AvantFairfax Fest
Cheer-Accident,
Stag Hare ,
Mike Tamburo ,
Insect Factory,
Anduin
and
Kuschty Rye Ergot
Saturday 25 April 2009 at 5:00pm
Old Town Hall
Fairfax, Virginia,
April 25th, 2009 5pm-1am
University Dr. & Main St.
Is this GMU?
Epstein, you have some strong competition.
And how are there essentially two experimental music festivals in DC (a town that as a whole, couldn't care less about most of this music) on the same night?
Sorry I didn't see this announcement when made...You are right - some great events and competition this weekend - lots of decisions too!
Anyhow, I now see this topic b/c MaMa Tee is somehow in the loop and asked I was aware of Avant Fairfax and emailed me this:
' Avant Fairfax ' - Cheer-Accident, Kuschty Rye Ergot and more.
Saturday, April 25 at 7 pm
Old Town Hall , 3999, University Drive, Fairfax VA 22030
The Avant-Fairfax Festival is the newest addition to City of Fairfax's Spotlight on the Arts. Avant-Fairfax will take place at Old Town Hall on Saturday, April 25 from 6PM until 1AM and will feature an eclectic lineup of acts, both local and national, and spanning a variety of musical styles that have, until now, gone without a venue in the City of Fairfax. Avant-Fairfax, is entirely new for this location, offering progressive rock, improvisational, and electronic elements. "[Avant-Fairfax] is totally unlike anything else on the Spotlight schedule and no two acts [at Avant-Fairfax] are alike," says Avant-Fairfax co-organizer Andrew McCarry. "There's going to be some real diversity at Spotlight on the Arts this year."
The Avant-Fairfax Festival is co-organizers say that much of the inspiration behind Avant-Fairfax comes from DC's already thriving experimental music scene, which includes the Electric Possible and Sonic Circuits concert series as well as frequent shows at the Velvet Lounge. It may be fitting, then, that the Avant-Fairfax lineup will feature some of the mainstays and more influential figures in the local outsider music scene.
Former Velvet Lounge booking agent Scott Verrasto will provide improvised krautrock and free-jazz influenced percussion with his own band, Kohoutek, among other acts at the festival. Layne Garrett, who will be playing solo at Avant-Fairfax, routinely opens his home in NW DC for live shows, dubbing it "the Lighthouse."
Headlining the festival is internationally touring Cheer-Accident, a Chicago based abstract prog- rock outfit that can be discordant, abstract, and fidgety as well as harmonious, poppy, and relaxing at various points in their music. Cheer-Accident schizophrenically brings together a myriad of genres making their music thoroughly captivating and leaving one to wonder what to expect when they play at Avant-Fairfax.
Admission: Suggested donation $10
Information: 571-232-2086,
avantfairfax@gmail.com or
www.myspace.com/avantfairfax
