Concerts and Cycling: Boro Fondo Hits the Murfreesboro Streets Again

Boro Fondo will return for an action-packed three-day weekend Friday, Sept. 29, through Sunday, Oct. 1. Participants bike, skate, walk or unicycle to several venues around Murfreesboro while admiring artwork and swiping through clothing at vendor booths.

The festival, free for all ages, is centered around the importance of both safe pedestrian and bicycle travel and local artists. It celebrates a variety of musical genres and rocks on until the wee hours of the night on Saturday.

“We have shoegaze, alt-rock, rap, electronic, psychedelic and on Sunday we will have a violinist,” said Hope Headden, one of Boro Fondo’s organizers. “The most heavily featured genre would be punk/hardcore. That’s what’s most prevalent in the local Murfreesboro DIY scene, so we had a lot of those bands submit.”

Hayden Gist, another organizer, is looking forward to seeing the newer talent this year.

“Respect to the musicians who’ve been doing it for years, but I always like seeing newcomers because I feel like that’s what keeps the scene alive,” Gist said.

Boro Fondo encourages everyone, new to the scene or veterans, to spend some time with their fellow community members biking around town and checking out live local music.

2023 Boro Fondo Schedule
Friday, Sept. 29

Panther Creek Brews
714 W. Main St., Suite F
6:30 p.m. Nuclear Bubble Wrap
7 p.m. Aye Mammoth
7:30 p.m. Dru the Drifter and the Back Alley Hookers
8 p.m. Death Holler
8:30 p.m. Daedalus
9 p.m. Spinning Lodge

Saturday, Sept. 30

Ace Sign Co
2010 E. Main St.
1 p.m. Peregrihn
1:30 p.m. Los Swamp Monsters
2 p.m. Bon Mi

Century 21
125 Lasseter Dr.
2:40 p.m. Dumpster Pussy
3:10 p.m. Poplar Creek
3:40 p.m. Ghost Town Remedy

Wak Shak
316 4th Ave.
4:20 p.m. Close Proximity
4:50 p.m. Local 58
5:20 p.m. Oi!Takus

Le Funky Chateau
704 N. Church St.
6 p.m. Jake Kroll
6:30 p.m. Still Satellite
7 p.m. Regdar and the Fighters

Houseland
463 Evergreen St.
7:40 p.m. Growler
8:10 p.m. Casual Sects
8:40 p.m. Honey Dagger

Graveyard Gallery
517 W. Main St.
9:20 p.m. BMKS
9:50 p.m. Barricaded Suspects
10:20 p.m. Officer Down

Boro Bar & Grill
1211 Greenland Dr.
11 p.m. Skeetzo N Krysis
11:30 p.m. Neptune the Mystic
12 a.m. Badhippy
12:30 a.m. Abated Mass of Flesh
1 a.m. Toxic Culture
1:30 a.m. Murdered in a Record Shop

Campus Pub
903 Gunnerson Ave.
11 p.m. J Logan
11:30 p.m. Ceeto Bankz
12 a.m. Shamaz
12:30 a.m. Sokol Sound
1 a.m. Plague Summer
1:30 a.m. Shrimp Lo Mein III

Sunday, Oct. 1

Campus Pub
903 Gunnerson Ave.
4 p.m. Karate Chad
4:30 p.m. Doku Genesis
5 p.m. Whispelia
5:30 p.m. Kip Gloss
6 p.m. Scorched Vatika
6:30 p.m. Bad Bad Cats
7 p.m. Every Promise Kept
7:30 p.m. Aversive Control