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

Tue Apr 26 07:28:06 UTC 2011

Mr. Neilmeyer,
Here is your education on Conjunto, better known as Tejano, or TexMex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqbjVWX8vp8

jc

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Edward Neilmeyer <
edward.neilmeyer.esq at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know I can't wait for this event!
>
> Listen:
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> 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."
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> .
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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/.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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