LOS ANGELES City Councilmember Jose Huizar and Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock present the 12th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival, the yearly music festival with a unique and independent neighborhood vibe, taking place on Colorado Blvd. in Eagle Rock, on Saturday October 2, 2010, from 4-11pm.

The Eagle Rock Music Festival will welcome the eclectic, local lineup for which it is known,highlighting the ethnic and cultural diversity of the Los Angeles music scene. Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock experiments with a multitude of genres to create the truly original experience that has paved the way for many other community music festivals.  

Musicians perform at eleven unique venues ranging from auto shops to formal stages to historicalbuildings, and even a motel balcony along Colorado Blvd. that will be open to pedestrians between Eagle Rock Boulevard and Argus Street.

The Global Stage hosted by Dublab features a cosmic lineup that creates a vivid musical portrait of global Los Angeles. This stage provides experimental DJ sets ranging from Mahssa’s Middle Eastern Psychedelia to Rainbow Arabia’s electronic kaleidoscopic dance music and then on to DJ Hashim B and Chicano Batman. Rounding out the DJs is Frosty, Dublab’s founder. Also featured will be Mochilla DJ sets from B+ and Coleman. The experimental music group Lucky Dragons will showcase their unusual sounds and finishing off the night will be the original sounds of Egyptian Lover and Arabian Prince (Los Angeles dance music/rap scene masters).   

This year’s Emerging Stage co-curated by FYF Fest showcases Dr.Who DJ sets, teenage Folk/antifolk six-piece Moses Campbell, LA psychedelic staple Darker My Love, and DJ Nobody’s four-piece band Blank Blue. Keith Morris’s back-to-basics punk band OFF! and The Soft Pack will close out the night. Weekly club night Low End Theory showcases experimental electronica and hip-hop artists every Wednesday at the Airliner in Lincoln Heights. Founded by Daddy Kev of Alpha Pup Records four years ago, the weekly show brings together Los Angeles’s most innovative DJs and experimental music makers. The lineup for Low End stage assembles many of Low End’s best, including residents and staples Jonwayne, Teebs, matthewdavid, Take, Dibiase, SAMIYAM, Free the Robots, Ras G, Nocando, D-Styles, Daddy Kev, The Gaslamp Killer, DJ Nobody, and Nosaj Thing.  

Moving up the street to the Panang parking lot is the back-to-back lineup from Kingsize Soundlabs and The Ship Studios. Seasons from Highland Park will bring their dramatic textural sounds as will the soulful indie folk quartet Hi Ho Silver Oh. Also playing are Drunk on Crutches- California roots rockers with that special southern twist and The Submarines, a vintage pop band. Also featured will be Honeybreath, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Radars to the Sky, Wait. Think. Fast., Frankel, Walking Sleep, Pay the Man, Downtown/Union, and Monstre.

Highland Park publication Razorcake Magazine and Northeast LA-based arts & educational nonprofit Zocaloc, showcases Driven, Handski, Toys That Kill, the Highbinders, the experimental synthpunk band Nervous Gender, female-fronted La Bestia, and Eagle Rock residents Mut!ny.

Kicking off the Kids’ stage are the Funky Slippers, a five-piece-soul-and-funk-band, followed by balloon artist extraordinaire Wacko. Husband-and-wife duo Ellen and Matt will follow with their not so average kids’ music. Earthworm Ensemble will get you singing along with their folk rock tunes. 4SCoRE hails from Eagle Rock. These members range in age from 12-16 and cover everything from Led Zeppelin and Judas Priest to 311 and Muse.

Lastly, The Dustbowl Revival is a folk orchestra that merges old school gypsy rhythms with bluegrass, gospel, jug-band, jump blues, and the hot swing of the 1930s. Nanny Cantaloupe

(Dublab) will DJ rare children’s records throughout the night. While the kids’ stage rocks along, Paus Los Angeles will have craft tables and face painting.

KOXY, Occidental College’s radio station co-curates the Experimental Stage with Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. The stage will be located at The Center, home of the Eagle Rock Music Festival and where various shows happen throughout the year. Led by Sonia Maria de Leon de Vega will be Santa Cecilia Orchestra. Also up will be the the psychedelic harmonies of Tygerstrype (Eagle Rock’s Gabriel Guerrero), organic/electronic musician Asura with multi-instrumentalist and singer Ana Caravelle, Amanda Brown of Pocahaunted’s new solo project LA Vampires, the cosmic fuzzed-out pop of Speculator, lo-fi electronic darkwave performer Geneva Jacuzzi, and the hypnotic postmodern psych of Sun Araw. SASSAS soundShoppe will bring all these music makers together and more at the end of the night for an improvisational, experimental performance.

For those wanting a more intimate setting, Colombo’s is the venue for you! Featuring Vertigo Road, Tim Yalda, Ann Likes Red, Remake/Remodel, Erica Lake and Paul Jacques, and Blue Soul. The Joe Johnston Band will bring the party back outside while performing on the Colombo’s patio. Then walk across the street and swing the night away at the Women’s 20th Century Club (a historic Craftsman) featuring the Eric Ekstrand Ensemble.

Rantz Auto Center opens up their space to feature a Latin focused venue. This will include the Eagle Rock High School (ERHS) Latin Jazz Band directed by ERHS Band alumnus Carlos Kuhlman. Following will be La Santa Cecilia, a modern day creative hybrid of Latin culture and world music. Eagle Rock Music Festival veterans Bonne Musique Zydeco will perform from the balcony of the Welcome Inn.  

Up-to-date information including lineup and set times can be found on the festival’s http://www.centerartseaglerock.org as well as the Eagle Rock Music Festival Wordpress, Facebook, and Myspace pages.

A free shuttle service to and from the festival will be available from the Eagle Rock Plaza, where limited free parking will be available for festivalgoers. The Plaza is located off Colorado Blvd. in Eagle Rock where the 2 and 134 freeways meet.  

A five-dollar suggested donation can be made at the official donation stations located at the main entrances and throughout the festival route. This donation supports Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Eagle Rock Music Festival.

The Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival is being presented with generous support from the James Irvine Foundation, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Macy’s, Art Institute of California Hollywood, Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council, Time Warner, Eagle Rock Plaza, and the community and businesses of Eagle Rock.

The Eagle Rock Music Festival is a centerpiece in the year-round arts programming of Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, one of the last remaining arts and cultural programming centers in Northeast Los Angeles.

Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock is a nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organization whose mission is to provide innovative and multicultural arts programming to the communities of Northeast Los Angeles. Programs include exhibitions, community festivals, free and low-cost after school arts classes, art camps, and more.

For more information about Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock please visit http://www.centerartseaglerock.org or call (323) 226-1617.