January 11, 2005

Happy Birthday NPR!!!

Happy New Year all from Neighborhood Public Radio. January marks the first month of the year and a birthday for us. January 14th , 2004 was NPR’s first ever broadcast from 21 Grand Gallery in Oakland, and now about one year later on Saturday January 15th we’ll be doing it again with a day filled with copyright infringement and appropriation broadcast out of 21 Grand gallery from 3pm – 11pm.

This Saturday’s event is titled “’The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ by Walter Benjamin” and will involve copious amounts of sampling and appropriation. There will even be some video for those who come by the gallery for the evening performances.

Currently scheduled to perform are:

Tom Dimuzio, Blevin Blectum, Roddy Schrock, Destroy Ape Technology, the Two Bobs, Conspiracy of Beards, Michael Trigilio, Sarah Lockhart, Greg Scharpen, Multiple Rock and Roll Society, and Mr. Meridies

For more details about the schedule feel free to visit the NPR web site at http://www.conceptualart.org/npr or the 21 Grand web site at http://www.21grand.org.

This show will be a benefit for 21 Grand and admission will be on a sliding scale from $5 - $15. The show may even end with a singing of Happy Birthday for LeE's momma who's birthday is celebrated the day after NPR's.

The tentative schedule for the day is as follows:

3:00 Mr. Meridies

4:00 Multiple Rock and Roll Society

5:00 Greg Scharpen

5:30 Sarah Lockhart

6:00 Michael Trigilio (plays Prince)

7:00 the Two Bobs

7:30 Destroy Ape technology

8:00 Roddy Schrock

9:00 Blevin Blectum

9:30 Conspiracy of Beards

10:00 Tom Dimuzio


All times are subject to change. Check back here for updates.

Posted by NPR at January 11, 2005 05:42 PM