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80/35 Music Festival’s Fifth Year of Alternative Music

80/35 Music Festival Project Manager Amedeo Rossi heads up the 5th music festival in downtown Des Moines.

This weekend the annual alternative music festival Eighty Thirty Five marks it’s fifth consecutive year of bringing national acts like Avett Brothers and Death Cab for Cutie to Des Moines.  For some these are new and unusual bands and festival organizers say this is one of the key reasons they put together this music event.

John Pemble is a reporter for IPR