Organizers of the 2009 Troika music festival are no longer taking submissions for artists, and that’s probably a good thing. Why? It’s because the lineup is busting at the seams.

In 2002, the Durham Association for Downtown Arts, Inc. (DADA) decided to organize the first one-day Durham Music Festival featuring musicians and bands for Durham. The event was a success, so the following year DADA held the festival over a course of three nights at multiple venues downtown.

By 2005, the organizers wanted to include the entire Triangle area, so the festival expanded to five days and there were events in Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh. This is also when organizers changed the name to Troika Music Festival.

The Troika Music Festival will take place on Nov. 5-7. They don’t have a detailed schedule yet, but they are look for volunteers to help them with various tasks. The organizers put on a fundraiser to raise money for the festival. Local musical and visual artists applied their artistry to bowling pin then the pins were auctioned off to supporters of Troika.

Take a look at Bullbot Blog, the official blog of the Troika Musical Festival and follow Troika on Twitter.

Here is a list of performers as listed on the Troika site:Bowerbirds, Dex Romweber Duo, Birds of Avalon, The Moaners, Schooner, Future Islands, Whatever Brains, Hammer No More The Fingers, Molly Bancroft, Bellafea, EAR PWR, Caltrop, The Travesties, Lonnie Walker, The Dirty Little Heaters, The Future Kings of Nowhere [solo], The Loners, I Was Totally Destroying It, The Bronzed Chorus, Liza Kate, LA Tool & Die, Jews & Catholics, Citified, Pink Flag, The Huguenots, Grappling Hook, Maple Stave, Scientific Superstar, Veelee, Regina Hexaphone, The Dry Heathens, Rat Jackson, The Beast, Embarrassing Fruits, Max Indian, Ryan Gustafson, The Pneurotics, Ghost Cats, Beloved Binge, Tea & Tempests, Three Days in Vegas, Pistil, The ExMonkeys, Dynamite Brothers, The Desmonds, Gray Young, Brett Harris, Luego, The Tender Fruit, Wembley, Bright Young Things, All Your Science, Sea Cow, Veronique Diabolique, Mount Moriah, Birds and Arrows