MarsCon 2007

Music at MarsCon

Once again, MarsCon features more music than you can shake a (drum) stick at. Here's the schedule.

Concert - DJ Particle
Friday, 10:00 pm, Main Stage
DJ Particle: is, since 1994, the stage, club, and radio alias of Emi Briet, a radio show host, sometime disc jockey and recent novelty music artist.

Friday Filking
Friday, 10:00 pm, Re(a)d Mars (Room 1340)
Bring your voice. Bring your instrument if you have one. Bring your own lyrics, or grab a songbook and join in the singing.

Concert - Rob Balder
Friday, 10:30 pm, Main Stage
Rob Balder is a self-described "renaissance geek," who spreads his creative energies across the fields of comics, game design, small press publishing, writing, poetry, and filk.

Concert - Worm Quartet Friday, 11:00 pm, Main Stage
Worm Quartet is a one man (Reverend Timothy F. Crist, A.K.A. -=ShoEboX=-) Comedy Synth Punk band.

The Gothsicles
Friday, 11:30 pm, Main Stage
Darker than darkwave. Colder than coldwave. So cold, it's frozen on a stick. The Gothsicles. Also known as "...the best gothic-industrial-nerdcore-comedy band in the multiverse..."

Friday Night Drum Jam
Friday/Saturday, Midnight, Main Stage
Take your drum and beat it!

Concert - Eric Coleman
Saturday, 2:00 pm, Main Stage
From his hapless manhandling of a drum set in the mid 70's to nasally punk singer in the late 70's to pathetically trendy synth-pop maven in the 80's to a mostly failed attempt to ignore the entire 1990's, Eric has had the sort of career that would make most musicians hopelessly incontinent.

Concert - Carla Ulbrich
Saturday, 2:30 pm, Main Stage
Carla Ulbrich is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and smart aleck from Clemson, South Carolina.

Concert - Possible Oscar
Saturday, 3:00 pm, Main Stage
Bud Sharpe, former producer for The Nick Atoms, and the formidable Marshall Stanton, master of all stringed implements and the ancient art of Feng Shui.

Concert - Sudden Death
Saturday, 3:30 pm, Main Stage
By combining hip hop and comedy, Sudden Death has become one of the most popular acts on the Dr. Demento Show.

Concert - The Great Luke Ski
Saturday, 4:00 pm, Main Stage
"The great Luke Ski", otherwise known as Luke Sienkowski, writes, records and performs comedy music on a variety of pop culture subjects ranging from Lord of the Rings and Star Wars to Spider-Man and Keanu Reeves. Luke has enjoyed repeated success on the Dr Demento Show.

Concert - Ookla the Mok
Saturday, 5:00 pm, Main Stage
Our MarsCon 2007 Musical Guests of Honor, Ookla the Mok is Fandom's Own Rock Band. They've been playing at Science Fiction and Comic Book Conventions all over North America since 1994.

Saturday Filking
Saturday, 10:00 pm, Re(a)d Mars (Room 1340)
Bring your voice. Bring your instrument if you have one. Bring your own lyrics, or grab a songbook and join in the singing.

Concert - Possum Willy
Saturday, 11:00 pm, Main Stage
Hear the band that supersedes all boundaries of Musical Thought. A band that has embraced and catapulted all sonic frequency aspects of emotion, from happy to whimsical, from pensive to aggressive. Sadness and Bitterness and every other trait of human being emotion have been absorbed into the Psyche of the Gods of Possum Willy.

Saturday Night Drum Jam
Saturday/Sunday, Midnight, Main Stage
Take your drum and beat it some more.

Concert - Beth Kinderman
Sunday, 1:00 pm, Main Stage
Beth is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from Minneapolis.

Concert - Art Paul Schlosser
Sunday, 1:30 pm, Main Stage
Art Paul Schlosser has been a street musician and busker as well as an outsider artist on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin since 1986. He is best known for his song "Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich" which made the Funny 5 of the Dr Demento radio show 4 times in the year 2001.

Concert - Carrie Dahlby
Sunday, 2:00 pm, Main Stage
Carrie has performed for MarsCon before in the role of Buffy in last year's Buffy the Musical, and she is prominently featured in Luke Ski's stage show in multiple roles, including the Princess Leia in Grease Wars.

Concert - Power Salad
Sunday, 2:30 pm, Main Stage
Power Salad has appeared many times on the national "Dr. Demento" radio show as well as other funny music shows around the country, and recently in Holland! They are the creators of such hits as "My Cat Is Afraid of the Vacuum Cleaner."

MarsCon Dementia Smackdown
Sunday, 3:00 pm, Main Stage
Our dementia artists join forces for some booty-stompin' block-rockin' dementia classics! Come on and finish off this year's MarsCon with a big demented bash!

MarsCon 2007
March 2-4, 2007
Holiday Inn Select
Bloomington, MN
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