Festivals / West Riverfront (Detroit); 2013-2014 at Freedom Hill, Sterling Heights
Mo Pop Festival
Closed – archive entry · 2022
A former indie and alternative music festival (2013–2022), held at Detroit's West Riverfront Park from 2015 after two years at Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights.
01 / The story of this place
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Mo Pop began in 2013 at Freedom Hill Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights and moved in 2015 to Detroit's West Riverfront Park, where it became the city's main indie and alternative festival. Headliners included Modest Mouse and Passion Pit (2015), Haim, M83 and G-Eazy (2016), Alt-J, Foster the People, Run the Jewels and Solange (2017), and Bon Iver, The National, St. Vincent and Portugal. The Man (2018). After the 2020–2021 COVID break it returned in 2022, and in February 2023 organizers announced a hiatus from the outdoor-festival model.
- Detroit's main indie festival
- West Riverfront Park from 2015
- Bon Iver and The National, 2018
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03 / Events
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