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Square Roots Festival Announces Eclectic Music Lineup

 Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars are among the bands scheduled to perform at the Square Roots festival in July.
Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars are among the bands scheduled to perform at the Square Roots festival in July.
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LINCOLN SQUARE — With the Old Town School of Folk Music handling programming duties, the Square Roots festival ought to stand out from other cover-band heavy street fairs.

The just-announced music lineup doesn't disappoint.

The three-day festival, scheduled for July 12-14, boasts two outdoor stages on Lincoln Avenue and three indoor venues split between Old Town's east and west buildings.

Quebec's Le Vent du Nord and Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars headline Friday's opening lineup. Both bands will play outdoors, on stages set up between Montrose and Wilson avenues.

Saturday's entertainment kicks off at noon, with the addition of the indoor stages. In the east building (ie, the new Old Town), Szold Hall will host a number of dance workshops — Brazilian, Tahitian, clogging — and the East Lobby will serve as the festival's hub for workshops and interactive jams (BYOI, bring your own instrument).

The evening's headliners feature the rock 'n' roll stomp of Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside and the contemporary folk sound of Mali's Fatoumata Diawara.

Closing acts on Sunday include The Black Lillies, who honed their country, roots, rock and blues sound in Tennessee; Bachaco, an international Afro-Caribbean roots and rock band based out of Miami; and Rajasthan Josh, a collective that fuses traditional and contemporary styles of Indian folk music.