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Comfest 2006 - June 23, 24, 25
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Walker
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Anne
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Going on Saturday night! 10:30, Heartbreak Orchestra is playing on Solar Stage. They are great, check them out!
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Walker
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Spirit of 30-plus years continues
Sense of community drives gathering, event organizers say
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Dana Moran
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
FILE PHOTO
Children creating art at last year’s festival
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Visitors dancing to the music at ComFest 2005
The first Community Festival, in 1972, consisted of fewer than 20 groups — and their card tables and milk crates.
The ideals of environmentalism and community love have been enough to carry the Columbus festival from that simple hippie-era beginning to its present incarnation.
This weekend, more than 200 performing acts and 1,500 volunteers will convene in Goodale Park, but the spirit of ComFest remains what it was 34 years ago. Dogs (as long as they’re cleaned up after) and children of all ages are welcome. And the festival is still free; just take an open mind.
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Walker
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Stage Schedule:
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Stage schedule
Thursday, June 22, 2006
BOZO STAGE
• Friday — noon: Mercury Retrograde; 12:50 p.m.: Fearing All the Evidence; 1:40: Starving Goliath; 2:30: Giganta; 3:20: Verner Caliper; 4:10: Bluestone Jack; 5: B.A. Baracus; 6: Rackets; 7: Alpha Zentradi; 8: Floorwalkers; 9: Autumn Under Echoes; 10: the Sun
• Saturday — 11:15 a.m.: Eric Nassau Band; 12:10 p.m.: Stone Groove; 1:05: Grasshopper Pie; 2:05: Stonebyrd; 3: Bum Wealthy; 4: Mike Perkins with John Zuck & Sogbety; 5: John Mullins Band; 6: Watershed; 7: Willie Phoenix Band; 8: BHB/ S.P.I.R.I.T.; 9: Fabulous Johnson Brothers; 10: Middle Child
• Sunday — 11 a.m.: Z Sharp Big Band; 12:40 p.m.: Listen for the Jazz All-Stars; 2:20: Four Mints; 3:20: Mojo Kings; 4:25: Hoodoo Soul Band; 5:30: Dave Workman & Willie Pooch; 6:40: John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars; 7:50: Gaye Adegbalola & Roddy Barnes; 9: Teeny Tucker with Sean Carney Band
GAZEBO STAGE
• Friday — noon: Pretty Balanced; 1 p.m.: Medicine Wheel; 2: Audible Detonation; 3: American Cherry; 4: Jared Mahone Band; 5: Frank Harrison; 6: 5 Guys Named Moe; 7: Champipple; 8: Dave Chisolm; 9: Spikedrivers; 10: Stretch Lefty
• Saturday — noon: Room Nineteen; 1: Whoa Nellie; 2: Band of Brothers; 3: Groove Soda; 4: Jimm; 5: Quicksall Band; 6: Ukulele Man & His Prodigal Sons; 7: Myke Rock; 7:45: Mendelsonics with Jamie Lyons; 9: Jack Neat; 10: Midnighters
• Sunday — 11 a.m.: Molly with Grace; noon: Last Big Town; 1: AHA collective; 2: Lisa Webster and trio; 3: Bucktown Kickback; 4: Katie Reider Band; 5: Donna Mogavero; 6: Decals; 7: Dejavu; 8: Megan Palmer and the Hopefuls; 9: Apocalypso
I WISH YOU JAZZ STAGE
• Friday — noon: Neighborhood; 1 p.m.: Hairy Craig Explosion; 2: Jim Coleman; 3: Khasmir; 4: Roddy Barnes; 5: Joe Diamond Quartet; 6: Madrugada; 7: Shaun Booker; 8: Shawn ‘‘Thunder" Wallace; 9: Randy Mather; 10: Jim Maneri’s Straight with Gene Walker; 11: Flypaper
• Saturday — 11 a.m.: Nexlevel; noon: Pooma; 1 p.m.: Mitchel/Paetsch Quartet; 2: Magia Tropical featuring Jessica Agler; 3: Matt Adams Quartet; 4: Magically Delicious; 5: Jen Miller; 6: Circus of Cool; 7: Jazz Poetry Ensemble; 8: Shawn ‘‘Thunder" Wallace; 9: Honk, Wail & Moan; 10: Rendezvous; 11: Jamnesia
• Sunday — 11 a.m.: Mike Patrick and the Blues Drivers; noon: Chief Johnny Lonesome & the Mound Street Stompers; 12:50 p.m.: Barry Chern Band; 1:45: Men of Leisure; 2:45: Brett Burleson; 3:45: Larry Marotta; 4:45: Dick Mackey; 5:45: LDB3; 6:45: Tenors Head On; 7:45: Postal; 8:45: Chris Howes; 9:45: Tony Monaco
OFFRAMP STAGE
• Friday — noon: Brown Notes; 1 p.m.: Salvage; 2: Ramsey Band; 3: Main Street Gospel; 4: Elephant Bones; 5: Church of the Red Museum; 6: Brainbow; 7: Pretty Weapons; 8: the Squares; 9: Necropolis; 10: Weightless Recordings
• Saturday — 11:15 a.m.: Electric Grandmother; 12:10 p.m.: Illogic & DJ Eyamme; 1:05: Receivers; 2: Greenlawn Abbey; 3: Skillet Lickers; 4: Townsmen; 5: Chris McCoy and the Gospel; 6: Bygones; 7: Mors Ontologica; 8: Evil Queens; 9: Tough and Lovely; 10: Lab Rats
• Sunday — 11:40 a.m.: DJ Coreroc, DJ Drastic, DJ Self; 12:40 p.m.: Woosley Band; 1:40: Phantods; 2:35: Blackcat Revival; 3:30: Ryan Smith and the Agency; 4:25: You’re So Bossy; 5:20: Tiara; 6:15: Red Dahlia; 7:10: Grafton; 8:05: Two Cow Garage; 9: Miranda Sound
LIVE ARTS STAGE
• Friday — noon: Drum Circle, 12:50 p.m.: Full Bliss Orchestra; 1:20: Moksha; 2: Mark Turns; 2:30: Kate Weilnau; 3: Indonesian mask dances; 3:35: Easily Amused; 4:20: Truth Serum; 5:10: Tablatronic; 6: Spanda; 7: John Sinclair; 8: Lady Monster; 8:20: Speakeasy; 9:10: Doctah Xs Seedz of Rasistance; 10: Mas Bagua
• Saturday — 11 a.m.: Apsara Tribe; 11:40: Desert Dancers; 12:20 p.m.: Raks Shadan; 1: Sacred Shimmy; 1:40: L &B Rappers; 2:20: Raks Jahanni; 3: Lydia’s Native American Dance; 3:20: Zahira & Janaan; 4:15: Snakes Rising; 5: Short North Muay Thai; 5:15: Columbus Movement Movement; 5:45: Bettys; 6:30: MadLab; 8:15: Anatomical Scenario; 9: Ooh-la-las; 9:45: Women in the Blues presentation
• Sunday — 11 a.m.: Storytellers of Central Ohio; 12:20 p.m.: Children’s Music Network; 12:45: Leslie Zak; 1:15: Joanie Calem; 1:45: OSU Hillel folk dancers; 2:15: Columbus Police & Fire Pipe & Drum; 2:50: civil-rightsvs.-gay-rights workshop; 3:55: Is Said & Advance Party; 4:40: Khalida Tribe; 5: poetry slam; 6: Drum Circle (offstage)
BLUES GARAGE STAGE
• Friday — 6 p.m.: Kelly Richey; 7: Anthony Stone; 8: Biersdorf and Kolbe; 9: Sean Carney
• Saturday — noon: Bill Stockwell; 1 p.m.: Ryan Leist; 2: Joe Miller Duo featuring Al Smyth; 3: Barry Chern; 4: Slanted; 5: Bob Sauls; 6: Mike Patrick and Big Al; 7: Ray Fuller; 8: Damian Knapp
• Sunday — noon: Debbie Walton; 1: Hurricane Jerry and Stormfront; 2: Bluesville Drifters unplugged; 3: Woody Pines; 4: Terry Davidson with Ray Fuller; 5: Mike Lenz; 6: Soul Satyr
SOLAR STAGE
• Friday — 11:30 a.m.: Brian Griffin; 12:35: nurse Marilyn Jyner, Beechwood Clinic, ‘‘Energy & the Body: Using Materials Responsibly"; 1:30: Stereopoe; 2: Children’s Hour Under the Tree, Everything Under the Sun, ‘‘The Sun Is Your Path to Energy"; 2:05: Nikos Kaplanov, Clean Fuels Ohio, ‘‘Bio and Flex Fuels"; 3: Victoria Parks; 3:35: Barry Adler, RainFresh Harvests, ‘‘Off the Grid Gardens Year Round in Ohio"; 4:30: Terry Keller; 5: Annie Finnerty; 5:35: Hal Hixson & Matt Thompson; 6:05: Dan Dougan & Tres Wahoos; 6:30: Jeff & Jason; 7:10: Parker Paul; 7:50: Marcy Mays; 8:30: Leah Carla Gordone; 9:10: Jonathon Burgess; 9:50: Hope Vitellas; 10:30: Alyson Greenfield
• Saturday — 11:30 a.m.: Moses Avalon, music-business workshop; 12:35 p.m.: Meera Parthasarathy, Columbus Green Building Forum, ‘‘Recycling 101: Feasibility, Economics and Reliability"; 1:30: Michelle Lundy; 2: Children’s Hour Under the Tree, Tim Chavez/Anything Solar, ‘‘How To Make a Solar Oven"; 2:05: Bill Price, Sierra Club Environmental Justice, ‘‘Activism 101" 3: Elliot 12 Trees; 3:35: John Knouse, Athens Area Sustainability Links, ‘‘Straw Bale Construction"; 4:30: Michael Lohre; 5: Eileen Motok; 5:35: Bob Fitrakis, Free Press, ‘‘Election Reform Now"; 6:30: Jeremy Mills; 7:10: Canonico; 7:50: Kyle Sowash; 8:30: Drew Miller Davis; 9:10: Isle of Pines; 9:50: Sara Asher; 10:30: Heartbreak Orchestra
• Sunday — 11:30 a.m.: Derek Mortland; 12:35 p.m.: Dale Hooper, ‘‘Renewable Solar Energy at Work in Ohio"; 1:30: Elisa Nicolas; 2: Children’s Hour Under the Tree, Susann Moeller/EcoScapes, ‘‘Recycle Your Brain: Collecting Discarded Ideas" 2:05: Friends of the Alum Creek Tributaries, Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed and Friends of the Ravine; 3: the Newlands; 3:35: Dean Kuipers, deputy editor of Los Angeles City Beat, author of Burning Rainbow Farm; 4:30: Connie Harris; 5: Harvey Wasserman, Free Press, ‘‘The Stolen Election"; 5:35: Katrina Youth Handbell Piece; 6:05: Harvey Wasserman, ComFest activist of the year, ‘‘Peak Oil and Renewable Energy"; 6:30: Roscoe; 7:10: Leo Clarke & David Murphy
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WILDMAN
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I won't be there for the evening fun due to other plans but i will be there during the day on saturday. everyone that is going, have a great time as always. 8)
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Postmodgirl
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I'm going.
and going early, parking is going to suck this year.
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Walker
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I hadn't even thought about parking... probably will end up taking the bus instead. Much less of a headache than fighting for a spot. 8)
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Brewmaster
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Walker wrote
OFFRAMP STAGE
• Friday — noon: Brown Notes; 1 p.m.
That's a phenomenal band name! Anybody else catch that South Park episode? :lol:
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Anne
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They have that new Bike Corral this year which sounds pretty cool.
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bayrea
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Postmodgirl wrote I'm going.
and going early, parking is going to suck this year.
Not when you live 100 yards away.... muhahahaha
I'll be there Friday afternoon and Sat night and Sunday all day...... I hope we don't get poured on like last year.
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Ndcent
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bayrea wrote
Postmodgirl wrote I'm going.
and going early, parking is going to suck this year.
Not when you live 100 yards away.... muhahahaha
I'll be there Friday afternoon and Sat night and Sunday all day...... I hope we don't get poured on like last year.
Or not when you ride a motorcycle and your girlfriend lives on Park one street south of Goodale.
I'm so flippin excited for Comfest, I don't really care about any of the bands, but I like the outdoor tom foolery.
I need to get another loaf of that bananajuana bread as well.
Shits on like donkey kong smokin a bong.
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honavery
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I'll be bussin' it up there on Friday night.
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The Hegemo
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I only live a few blocks away, so I'm sure I'll wander up between World Cup games.
Thought I was going to have to work this weekend, but so far it's all clear...keep your fingers crossed for me!
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BillY B
Columbus, OHIO
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i'll be there
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Walker
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Valet service for bikes may ease ComFest parking pinch
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Jeb Phillips
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
This might seem a little froufrou for ComFest, but it’s true: The festival’s organizers have started a bicycle valet service this year.
"Bicycle valet," as it turns out, doesn’t mean that teenagers in golf shirts will park bikes. It’s just the name for a patrolled area where riders can leave their bicycles while they’re being festive.
Washington and Chicago have bicycle valets at big outdoor events. San Francisco has a city ordinance that requires valets at some outdoor events.
This appears to be the first time for one in Columbus.
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Ndcent
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So how did everyone enjoy their comfest?
I made it down there about 9pm on Friday - caught the Weightless show at the offramp stage at 10 (easily the most hype concert there.)
Saturday I was three sheets by 2pm, even with a nap I'm not really sure what happened - there are some pictures of me and a creampuff from Schmidts, I don't know really. Saturday = total blur.
Sunday I got to see some of the booths, I enjoyed the bedpan artwork - and the "one hitter wonders" booth was of specific interest to me. Laid out by the main stage for a while then was officially "over it" and went swimming.
2006 Comfest = 7.5/10
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Anne
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SO BUSY!
But that was great. We went about 9ish on Sat. night. Heard Heartbreak Orchestra and they were awesome like always. Then watched a little of Middle Child. and walked around a little bit. Heard it was insanely busy all weekend which was nice since last year wasn't so great.
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Ndcent
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Evidence..
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Ndcent
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I'm in the airport and rambling..
So, Comfest = like no cops hardly anywhere.
Latino Fest = TONS of cops everywhere.
Am I missing something?
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Columbusite
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A teenager got shot on the last night of Latino Fest. Answer your question?
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