The Carrboro Citizen, Thursday, September 27, 2007 -- page 10

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Support the Arts in Carrboro

Archer Graphics1 - Storm Front: Carolina Blues2 - Killer Filler: Surfy, instru-mental3 - Lithium Dove: alt-Rock4 - Ronnie Parks & Tim Forbes: Original Carolina Rock5 - Off The Road Band: Ameri-cana6 - The Lids: 50’s - 70’s Rock

Armadillo Grill1 - Rose Verhoeven1:30 - Frank Princiotta2 - Jon Batson2:30 - Rog Bates3 - ‘good turn’3:30 - Pete Leary4 - Leah Magner4:30 - Mark Easley, Sr.5 - Amber Dutton5:30 - Laura McLean6 - The Redheaded Strangers6:30 - Jason Harrod7 - Grand Finale - ALL

ArtsCenter(Carrburritos Stage)3 - Tony Galiani Band: Jazz4 - Generations with Adia & Freeman Ledbetter: Straight-ahead with vocals5 - Club Boheme: Retro String Jazz w/Vocals6 - Dave Youngman Quintet: Jazz and Blues7 - Frankie Alexander, Steve Wing and Friends: Jazz Standards8 - Lou Padro Sextet: Traditional and Contemporary Jazz9 - Erich Lieth and One Sun: World-beat Jazz

ArtsCenter(Fleet Feet Sports Stage)1 - Orientale Expressions Middle Eastern Dance Troupe2 - Wes Lambe Trio: Jazz3 - Onomata: Improv non-stan-dards, Jazz from outer space4 - Marie Vanderbeck Trio: Jazz and Pop, sweet and sassy5 - The Nifongs: Rock oriented political/social duo6 - Jamie Anderson: Singer song-writer, parking lot attendant7 - Mark Lewis: Piano Music of Harold Arlen8 - Sweet By & By: Alt-country, Bluegrass, acoustic9 - Gypsy Town: “Southern Cali-fornia Style” folk-rock

AutoLogic/ Peck & Arti-sans / Carrboro Citizen1 - Real Time Dreaming: Rock2 - The Scrambled Legs: Jazz 3 - Buffalo Theory: Classic Rock4 - Gambling the Muse: Original acoustic Americana5 - HWYL: Celtic influenced, Alternative6 - Tripp: Melodic Rock

Balanced Movement Studio1:15 - Forca Unificada: Capoeira music and dance2:15 - Timber Poe: Folk music for kids3:15 - Berkley Grimball and Robert Long: Folk Rock4:15 - Michael Covington & John Worthington: Country / Blues 5:15 - Pratie Heads: British- American traditional6:15 - Tokyo Rosenthal: Ameri-cana with roots & Blues7:15 - Jaafar: Meditations on Bass

Cat’s Cradle3:30 - Joceifus Rifle: Rootsy acoustic-based feel good Rock4:30 - Blue Diablo: Blues, Rock and boogie5:30 - Viva la Venus: Hard Rock6:30 - Mosadi Music: Funk heavy Hip-hop Soul, rock7:30 - Stratocruiser: Original neo-classic Rock8:30 - Audioform: Jazz funk9:30 - Can Joann: Melodic post-Punk Indie Power Pop10:30 - Children of the Horn: Funk/World

Century Center1 - Magnolia Klezmer Band: Jew-ish dance meets Swing2 - Zindagi: World beat dance3 - Wood, Brass, and Ivory:

Woodwind Classical to Popular4 - The Will McBride Group: Melodic and Latin Jazz5 - TBA6 - Lucky’s Starlight Lounge: Jazz standards/lounge7 - Michael Jones Trio: Jazz8 - Freeport: smooth jazz9 - Richard Tazewell Quartet: Jazz with island influences

DSI Comedy Theater2 - Donovan Keith: Roots-based experimental guitar3 - Hendecatope: Electronica/improvised4 - Shades of Winter: Eclectic acoustic music5 - The Devoted Bellydance Col-lective: Tribal fusion bellydance7 - Skylark: Celtic/traditional American8 - Eric Sommer: Indie/acoustic roots Americana9 - Hazflo: Hip-hop

Fifth Season Gardening1:15 - The Marla Vickers Band: Country2:15 - Rootzie: Blues/ Reggae/ Rock/ Country/ Bluegrass3:15 - Barrowburn: Celtic/Folk4:15 - The Stars Explode: Indie Pop Rock5:15 - The Road Home Band: mix of Folk, Bluegrass, Pop6:15 - Jeff Hart and the Damage Done: Rock7:15 - Big Fat Gap: Young, Ener-getic Carolina Bluegrass8:15 - T Rox & the Skankosaurs: Ska

Fitch Lumber1 - Miah and the Toyz: Rock, Pop2 - Jamsterdam: Jazz, Rock, Funk, Jam-Band stuff3 - Forest Scraperz: Alternative Folk4 - Moonatiks: Rock, Indie5 - Above Gravity: Electric Guitar Rock6 - Emerald City: Rock, Reggae, Fusion

Great Clips for Hair1 - Black Swamp Bootleggers: Bluegrass2 - Puritan Rodeo: Roots/Rock Ameicana3 - Rhonda Robichaux Band: Jazz/Swing/Samba/Blues4 - Oscar Begat: low-brow Chamber Pop/ high-brow folk-oustifunk5 - nodSense: jazzy/funky/ retro instrumental 6 - The Obies: Inspirational Gospel

Milltown2 - The Water Callers: Originals rooted in Americana3 - The Second String Band: pro-gressive, acoustic Bluegrass 4 - Janet Place & friends: Origi-nal Americana5 - Coyote Ridge: Bluegrass6 - Brian and Mary Lewis: Close-harmony Country7 - The Blue Tailed Skinks: Pied-mont Old-time music8 - Catbird Seat: Acoustic/ Americana9 - The Pneurotics: Indie rock with a Country twang

Music Loft1 - Rock and Roll High School2 - Rock and Roll High School3 - Lactose Quervo: Psyche-delicprogrocksoulrunfreakywild!!!4 - The Delta Drift: Original, vintage Rock and Roll and Blues5 - Big Foam Finger: Melodic guitar Rock with harmonies6 - The Future Kings of No-where: High energy acoustic/ Pop/ Punk/ Indie

Nested1:15 - Louise Bendall: Acoustic folk with a bluesy-jazzy twist2:15 - Davis Stillson: Acoustic Folk Rock3:15 - The Monologue Bombs: Indie Folk Singer-songwriter4:15 - Gilbert Neal: Soulful Pop5:15 - Sallie Scharding: singer-songwriter

6:15 - Andy Coats: Roots and Blues7:15 - Doctor Oakroot: Rough songs on homemade guitars

Open Eye Café1 - Two Many Mandolins: Choro, Samba and Swing2 - Jocelyn Arem: Folk & Soul3 - Folk by Four: Folk, Pop, Jazz & Gospel with tight four-part harmonies4 - Tim Smith and Eileen Regan: The big Celtic Fun5 - Tyler Hayes: Blues, Ameri-cana6 - Wedlock: Electronic Pop7 -Crushed by the Numbers: Original Indie Rock8 - Vince Williams and the Cav-alry: Charmingly potent9 - Loose Mood: Hammer dulci-mer/Trance

Padgett Station1:15 - Lyn Koonce: Folk/ Pop2:15 - Ann Humphreys: unvar-nished Country-Soul singing3:15 - Joe Woodson and The Bean Trees: Original and tradi-tional Americana4:15 - Mary Rocap: Original and traditional Folk5:15 - Tampa Blue: Piedmont, Delta, Southern based Blues6:15 - Anthony Neff: Singer/Songwriter7:15 - Gray Byrd: Emo Folk Rock8:15 - Don de Leaumont: Folk-singer/Songwriter

RBC Centura1:15 - The Afternoon Napsters: Rock / Pop2:15 - Joe Romeo & The Orange County Volunteers: Countryish Rock, dark narrative3:15 - Randy Whitt and the Grits: Country Rock, Americana4:15 - Bill Noonan Band: Ameri-cana/ Carolina Roots Rock5:15 - Real Reubens: Original Rock with Blues, Folk, Country, Latin & Americana6:15 - Ape Foot Groove: Funky, bluesy, jazzy

Town Commons1 - Full Moon Pie: From Twang to Reggae and Everything in Between2 - Milagro Saints: Folk with Soul3 - The Kingsbury Manx: Rock and Roll Signal Music Festival Showcase4 - Markus Maerk: Europe influ-ences shape his distinct sound5 - Entheos: combines electronic music with other styles6 - Pressler: electronic music that crosses genres and eras

Tyler’s Parking Lot3 - Allison King Band: Rockin’ Soul & Soulful Rock4 - The Nevers: Guitar Rock, Power Pop5 - Shakermaker: Rock, Pop and Indie6 - Too Much Fun: Jump Blues7 - The Breaks: Original Pop Rock narratives8 - Memphis the Band: Original Rock Americana

WCOM FM / Commu-nity Realty1 - Sawyer- Goldberg Jazz: stan-dards & classics, post-modern2 - The Recollectors: Traditional Stringband review3 - After Thought: Acoustic Folk with three-part harmonies4 - Shelia Fleming Warner: Song-writer in the not-so-ordinary Folk tradition5 - Kylebrack: Traditional Irish Music6 - Transzenders: Rock, Folk, Americana

Weaver St. Market1:15 - Skeedaddle: Hopped -up vintage acoustic Swing2:15 - Lucy Sumner and The Second Third: Original Folk/Jazz3:15 - Blue Marble Beat: Psychet-ronic Dub, Soul and Lounge4:15 - Saludos Compay: Latin Music for Listening and Dancing5:15 - Tim Smith Band: Soul, Funk, Reggae, original & covers

The Music Festival began in 1998, when then-Carrboro resident Elizabeth Boisson and the Carrboro Arts Com-mittee suggested to the mayor and board of aldermen that we join the handful of Ameri-can communites that celebrate the summer solstice through participation in the Interna-tional Fete de la Musique. Af-ter deciding to go ahead with the event (against the advice of some professional concert promoters), we agreed that we should plan the event for the Sunday closest to the actual summer solstice of June 21. There was an opinion within the committee that we should do as they do in France, and always do the event on the ac-tual day of June 21, but most committee members realized that here in the U.S. we would have much greater participa-tion on the weekend.

So we did just that, and were one of the first Ameri-can communites (and certainly the smallest) to participate. The town provided us with a liason person in the form of James Harris of the Office of Community and Economic Develepoment. He coordi-nated our interaction with the necessary town departments and made certain that we pre-pared and presented the event while following town rules and regulations. Committee mem-bers (especially Ms. Boisson

and Jackie H e l v e y ) w a l k e d the streets to raise monetary contribu-tions as well as

items for our fundraising raffle from community businesses. A large number of musicians from the talented local pool volunteered their services and the first event was a success and in the books.

In its first four years, the Fete de la Musique had four different committee chairper-sons, a rather large planning committee and (as many high school and college students were away for the summer) very few day-of-the-event vol-unteers. We experienced three years of very hot weather and one year of light sprinkles that forced us to scramble to reschedule a few of the out-door sites. We even tried, in the spirit of the original fetes, an “acoustic alley” along West Weaver Street where musicians were invited to just show up and play (it is my recollection that it did not go as well as we had planned).

In 2002, Mayor Nelson asked me to coordinate the event and, after agreeing, I made the suggestion to move the event to September and change the name to the sim-pler Carrboro Music Festival. The committee agreed with me, and a new event with ba-

sically the same celebratory concepts was born. It had the same basic reason for being (minus the solstice celebra-tion), namely showcasing the rich bounty of local talent and extolling the virtues of a com-munity so rich in appreciation of the arts.

Since then, the Carrboro Music Festival has been blessed with wonderful weather, an abundance of volunteers and an ever-increasing attendance. A small planning committee, containing a handful of the festival’s founding members, continues to attend monthly meetings beginning in the spring. We analyze and discuss every aspect of the event and make every effort to make it better — that has always been our paramount concern.

There have been minor changes in the event, the big-gest being moving the event under the supervision of the wonderful Recreation & Parks Department, but the essence has remained the same. It has grown from a primarily local-ly oriented event to one that now is recognized outside the Triangle as a wonderful fam-ily event, rich in sights and sounds for adults and fun and educational activities for chil-dren. The reputation amongst musicians has grown and it is now perceived as both a great source of exposure and a way to give back to an appreciative community.

A short history of the festival

Music Festival Schedule

gerry WilliamsFestival coordinator

For those with children, the Town Commons will be a convenient location. Kids will be able to do arts and crafts or play in inflatable bounce houses while parents listen to six different acts.

Those who’d like to hear what the younger generation is coming up with these days can make their way over to Fitch Lumber, where a teen band stage will be set up.

The rest of the venues will have a wide variety of acts.

“I like to mix it up a lot,” Williams said.

New to the festival Some bands, like Storm

Front, Too Much Fun and Off the Road Band, have been playing the festival since its in-ception. Others are brand new this year.

The Kingsbury Manx, for instance, has been around since 2000, but this is the first year the local indie-rock band has played the Carrboro Music Festival.

“It seemed like a great op-portunity to play in the after-noon for a crowd that couldn’t get out to the rock clubs late at night,” band member Clarque Blomquist said. “I know that my friends who have just start-ed having kids the past few years immensely appreciate the daytime show.”

The Kingsbury Manx – comprised of Bill Taylor, Ryan Richardson, Paul Finn and Blomquist – have received na-tional attention for their four albums and have had songs featured on hit TV shows and in movies.

They’ve toured, but lately have slowed down a bit. The festival seemed like a good op-portunity for the band to play for a different crowd.

“Usually we do the normal club thing, like the [Local] 506 or the Cat’s Cradle,” front man Taylor said. “This seems kind of fun.”

Taylor said he’s looking for-ward to “getting out there and playing in the sun.” The band hasn’t played a show in a while, having been focusing on their fifth album.

Blomquist said he’s glad the band is playing at the festival, since he’s always enjoyed at-tending it.

“There are street festivals everywhere, but I think in the South it has kind of an extra feeling,” he said. “There’s ev-erybody from the town who maybe are usually all out at different times but here are all out at once.”

Festival attendees can catch the Kingsbury Manx on the Town Commons at 3 p.m.

For more information, visit carrboromusicfestival.com.

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The Kingsbury Manx will play the Carrboro Music Festival for the first time this year.