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

Sat Apr 23 16:25:31 UTC 2011

I know I can't wait for this event!

Listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SidZLiDLEpY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsk4XsB-x-M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5hKvX30vf4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvFiPWVw3Pg

Ed

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Jeffrey Yorke <yorkedial at gmail.com> wrote:

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> *ArtsFest2011 Update***
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> *2**nd** Conspiracy Makes Riverdale Park Debut at **ArtsFest11*
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> *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*
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> *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.
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> “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.
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> 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
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> For more details, go to: www.activecultures.org/active_cultures/home.html
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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/.
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> 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.
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> *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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