Ithaca Underground Fundraiser 2016!
..featuring performances by Anna Coogan, Scopes Monkey Trial, Circus Culture, Mary and Billy from Madder Rose, & Viva Mayhem.
Friday, February 19th @ The Haunt
7PM | ALL Ages | Entry with $10 Donation
IU kicks off its 2016 fundraising efforts on to support a full year of event programming with an evening of performances, showcasing innovative local rock, ska, funk, and circus. (music links & bios below). We'll have limited edition, exclusive merch available through this event.
Founded in 2007, Ithaca Underground is a 501c3 not-for-profit providing the people of Ithaca with an all ages, radically inclusive environment for their do-it-yourself ambitions, ensuring that new and challenging music and art is available to all. More dteils soon!
In 2016, IU presented 60+ events, including BIG DAY IN #11 which sold out the Haunt with over 400 attendeest, Ithaca’s largest annual experimental music event – Naked Noise #6, their forth IU/McNeil stage of Ithaca Festival, plus inagural editions of ONE FEST, Novemeber Music Series, and Poster Show.
2016 also marked IU's volunteer base expanding to over 50 and the addition of board members Aly Evans & AJ Bouchie.
Donations (one-time or on-going) may be made directly to Ithaca Underground year-round via IthacaUnderground.com or in person at this or any IU event. Donors interested in sponsoring Ithaca Underground’s Fundraiser Event specifically should contact Board President, Bubba Crumrine at [email protected].
ANNA COOGAN
http://annacoogan.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Anna-Coogan-19144449928/
Anna Coogan was born in Boston, raised in rural Vermont, and spent the first decade of her adult life in Seattle, Washington. She began her music career at a young age studying opera, which eventually landed her at Das Mozartuem in Salzburg, Austria. There, in addition to opera, she learned Austrian German, Tirolian Italian, and true meaning of the word heimweh (homesickness). She returned to the US in 2001 and obtained a degree in fisheries biology before turning to songwriting. Now celebrating her tenth year as a performing songwriter, Coogan has released five critically acclaimed full- length records and toured extensively around the US, UK, and Europe. An intense and prolific songwriter who has been compared to Emmy Lou Harris and Neko Case, Coogan currently lives in upstate New York. Her music has been described as “absolutely gorgeous” (BBC Radio Scotland) and “simply divine” (Maverick Magazine), and she was listed as one of the top acts to see of the 2013 UK festival season by the Times of London. Inspired and driven by collaboration, Anna plays electric guitar for several upstate NY outlets, including Mary Lorson (Madder Rose) and Johnny Dowd. She is currently performing with songwriting partners JD Foster (Calexico, Patty Griffin) and Willie B (Jamie Lidell, Neko Case.)
SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL
https://scopesmonkeytrial.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/scopesmonkeytrial/
Scopes Monkey Trial is a band from Ithaca, NY which draws influence from a very wide range of sounds. Encompassing rock, funk, hip-hop, reggae and more, "Influentia" as they describe it, is a genre that includes all genres.
CIRCUS CULTURE
http://www.circusculture.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CircusCultureIthaca/
Circus Culture's mission is to provide circus education and opportunities for all in Ithaca, N.Y.
They invite individuals and groups from the Ithaca area to engage with circus as an art form and life tool through classes, workshops, performances, parties, camps, and more, beleiving in dedicated play, creative physicality and inclusive community.
MARY & BILLY FROM MADDER ROSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KMmH_lf7Mw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc1MyaRBABZF-Rmzd9ZaAZw
Mary Lorson & Billy Cote shared songwriting duties in the New York City-based alternative rock band, Madder Rose who recorded in the 1990s. Many of their songs, including "Panic On" and "Car Song", were featured in John Peel's end-of-year round-up, the Festive Fifty, major feature films, and television shows. The band released three albums on Atlantic Records, and one on Cooking Vinyl, before breaking up in 1999. In February 2015, Coté indicated that he expected to release new Madder Rose material.
VIVA MAYHEM
https://www.facebook.com/vivamayhem/
http://vivamayhem.com/home/
¡Viva Mayhem! is an 8-piece high-energy ska/punk band out of Ithaca, New York. There have been a few changes in the line-up since we started as 'Mayhem Attack Squad' in the fall of 2013, so try to keep up.
The octet return to the Haunt after supporting English Beat in late 2015.