!1 Hamtramck Music Fest 2019 Sponsors Hamtramck Music Fest Survival Guide 2019 !2 Thursday - March 7 — Kickoff Party 11:00 Dude – When you see Dude for the first time, you're like, “Dude!” Ant Hall/Ghost Light (1) And then the next time you see yer friends at a Dude show, you're like, “Dude, these guys are f**king rad dude!” And they're like, “Dude! We 8:00 Kind of Animal – Scary voices on feral nights, glue and glitter guitar know! Now lemme hit that again dude!" smeared over heartsick beats from crappy future drum machines. 11:30 Valid – Working hard to build his following in and out of the state, 8:30 Panda House – Progressive, indie-rock band meeting at the Valid chipped away at the craft to earn the respect of Detroit's musical intersection of art and music. community. In the last couple years, he has dropped singles that the Metro Times considered one of the top ten hip-hop tracks of the year, 9:00 Sold Only As Curio – A globe-trotting, high-energy band with won freestyle battles on air at HOT 107.5 Freestyle Friday w/ DJBJ and strong harmonies, beat-driven tunes and unusual instruments making a has toured extensively. spell-binding new sound that defies genre but embraces elements of rock, pop, soul, blues, punk and goth blended with influences from all 12:00 Sextez and the Vybe – With a goal to use music to spread love, over the world. Aided by a glittering cast of local guest dancers and light, give a platform to the less fortunate who grew up in poverty and in performers and known for theatrical attire, the band brings glamor to the foster care and with a voice and transcendental energy that summon stage along with banjo, accordion, oud and fiddle added to bass, drums, listeners to the dance floor, the passion and undying authenticity of this and guitar and three powerful vocalists. Detroit original cannot be duplicated. Crediting influences from D'Angelo to DJ Assault, this all-encompassing artist personifies genre 9:30 After Dark Amusement Park – A power trio, indie-alt-rock band fluidity by fusing elements of neo-soul, R&B, Chicago Juke, Detroit with hint of beauty and a dash of glam. Ghettotech, soul and pop into a sultry and danceable package. 10:00 Cosmic Light Shapes – This spacey, psych rock power trio channel the galactic sonic-sound vibrations from lost extraterrestrial satellites near and far. Imagine an AM radio traveling through outer space powered by a combination of solar flare explosions and 9-volt alkaline batteries. ! 10:30 Ladyship Warship – Going for the roots of rock music with the raw excellence of understated drum and brash guitar, this is intimate and powerful rock music that eschews the cliques with a straight shot to your rock and roll soul. !3 Friday - March 8 Ant Hall (1) 9:00 True Blue – Alternative pop rock gems with a lo-fi charm. 10:00 The Gashounds – Brash, literate, dark rock songs that borrow from ‘60s garage, punk and ‘90s indie. 11:00 Don Duprie and The Inside Outlaws – Alt-country roots rock band led by singer songwriter Don Duprie. 12:00 Alison Lewis and String of Ponies – Singer-songwriter Alison Lewis has been playing for over 15 years in the area, across the country, and overseas. " 1:00 The Beggars – They knock loudly on your door but look so cordial. You'll wanna let them in even though you know they'll bring the house 11:15 Blueflowers – With a unique blend of influences ranging from surf down. They can do rowdy, they can do outrageous and they do all the to garage, goth-rock to grunge, new terms need to be created to reckless valiant theatrics of everything you thought you loved most about describe the Blueflowers' sound, which goes beyond alternative. rock n' roll: the swagger of the greats without the sleaze of the stereotype - a pure energy burst from a wholesome love for the legends of rock. 12:15 Friends of Dennis Wilson – Since 2002, founder/frontman Anthony E. Moran and company have been performing a unique brand of heavy/psych rock that they call “Detroit Sonic Street Rock.” One person Baker Streetcar (2) said it best at a recent show, “I want Friends of Dennis Wilson to get the credit they deserve for all the music and shows they’ve done, but now 8:15 Jenn's Apartment – Hailing from Lansing, Jenn's Apartment are a they’ve become like Detroit’s untarnished gem -- I feel like they belong to power pop trio reminiscent of 1990s alternative rock and pop punk bands me and me only!” like Green Day and Gin Blossoms. 9:15 Scott Harrison – Singer-songwriter Scott Harrison seems to always Bank Suey (3) surround himself with ample, musical-friends to support songs balancing between well-bred and loose-grooved rock in an honest, outsider-bluey 7:00 Banjolectric – Combines ancient melodies, traditional instruments, approach. The music is far tempered from his night rampage and and modern technology to make roots in a new era.. boisterous riffed band Battling Siki, but you can still expect untinged, lay- it-on-the-line roots rock. 8:00 Michele Oberholtzer – Lullabies for Grown Ups. “I call my songs ‘lullabies for grownups’ because I sing without accompaniment.” 10:15 Electric Honey – Upbeat rock with indie-folk undertones. Pairs well with Bowie, Talking Heads, and Built to Spill. Aged in old oak 9:00 Kubat, Finlay, & Rose – A collective of independent songwriters barrels. who sometimes perform solo but have come together to offer lush harmonies and rich instrumentation. !4 Bumbo’s (4) 6:30 Palou – Indie singer-songwriter who creates stormy yet edgy dream 8:30 Immaculate Conception – Three-piece taking the driving elements pop on the ukulele. of their punk background and dipping them into the netherworld. 7:15 EnD – EnD is a constantly evolving improvisational journey in Chaos 9:30 Zack Fealk – A slowly evolving sound focused on sequence Musick that will hypnotize you with their stimulating visuals to a building using noise gear with heavy tones. soundtrack of genre-defying cacophony. 10:30 Infinite Land – Dark, dreamy, and full of murk and myth best describes the folk horror psychedelia and dream pop of Infinite Land. Delite Cafe and Deli (6) 11:30 Career Club – “With Career Club, you could be hearing bass from 5:00 DJ Soccer Mom and Loni K – Two girls, one serato playing an a synthesizer, an electric guitar that's been looped, vocals that arc across eclectic variety of upbeat music. a range of notes that are veiled by just a touch of distorting reverb, walking beats from live kits that know just when to fill in, or you might 6:00 Truman Nolan – Drawing inspiration from an eclectic pallet of artists notice that a video-gamey-new-wavy sample is the perfect ambiance for a such as EPROM, Rusko, Dizzy Wright, and Manic Focus, Truman Nolan’s wordless vibrato incantation.” — deepcutzmusic sound is a fresh composite of hip-hop and progressive bass music, characterized by extensive use of both creative low-end sound design and thumping dirty-south percussion. Cafe 1923 (5) 7:00 Cloudy – Making music the way he want to. 5:00 Zach Vazum – Zach, from the band VAZUM performing stripped down versions of your favorite VAZUM tracks. 8:00 Wierdoz Gang – A hip-hop art collective with members coming from Detroit, LA and NYC and a mission is to spread respect, love, unity and inspiration throughout everything they do and a vision of helping and healing others through their music. Detroit Threads (7) 8:00 Detroit Techno Militia " 5:45 Norma Jean Haynes – Patchworked lighthouse songs and five- string banjo. !5 Ghost Light (8) 7:30 Post Imperial Jazz Band - Old time, new time, any time! Classic jazz, folk, country performed with sweet lady harmonies, hot picking, horn 8:30 Tony Paris and Sugarburn – Blue music through sweet teeth shredding, and the big bottom end of legendary Tuba Tom. Featuring cheeks after too many sweets. Pop. Drunk. Jellyrolls. Muffin-tops. Soda members of Detroit Pleasure Society, Lac La Belle, and the Detroit Party fountain. Bottoms up the mountain thaen empty calorie hollow chest Marching Band. valley. Pixie stick permanent heart burn. Rush. Crash. Garbage can slam doo-wop under a streetlamp where the Everly Brothers are in a dust-up with their priest in between and Buddy Holly's on a slurred words bender, High Dive (10) three days deep. 9:30 Julius De'Von – “Being born in the hood doesn’t mean you have to 9:30 J Walker and the Crossguards – A rock-n-soul band, J. Walker & be of it.” Julius spent much his childhood living amongst high-level The Crossguards consisting of experienced musicians from the garage, poverty, gang violence, and drugs in the Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing punk, blues, and indie scenes. With Justin safely ensconced miles away, projects. High up in their 18th floor apartment, Julius’ mom would play this show features the Crossguards paying homage in the best way all kinds of music. “She would sing and dance to everything from Rap to possible. R&B to Gospel.” That began Julius’s love of music and the stage; but it was in 5th grade he found his passion for hip-hop. 10:30 The Creepos – Jingle jangle thunder and lightning. New and old sounding rock n roll music. 10:30 Alex Mendenall – Drawing from soul, alternative, and jazz, Mendenall's music is high-energy and features carefully crafted wordplay 11:30 Caveman & Bam Bam – A half-naked, dirt-splattered caveman and rich orchestration.