NYC Wizard Rock Festival- Frequently Asked Questions
What is the NYC Wizard Rock Festival?
The NYCWRF is an incredible event for fans of the Harry Potter book series and for lovers of independent music. New York will host its first ever music festival featuring bands from the Wizard Rock community. Families, sci-fi/fantasy fans, and music enthusiast from all over the world will converge upon New York to “wrock” out to a great line-up of bands including Draco and the Malfoys, The Whomping Willows, and many more. This festival will be an all ages, daylong wizard rock extravaganza! In addition to the musical performances, there will be all kinds of Harry Potter related merchandise for sale and activities. This will be a truly magical event for witches and wizards of any age!
What exactly is Wizard Rock?
Wizard Rock, or Wrock, is a burgeoning independent music movement fostered by the Harry Potter fan community. The artists write music inspired by events, characters, and even objects, from the Harry Potter series of books and films. Lyrics are often written from the point of view of the character or object from which the band gets its name. For example, Draco and the Malfoys, the festival’s headliner, sings from the point of view of Harry Potter’s arch-nemesis. Sometimes the artist anthropomorphizes an inanimate object, such as the Whomping Willows, who performs as the human embodiment of a magical tree. Occasionally, bands will create their own characterizations, such as Swish and Flick, who developed a character that exists in the Harry Potter universe in name only (Astoria Greengrass). The artists generally distribute their music and publicize themselves via Myspace.com. For more information about the Wizard Rock philosophy, read Swish’s blog, HERE
For more information about the history of Wizard Rock, visit the Wizrocklopedia HERE
Who are you guys?
The NYC Wizard Rock Festival was coordinated by a dedicated committee of hardcore Harry Potter fans. We are not a corporation, or a panel of literary scholars. We are a group of friends who share a love for wizard rock. The idea sprang forth soon after the release of Deathly Hallows in the mind of the head coordinator, Swish, who saw that none of the big upcoming wrock events were happening anywhere near New York. She soon rallied together people from The Group That Shall Not Be Named, the largest Harry Potter club on Meetup.com. Our lineup represents our own musical tastes as well as the local community, as many of the wizard rockers are New Yorkers (Celestial, Swish and Flick, Nagini, Fred and George). This is a grassroots effort funded by the committee members themselves who seek not only to throw a huge party, but to raise money for charity. They come from all walks of life and are all very nice people, so please don’t hesitate to greet them when you see them at the festival.
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Wizard Rock!!!
PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS FOR THIS AMAZING LINE UP AT
www. nycwizardrockfestival. com
TICKET PURCHASES THE DAY OF THE SHOW START AT 12:45 PM. MUSIC STARTS AT 1PM! (Please feel free to come a bit earlier than 12:45 if you have already purchased your tickets online)
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NYC Wizard Rock Festival was AMAZING! Thank you all of you fantastic witches and wizards! Posted at 5:08 PM Sep 25, 2008 view more
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NYC Wizard Rock Festival
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 @ 1PM
70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (club formerly known as Galapagos)
TICKETS FOR THE FESTIVAL CAN BE PURCHASED AT
www. nycwizardrockfestival. com
Featuring:
Draco and the Malfoys
The Whomping Willows
Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls
The Remus Lupins
Also performing:
Celestial Warmbottom
Swish and Flick
DJ Luna Lovegood
The Hungarian Horntails
The Cedric Diggorys
Lauren Myrtle
Split Seven Ways (all the way from the UK!!)
Justin Finch Fletchley
Fred and George
Nagini
and more to come!
Tickets are only $20 for a full day of wizard rock and magical amusements! Soon you will be able to purchase your tickets on-line.
New York City is known for a great and many splendid thing; unfortunately, it's large scale, mind-blowing, wizard rock events aren’t one of them. This year however, we’ve made it our mission to change all of that and bring WROCK to the big apple- in a BIG way. How, might you ask? With New York’s first full length Wizard Rock Festival!
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a couple friends and I are sooo trying to get to this, even though we live in West Virginia. i'm glad it's on a weekend.. it actually seems possible for once!
