Today, the board of the first annual Columbia Music Festival officially announced the three acts that will perform as part of their kickoff concert for a week of performances.

In addition to student artists Standard Delivery and Lubeen, rapper Hoodie Allen will headline the first concert, which will take place on April 9. The festival’s theme is Synaesthesia.

Standard Delivery is an indie pop/rock band with an upcoming single, and Lubeen, CC ’13, has recorded multiple rap albums.

In the last few years, Hoodie Allen has become a star on the rise in the rap world, perhaps best known for his song “No Faith In Brooklyn.”

Read the full press release after the jump:

NEW YORK—Hoodie Allen, a hip-hop artist and singer, will be performing a CUID-only show for CCSC’s Kickoff Concert at Columbia Music Festival 2013: Synaesthesia with Columbia openers Standard Delivery and Lubeen. The concert will be in Roone Arledge Auditorium, with doors at 7pm. The festival is scheduled to last from Tuesday, April 9, 2013 to Sunday, April 14, 2013.

This is the first lineup to be released in the coming weeks for Columbia Music Festival 2013, this year themed “Synaesthesia.” In addition to the CCSC, the week will have shows hosted by Live at Lerner, WKCR, WBAR, Bacchanal, and Postcrypt, whose lineups will be announced in the weeks to come on our website, columbiamusicfestival.com, and the Columbia Music Festival Facebook page
(http://www.facebook.com/ColumbiaMusicFestival). Columbia Music Festival is also pleased to announce a partnership with Community Advisers from the Office of Residential Programs to bring food trucks on campus during the festival. More announcements on this will also come through our website and Facebook page.

ABOUT COLUMBIA MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Columbia Music Festival is the brainchild of several music-loving communities and Columbia
College Campus Life at Columbia University in the City of New York. After many years of separate (and awesome) day-long festivals (such as Bacchanal’s spring concert, Postcrypt’s Folk Fest, Live at Lerner’s Symposium, WBAR’s WBAR-BQ), we’ve decided to bring it all together for one awesome, week-long event exclusively for Columbia University students and affiliates. Through this festival, we hope to show off the diversity of tastes and culture that Columbia—and New
York City—have to offer.

An earlier version of this post identified the kickoff concert as ‘(SIN)esthesia’; it is spelled ‘Synaesthesia’ and refers to the theme of the festival. Spectrum regrets the error.