Valley Wormfest This Weekend!

Henning solo, The Fawns, Sitting Next To Brian, and The Aloha Steamtrain are all playing this weekend at The Valley Wormfest, along with a gazillion other great artists and friends. Here's the official press release, Hope you can come out and help support Flywheel. It's all going down at The Elevens in Northampton, MA.

The 1st Annual Valley Worm Fest will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 28th through the 30th, 2007. The three day music festival will be held at the Eleven's, 140 Pleasant St. in Northampton, MA. The "Weekend Of Rock Music" will consist of four separate admission shows: Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm. Cost for each show is 5 dollars, and weekend passes can be purchased at all Turn It Up! Locations (turnitup.com) for 15 dollars. Over 30 bands and artists will be participating.

The music festival is a benefit for Flywheel. Flywheel Arts Collective recently moved from its former location at 2 Holyoke Street in Easthampton into the historic old Town Hall Building on Main Street. Before they can reopen their doors, there are a series of building upgrades that need to be finished, including a new sprinkler system installation and remodeling of the new space.

Valley Worm Fest was started by local musicians Jill Emmons, Jason Bourgeois, Scott Alden and Matt Dube to bring together and showcase the wealth of local music talent in Western Massachusetts and beyond. Co-founder and member of Bourgeois Heroes and the Novels, Jason Bourgeois explains: "I went to the Academy of Music with Brian Marchese not very long ago to watch a screening of D.A. Pennebaker's 'Monterey Pop' and thought, 'Why not try something like this on a Western Mass-esque scale? There's tons of talent per square foot in my neighborhood.' At the same time whilst watching the film, I was filled with absurd fantasies of wearing a large, furry hat and chatting on a telephone to accountants in a tiny office with someone like Michelle Phillips by my side. This has yet to happen."


Valley Worm Fest Schedule

Friday September 28th - 8pm

• Flock and Field
• Curious Buddies
• No Shadow Kick
• Campbell Apartment (Ari Vais)
• Space Captain
• Mark Schwaber
• Count Westwest
• The Novels
• The Fawns
• Philip Price (Winterpills)

Saturday September 29th - 3pm

• Thrillpillow
• XOXOX
• Tumble Cat Poof Poofy Poof
• Bunwinkies
• Bill Nace
• Grey Skull
• Fat Worm of Error

Saturday September 29th - 8 pm

• Dark Oars (Chris Carlton)
• Sitting Next to Brian
• Apocalipstick
• Mathew Swiatlowski (Hymns)
• Levelette
• Claudia Malibu
• The Mitchells
• Henning (School for the Dead)
• Zeke Fiddler
• Mark Mulcahy
• The Aloha Steamtrain

Sunday September 30th - 3pm

• Josh Crane
• Ruth Garbus (Feathers)
• Kurt Weisman (Feathers)
• Thane Thomsen (the Figments)
• Abeja
• VS. event