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Porchfest 2013: September 15 in Fall Creek

Neighborhood Music Festival Expands To 137 Artists In Seventh Year

August 29, 2013 — Porchfest, the annual music festival in Ithaca’s Fall Creek neighborhood, will return for its seventh year on Sunday, September 15. Local performers ranging from rock bands and folk singers to Suzuki violin ensembles and jazz combos and beyond will take to the porches of Fall Creek for an afternoon celebrating Ithaca’s wealth of local musical talent. Each year’s Porchfest has been larger than the last, and 2013 will be no exception, with 137 performers signed up. See reverse for a list of artists confirmed for this year; the performance schedule will be announced soon.

Porchfest will run from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM, with a picnic and open jam in Thompson Park (on Cayuga Street between Cascadilla and Marshall streets) to follow at 5:30 PM.

The number of Porchfest bands has increased steadily by about 20 performers per year since the first event in 2007. Organizers expect that there will be more than 150 bands signed up to play next year; in 2020 there will be 266 bands, and Porchfest will have exceeded 1000 bands in the year 2059. (The current committee is planning to retire before then.)

As in past years, local painter Nina Widger has created an original work for Porchfest 2013, which will be featured on Porchfest posters, t-shirts and other materials. This year’s painting can be viewed on Porchfest’s Facebook page, facebook.com/porchfest (direct link to photo: http://on.fb.me/1c73ZzL).

Since the first Porchfest in 2007, the concept has spread widely, with at least 10 similar events launching from Belleville, Ontario, to Tucson, Arizona.

Porchfest 2013 is sponsored by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (ithacanhs.org), a non-profit, community development corporation whose mission is to revitalize Ithaca’s neighborhoods, encouraging stability and diversity, and to help people of modest incomes obtain affordable housing on a long-term basis. Additional support for printed Porchfest maps comes from the Museum of the Earth, whose Dino Jam concert is scheduled for November 10 (museumoftheearth.org/dinojam).

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http://www.porchfest.org
http://facebook.com/porchfest
Tweets by PorchfestIthaca

For more information, please contact
Lesley Greene, Gretchen Hildreth and Andy Adelewitz
info@porchfest.org

PORCHFEST 2013 PERFORMERS:

18 Strings Of Luv
5 Mile Drive
The Accords
Alan Rose and the Restless Elements
Andrew & Rose
Anna Coogan’s Vocal Studio
Answer the Muse
Athena’s Grove
BadHand
Banjo Rags
Bernie Upson and Zach Knowstub
Bert Scholl & Friends
Beverly Stokes
Black is Green
Blue Skies
Bridgewater
Burns and Kristy Band
Cap & Cady
Cats Elbow
Charlie Young
Chattering Walnut
Christopher Gerard Band
Cielle & All Sounds On
Comfort Ave
Commons Crossing
Cornell Ukulele Club
The Creatures
Dancin Feldman
Diamonds in the Rough
Diana Leigh Trio
Diwas Gurung
Djug Django
Doolin O’Dey
The Double E
Edmund’s Ivy
Edukated Fleas
El Caminos
El Rumbon
Ella Sarachan
ephemera
The Fall Creek Bluegrass Partners
Fall Creek Folk
Fall Crikkers Jug Band
The Fauxs
The Fly Rods
Gadje
Gary and Leeann Reynolds: “The old Reyns”
Geoclipse
The Geronimo Line
The Glacial Erotics
Glendale Farm Band
The Go Cats
Grassanova
Grasskickers
Grey Gary
Grietzer Hodgson Manning
The Gunpoets
The Habits
Halogen Sons
Happy Hollow
Harry Nichols Band
Head Band
The Hilltoppers
Home Grounds
ICO Brass Quintet
Immortal Jellyfish
Ithaca Cats
Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus
Ithacan Songwriters Round
The JazzHappensBand
Jeannie Burns
Jennie Stearns
Justin Zupnick & Friends
King Street Ramblers
Kites in Space
Leah Houghtaling and Amelia Sauter
Lily and Matt
Long John & the Tights
Lucky Old Sun
Ma’am Jam
Mad Cow Tippers
Mad Goat String Band
Maplewood Jazz Team
Mary Bentley
Mel & Sol
The MonkeySquids
Mosaic Foundation
Mostly Mandolin Quartet
The Muckland Crooners
Music’s Recreation Foursome
Nate & Kate
Nate and Friends
The Near Varna All-Stars
The Newman Bros.
Not From Wisconsin
Old Time Jam
Patti Witten
The Pelotones
Pierce Walsh
Polly Wood
Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet
The Purple Valley
Red Sled Choir
Regina O’Brien with Charles d’Orban
Rockwood Ferry Trio
Rottweiler Nation
Rune Hill Revival
The Rungs
Ryan B
Samuel B. Lupowitz & The Ego Band
Scratched Vinyl
Second Dam
Seneca St. Recorder Ensemble
Shelter Dogs
Shimmer Lake
The Slapbacks
The Small Kings
Spacetrain
Starts On Friday
Sum Dude & Friends
Sundown Sally
That Old Lovelight
Thee True Deceivers
Thru Spectrums
Timothy Weber
Tom Mank & Sera Smolen
Traonach
Traveling Cats
Travis Knapp
Tyrannical Vegetable
Ukulele Showcase with Auntie Emo & Friends
Ukulelese as a Second Language
Uniit Carruyo
Violin Students of Sarah Cummings
Waggers Over the Station
Waiting for Edna
WonderMonday
Wren
The Yardvarks
Your head explodes

 

Signups have officially begun for this year’s Porchfest. Click on the Musician Sign Up tab to get started.

Hello Wonderful Porchfest friends. Thank you so much for your great event and what you have done for neighborhood and community building let alone music..all through the US!!
We (East Central Community Council) just co-chaired and hosted the first Salt Lake Porchfest to benefit Heart and Soul a local non-profit and are now trying to gather all we learned for next year. THANK YOU so much for this great event. You are making a difference to our community and we are so excited. Once you have more time..we would love to chat live. Have a great Porchfest!! Esther & Gary

Porchfest 2013 will be on Sunday, September 15th. Mark your calendars! We are not yet accepting band information – check back on August 1st.

We have lots of Porchfest tshirts left in the following sizes: Men’s S, M, L, 2XL, Ladies S and M, and medium and large tanks. And they are just $10 each. Want one? Contact us.

Want to print your own copy of the Porchfest poster? You can find it here – 2012 Porchfest Poster

Tomorrow’s Porchfest sign painting party is changing locations. It will be held at 100 Franklin Street – Lesley’s house. It’s still at 10 AM.

Please come! Bring paint and wood if you have it, or just yourselves if you don’t. We’ll provide bagels.

Get Your GreenBack Tompkins has created a page on their website dedicated to Porchfest transportation options. Many festival-goers walk out of their front door and find themselves already at Porchfest, but if that’s not true for you, see how you can get here in the greenest possible way! http://getyourgreenbacktompkins.org/page/getting-there#porchfest

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release – September 4, 2012
Contact: Festival Organizers Gretchen Hildreth and Lesley Greene – Lesley@porchfest.org, Gretchen@porchfest.org

Porchfest Music Festival Returns for a 6th Year

ITHACA NY: On Sunday, September 16th from 1:00-5:00pm, the streets of the Fall Creek & Northside neighborhoods will be filled with music, as many of Ithaca’s finest musicians sing, play and dance on their porches and front stoops. To hear them, grab a map at the information station in Thompson Park (near Gimme Coffee on Cayuga Street) or online at www.porchfest.org, and then walk or bike around the neighborhood to take in the sounds of this free event. This year’s festival is sponsored by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services and supported by a gift from the GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance.

Porchfest 6 will feature 111 musical acts, the biggest Porchfest yet. Performers include El Rumbon, Gunpoets, Not From Wisconsin, JazzHappensBand, Djug Django, Richie Stearns and the Evil City Trio, Uniit Carruyo, Nate & Kate, The Grady Girls, Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus, Sim Redmond Band, Terry Burns and Ron Kristy, and much, much more. The festival offers musical styles ranging from roots rock to traditional jazz, and from pop to hip hop, with side trips into comedy, capoeira, and storytelling. There will also be chances to join in: Emoretta Yang is professor for the required course “Ukulelese as a Second Language,” your chance to learn to play the uke, and there are sing-alongs to boot. There is surely something for everyone.

Public restrooms will be available for festival-goers at Tabernacle Baptist Church, NorthStar Restaurant, St. Paul’s Methodist Church, and the Quaker Meetinghouse.

When the music is done at 5:00pm, grab a picnic dinner and your instruments and head back to Thompson Park for more fun and music. For more information, go to www.porchfest.org or contact festival organizers Gretchen Hildreth and Lesley Greene at LesleyGretchen@porchfest.org.

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