Carlsbad Music Festival Invites You to the June 21st Village Walk

In celebration of its 10th Anniversary season, the Carlsbad Music Festival is presenting the Village Walk on the evening of Friday, June 21st, 2013. This event will feature 44 performances by 30 acts between 5-10 pm and embodies the Carlsbad Music Festival’s spirit of “adventurous music by the beach” while creating a community event for both audience members and musicians. The Village Walk is a fun, free community celebration of music.

The event kicks off with Giri Nata Children’s Balinese Gamelan from the Center for World Music at Magee Park, and ends with surf rock meets jazz duo, the Mattson2, at Boxd. Other highlights include performances by:

Jory Herman, a San Diego Symphony bassist playing works from his new album of solo Bach.

Center for World Music musicians including Peter Wanjira (Kenyan drumming and dance), Son de San Diego (Southern Mexican folkloric music), and Giri Nata (Balinese Gamelan).

San Diego New Music, a contemporary ensemble playing Louis Andriessen’s seminal Worker’s Union.

Local bands including Trouble in the Wind, The Paragraphs, Freako Suave, Second Cousins and Duchess playing sets at Boar Cross’n.

The Village Walk is a regular and popular feature of the September Carlsbad Music Festival, and this year we are additionally presenting it as a standalone event in June. Venues range from New Village Arts Theatre to Spin Records to Magee Park to the old train station, and all are within a short walk of one another. With over 44 performances to choose from over the evening, a Music Walk attendee can choose their own pathway through the music and the Village. There will be an after party at New Village Arts with DJ Lexicon Devil.

With its Village Walk, the Carlsbad Music Festival will join in the world wide celebration of music that takes place each year on the Summer Solstice, known in the US as the National Day of Music.

The Carlsbad Music Festival is an annual event that features world-class adventurous performers and composers in the charming seaside Village of Carlsbad. The Festival was founded in 2003 by composer, violinist and Carlsbad-native, Matt McBane and has been praised by local and national media including the Los Angeles Times, which called the Festival “magnificently enlightening.” In 2010, the Festival won the national ASCAP Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming and in 2012 and 2013, the Festival was awarded prestigious Artworks Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.The full Carlsbad Music Festival will take place on September 20-22, 2013. The Festival will be announcing September artists and more information shortly.

Carlsbad Music Festival Village Walk:

Friday, June 21, 5-10 pm FREE ($5 recommended donation per set) Assorted locations throughout the Village of Carlsbad Kicking off at Magee Park: 258 Beech Ave, Carlsbad, CA 92008 Note: The Coaster will be running an extended schedule and the last train will be at 10:30pm

Village Walk Artists:

Detailed information about each artist available at our website.

Mattson2 Alan Land Ben Power Berglind Tomasdottir Dan Libertino

DJ Lexicon Devil Duchess Ensemble Etcetera Freako Suave

Giri Nata Children’s Balinese Gamelan Jennifer Bewerse Jory Herman Josephine McGrath

Justin DeHart Leigh Sutherlin MandoBasso Music and Dance of Kenya Nathan Hubbard

no know (sound band) San Diego New Music Sean Conway Second Cousins

Son de San Diego Steve Solook Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra The Paragraphs

Tiffany Du Mouchelle Trouble In The Wind Universal Language Orchestra Villa Musica Singers

Villa Musica Junior Strings

Village Walk Venues:

Boar Cross’n Boxd Waffle Foods Carlsbad Chocolate Bar Giacoletti Music

It’s A Grind Coffeehouse Magee Park New Village Arts Foundry Relm Wine Bar & Bistro Spin Records

St. Michaels by the Sea Visit Carlsbad Viz Art Ink

– Carlsbad Music Festival Press Release