What is SFS? It’s an all day party with local music and great food.
This weekend’s edition has tunes by The Lonesome City Travelers, The Mud Flappers, The Kitschy Kittens Burlesque Troop with Giddy Up Go and WPRK’s DJ White Lightnin’ plus a special festival closing performance by Tampa’s The Lambasters (formerly Nervous Turkey).
Grub includes a BBQ and fried chicken dinner, along with sides. Yum!
Best of all, it’s only $7 to attend, or $2 if you have a Summer Stock Fest weekend wristband.
SFS runs from 5:30pm to 11:30pm at Will’s Pub (1042 N. Mills Ave).
Musician Chris Belt is attempting to put on a festival featuring local musicians and composers. But he wants this festival to cover music normally overlooked – classical, jazz, electronic and even stuff that’s hard to classify.
The Accidental Music Festival will take place over ten days, September 4-13, 2011, and will feature a variety of events in addition to great concerts. The festival will be held at Urban ReThink and Timucua concert hall, and would be free to attend.
However, Belt needs financial help to pull this off and has set up a Kickstarter account looking for donations. He’s trying to raise $6000 and a pledge of even $1 will help. There are donation levels and each level gets something for the person pledging the donation. All the money goes to musicians and equipment rental.
As of today’s post, the Kickstarter account is almost 50% funded, so even $1 from you will help make their goal.
There’s also an art auction on Thursday, August 11, 2011, at 6:30pm at Urban ReThink to help raise funds. If you’d like to donate art for the cause, I’m told the artist gets up to 80% of whatever the item is auctioned for, with the remaining 20% going towards the festival.
This is a great chance to support the local Orlando arts scene and help bring this unique music festival to life.
Singer-songwriter Emily Kopp may only be 20, but she grew up playing drums for bands and entertaining the masses at wine bars and coffee shops with her guitar.
Now she’s striking out on her own with her first single, “How Did We Get Here,” off her upcoming debut EP, Just Clothes.
Her soulful pop has grabbed the ears of artists she’s met working at a live music venue, such as Marc Cohn, Joshua Radin, Joe Bonamassa, and Marc Broussard, whom she now considers to be mentors and friends. She says she also finds herself inspired by artists like Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae and Adele (who currently is #1 on the Billboard singles charts).
In anticipation of the October 2011 release of Just Clothes, Kopp plans to hit the road on a tour of the southeastern U.S. starting with a show this Friday, July 1, at Will’s Pub (1040 N. Mills Ave., Orlando).
Tickets to the show are $8 in advance (purchase online at plazaliveorlando.com) and $10 at the door, and it starts at 8pm.
You can also follow the latest on Kopp, including tour dates, at her Facebook page.
In the meantime, check out Emily Kopp via this video for “How Did We Get Here” – I really like it, and I think you will, too. It can also be downloaded from iTunes.
Want to check out a bunch of really good musicians? Then you’ll definitely want to head over to the Mills 50 District to take part in Mills-Stock ’11.
This area covers the businesses that are located near the intersection of Mills Ave and E. Colonial, just east of downtown.
During Mills-Stock ’11, Will’s Pub, Wally’s, Peacock Room, and Lou’s LGMA will offer up a full evening of local and import music for your listening pleasure.
It’s only $8 per night, which allows you to venue hop, but you really want to get the full weekend wristband, which only costs $15, and also gets you drink specials. Kudo’s to Yelp-Orlando for helping to put this together.
Rather than list the schedule individually, take a gander at the poster below.
If you love checking out local music and yet-to-be-discovered bands, you’ll definitely want to check out the Florida Music Festival.
This year’s FMF takes place this week, from Thursday, April 7 to Saturday, April 9. It spans 10 venues throughout downtown Orlando, including Wall St. Plaza, BackBooth, 57 West, Orlando Tastings, The Social and One Eyed Jack’s.
FMF also has drawn in some top notch bands, including headliners like Minus the Bear and JJ Grey & Mofro on Thursday night; Easy Star All-Stars and The Ettes on Friday; and Better Than Ezra and The Supervillains on Saturday.
Now, you might think that having so many great bands playing so many venues would cost a lot to attend, but the FMF is truly a great value. Single day passes are only $15 for Thursday and $10 for Friday or Saturday. Or, you can get a pass good for all 3 days of music for only $25.
That’s right – over 150 bands on 10 stages for only $25!
Both the single day and 3-day passes allow you to venue-hop, so if you don’t like one band, head over to another stage.
This blog is both for the natives and the visitors. We cover the theme parks and all the other fun stuff to do in Central Florida, but we also cover events, dining, shopping, nightlife and news of interest to those who live in the Orlando area.
I hope you enjoy this blog and that it gets you out, about and exploring all the things that make this city so much fun to play and stay in.
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