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Topic: New Philly,US Prog Concert Series starts Feb. 22

Posted By: velvet
Subject: New Philly,US Prog Concert Series starts Feb. 22
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 12:41

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NEW LIVE PROGRESSIVE ROCK SERIES FOR 2009 IN PHILADELPHIA

FEB. 22: Debut show kicks off with Kohoutek, The Red Masque and Advent at the North Star Bar

Philadelphia, PA - December 20, 2008 - The North Star Bar will play host to a new Progressive Rock Series starting February 22, 2009. The series, currently with its first two shows on sale now, will take place on the last Sunday evening of the every month. For the first two performances tickets will be $10, advance tickets can be purchased via www.ticketweb.com, and the events are for those 21 years of age and older. The North Star Bar is located at 2639 Poplar Street in the Art Museum Area of Philadelphia and can be found online at www.northstarbar.com.

The Red Masque [Rock-in-Opposition, Zeuhl, Space Rock] of Philadelphia, will be assisting in the curation of shows and will perform at the first two scheduled events. The February 22 event will also feature headliners Kohoutek [Psych, Noise, Abstract] of Washington DC and openers Advent [Symphonic] from New Jersey. The March 29 event will feature headliners Thee Maximalists [Avant, Free Jazz] from Baltimore and openers Igor's Egg [Zappa, Jam] of Philadelphia.

The goal of this series is to first feature regional acts as to grow a local audience for Progressive Rock music in Philadelphia. Step two would be to cultivate more local talent in closer proximity to Philadelphia, so as to encourage the growth of the series overall. Finally, we would hope, given the proper support of the series, to be able to attract national and international talent, and give them more options for live performance on the east coast.

Heyday Entertainment is a Philadelphia based booking and promotions company that has hosted events all over the city, at venues including The Trocadero, The Five Spot, The Barbary, Pontiac Grille (aka JC Dobbs), NXNW, Silk City, and The Broad Street Ministry among others over the years. Heyday has exclusively booked and promoted events for The North Star Bar since it opened in 2001, and has worked with The Khyber in Old City for over 10 years.

Booking inquires for this series can be directed to Lynnette Shelley with The Red Masque, [email protected], and Andrew Miller with Heyday Entertainment, [email protected].

BAND LINKS

The Red Masque: http://www.theredmasque.com

Advent: http://adventmusic.net/home.html

Kohoutek: http://claviusproductions.alkem.org/kohoutek/listen.html

Thee Maximalists: http://paulsears.net/maximalists/

Igor's Egg: http://www.myspace.com/igorsegg

Replies:

Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 20:39

Awesome. Sucks I won't be able to make it.

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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

Posted By: velvet
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 10:18

Sorry to hear that. Maybe next time. Hope to see anybody else who cares to come. Show starts at 8 PM sharp this Sunday.

Posted By: velvet
Date Posted: February 20 2009 at 19:00

A New Progressive Rock series starts SUNDAY, Feb. 22, at the North Star Bar in Philadelphia. The first event will kick off with Advent (symphonic), Kohoutek (kraut/experimental) and The Red Masque (avant/psych/zeuhl)

Details below:

02.22.09 | North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130. 8 PM. $10. Ages 21 and over. Advance tickets can be bought via www.ticketweb.com or bought the day of at the door. http://www.northstarbar.com

Band websites
(PHILLY) The Red Masque: http://www.theredmasque.com
(NEW JERSEY) Advent: http://adventmusic.net/home.html
(D.C.) Kohoutek: http://claviusproductions.alkem.org/kohoutek/listen.html

Download the event flyer here: http://theredmasque.com/images/northstar01.jpg

Upcoming series shows will feature Thee Maximalists, Igor's Egg, Echolyn and the Syn.

NEW MUSIC ONLINE
To tie in with this new series, The Red Masque have put up some new free full streaming songs on their myspace page from their latest album Fossil Eyes, as well as their previous work, Feathers for Flesh.

Please visit http://www.myspace.com/myredmasque

More free music and videos here: http://www.theredmasque.com/downloads.html

Hope to see you at the show!

Posted By: velvet
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 11:00

Review and photos from the show on USA Progressive

http://usaprogmusic.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Also if you look in the photo gallery section, and scroll down to the bottom, they have pictures from the show as well

Posted By: DJPuffyLemon
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 11:41

god damn it why do cool bands always play at 21+ bars? i hate this country

Posted By: velvet
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 12:49

Hey DJ
for what it's worth I am organizing a festival for October 24 at the University of PA's Rotunda theater with Cheer Accident, Dysrthythmia, The Red Masque, and Make a Rising and it will be ALL AGES as well as PAY WHAT YOU WANT (i.e. zero dollars to whatever you feel is worth paying the bands).
Maybe we'll see you there....