Krispen Hartung & Jared Hallock (Boise, ID)
Rick Walker (Santa Cruz, CA)
Ted Killian & Jeff Kaiser (Medford, OR)
Lumper/Splitter (Joe Rut and Lucio Menegon) (Oakland, CA)
LINDA (Boise, ID)
Bonefish Sam & His Orchestra (Boise, ID)
Jeff Rice & Ted Apel (Boise, ID)
Elijah Jensen (Boise, ID)
The Rex-X-Ray Band (George McLean & Nate Paradis) (Boise, ID)
Alejandro Anastasio (Boise, ID)
BEMF 2 - 2007
Amy Vecchione (Boise, ID)
Breccia (Boise, ID)
Craig Green (Idaho Falls, ID)
Jeff Kaiser & Gregory Taylor (Ventura, CA, Madison, WI)
Gretchen Jude (Boise, ID)
Jared Hallock (Boise, ID)
Kris Hartung (Boise, ID)
Lumper-Splitter (Oakland, CA)
Margaret Noble (audio) and Edyta Stepien (video) (Chicago, IL)
Moe! Staiano + Z’EV (Oakland, CA)
Patrick Benolkin (Boise, ID)
Rick Walker (Santa Cruz, CA)
Rob Price & David Grollman (New York, NY)
Stefan Smulovitz (Vancouver, B.C.)
Ted Killian (Medford, OR)
Tom Baker & Jesse Canterbury (Seattle, WA)
The Transhumans (Ventura, CA)
Unicorn Feather (Boise, ID)
BEMF 3 - 2008
Rainer Straschill (Munich, Germany)
With financial support by the Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe Institut
The Choir Boys (Jeff Kaiser & Andrew Pask)(USA)
The Deep End Ensemble (USA)
Emily Hay & Motoko Honda (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Unicorn Feather (Elijah Jensen)(Boise, ID, USA)
Ted Killian (Medord, OR, USA)
The Transhumans (Ventural, CA, USA)
Tom Baker Quartet (Seattle, WA, USA)
Krispen Hartung & Robert Sterling (Boise, ID & Ventura, CA, USA)
Gretchen Jude (Boise, ID, USA)
Thorrific (Seattle, WA, USA)
Mike Blomquist (Boise, ID, USA)
Craig Green (Idaho Falls, ID, USA)
Rob Wallace, Colter Frazier, & Jim Connolly (USA)
Robert Price, David Grollman, & Lucio Menegon (New York, USA)
Jim McAuley (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Amy Vecchione (Boise, ID, USA)
Krispen Hartung, Brian McFadin & Jared Hallock (Boise, ID, USA)
Mike Blomquist, (Boise, ID, USA)
Emily Hay, Motoko Honda, & Krispen Hartung (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Craig Green & Krispen Hartung (Idaho Falls & Boise, ID, USA)
The 3rd Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival is a four-day event occurring May 29 through June 1, 2008 in Boise, Idaho, USA. The festival will feature approximately 40 musical performances, 12 headliners from out of state or other countries, 30 unique performers/groups, and over 20 hours of creative music. Performance styles showcased at this event range from experimental and avant-garde, to free jazz and electro-acoustic, all prime representatives of the creative music arts. The festival will also integrate experimental and avant-garde film, during intermissions and during most all performances to produce a multimedia experience for attendees.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Boise Experimental Music Festival is to raise awareness and appreciation of creative music art in Boise, Idaho, and provide a world-class venue and outlet for experimental musicians to express their art amongst their peers.
Venues & Overall Program Schedule
May 28 (Wednesday), 7:00 - 8:30pm
Museum of Eastern Idaho
Eastern Idaho Experimental Music Festival
300 S. Capital Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
208-524-7777
$10 at the door
http://www.theartmuseum.org/
May 29 (Thursday), 7-11pm
3 Shapes Aikido
1512 north 10th street
Boise, ID 83702
208-387-0410
$5.00 at the door
http://www.3shapesaikido.com/
May 30 (Friday), 8:30pm - Midnight
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
Phone: 208-343-0571
$7.00 at the door
http://www.elkorah.org
May 31 (Saturday), 1-7pm
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
Phone: 208-343-0571
$6.00 at the door
($10 will cover evening show as well)
http://www.elkorah.org
May 31 (Saturday), 1-5pm
The Record Exchange
1105 W Idaho St
Boise, ID 83702
(208) 344-8010
FREE
http://www.buymusichere.net/stores/recordexchange/
May 31 (Saturday), 8:30pm - Midnight
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
Phone: 208-343-0571
$7.00 at the door
http://www.elkorah.org
June 1 (Sunday), 1-7pm
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
Phone: 208-343-0571
$6.00 at the door
http://www.elkorah.org
Testimonials
"BEMF is one of the most unique and enjoyable festivals out there that focuses on improvisation and creative musical practices. The gathering of artists is as much a social event as an artistic one, bringing together musicians from all over the country to hang out in beautiful downtown Boise at the lovely restaurants, coffee houses, pubs...and to listen to each others music. A wonderful event." - Jeff Kaiser (tea drinker, vegan, occasional yogi, and trumpet player), http://www.jeffkaiser.com/
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"Remarkably short on attitude, long on the surprises that recombinance encourages, and as genial and matter-of-fact as the community that hosts it, BEMF has an interesting secret to drive its growth - anybody who’s been there once wants to come back again, and they’ve told their friends." - Gregory Taylor, http://www.rtqe.net
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"...BEMF is one of the best organized, most creative and most generous in spirit of any I’ve ever participated in. I’m just astonished that in less than two years that you have created a world class new music festival." - Rick Walker (festival coordinator & artistic director / professional musician), http://www.looppool.info/
All proceeds go to supporting musician costs for this year’s festival
Background
The 1st and 2nd Annual Boise Experimental Music Festivals were both major successes and received accolades that placed Boise, Idaho (USA) on the map of other high caliber music festivals from around the world. This achievement goes hand in hand with the fact that Boise is now the third largest city in the North West of the United States, next to Seattle and Portland. Boise is also one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, and along with that comes a more diverse and creative music and art community. The festival received significant coverage in both local and national media, and based on its artistic merit, it was awarded a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts.
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Believe us, every one of those 14 years have been freakin' too!
You've already put together a longer string of shows in one festival than we ever done though, and putting on such a fest in Boise is just ballsy to the max!
When at last we tear our hands into heaven we can be sure that in the next made Religion we won't be punctured by slivers from crossed wooden beams. Nor will any star or blood thirsty moon brandish its filthy points towards our orifices of faith. Religions fall on dead electricity that we must carry around like river rocks that we have lovingly tied around our ankles as the waters of life rise to our throats. Be sure that when you feel the icy cold waters of life that you breathe heavily as it pours into your lungs like heavy liquid smoke. When the lights go out you will be connected once again to the truth.
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I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. Wynton Marsalis
Hey Kris I would love to be involved but will be in Italy. Talk with Jeremy at the Pulse. He may be interested. I am no longer the music director. Best Michael
thanks for the request, you're of course very welcome! amazing stuff here! how are you? what about "the aching spines" :-) would be the first cd ever where the titles are present before the songs... ;-)
Hey Krispin - much respect, this is a great page ! I am in Europe having a blast, here is a youtube link to our bands first show in Belgium ;) My best to a great New Year filled with Unity !
