Last year, T.I. helped Nashville, Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University break attendance records when he headlined the annual Rites of Spring Music Festival. Tip’s performance would be one of his last before he began serving his prison sentence. Appearances from Q-Tip, N.E.R.D. and others added to what was a banner year for Vanderbilt’s student run organization, The Music Group; the collective was also responsible for bringing Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 tour to Nashville.
This year, Drake takes the reigns as the headlining Hip Hop act. Drake’s own Home Away From Home tour dates will coincide with the Rites of Spring Festival happening April 23-24 and Vanderbilt’s own Campus Consciousness tour.
In addition to fellow Torontonian, Melanie Fiona, Hip Hop pioneer Doug E. Fresh will also perform. And while Nashville is known to most for having a densely populated Country Music scene, the bill will be balanced out with performers from other genres including Ben Harper and Relentless7, Phoenix, Passion Pit, Cold War Kids, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars and more. Tickets are currently on sale at all Ticketmaster locations as well as at Vanderbilt’s Sarrat Box Office. For more information, follow the festival on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ritesatvandy or visit www.ritesofspring.com.
