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Voting for the 2009 International Music Festival (IMF) has come to a close. Thank you to all who listened and voted - you helped decide the IMF final 7, and the IMF Champion. All the city representatives are immensely talented and as a result their music profiles will be memorialized on the IMF website forever! We look forward to seeing all these talented acts back for the 2010 International Music Festival. Watch the site for the 2010 IMF updates and the 2009 IMF Champion! |
Our band consists of childhood friends and family who know each other really well and their talents compliment one another. This makes creating quality music easy. We have spent quite a few years developing and coming up with our own sound and we feel it is different from anything out there today. It is clean and wholesome and reminscent of music from the 1950's and 60's when music was appropriate for all ages. We take our music seriously and operate the band as a business. We have a reputation for being reliable, looking good and sounding good. We have been influenced by artists such as John Mayer, Cold Play, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Third Eye Blind and even Johnny Cash!
We are from the beautiful northwest city of Seattle. From the start: Lewis Kizanis self-produced a solo project called "Destinations" from his home in 2006/07 under the name LT. Grace. At the end of recording, long-time friend, Tyler Hewett, got on board and a few months later, the two recruited locally seasoned musican, Dustin Wooldridge, who has played drums, piano, and guitar in a handful of bands. To their quiet neighbors dissatisfaction, the three began playing out of their garage attracting police more than a few times. Luckily the law liked what they heard. Oskar Bucher, from Oregon, joined in late Summer 2008, and the band became AudioArt. In the Fall of 2008 we recorded our demo and hit the Seattle and Eastside circuit playing shows and meeting all sorts of talented musicians and sound engineers. All four of us have the spirit and commitment to endure the challenges and rewards making music brings. We hope you lend us your time and let us in your ears.
Fronted by a hauntingly-elegant vocalist and armed with award-winning songs, the Los Angeles Alt-Rock house-mates have what it takes to share the stage with the loudest and most intimate of acts. They boast an equally impactful full-live set and an acoustic set. Their UK and Jordan tour is set for this summer. They have been featured in both JO and NOX Magazines in February 2008, and are happy to announce that their self-titled debut album is available at Virgin Megastores in the Middle East, and now they are prepared to take on the International Music Festival.
Shift has spent the last two years putting serious work into their material and overall musical goal. After a number of member and style changes, the band has finally found it's lineup and sound. They have set their sights on the International Music Festival. Determined to become the next great thing to happen to rock, Shift will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
It's All Mind
San Francisco, CA
"It's All Mind" is a multi-layered, soundscape-filled approach to the unseen and untouched, avoiding every cliche without resorting to the gimmick of being different just to be different. Most have said they are not able to place who they sound like. For the band, the unsuspected is the only approach. They like to think of themselves as the antithesis of today's usual brand of one-minded "surface layer" music that leaves you with no dimension or trips to take. In the songs, there is no center and when you listen, you might notice a mindset and a mood that comes from a deeper place. You might notice the unconventional way of how things come together. Listen even closer and it's a movie in the soul. It will take you where you haven't been; a wildly twisting ride into the center of a soul...yours, on the other side of things. "Multi-dimensional movies in the mind" - "Before you leave, there will be one last pretend, and it will be an amazing one. So as the projector rolls, listen deeper and deeper , to the picture of awareness talking to itself in perfect clarity, while delusion fades away, into a startling realization of what is actually taking place." - It's All Mind.
Formed in Everett Washington (25 miles north of Seattle) in the spring of 2008. Founding members Aron Glidden, Dustin Haggerty and Dave Luxmore, met several years earlier while riding Sound Transit's 20 Riverside bus route that ran past each of their houses. During the fall of 2008 they had recruited 3 more band members; Ian Plagmann, Eli Davidson, and James D. Orr. They became fast friends and formed what is now 20 Riverside. What started as a few friends who occasionally came together for jam and music writing sessions, transformed the 6 friends into a working, and recording band. Their blend of culturally poignant song writing, driving rhythms, melodic melodies, outspoken raps, and funkified horns come together to create an Americano spiced stew of sound that defies categorization, removes boundaries, and dares to travel down an un-charted path that flows into a sea of sound. So climb aboard, fasten your seat belt and take a ride with 20 Riverside!
Bones of 808 Kingdom
San Diego, CA
Josiah Ramirez aka Bone$ is a 20 year old hip-hop artist and producer out of San Francisco. As a part of an entertainment company called The 808 Kingdom, he has had many opportunities to expand his audience to new cities. Bone$ is truly multi-talented, creating tracks for 808 Kingdom as well as involvement behind the scenes. 808 Kingdom encompasses many talents like Bone$ who strive to take hip hop and lyrical music to the next level. His lyrics are pure poetry and his energy and motivation put him over the edge.
At 24 years old Mike Simmons has a charmingly accurate knowledge of the way the world works that really shines through in his music. That along with catchy hooks and unforgettable lyrics Mike Simmons is turning the pop world upside down. Settling in Cities such as New York and Boston early in his career Mike began receiving great response to his music and can now be found playing in Los Angeles at venues such as the Knitting Factory and The Viper Room to name a few. On the eve of the release of Mike's first record 'Love Might Have Been The Thing That Could Have Saved Me' Mike plans to spend the rest of the year on the road and begin working on his second record.
The SOME x6
Vancouver, British Columbia
The SOME x 6 Band was officially born during the summer of 2002 at Nat Bailey Stadium, Vancouver BC. Brad Curtis, Murray Mclaughlan, and Sandy Stewart, had just finished playing a Senior Men's Baseball game at the historic Nat Bailey Stadium on a hot July afternoon, and were sitting back talking after the game. They soon realized they all shared a passion for playing music. Thus began the journey that today we call The SOME x 6 Band. Fast forward over the years, and we find The SOME x 6 Band has undergone its share of personnel changes. Since it's creation, founding members Brad Curtis and Murray McLaughlan, have played with a variety of excellent musicians, each helping shape the sound we now know as The SOME x 6 Band. The SOME x 6 Band has shared the stage with the following bands: The Powder Blues Band, Texas Flood, James Rodgers, Rhythm Street, Crimson Roots, City Of Envy, Black Bones, Sugar Blade, The Carolyn Stewart Band, and others.
Powerhouse is a funky R&B band that plays old school horn band hits by artists such as Tower of Power, Earth Wind & Fire, Chicago, Blood Sweat & Tears, Motown, staxx and much more...11 talented musicians who collectively have played with many bands, shows and recording artists such as: Natural High, Aura, The Four Tops, the Rat Pack-Las Vegas, Music Magic, Full House, Surge, Kona Winds, The Royal Hawaiian Band, Al Harrington Show, Hale Koa Luau Show, Carol Kai, Melveen Leed, Dick Jensen, Roadhouse, the Honolulu Blues Co-op and the list goes on...Powerhouse has played many successful shows at some of Hawaii's top venues including Pipeline Cafe, Aloha Tower, Dole Ballrooms, Ige's as well as many corporate and private events.
