[RP TownTalk] 2nd Conspiracy, WTOP's David Burd Make Riverdale Park Debut at ArtsFest11

Thu Apr 21 20:08:07 UTC 2011

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*ArtsFest2011 Update***

*2**nd** Conspiracy Makes Riverdale Park Debut at **ArtsFest11*

*WTOP-FM’s David Burd to Emcee Event Featuring **the Music of **Con Junto
Andaricgo, Brulee, Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation, **and** One
String Willy*

*RIVERDALE PARK, MD., April 21, 2011* – For more than 21 years, Wayne Brown
and his 2nd Conspiracy band have been performing good-time oldies music
before packed audiences and building an allegiance that most show bands can
only dream of. But despite his long experience performing around the
mid-Atlantic region, Brown has never brought 2nd Conspiracy to his hometown,
Riverdale Park. That will change Sunday, May 1, when the six-member act
climbs the stage at the fourth-annual ArtsFest at Town Center for a two-set
performance.

“Bring your lawn chairs and get ready to rock-and-roll,” says Brown, who
acknowledges that he’s excited about the date. So why has the group never
played in Riverdale Park? “We have never been asked,” says the popular local
businessman with a grin. “It’s as simple as that.” That oversight will be
rectified at ArtsFest2011 beginning at 4 p.m. with a pulsating performance
of R&B, rock-and-roll and Southern Rock music that has made Wayne Brown and
2nd Conspiracy one of the most sought-after oldies bands by area radio
stations for their events for more than a dozen years.

Speaking of radio, few personalities have been as popular and as diversely
talented as WTOP-FM’s David Burd. He will emcee the day’s musical
performances from the ArtsFest2011 main stage. Burd’s topical features
ignite the Washington all-news station’s listener call-in lines with
informative and fascinating responses and are considered one of the outlet’s
keys to success. (WTOP, among the most-listened-to adult radio stations in
the nation’s capital,  is also the highest revenue-generating radio station
in America.) Burd first arrived in Washington in 1984 as part of the “Baker
& Burd” morning show at WPGC-FM. The team later was heard at WASH-FM. Burd
spent many years as host at  news-talk WMAL-AM, and was the morning voice of
Washington Post Radio. Before becoming a radio personality, Burd represented
several major recording studios including Capitol Records, and he was
responsible for the road tours of such acts as the Bay City Rollers and rock
artist Sammy Hagar.

Con Junto Andraricgo will hit the stage at noon, offering a wide variety of
traditional Mexican and regional cover hits and original compositions, led
by singer-percussionist Eduardo Sanchez, originally of Pueblo, Mexico, now
of Riverdale Park. Previously known as La Tradicion Grupo, the six-member
act debuts its new name and a re-energized sound with a pumping brass
section at ArtsFest2011. Halfway through the two-hour performance, three
members will step down for another trio to merge as the group evolves into
Faraones Musical with a younger, contemporary Mexican sound.

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Another local favorite scheduled is Brûlée, a jazz-infused,
Americana-marinated alt-pop four-piece group that includes upright bass
player Andrew Brown, also a Riverdale Park resident. Andy is a music teacher
at the German School in Potomac and a member of the Riverdale Park Arts
Council. "Brûlée puts on the sonic complexities of jazz with the song craft
of traditional pop. Some tunes rest on a driving rock beat, but most have a
more relaxed feel,” observed the Montgomery County Gazette in a recent
review. "The structure is contemporary, but (vocalist Aura)
Kanegis's midnight croon recalls 1960s genre-benders like Marlena Shaw and
Nina Simone."

Active Cultures Theatre will present Sportaculture 3, a festival of new
short plays about local sports.  Performed for the third year in Riverdale,
Sportaculture reflects Active Cultures’ mission to create original
professional theatre about local culture. Each year Active Cultures
commissions local sports fans to write short plays about their favorite
teams

For more details, go to: www.activecultures.org/active_cultures/home.html.

ArtsFest2011 is being held in conjunction with Riverdale Park’s own Archie
Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation which will offer a series of performers on
the main stage and from the Archie Edwards Barbershop soundstage at the
south side of Town Center. Archie’s Barbershop Open House and Blues Jam will
be an expanded day-long event that includes an art display and sale
by photographer Paul Kennedy at the barbershop.

Miles Spice, Mike Baytop and David Jackson, performing as The Jambassadores,
open the day in concert at 11 a. m. on the main stage. At noon, heat a
Barbershop-style Blues Jam on the south side stage, followed by
a  "Bones-Making Workshop with Jim Lande" from 2 to 4; and “Between the
Lines” open mic and “Songwriters Forum With Kim Capps,” from 4:30 to 6:30
pm.

Bluesman One String Willie takes it a step further with a workshop where he
will teach festival-goers how to make the one-string diddly bow on which he
beats out rhythm on a single wire string. He’ll also explore the limits of
this primal instrument by moving beyond traditional playing styles
and instruct how to change the pitch with a flat glass bottle slide.
“Turn off from the main musical highway by building your own diddley
bow, and then teach yourself to play it,” invites Willie. “Search out new
musical paths or old ones that were lost and all but forgotten. There are
no 'rules' for playing this instrument …” For a preview of Willie at work
with the diddley bow, go to www.onestringwillie.com/.

ArtsFest2011 is made possible by generous contributions from the Anacostia
Trails Heritage Area (ATHA), Riverdale Lion’s Club, the Town of Riverdale
Park and J.D. Williams Real Estate.

*A f**ew select artist and vending booth opportunities are available.
Contact Emily Fanning, president of the Riverdale Park Arts Council, at
301-864-5561 or OurDollMom at aol.com*
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