EarthFest's 10th Year Party at Barley's
EarthFest, Knoxville’s Earth Day Event is having a birthday party. Join us at Barley’s in the old city Friday evening, April 17, 2009 for our 10th Anniversary Party. Derek Senter along with Benny Smith will be coordinating the event with the Barley’s staff.
Cover / Donations at the door will go towards a fund raiser for EarthFest and WUTK 90.3 who will split the funds complements of our sponsor Barley’s. Check out the bands below to see who is playing that evening complements of another great sponsor Rock-Tenn Recycling.
Thank You for 10 Great Earth Days,from EarthFest Co-Chairs John Homa and Cat Wilt and the entire EarthFest Committee.
The line-up is as follows: Kicking the show off will be Todd Steed & The Sons Of Phere w/ special guest Julia Nunes, Mic Harrison & The High Score ending with Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminal Starvation League.
Tood Steed & The Sons of Phere w/ Julia Nunes
Todd Steed is originally from Knoxville but has been meandering around the planet for many moons. Most of that meandering started with his first touring band, legendary post-punk rocker-heads Smokin' Dave & The Premo Dopes. After stints working overseas, and then back the USA with Apelife and the Opposable Thumbs, Steed has now settled down with a very happy little musical unit, the Suns of Phere, located in the city of the Sunsphere, Knoxville.
"This band feels like home. It feels like a warm bowl of something happy and full of daily recommended doses of certain vitamins. It feels like exotic green tea one day, and home brewed beer the next."
According to YouTube Insight, Julia's yearly view-average for each video is around 400,000, with some spikes, including originals "Into the Sunshine", with nearly 1.7 million views, "Balloons" with more than 1.1 million, and a nearly 50/50 viewership split between the genders.
Check out her videos on YouTube.
Mic Harrison & The High Score
Harrison grew up in a small West Tennessee town called Bradford and played in a high school band with buddies Carl Bell and Jeff Abercrombie (future members of the band Fuel) and Jeff Bills (who went on to co-found the V-Roys). When the V-Roys needed a replacement for departing member John Paul Keith, Harrison was the first person to get a call. With both Harrison and Scott Miller contributing songs and lead vocals, the band became a favorite of singer-songwriter Steve Earle who made the group his first signing to his E-Squared Records. With the group Harrison recorded two acclaimed studio albums and one live disc. After the break-up of the V-Roys in 1999, Harrison recorded one record withthe Faults and then joined power-pop greats Superdrag.
Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminal Starvation League
Nominated for a grammy at the age of 6 years old for a duet with his dad called "daddy what if"-written by Shel Silverstein - has a degree in psychology from the University Of Tennessee - is VERY afraid of elves
Made 2 albums for Immortal Records with his band Bare Jr. one for sony records in 1998 and one for virgin records in 2001- born in Nashville, TN june 28, 1966- has 2 children -- believes that blue is a flavor and not a color nor a feeling- you can see bobby's mother singing on the "Town Hall Party" DVD set under the stage name Jeannie Sterling or on YouTube
Has made 3 albums and 1 ep for Bloodshot Records since 2003- co-produced his dad's last record The Moon Was Blue in 2006- grew up in Hendersonville, TN with George Jones and Tammy Wynette as his next door neighbors- is only making music in the hopes of getting one step closer to his ultimate dream of being Steven Patrick Morrissey's personal bicycle mechanic- has toured with- Dr. Dog, The Walkmen, The Decemberists, The Black Crowes, Bob Dylan, Areosmith, My Morning Jacket, Centro-matic, The Bottel Rockets, The Drive By Truckers, Andrew Bird, And The Old 97's
Has been romantically linked to the Bob's Big Boy boy- in June of 2007 Bobby was asked by a casting company to audition for the role of "Shrek" for "Shrek the Musical" on Broadway- is on Houston Party Records in spain and Hazelwood Records in germany- did a family album of all Shel Silverstein songs called "Singin' In The Kitchen" in 1975- can NOT speak mandrin chinese- had all his songs critiqued by Shel Silverstein till Shel died in may of 1999- sang on the song "Getting Back Into You" on The Silver Jews album "Tanglewood Numbers"- sang on the song "Riding" on Will Oldhams' album "Bonnie Prince Billie Sings Greatest Palace Music"