World War None- The March 15th Music Stage

World War None- The All Day Music/Rally Stage

 

Visit our myspace to hear songs from the performers:

http://www.myspace.com/worldwarnonemusicfestival2008

 

The Schedule...

11:00 - 11:30 AM

  • Mo Mack & the Peace Makers

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Dave Rovics

12:00 - 12:30 PM

  • Triple Grip

12:30 - 1:30 PM
  • USA la Familia
  • Syndel
  • Mic Crenshaw

1:30 - 2:00 PM
  • March 4th Marching Band

2:00 - 2:30 PM
  • Rally- Stop the War, Bring the Troops Home Now!
2:30 - 3:30 PM
  • Peace March

3:30 - 4:15 PM
  • Commotion w/ Ben Darwish

4:15 - 5:00 PM
  • Triple Threat Quartet

5:00 - 5:30 PM

  • Rocket One with Universal Zulu Nation- Oregon Chapter

5:30 - 6:00 PM

  • Brains Like Computers
Event MC- Walidah Imarisha (from Good Sista, Bad Sista) 

A historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, rebel by reason,
Walidah Imarisha is a spoken word artist and aspires to be a revolutionary.

Walidah has toured the country several times performing,
lecturing and challenging. She has facilitated poetry and journalism workshops
third grade to twelfth, in community centers, youth detention facilities, and
women’s prisons. The author of two chapbooks, “children of ex-slaves: the
unfinished revolution” and “This Back Called Bridge,” Walidah is also the bad
half of the poetry duo Good Sista/Bad Sista, and has co-authored with her
partner Turiya Autry two chapbooks: "Good Sista/Bad Sista: Can YOU Tell
the Difference?" and "Action-packed!".

She has shared the stage with folks as different as Kenny
Muhammad of the Roots, Chuck D, Saul Williams, war resister Stephen Funk, Ani
DiFranco, John Irving, dead prez and organizer and revolutionary Yuri
Kochiyama. She has appeared on Puerto Punx Ricanstruction’s second album Love
and Revolution  and toured
nationally and internationally with them. 

Never on our knees

But this nation has heard the pleas

Of a generation

Of a nation

And the only reply was the continuation

Of the cluster bomb.


The Performers...
 
Dave Rovics (11:30 AM - 12:00 PM)

David Rovics has been called the musical voice of the progressive movement in the US. Amy Goodman has called him "the musical version of Democracy Now!" Since the mid-90's Rovics has spent most of his time on the road, playing hundreds of shows every year throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Japan. He and his songs have been featured on national radio programs in the US, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and elsewhere. He has shared the stage regularly with leading intellectuals (Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn), activists (Medea Benjamin, Ralph Nader), politicians (Dennis Kucinich, George Galloway), musicians (Billy Bragg, the Indigo Girls), and celebrities (Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon). He has performed at dozens of massive rallies throughout North America and Europe and at thousands of conferences, college campuses and folk clubs throughout the world. He has loads of MP3's available for free download on his website, www.davidrovics.com, along with CDs, links, etc. More importantly, he's really good. He will make you laugh, he will make you cry, and he will make the revolution irresistable.

 

Triple Grip (12:00 - 12:30 PM)   
 
Triple Grip is a funk and soul band lead by guitarist and vocalist Barry Hampton.  The Willamette Week writes, "Hampton, who transplanted from Baltimore a decade ago, has molded his eclectic love of music—the guy claims everything from Parliament and Sly Stone to the Clash and Tom Waits as influences—into the five-piece Triple Grip. His silky-smooth vocals, paired with the virtuoso bass grooves of “Skip” Elliott Bowman and the hip-hop stomp of Adrian Mashe’s drums, immediately evoke classic soul. But Hampton—calling to mind another idol, Prince—also laces his songs with decidedly Brit-rock guitar riffs and a dose of funk, creating a tight, bounding mutation... 

Hampton and the Triple Grip are also giving the city something it sorely needs—an ambitious jolt of soul that just might get bodies moving." 

Visit Barry Hampton's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/barryhampton 

 

March 4th Marching Band (1:30 - 2:00 PM)

Genre-busting. Cinematic. Community-driven. Sonically and visually stunning. 

Unified and diverse.

MarchFourth is a date, a command, and a large band poised to take on the world. How do you define the experience of a MarchFourth show? What kind of images emerge when you listen to their eponymous 9-song debut disc? Imagine Duke Ellington meets Sgt Pepper in an international big-top Fantasia evoking a familial community reminicent of the Grateful Dead. Imagine a 1920's speakeasy where Mr. Bungle meets the Shogun Warriors in a PG Clockwork Orange. M4 is not just for hipsters and adults; the kids and grandparents love it too!
MarchFourth Marching Band got it's name by accident when a bunch of artists and musicians in NE Portland decided to put a marching band together for a Fat Tuesday party (March 4th, 2003), originally performing a 7-song set of tunes that included covers of Rebirth Brass Band, Fela Kuti, and Fleetwood Mac. The band's gigs in the following weeks-- a peace rally and opening slots with the Youngblood Brass Band and Pink Martini -- cemented the group as a unit. Since then, M4 has performed over 300 shows for just about every type of audience imaginable. Without guitars or keyboards, M4 "rocks" with the best of them, swirling the audience with an over-the-top explosion of performance and charisma.
Stilt-walkers, unicycles, fire eaters, puppets, flag twirlers, burlesque dancers, clown antics, and acrobatics are just some of the things you'll see accompanying this eclectic big band. MarchFourth Marching Band's four stilt-walkers are world-class, performing acrobatics, dance routines, and even fire dancing on stilts—all in fanciful costumes. The other six beauties can fill the stage with mesmerizing original dance routines (inspired by styles such as bellydance, hip hop, jazz, cheerleading, burlesque, and ballroom) or spread out into the audience and get everybody dancing. The musical quality, the energy of the band, and the spectacle of the dancers all combine to create an original performance that appeals to everyone.

To MarchFourth Marching Band, art is life.  For more information see http://www.marchfourthmarchingband.com 

 

Commotion w/ Ben Darwish (3:30 - 4:15 PM)

Commotion is Ben Darwish (Ben Darwish Trio, Drew Shoals Collective), Dan Duval (Fiction Junkies), Damian Erskine (Tony Furtado Band, Everyone Orchestra), and Russ Kleiner (ULU, The Square Egg). Incorporating elements of funk, reggae, hip hop, and the use of live samples, Commotion is a group that you do not want to miss! For booking and info please contact commotionpdx@gmail.com.
Willamette Week Pick 1/3/08

"If the Ben Darwish Trio’s subtle jazz is a clove-smoking American living in Paris in the ’50s, Ben Darwish’s Commotion (a collaboration between piano-playing Darwish, bassist Damian Irskine and Russ Kleiner on drums/electronic beats) is that same expatriate returning home to partake in the acid-induced fervor of ’60s San Francisco. The band’s articulate, complicated jazz arrangements linger as they play over sampled recordings, like Bill Evans tickling the ivories in a video-game arcade. If you can handle the madness, you’ll love it."

 

For more Information or to Volunteer Contact the PDX Peace Music Committee:

m15music@lists.pdxpeace.org

 

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