STARKVILLE – Indie rock band Flipturn, which has performed at major music festivals including Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and South by Southwest, is set to take the stage in April at Mississippi State University’s annual Old Main Music Festival.
The free day-long event, sponsored by MSU’s student-led Music Maker Productions, is scheduled for April 17 at the MSU Amphitheater near the intersection of Stone Boulevard and Russell Street.
The band, formed in 2015 in Fernandina Beach, Florida, has amassed more than 84 million streams on Spotify for its top single “August” from its 2018 extended-play album “Citrona.” Flipturn’s latest release, published in January 2025, is a 12-song album titled “Burnout Days.”
“We’ve been wanting to bring Flipturn to Starkville for a while now, so we’re elated to have finally landed them,” Cooper Word, student director for Music Maker Productions, wrote in an email to The Dispatch on Thursday. “They fit the spirit of Old Main Music Festival so incredibly well. … We’re having … a host of other fun activities. Capping that all off with Flipturn is going to be an incredibly special day for Mississippi State and Starkville, and we’re just excited to get to witness it.”
The festival will also feature a 25-vendor art market, a kids corner, food trucks, three opening bands on the amphitheater’s main stage and six additional bands performing on the local stage. A schedule of events and additional performers will be released in the coming weeks, Word said.
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