Summertime in the City 08 Announced!
04/11/08 • Posted in: Events, Music, Springfield by Joey Marchy
At the Springfield Area Merchants Business Association meeting last night Ian Ranne announced something I’ve been hinting at for a while: we are planning a music festival for Saturday August 2nd in Springfield called Summertime in the City 08. Before I write anymore here are the details as we know them:
When
Saturday August 2nd, 2008 from 2:00pm to 11:00pm
Where
Springfield Historic District between 1st and 9th streets on Main
What
Three music venues hosting national and local acts. We plan on having a community retail component, think Bizarre Market or Springfield Crap Fair. We will have an environmental awareness / sustainability component, much like last year’s Summertime in the City 07. There’s plenty more planned, I just don’t have any details on those items.
The Venues
- The Pearl (unconfirmed) for rock/metal
- Shantytown Pub for hip hop
- 9th and Main for ska/reggae/jazz/blues
I hope this announcement won’t overshadow the other Springfield Music festival announced yesterday. It’s pretty rad, I write a post a few weeks ago called Springfield Needs a Festival, and now it’s happening.
The Inspiration
Listening to Ian talk tonight at the SAMBA meeting I can see how we fell in to this together. We are both passionate about not waiting for Jacksonville to be a cool, fun place. It is to an extent, but it’s heavily dependent on taking an active role and doing it yourself.
I am living now and I want Jacksonville to be fun now. Not 2 or 3 years from now. I realized a few years ago of you want to make something of this city, it’s relatively easy. You just need to come up with an idea and make it happen.
The Players
- Joey Marchy - promotions and fundraising
- Ian Ranne - promotions and booking
- Daniel Blanchard - community interaction and booking
- Tony Allegretti - wise and sage advisor
Tony is playing the silent partner and will be helping with logistics and connections. He’s very busy adjusting to a new job and warned us he won’t be heavily involved.
Daniel convinced Petra Management to let us use their empty lots along Main Street. This is huge for the festival and for Petra. It will give us extra room to put bouncy tents, snow cone machines, soccer games, bike polo, etc.
It also shows an unprecedented degree of community involvement from Petra Management. We are very happy to be working with them. Daniel and I are meeting with their rep Richard Trendel tomorrow so I’ll have an update on this soon.
What can you do?
Send us ideas and let us know if you want to help and how you can help.
So. Groovy. Good job Jo Jo! I can’t wait!
Sounds awesome… i’m cancelling my plans for lollapalooza right now.
sweet! i’m not taking any classes this summer, so as soon as i’m through with exams, i can help out all you need. just add me to any mailing list or whatever when you need volunteers.
Yeah, this is great, good work guys. Let me again say: Asamov/the ABs and Airport Factory!
Hey Joey, it’s Crystal! I’d be willing to help out with whatever I can. you’re welcome to contact me if you have anything in mind. Also, I want a shantytown shirt!
This is awesome Joey! If you need any help with anything feel free to hit me up man. This is gonna be great.
This is awesome Joey! If you need any help with anything feel free to hit me up man. This is gonna be great!
yippee!
Is it just me or does anyone care about Adam Beaugh’s exam schedules or what classes he is taking…we get it, you are going to Law School. Get over yourself.
For Joey…good job, always one step ahead.
YES! Thank you. I’m available to help!
Wonderful on the Petra news. That is perfect.
This sounds great! Joey, I can lend a hand in the poster/flyer design area if you need it.
Ther Friend-
I never got the sense that he was in any way bragging or anything like that. Seems like you have an inferiority complex, you fucking loser, given that he was just stating what was going on for him. I forgot how cool it was to talk shit on an anonymous internet comment section, pussy– at least have the balls to put your full name.
When does Bike Polo come after Soccer Games?
Very excited! We’ll be providing bike repair, workshops, rentals and polo mallets for anyone during the day and the week prior at Zombie Bikes (1520 Main St.). Come resurrect your dead bike.
I am just plain giddy about this whole thing.
We’ll be moved into the neighborhood this June. Let us know if you need help. We could do a partnership with some non-profits in town we are working with.
gosh, sorry for volunteeing, “the hill.”
“Baby Loves Disco” afternoon dance party!?!
for the babies. Let’s make it happen.
volunteers?
This is great news. I love to see signs of life in the Core. Outstanding!
Adam & Todd
I apologize if you took offense with my comment above “Ther Friend”, but to resort to name calling I find humorous. Adam I respect your pursuit of higher education. It takes courage, diligence, and tenacity to pursue such endeavors. We all applaud your efforts. As for being “a fucking loser” I had nothing better to do today than reference some comments below from which I arrived at my opinion. I had to throw in the last one for my own entertainment:
adam beaugh Says: 04/09/2008 11:51 pm
how about radiohead? my property exam is on the day that they are playing in west palm, so i’m missing them this go round.
adam beaugh Says: 03/24/2008 12:26 am
i know a read a bunch of articles on it in my social stratifications course in undergrad. we also talked about it in social theory. i know i have a book around here somewhere that has it in it…
adam beaugh Says: 01/29/2008 1:21 am
wow. 2/04 doesn’t look that long ago, until i realized that i was still living in greenville, sc and in undergrad at that point.
adam beaugh Says: 12/13/2007 1:58 am
hah. tell you what. in two and a half years, when i have some free time, i’ll sign up for some throwback softball. i’m sure you’ll be fine with it, since i kinda throw like a girl.
adam beaugh Says: 12/07/2007 3:07 pm
would that i could! i hate that all this stuff is going on, and i’m sitting in my apartment making notecards on warranties, UCC 2-207, and duress. NO FAIR!
adam beaugh Says: 12/05/2007 11:26 pm
wow. that looks really cool. luckily, adam (not beaugh) and i will be done with finals by then, and i can totally go. btw, property law! not fun.
adam beaugh Says: 11/05/2007 10:58 pm
really, i’m pretty impressed with this festival, smaller venue or not. for a first year, there is a pretty darn good line up. i’m sure that it won’t exactly help me catch up on the UCC, but spending the day at metro park will be a great time.
adam beaugh Says:
March 26th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
is this law school? if you want me to log on to westlaw, i really don’t have time, as finals are coming up and my LP memo is due soon. i was under the impression that we were speaking in more general terms, thus the definition from dictionary.com.
adam beaugh Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 11:47 am
it was a great time. i ended up being from for about 11 hours, and it was totally worth blowing off my studies
adam beaugh Says:
August 13th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
just what i needed. another cool bar within 4 blocks of my house. law school is going to be harder than i thought.
Adam Beaugh Says:
April 19th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
people are way too sensitive about stuff.
Well, if any research needs to be done for the festival, or if minutes need to be taken…I assume Shane would be great.
Not big on note taking…I am only have a bachelors, but doing anything to help Joey and the others pull this off I am down for.
good lord. nice use of your time. i’m not big on flame wars, or whatever, but you need to chill out. since i actually know some of the people who comment on here, i sometimes add what is going on in my life. that often involves, and sorry for bringing it up, school. feel free to just skip my comments on here in the future.
Damn! Throw down!
This is over. I don’t normally delete comments or ban people but I swear I will ban both of you from commenting if you keep this up.
This post is too important for this kind of stuff. I am deleting comment #9, #13, and #21 thru #24.
Rock on Joey!
Maybe we could have another named, Springfield Rocks! If an event comes up with that name, i’ll take all the credit.
asalamalikum my brothers!