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A Successful IMC Benefit Show |
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by Zach
Email: wolfgang (nospam) wolfgang.groogroo.com (unverified!) |
20 Feb 2001
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On Sunday February 20, 2001 the UC-IMC held a benefit show at the IMC space in Urbana to raise money for a new minidisc console deck. Around 20 people came over the course of the night with about 7 people taking up the open stage. By the end of the night we had raised nearly $200. |
The show on Sunday night started very quiet and ended very loud. At 7pm there was one performer on the open stage list and only one audience member (who came all the way from Bloomington-Normal after seeing the blurb on our website) who was not with one of the bands. But despite the tiny audience Dale C. Miller started the show.
As the night went on people came and left with a peak of about 15 people.
The open stage was very free form with most of the performers doing multiple sets as inspiration and courage moved them. Besides folk and blues music from several acoustic guitar toting singers we were treated to poetry and conga drumming. During one blues song several audience members joined in with percussion on everything they could find (including tables and sheets of paper) to add to a grooving bo-diddly beat interlude.
While the bands changed I gave the audience an overview of the IMC. For several people this was their first experience with the IMC and everyone was interested to know more.
Humpty Dumpster filled the rest of the night from 9pm-10pm with loud, tight, charged, rocking indie-punk including a few unlikely cover songs. Nearly everyone who was around at the end of the folk set stayed for the rock set.
Many people encouraged us to throw these shows on a regular basis.
See also: http://urbana.indymedia.org/active/news/display.php3?article_id=153 |
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