RALEIGH — When the Hopscotch Music Festival debuted in 2010, Public Enemy shared the bill with Broken Social Scene, Panda Bear, 9th Wonder, Future Islands, Rapsody, The War on Drugs, Sharon Van Etten and more than 100 other acts.
The inaugural festival placed 130 performers in 10 downtown venues, establishing a format that mixed major outdoor concerts with smaller club shows devoted to indie rock, hip-hop, metal, punk, country, jazz and experimental music.
Hopscotch founders Greg Lowenhagen and Grayson Currin, then working with the Independent Weekly, said the festival was intended to showcase the Triangle’s music scene alongside national and international performers…