Portland CMJ Showcase Kick-Off Party!
Posted: Monday, October 10th 2011
The Portland Music Foundation invites Portland to send their favorite bands off to New York City in style with a Kick-Off party at the Empire, Oct. 14, that will feature host Kurt Baker and Eternal Otter Records spinning Friday night party favorites along with tunes by all the other bands who'll be playing the Portland Showcase at the CMJ Festival in NYC. Plus, $1 LOCAL MAINE BEERS and there will be a raffle for tickets to shows at the State Theatre like The Flaming Lips, Gillian Welch and the SOLD OUT PIXIES! (Oh, and free music, too.)
The Portland Showcase at CMJ is generously supported by Husson University, State Theatre and Crooked Cove CD/DVD Duplication.
The PMF is taking seven bands (Baker, the Milkman's Union, Sunset Hearts, Spose, the Mallett Brothers Band, Billy Libby, and the Toughcats) to CMJ Oct. 20, as part of the second largest music festival in the United States, showcasing the abundant talent of Portland's live music scene (see more details here:http://www.portlandmusicfoundation.org/cmj).
In order to send them off in style, we are going to GET ROWDY on a Friday night with the party soundtrack supplied by Baker, Eternal Otter Records founder and PMF board member Will Etheridge, and Portland Phoenix music writer and PMF board member Sam Pfeifle.
PLUS, every attendee will receive a free download card that links to downloadable music from each of the CMJ bands.
If that weren't enough to get you in the door, the PMF will also be raffling off, for a mere five bucks per entry, tickets to three shows at the State Theatre: The Flaming Lips, Gillian Welch and the SOLD OUT PIXIES SHOW!
The Kick-Off Party gets rolling at 9 p.m., Oct. 14, at Empire Dine and Dance, at the corner of Congress and Forest. A suggested $5 donation to the PMF gets you in the door.
What's this CMJ thing? The CMJ Festival fills 80 venues with 1,300+ performances over the course of a week, headquartered at New York University's Greenwich Village campus. The Portland Showcase will be held at Sullivan Hall, New York's premier small concert venue, Oct. 20. For the event, the Portland Music Foundation carefully selected seven of Portland's best up-and-coming artists and bands.
