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Casket Salesmen’s Phil Pirrone can now add festival organizer to his bulging resume that also includes accomplished musician, label owner, and promoter, as his First Annual Longhair Illuminati Art and Music Festival comes to fruition this Saturday in Chino.
Pirrone explains the impetus behind the organization of the festival is his desire to, “bring something beautiful and eclectic to the Inland Empire, these people deserve something cool, and no one is giving it to them.”
Pirrone is absolutely right, there is dearth of cultural gatherings of this nature in the Inland Empire (I know, I lived in Pomona 5 years during college), and anyone looking for an event similar to the one Phil is putting on, is usually forced to get in their car and drive anywhere from 60 to 100 miles away and pay an excess of $30 per ticket.
The great thing about Pirrone’s festival is that it’s FREE.
Pirrone says “I wanted it to be free, I wanted it to be simple, and I wanted it to be fun. I feel like we have a great lineup of bands and artists and I hope to have thousands of people come and learn about all this great stuff.”
My first thought is this sounds a lot like the Eagle Rock Music Festival, another great local alternative free festival that brings together Eagle Rock and the surrounding communities, in an incredibly laid back atmosphere.
So if don’t have any plans this weekend, do yourself a favor and check out the Longhair Illuminati Art and Music Festival on Saturday afternoon. If Pirrone and company are able to pull off even half of what the Eagle Rock festival has become over the years in just Illuminati’s first year, they will have the beginnings of a great annual festival on their hands.
The First Annual Longhair Illuminati Art and Music Festival
Saturday August 2, 2008
Golden Palms Plaza
13788 Roswell Ave Chino, CA 91710
FREE TO ALL
NOON - 10:00 PM
LIVE MUSIC, DJs, an ART WALK, LIVE ART, ACROBATICS, YOGA BOOTH, RECYCLING CENTER, PHOTO STATION, and a RAFFLE with great prizes from Active Ride Shop, Glass House Record Store, D’Addario & Co and more.
Bands & DJs confirmed to appear will be Honey (featuring Lukas Nelson of 40 Points), Casket Salesmen (Progressive Rock), Ojos Rojos (Psychedelic Rock), Auditory Aphasia (experimental/jam/dub), Fountain of Roots (Reggae), Henheart (Folk), Mongoloid (Post Punk), Mythmaker (Psychedelic Rock), Jesus Makes The Shotgun Sound (Experimental Rock), Second Street Drifters (Traditional Jazz), Mullbury Lane (Folk/Acoustic), Artifact (DJ), My Hollow Drum (DJ), and more
In the Art Walk there will be paintings, sketches, sculptures, and some of the artists will even be doing live art. Artists will include Eric Vasquez, Bryan Barnes, Alex Luna, Jeanette Sawyer, Luis Vera, LSR Clique, Janelle Molle, Horse N Warrior, Kelly Wager, and more.
My brain is too mushy right now to articulate my thoughts on New York transplants, Gangi (Matt Gangi and Lyle Nesse), as I nurse a hangover this morning, but I didn’t want to let today slip by without at least a brief mention about their opening spot on tonight’s LA Record Presents show with Lemon Sun, Eastern Conference Champions and Rumspringa at the Troubadour, to make sure those who may read this and are heading out tonight to try to get there early.
Of course if you do miss Gangi, you’ll have a whole mess of opportunities to see them again over the next couple months.
July 26 Los Angeles - Troubadour
July 31 Glendale - The Scene
Aug 06 Los Angeles - The Derby
Aug 16 Los Angeles - Spaceland
Aug 30 Irvine - UC Irvine
Aug 31 Los Angeles - Tangier
Sep 08 Long Beach - The Prospector
Grab a couple MP3s and learn a bit more about Gangi over at My Old Kentucky Blog.
I downloaded the new Jubilee single, In With The Out Crowd, yesterday morning before I went for a run based upon a tweet (Twitter message) from Travis Keller alerting his “followers” that the new single was up online and available to download through the band’s Topspin powered app.
I knew for a while the new single was coming (as is a full length), but found out its release was getting close last week when Topspin’s CEO Ian Rogers twittered that he was skating to and from the office listening to the new tracks.
What’s the point of these arbitrary Twitter/Jubilee details? Just the continued reinforcement that fans are using various web2.0socialnetworkingcommunity communication tools to share information about their interests. And that if you are a band or brand, you need to make your information available in many formats, so people can receive your message through their preferred medium. Personally I only check my MySpace every other day or so, Facebook once a week, but Twitter and email I am on all day.
For more info about Jubilee, check out what I wrote about the group back in February when they released their first single, Rebel Hiss, using Topsin, back when the company was still in “stealth mode”. Topspin out of stealth mode now, offers (in my opinion) some of the most consumer/user friendly downloading tools for bands. Jubilee, the Los Angeles based band, who still seem to be in “stealth mode” to us in the U.S. - having yet to play a show here - are set to play the Reading and Leeds UK festivals next month.
You can bet that if Scott and I weren’t both heading to the wedding of a close friend we grew up across the street from, we would be at the Getty this evening for the second installment of their Summer Sessions concert series tonight, featuring the white boy soul funk of Stanton Island, NY’s Budos Bands and Los Angeles’ afro-pop jammers, Fools Gold.
Check out Scott’s review of Budos Band’s sophomore album, simply titled The Budos Band II, released last year, which both he and I highly recommend picking up.
MP3: Budos Band - Chicago Falcon
Fools Gold are scheduled to open for Darker My Love (whose show last night was very good) next Friday at The Echo, though Fools Gold don’t have the show listed on their myspace page, which makes me a little suspicious as to whether or not they are still playing. If anyone knows, drop me a comment.
Sample: Fools Gold - Surprise Hotel
Budos Band & Fools Gold at The Getty Center (Museum Courtyard and Garden Terrace) TONIGHT 6pm | Free | All Ages
