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Where the Music Begins Where the Music Begins VICTORIA BC SKA SOCIETY PROUDLY PRESENTS wherewhere thethe musicmusic bebeginsgins Sales . Trades . Rentals In-Store Financing . Repairs Used Instruments Bought and Sold Lessons For All Ages, Levels & Styles We carry all the major brands including Victoria Inner Harbour Yamaha, Sonor, DW, Pearl and Tama drums. Fender, Epiphone and Gibson guitars. Victoria Curling Club Marshall, Traynor and Ampeg amps. Element NightClub And brass by Conn, B & S, Yamaha and Bach. Long & McQuade 756 Hillside Ave., (250) 384-3622, [email protected] Lucky Bar July 8th - 11th 2009 WWW.VICTORIASKAFEST.CA Victoria BC www.victoriaskafest.ca Welcome In a lot of ways, this year’s festival is a milestone for me. I was in a band that played at the first annual Ska Fest. If you had said to me then that the crazy group of haphazard fans and small promoters—held together with duct tape, dancehall, and all the passion that makes a local music scene great—was going to keep this festival going for ten years, or even five... Well, I’d have said you were crazy. Actually, I think I did say they were crazy. Years went by and as I got further away from the front of the stage, I felt I needed to do something to give back to those who’d given me so much. And here I am, helping to ring in the tenth year of circus-like antics and skanking in the sun. The festival is a bit of a bigger monster than it was in the old days and no less daunting to organize, but a few important things remain true to everyone involved. This is a truly grassroots, by-the-people-for-the-people event. It’s driven by passion, friendship, and loyalty to the fans. On behalf of the Board of Directors and everyone involved, I want to welcome you to this year’s Ska Fest. We put together a lineup of talent that gives a nod to the last ten years and looks forward to the next ten. I’m sure when you see the dozens of volunteers, musicians, and organizers rocking with thousands of fans you’ll get a sense of why we continue to do all this. Enjoy! DClark Darryl Clark Treasurer Victoria BC Ska Society A Little Bit of Trivia.... Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950 s and was a precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line, accented guitar or piano rhythms on the offbeat, and in some cases, jazz-like horn riffs. 1 The Victoria BC Ska Society is a non-profit organization Message from the Mayor Band Bios A-Z comprised of a handful of organizers, volunteers and Board It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the City Brave New Waves of Directors. The Ska Society’s of Victoria and the 10th Anniversary of the Victoria main goal is to improve and Ska Festival. Sombrio ska? evolve Victoria’s Annual Ska Jordan River Festival every year. The Society Over the last ten years this outstanding festival reggae? Brave also strives to promote ska has brought people together to celebrate music, and its related genres through artists, and community. Victoria’s Annual Ska New Waves, a various events in our region. All Fest has become a much anticipated event five-piece reggae- those involved in the Society in Victoria, drawing world class artists and have a burning passion for ska outfit from supporting the ska and reggae thousands of music lovers into the City. Victoria, always bring the tide high with their scene throughout Vancouver I want to congratulate the Victoria BC Ska Society on ten successful sun-splashed beach party grooves. The busy Island, the Lower Mainland, years and best wishes for the next ten to come. Victoria’s Annual second-year band always delivers a sublime Canada and the rest of the world. Ska Fest has grown into the largest and longest running festival of dance party, whether at bars, pubs, house Learn more about us @ its kind in North America, and the City of Victoria is proud to play www.victoriaskafest.ca host to this great event. parties, beach parties, or on boats, proving that what comes up must get down. Contact This year, like the last nine years, will be an excellent experience. Victoria BC Ska Society The line up of talent is remarkable, offering a variety Chris Murray [email protected] of musical genres and styles that everyone can enjoy. Board Members One of the most Andrea Archer, Darryl Clark, For those of you who are visiting us from away, influential figures Chris Cowley, Randy Gelling, I sincerely hope you also take the time to Dave Hart, Byron Maier, explore our beautiful city - our great to grow from the Scot Rounding, Scott Stewart downtown, unique communities, and Canadian ska scene, Ska Festival Organizers stunning natural landscape all around us. Murray fronted D’Arcy Briggs, Amy Chase, Enjoy the music. Toronto outfit King Stephen Chatterton, Darcy Douglas, Heather Furneaux, Sincerely, Apparatus in the 80s Brooklyn Galloway, Nev Gibson, and 90s before rolling his marbles and moving Jada LeBlanc, Rob Letts, to L.A., where he honed his acoustic one-man Dane Roberts, Paul Scibak DeanFortin ska band style. He’s performed from shoreline Graphic Design Director Dean Fortin to shoreline all over the world and collaborated Jada LeBlanc [email protected] Mayor of Victoria with the Slackers, Hepcat, the Planet Smashers, Festival Photographers Neville Staple, and many more. Get ready for a Aaron & Emmy McMillan rock steady sing-a-long! eaphoto.ca Year 1 - 2000 Geoff Robson And so it began, a make-work Web Site Guy project for Dane Roberts to A Little Bit of Trivia.... Nev Gibson complete a practical work Program Design & Layout term towards his degree Music historians typically divide the Brooklyn Galloway at UVic. Bands such as the history of ska into three periods: the brooxiedesign.com Scofflaws, King Django, Chris original Jamaican ska scene of the Editorial Assistant Murray and Pressure Cooker 1960s, the 2 Tone ska revival that Matt Carter started in England in the late 1970s, Program Printing all agreed to play at the first Industry Images ever Victoria Ska Festival. and the third wave ska movement, Ska Trivia What started out as a one- which started in the 1980s. All of these Answer.com & Wikipedia.org day event at Market Square varieties are showcased every year at soon became much more. Victoria’s Annual Ska Festival. 2 3 Band Bios A-Z Band Bios A-Z Dread Daze Greg Crowe & the Scarlet Union Time for positive vibrations! Dread Daze will Are you ready for a Manitoba mash up? Greg Crowe, a have you California dreaming with their uplifting mainstay of the Winnipeg music scene since 1992, has mix of reggae, hip-hop, soul, and rock. The performed in rock and ska bands Whole Lotta Milka, The musicians have performed with Steel Pulse, Beres Wedgewoods, and the Greg Milka Crowe Band, and now Hammond, Arrested Development, Fishbone, comes to Ska Fest with the Scarlet Union, which mixes soul Half Pint, and Mikey Dread, among other big and rockabilly in with healthy doses of ska and reggae. names. Dread Daze proves that the spirit of one love and equality is best served over fresh riddims and rhymes. The Hoochy Girls The Fabulous LoLo If the Aquabats went on a two-month gin Jell- LoLo, aka the Queen of Ska, aka Lorraine Mueller, o shooter and Mini-Wheats binge, they’d is well known for her vocal and saxophone work probably transform into the Hoochy Girls. in Lo and the Magnetics and the now-defunct Victoria’s masters of frantic apathy and Kingpins. At Ska Fest, LoLo will be backed inappropriate pants have risen from the couch by Stepper, and their plan of action is to lead to blitz the Victoria Ska Fest with a reunion skanksters through a set of ska and reggae classics. round of crazy songs and crazy ska. They Mike Gasselsdorfer aren’t famous…but they sure are infamous. Georgetown Orbits It’s the boss sound from the Puget Sound! The Georgetown Orbits have returned to the Victoria Ska Green SkaFest Fest, smuggling their love of trad ska, moody reggae, and heavy horns across the border. Lynval Little by little, over the last few years, Ska Fest has been taking Golding of the Specials praised the Orbits, the necessary steps to lower our impact on the environment. saying “they’re one of those bands that Through waste reduction programs, carbon neutral goals, and reminds me of where I come from.” sustainable partnerships, we are one step closer. We invite everyone to contribute by walking, riding or taking the bus to festival. Also to help our GREEN initiatives, please use our various recycle and composting containers available throughout the event. Check out these websites of just a few of our sustainable partners: Year 4 - 2003 Offsetters For the 4th Annual Grand Finale, offsetters.ca Chris Murray and Slackers lead Surfrider Victoria man Vic Ruggiero performed surfrider.org a memorable duet. A one of a kind performance in Victoria CRD Event Recycling up until this year. Don’t miss www.crd.bc.ca another historic performance Wilderness Committee as the two team up once again wildernesscommitteevictoria.org at the Friday shows. 4 5 Skafest ad 1/4 page vertical Band Bios A-Z Jah Cutta & Determination Band On the bill for the Victoria Ska Fest for the first time is Jah Cutta, one of Canada’s reggae superstars who has dropped positive vibes over dance-heavy beats for more than 20 Los Furios years.
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