Re: OregonLoops

[bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>]

Howdy,

 Is this an Oregon festival? Or a Northwest festival?
If Oregon only, go on ahead. If this is a
regional,(OR,WA), the only appropriate place is the
Stonehenge replica in the gorge. I could even make it
to that one. Not that anyone would enjoy my muzik, but
you never know.
Rig


--- Dave Trenkel <improv@peak.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Sorry to have been so silent on this subject, I just
> got back from a 10 days 
> of gigs in Montana, Idaho and Washington. I have a
> some experience 
> organizing alternative music festivals, and have a
> lot of contacts around 
> the state from having played music of varying
> degrees of experimentalism 
> around Oregon for more than 2 decades. My only
> hesitation about getting 
> involved in such a festival is that we are just
> starting our major 
> touring/gigging season and I will be on the road for
> much of the spring and 
> summer, and don't practically see a way to be the
> point person for a Looping 
> festival unless it was to happen in Oct./Nov. 2007
> or later. I know how much 
> work Rick must put into the y2k festivals, and
> there's just no way I could 
> do that right now. I would however do whatever I
> could to help such a person 
> with contacts, ideas, brainstorming, experiences,
> whatever, because I'd love 
> to see suvh a festival happen.
> 
> I live in Corvallis, and am pretty active in the
> Eugene scene, there are a 
> few venues in Eugene that may be appropriate for
> this type of show. There 
> might be some in Portland as well. It might be a
> good idea to organize a 
> private mailing list to brainstorm on the scope and
> scale of what we'd like 
> this festival to be, and then start investigating
> when and where it should 
> happen.
> 
> BTW, speaking of Ashland, there's a fairly hip club
> there called Mobius, 
> seems like the perfect place for a loopfest, eh?
> Seriously, we haven't 
> played there yet, but will probably some time in the
> next few months, but 
> they have a rep for doing interesting
> electronica/live band stuff.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "samba -" <sambacomet@hotmail.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:24 PM
> Subject: OregonLoops
> 
> 
> >
> >  Ted you've already listed more people than
> produce the Santa Cruz event. 
> > Rick actually does  most all of the organization
> and preproduction 
> > himself. I know Bill does some too-I know he
> procured that lovely Bose 
> > system last year. Same for Krispen in Boise ,I
> believe. I can possibly 
> > get another friend who produces small concerts in
> Eugene ,and is just 
> > getting into looping himself- (he did  something
> related w 2 echoplexes 
> > and the Suntar a double necked solid body
> dulcimer,one neck fretless,made 
> > by  one of the original Alembic guys)in the mid
> 70s ) He also has lot's of 
> > experience,with all sizes of events ,and has
> venues sound Promo hooked 
> > up.The right venue is the challenge,as I see it.
> Somewhere outside,not in 
> > a town would be wonderful.  It is possible to use
> public lands for events 
> > sometimes but that means bringing in everything
> incuding power.Would have 
> > to be summer. Portland or Eugene make the most
> sense.Portland probably 
> > better draw, pulls from whole Willamette
> valley,closer to Seattle .You're 
> > in Medford/Ashland area? far for you . Could also
> do a series of concerts 
> > instead of a one off  event ,say one each in
> Ashland,Eugene,Bend Ptld?
> >
> >
>
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