Bad Axe Michigan calling Air Traffic Controller

The Boston based band "Air Traffic Controller" is officially confirmed to headline the 2011 Hatchet Festival in Bad Axe, Michigan, on Saturday night June 11th, 2011.
The band has been gaining more and more attention in the New England area, with two recently sold out shows at Club Passim, a double bill at The Bull Run with Liz Longley last February (that literally brought the house down) and along with getting the call to support such nationally touring acts the likes of; Ferraby Lionheart, The Alternate Routes, and Good Old War, leaving no doubt that Air Traffic Controller is certainly a band on the rise in the regional music scene as it continues to ride the success of its debut CD.

While the album’s title track “The One” is currently charting on many college radio stations across the country and most recently Abercrombie and Fitch has purchased the song "Can't Let Go" adding it to their in store play list worldwide, but it is track 3 off the band’s CD that has come to the attention of both the city of Bad Axe and the planning committee for The 2011Hatchet Festival.

A modest hit that is gathering quite the fan base in the “thumb” of the Wolverine state (and for obvious reasons), Track 3 on the CD is a song called "Bad Axe MI” a 3 min track that tells the story of a band called Bad Axe that came to Boston with a dream like so many others but quickly found themselves disillusioned by the “myth” of the Boston music scene. A song prefaced by Air Traffic Controller frontman Dave Munro; as “a true story and a break up song about a band called Bad Axe from a place called Bad Axe MI.” That band (Bad Axe) which spent quite a bit of in time living in the Boston area, now based in Nashville, will be returning home to Michigan to perform w/ Air Traffic Controller along with local artist Nathan Schock at this year’s Hatchet Festival.

It is a reunion and a homecoming, with small town history at stake, on June 11th Boston sends one of its best live acts to Bad Axe Michigan to not only represent one of the country’s most thriving music scenes but to also deliver the message loud and clear; This Boston Music Scene is no myth.