Past Shows 2009 2009 Lineup | 2009 Lineup |
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The Orb (Saturday)The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre known as ambient house, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for early-morning ravers once the clubs closed their doors. The group popularized the genre as well, ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Balkan Beat Box (Friday)Balkan Beat Box is steeped with an intense lifetime of research into their own non-Western roots as well as other cultures. A quasi-circus event, BBB performs with a core of 6 musicians, collaborating ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Matisyahu (Saturday)Matisyahu offers a truly unique sound, mixing Jewish teachings with reggae, traditional rap, and guitar solos more typical of rock music. Most of his songs are almost entirely in English with just a few words of Hebrew and ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
K'NAAN (Friday)Somalia. The name alone conjures up images of unbridled destruction, merciless warlords and ruthless terror. A place where nobody—children, the elderly, religious figures—is safe from the atrocities of war, and where the idea of “childhood,” where 8-year olds handle ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Gaudi (Saturday)Gaudi's eclectic style and versatility has kept him at the forefront of his field throughout a noteable and prolific career. His music, which is an organic fusion of dub, world and nu-beat, is in production, on the playlists and ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Shpongle (Saturday)Dongle and Mongle are the only two other words rhyming with Shpongle...a strange hybrid of electronic manipulation and shamanic midgets with frozen digits squeezing the envelope and crawling through the doors of perception, find a new pair of ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Random Rab (Friday)Emerging from his own distinct corner of the West Coast electronic music scene, Random Rab offers a powerful, timeless contribution to sonic exploration. Rab is a master of manipulating our temporal awareness, leading us into seemingly ancient ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Medicine Drum w/ Wisdom (Friday)Fusing the latest cutting edge styles of progressive electronic dance music with foundations of deep tribal rhythms and live vocals, MEDICINE DRUM are recognized as one of the early ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Abai (Saturday)Abai is a talented, classically trained instrumentalist and hip hop vocalist, originally from Hayward, CA and DC/Baltimore area. At age five, Abai started piano, drums at twelve and by 1997 he had started his first experimentation ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Energy Alchemist (Saturday)Energy Alchemist is a collaborative musical talent that is designed to cross genres ranging from electronic, metal, rock, dance, world, industrial and tribal; fusing sounds to create a whole new audio experience. Bill, Tommy & ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Luminesque (Saturday)Luminesque is a cutting edge dance, fire and circus performing arts ensemble. Combining classical dance, belly dance, martial arts, exceptional fire dance technique, cirque, and visionary choreography, our show is like nothing you've experienced. Our extensively trained core of ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
NANDA (Friday & Saturday)A tidal wave of dance, juggling, and crazy Kung-Fu acrobatics, NANDA fills the house with unrelenting skill and comedy woven into a sonic soundscape; This spectacle will tear through any preconceptions of entertainment and the world. ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Kalalea Fire (Saturday)Kalalea Fire is a world class fire dance troupe of 5 women based on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. They have come together to create a dynamic performance of synchronized dance, fire spinning, theater arts and ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
TT Robson(Saturday)TT Robson is a professional aerial dancer and instructor. She is the founder and director of The Gravity Arts, aerial dance school in Santa Cruz and currently performs with the Vau De Vire Society, San Francisco, Skyana ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Liquid Fire Mantra (Saturday)Come peer into an Enchanted Mirror and witness the unraveling of emotion, revealing the fractals of the authentic self. Journey into the dark and see mesmerizing fire illuminate love while uniting the ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS
Skysirens Kerri and Noel (Saturday)Kerri has been performing for her entire life. She started dancing at age 3 and never stopped. Although her dancing has a foundation of classical and contemporary training, her style embodies an ethnic/urban feel with a ... click for BIOS and VIDEOS |
