COUNCILMEMBER JOSE HUIZAR AND
CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK
TO PRESENT THE 9TH
ANNUAL EAGLE ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL, OCTOBER 6, 2007
Chuchito Valdés
Will Be One of Three Headliners at This Year’s Eclectic Sonic Festival on
Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock
(August 27, 2007)- Los Angeles City Councilmember
Jose Huizar and Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock will present the Ninth Annual
Eagle Rock Music Festival, a free community street music festival on Colorado
Boulevard in the community of Eagle Rock, on Saturday, October 6, 2007, from
5p.m.-Midnight.
The festival will host an eclectic, multicultural,
innovative, and local lineup, with more than 30 artists. Stages will include
two outdoor main stages, with a stage featuring
headlining world and rock acts and multiple showcases up and down Colorado
Boulevard. A variety of genres will be
represented, and the following artists:
- Afro-Cuban jazz
pianist Chuchito Valdés, son of piano legend Chucho Valdés, headlining the
Global Stage
- French-Chinese chanteuse Jessica Fichot, reggae
and dub from Black Shakespeare, Michelle Greene, and the Mariachi Divas (who
appear courtesy of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Recording
Industries' Music Performance Fund through the assistance of Professional
Musicians Union Local 47)
- A showcase at the
Women’s Twentieth Century Club with Mia Doi Todd, HECUBA, We You., Leslie and
the Badgers, and B is for Baroness
- Local indie acts The
Pity Party, Bodies of Water, The Mormons, Tsk Tsk, Café Fuego, El-Haru Kuroi,
and The Mama Suki
- A hip-hop showcase
behind IMIX Bookstore, programmed by KPFK Divine Forces Radio DJ Fidel
Rodriguez
- Jazz at Camilo’s with
the Juan Vega Trio and the Tim Emmons Trio
- Renaissance Arts Vocal
Ensemble, a children’s choir, at the Renaissance Arts Academy
- Interactive percussion
on non-traditional, industrial items in a performance from GLANK
- Additional headliner announcements to take place in the
coming week
The free Eagle Rock Music Festival is a musical
expression of the individual sensibility and community character of Eagle Rock
and the surrounding communities of Northeast Los Angeles! Musicians perform in
unique venues ranging from tire shops to coffee shops—and even motel poolside—
up and down Colorado Boulevard, which will be closed to traffic and open to
pedestrians between Eagle Rock Boulevard and Argus Street. Music venues will include stages at Rantz,
the American Tire Depot, Renaissance Arts Academy, Panang, Columbo’s, Camilo’s
California Bistro, Bateman Water Heater, Swork, and the Welcome Inn. Main
stages will be at Caspar and Shearin, and Merton and Colorado.
Updates on the growing line-up of artists and a
schedule can be found on the festival’s MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/eaglerockmusicfestival.
The Eagle Rock Music Festival is a centerpiece in
the free arts programming of Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, one of the last
remaining arts and cultural programming centers in Northeast Los Angeles.
The Ninth Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival is being
presented with the generous support of Time Warner Cable, Bank of America
Foundation, Metromix L.A., Eagle Rock Plaza, the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council, the Los Angeles Department
of Cultural Affairs, the L.A. County Arts Commission, the Women’s Twentieth
Century Club, and the community and businesses of Eagle Rock. Media partners include Pasadena Weekly, L.A. Record,
Citizen L.A., Boulevard Sentinel, and The
Arroyo Seco Journal.
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock is a non-profit
501(c) 3 organization whose mission is to provide multicultural and innovative
arts programming to the communities of Northeast Los Angeles. Programs include
exhibitions, community festivals, free and low-cost after school arts classes,
a Summer Art Camp, and more.
The Center is located at 2225 Colorado Boulevard in the Los Angeles
community of Eagle Rock, close to the intersection of Eagle Rock and Colorado
Boulevards. For more information on the Center for the Arts, and its creative
community programs, call 323-226-1617.
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