June 7: Lady Friends #2
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a special night with Church of the Friendly Ghost
Lady Friends #2
(number 2 of 4 in the series)
who:
Nanobangbang “Five.”
“High Five”
(including a Variety Show)A Variety Show That Is A Special Event Full of Surprises. DOH and friend’s ongoing vision / collective. A project in song, dance, text and performance.
Nanobangbang is a vehicle. It is not as much a band, although bands can be formed or displayed as a part of the event. Nanobangbang is an ongoing vision / collective / musical and performance art project adventure experiment. It’s often a variety show, and always full of surprises. Part solo and part collaboration, the performance aspect of the special event is often emphasized with a flair for the theatrical. Some special guests have included: Elana Logsdon (Krazayzay), Eric Shaefer, Chad A: (Low Red Center), Allison Moore & Dakota Smith (Peel), Kevin Adickes (Moth!Fight!), Winston Reed Chapman (Gayle Gold), Sam Detergent (Gary Barftits), Kai Mantch, Michael Young, Henna Chou (Fiction, Many Birthdays), The Liddell Sisters Reading, and Belaire’s Cari Palazzolo, Eli Welbourne, Christine Aprile.
Self-described Garage Synthers, conjoining a preoccupation with glitter-soaked visions of the cultural apocalypse - past, present, and future - with a faith in music’s ability to conjure visions that transcend physical reality; yet their songs are soppy with sensuous cravings, lighting up the listener’s chakra network like a pinball machine while linking the lowliest reptilian urges to a third eye caked in green shadow and batting a false eyelash - i.e., a pop band with both its rear in primordial muck and a mythical horn poking the galactic swirl.
******Years ago How I Quit Crack was rolling around naked on the floor in a drug addled craze sharking for invisible lost pieces of crack. Now she seeks redemption from Christ through cooing into her mic and falling onto her synth. Trying to save her soul from her own stifling ego through a noise lounge act shes appealing to you for support in all her futile endeavors.
where:
Salvage Vanguard Theater
2803 Manor Rd.
when:
Sunday, June 7th 2009
Doors open at 8pm
$5
order:
How I Quit Crack 8:30
No Mas Bodas 9:20
Nanobangbang 10:15why:
From May to August, Church of the Friendly Ghost presents a series featuring female artists who push the boundaries of art and music. Too rarely are experimental art and new music events in Austin female-centric. In order to reject this truth and spark a renaissance, the series will provide several evenings of performance from female artists.
The primary goal is to provide these artists with a space to expand their art form while providing the audience with an panoptic impression of work that women are producing in Austin and points beyond. Lady Friends, stemming from the desire to experience female performance, will focus on media art, performance art, and music that is thought provoking and original. This series will include experimental bands, filmmakers, solo performers, and improvisers.
Additionally, CotFG aims to contrive a new point of ingression for the female arts community that coincides with a focused forum for discourse and networking. The series will culminate in August with our final show as an evening of improvisational works by an all female cast. Alissa DeRubeis and Amanda Lewis are the principal curators.
Mission:
Church of the Friendly Ghost is a growing community organization dedicated to the proliferation of creative musics, future-minded expressions, experiments in sound, and cutting edge jazz.while we place an emphasis on home-grown music (Austin, Texas) we also connect the local audience with new performers and composers and serve as a hub for the creative music community in Austin.Church of the Friendly Ghost serves as a laboratory for creative musicians outside the the limits of institution and industry, as well as a gathering place for the culturally adventurous in Austin, accessible as a social, practical, and artistic network.By providing an alternative to traditional bars and venues, a logistical and promotional network, and serving as a forum for artistic discourse, C.O.T.F.G. nurtures and enable a more diverse range of creative musics, and curates an ongoing series of exciting and thought-provoking musical performances that take place at Salvage Vanguard Theater.These performances accessible to the public, inclusive to the community as a whole, and always offered at an affordable admission.Church Of The Friendly Ghost seeks to raise the profile of creative music in Austin and Texas worldwide.We at Church of the Friendly Ghost believe that Art is a right and a public resource. Thanks for your support and interest!
We are a 100% volunteer-run community organization with support from Salvage Vanguard Theater and the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin.
