MATI: Music At The Intersection @ Grand Center Arts District

The 2025 MATI festival will return to Grand Center and The Roots FM is excited to be a community partner for this event!

Sept 12-14, MATI (Music at the Intersection) Festival and Conference returns for its fifth year with a diverse, roots-inspired and decades-spanning artist lineup. Headliners include 3x Grammy winning rapper Common with superproducer Pete Rock, the godmother of soul Patti LaBelle, New Orleans R&B singer-songwriter Lucky Daye, neo-soul R&B singer-producer Leon Thomas, legendary hip-hop group De La Soul, and jazz great Branford Marsalis. See the full lineup at MATIstl.org. 

MATI weekend – now expanded to three days, Sept 12-14 – features more than 100 national, regional and St. Louis-based performances and presentations across 19 stages and venues throughout Grand Center Arts District’s festival footprint – with Washington Avenue being the main activation area. Weekend and single-day passes are available at MATIstl.org.

The Roots FM will have a tent where you can meet and talk with our DJ’s and YOU could even be on the air.  We will be doing live broadcasts throughout each day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday!!!  Hope to see you there!!

All MATI Main Stages passholders will have access to indoor restrooms, expanded seating, lounge areas, shade structures and curated food and beverage options. The Big Top and Field Stage will feature new video elements, while The Sovereign – brand new for 2025 – will offer a state-of-the-art audio and visual concert experience. MATI weekend pass holders will be able to come and go freely from the block party to the performance areas, showing their pass at security checkpoints to gain access to the Main Stages. Weekend (Sept 12-14) and single-day MATI Main Stages passes are available at MATIstl.org. MATI is donating $10 from each MATI pass to 4theVille for St. Louis tornado relief.

Map of Music at the Intersection 2025.

ARTISTS AND ACTIVATIONS BY DAY

MATI weekend features more than 100 national, regional and St. Louis-based performances and presentations across 19 stages and venues. The daily lineups are as follows:

Pedrito Martinez (Artist-at-Large); Keyon Harrold (Artist-in-Residence) and Brenda Navarrete (Artist-at-Large) will play on multiple sets throughout MATI weekend.

Friday, September 12

Coco & Breezy; Barrington Levy; Pirulo Y La Tribu; Weedie Braimah & The Hands of Time; Marquise Knox with Funky Butt Brass Band; Anita Jackson; House of Tucci: Ish Ensemble Superjam; Playadors St. Louis Superjam; Saint Boogie Brass Band; K Kudda Muzic & Friends; Materia Takeover; Noel Spiva; Branden Michael Lewis; Frankie Dowop & The Thundacats; and Scooter Brown

Saturday, September 13

Common & Pete Rock; Lucky Daye; John Medeski’s Mad Skillet; Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe; The S.O.S. Band; The Budos Band; Leela James; The Womack Sisters; Ryan Trey; Adam Maness Trio feat. Bob DeBoo & Kaleb Kirby; Whitworth; T-Dubb-O; Drea Vocalz; Mesonjixx; Joe2morrow; Antonio Foster Trio; Enoch Ravi and the Indigenous Groove; Marc Buxton; KC Mackey; Santo; The Boogaloo Crew of St. Louis; Cassette with Charlie Chan Soprano & Rhashad La Rocka’; and DJ Sinamin

Sunday, September 14

Patti LaBelle; Leon Thomas; De La Soul; Branford Marsalis; Arooj Aftab; The Baylor Project; Keyon Harrold; Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio; Butcher Brown; Jazz STL celebrates Miles feat. Danny Campbell, Keyon Harrold, Dustin Shrum, Dawn Weber, Kasimu Taylor & Brady Lewis; Blvck Spade & The Cosmos; Brothers Lazaroff Super Friends; Eldraco+FreeNation; Matt “The Rattlesnake” Lesch; Matthew Henry’s Agbara; DJ Mahf; DJ Boogieman; Papa Ray; Biko; DJ Crucial & Agile One; Chilly C; Steward Stiles; DJ Phonzeito; The Lady J Huston Show; and G.Wiz and the Time Travelers