October 23, 2007

Bob Dylan Celebration--Open Mic & Costume Party

Bob Dylan Celebration (Open Mic & Costume Party)
Tuesday, October 30th, 7:00pm

To Celebrate the release of Bob Dylan The Other Side Of The Mirror - Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 and the release of the soundtrack to Todd Haynes new Dylan biopic, I'm Not There, we will be having our first ever hoot-night. We are accepting entries to perform at this special evening of Dylan music, with the following guidelines:

We are looking for performers to recreate, straight-forward or interpretively (but definitely lovingly), their favorite Dylan song (acoustic or electric). Performances need to be either solo or duo, and while we aren't limiting the instrumentation, we need to be able to have fairly quick set changes, so one-man-bands need to be mobile-one-man-bands. Also, in keeping with the theme of the I'm Not There film, which stars Cate Blanchet, Christian Bales, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Marcus Carl Franklin all taking turns as Dylan at different times in his life, and which seems to reinforce that Bob is Everyman, Everyman is Bob, we are also having a pre-Halloween Costume Contest as part of the festivities. So raid your closet for some Bob swag, tune up your guitar, and join us for what is sure to be a ridiculous event.

We are hoping to keep this rolling smoothly, so if you are planning to perform please let us know so we can work out a diverse line-up that doesn't have 10 versions of "Rainy Day Women 12 & 35" back to back (yeah, we know, everybody must get stoned, so please dig a little deeper into the catalogue and we'll save that for a finale). If you need some ideas you could do much worse than grabbing a one of the new deluxe Greatest Hits packages.

SonyBMG has donated a full catalog of Dylan CDs that we will be splitting between the talent and the costume winners, plus we're gonna kick in a few things we have lying around, including some gift certificates and other cool Dylan prizes.