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Sacramento Electronica Music Festival

obsessed — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:11:30 +0000

The Sacramento Electronica Music Festival (SEMF) will take place later this month, January 28th-30th, at the Townhouse Lounge. The venue is located at 1517 21st Street in Sacramento, CA.

The festival will feature a variety of multi-genre electronica acts from the Sacramento area and beyond. SEMF will take place over three days in January. Performers will include acclaimed electronica artists like Tycho, The New Humans, Dusty Brown, Tha Fruitbat, Seventh Swami, Melee Beats, Sister Crayon, and many more.

Come out and support this unique and interesting music festival. Get all the details on their web site

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Autumn Sky Anti-Folk Festival And Birthday

obsessed — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:09:06 +0000

Come to Marilyn’s on Sunday October 11 and help celebrate the birthday of local singer-songwriter Autumn Sky. She is described on the Marilyn’s site thus: “beautiful jazz voice major, composes, sings all of her songs, plays a lot of instruments and is performing with a full band which she has not done in a long time”. She’s also calling it her “Anti-Folk Festival” and will be supported by local acts Walking Spanish, Clemon’, Todd Morgan and the Emblems, All on Seven, Ryan McCarroll, and Dante Romandia.

More info about the show

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Music Festival Near Sacramento

obsessed — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:13:46 +0000

Ok, ok, it’s about an hour away. But that’s pretty close and there are some local artists included so we’ll mention it here. From their press release:

The American River Music Festival is a celebration of music and moving water, taking place Sept. 18, 19 and 20 throughout the friendly river community of Coloma. The festival offers over 25 performances and workshops at our main stage, in three riverfront campgrounds, on our whitewater river trip, on our guided riverfront hike in Magnolia Ranch, and at local restaurants.

The music is mixture of Americana, Folk and Blues with performers coming from throughout North America including [former Sacramento singer-songwriter] Jackie Greene and Tim Bluhm (of The Mother Hips) who together are The Skinny Singers, Jimmy LaFave, Eliza Gilkyson and Nina Gerber, City Folk (with Keith Greeninger), Blame Sally, Handful of Luvin, Jonny Mojo with MindX, Fret Not Gospel, Twilight Hotel, Danny Schmidt and many more.

Sounds like a fun festival in a scenic place with a variety of music. More information is on their web site or by calling (530) 622-6044.