Tomato Face; (above) Dapper Dan Man Band
Murfreesboro bicycle and music enthusiasts will go folk themselves Oct. 25 for the inaugural Tour De Folk.
The event is a spinoff of Meth Dad member Tyler Walker’s brainchild Tour De Fun, an annual bike ride/house show series he started in Murfreesboro in 2010 before taking the name to Nashville this year.
Thus, Tour De Fun became Boro Fondo this year, with more than 1,000 in attendance. While the talent and diversity of Murfreesboro’s music scene is old news, its burgeoning cycling scene has found an outlet through Tour De Fun/Boro Fondo, and now Tour De Folk.
“Tour De Folk’s main goal is to have fun while spreading the word of new bands and artists from Middle Tennessee. There are mass bike rides between all the venues, because we want to raise awareness of the growing cyclist population,” said Eric DeTorres, a local who also had a hand in organizing Boro Fondo earlier this spring.
“Tour De Folk is to start a tradition of two bicycle/music festivals per year,” Eric said.
Details are still emerging, but Tour De Folk will begin at Smoopy’s Vintage Bicycles at 1 p.m. Friday with stops at Rack City and The Pour House, ending with an afterparty on Harrison Avenue that goes til midnight. The lineup will include Christlove, Gil Costello, Tomato Face, Dapper Dan Man Band, Henry Daggs and many more.
