Big In Japan will headline night 4 (Friday 3/4/11) of the 2nd annual NOVO Instrumental Music Festival, at The Windup Space.
Sharing the bill with them will be Do You Need the Service? (Philly). Tickets for the show that night are $8, or an all-festival 5-night pass is $20. Further details about the festival appear below.
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2nd Annual NOVO Instrumental Music Festival
Baltimore, MD -- January 31, 2011 -- The Windup Space and Mobtown Studios proudly announce the 2nd annual NOVO Instrumental Music Festival on March 1-5 at The Windup Space (12 W. North Avenue).
The Station North venue and the Charles Village recording studio, both of which were 2010 recipients of "Best of Baltimore" awards from the City Paper, are joining forces once again for five days of instrumental music (with no vocals, hence the name NOVO), cutting a wide swathe of styles with over a dozen artists from Baltimore and beyond.
Mobtown producer and co-owner Mat Leffler-Schulman says that the hope was always to make NOVO an annual event. And the 2010 inaugural edition, which What Weekly called "an integral component of what we like to call the Baltimore Renaissance," was so much fun that there was no question of whether to forge ahead with another in 2011.
"Because of the success of last year, we are doing it again," says Leffler-Schulman. But one difference this year is that he and Windup proprietor Russell de Ocampo have curated each night's lineup as its own distinct entity with its own sensibility. "It's all instrumental music, but we're really trying to show how wide the range of the lineup is that each night of the festival kind of has a loose theme."
As in 2010, NOVO will run from the first Tuesday in March to the following Saturday, and also as with last year, the opening night of the festival will double as an anniversary for the Out Of Your Head Collective, who build a new improv ensemble every week for their Tuesday residency at the Windup. This year, their anniversary concert will feature influential alto saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo as a special guest.
The second night of the festival will be its most rock-oriented, with sets from Baltimore's Of The West and Deaf Scene, and Washington, D.C.'s Star FK Radium. Thursday will feature Susan Alcorn, a pedal steel guitarist from Texas who's become an important figure in Baltimore's experimental music scene, as well as Decapitated Hed and a solo performance by Chris Farmer, formerly of the math rock band Breadwinner.
The weekend will kick off with a Friday show headlined by Big In Japan, the long-running improv offshoot of Baltimore rock institution Lake Trout that has recently grown into an impressive band in its own right. Friday's bill also features Do You Need The Service? from Philadelphia. And on Saturday, March 5th, NOVO will wind down with its noisiest program, featuring Eachother, Omoo Omoo, Lands & Peoples offshoot Dead Drums, and Teenage Souls.
NOVO's opening night, as with all Out of Your Head concerts, is a free show, while the cover charge for Wednesday and Thursday's shows is $5 each, and Friday and Saturday are $8 each. Advance ticket sales are available at The Windup Space with a package price of $20 for all five nights plus drink specials.
Mobtown Studios will be recording every set of the festival, and will be making the sets available to download and stream for free online afterwards, via Bmore Musically Informed (http://www.bmoremusic.net), to help further NOVO's central mission of helping bring creative instrumental music of all stripes to as many ears as possible.
For ticketing and booking information, contact The Windup Space at 410-244-8855 or . For media inquiries, contact Emily Leffler-Schulman at Mobtown Studios at 410-235-0898 or .
