazz phenom Esperanza Spalding. The festival will take over Grand Center this weekend.

Along with two days of nationally acclaimed festival offerings, MATI Conferences and MATI Places are free events for all to enjoy.