B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip Hop
June 29 – August 19, 2006
The antithesis to BET Uncut, the B-Girl Be festival highlights women's positive contributions to hip-hop culture, not just their posteriors. In its second year, the B-Girl Be festival is presented by Minneapolis' Intermedia Arts. It's a nearly two-month long event highlighted by the B-Girl Be summit on June 29, where hip-hop's most Golden Age-rooted women from around the world will be in attendance for workshops, live performances, fashion shows, films, videos and panels. Workshops and art exhibits will run until August 19.
www.intermediaarts.org
5th Annual Square Lake Solstice Festival
June 17, 2006
The 5th Annual Square Lake Solstice Festival at Stillwater's Square Lake has been one of the more successful local festivals in recent years. This year should be no different with Duluth darlings Low playing a score to Pare Lorentz's Dust Bowl documentary, "The Plow that Broke the Plains." Other films will be mostly submitted animated shorts. Local bands The Deaths, Happy Apple and Duplomacy will also perform. Advance tickets are available now and bicyclists take note: If you bike to the festival, you get in for a mere $5. The Solstice Bike Ride will leave from One on One Bicycle Studio in Minneapolis at 11:00 am. Overnight camping is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
www.solsticefestival.org
Lake Street Music Fest
(presented by Twin Cities Underground)
June 25, 2pm-9pm
Twelve to 21-year-olds will be taking over the corner of Lake Street and Grand Avenue South in Minneapolis on June 25. Presented by Twin Cities Underground, the non-profit youth center located in the heart of Uptown, the music fest will include live sets from local teen bands. The flyer notes that "adults must be accompanied by youth," so kids, keep on eye on your 'rents.
www.tcunderground.com
MN (Pan) Electronic Music Festival
July 8, 2006, 4pm-11pm
The Garage in Burnsville isn't exactly the first place I would think of to host an electronic music festival. When I think of electronic music, I imagine urban skyscrapers and Woody Allen's "Sleeper," not increasingly indistinguishable southern suburbs. With a great variety of performers, including some call-up performers from Iowa and Wisconsin, along with local scenesters Lolly Pop and Future Lisa, it should be an eclectic show.
www.victorymedia.net/mnelectrofest
Hip Hop'n Harmony Festival
June 24, 2006
Sometimes it's good to take music out of its element and that's exactly what the Hip Hop'n Harmony Festival will be doing. For one night, in the bucolic setting of Geneva, Minnesota's Harmony Park Music Garden, 13 hip-hop artists (the majority from the Twin Cities area and Wisconsin), will be rustling the trees and sleeping under them. Bay Area MC Lyrics Born and Rhode Island's Sage Francis are headlining, with Minnesota's own Heiruspecs and Doomtree playing as well. Gates open at noon on Saturday, with music bumping until 1:00 in the morning. Bring your tent, but leave your turntable at home.
www.harmonyhiphop.com
More:
Green Man Festival – July 14-16, Duluth
Low, Honeydogs, Trampled By Turtles and more.
www.greenmanfestival.com
10,000 Lakes Festival – July 19-22, Detroit Lakes, MN
The Big Wu, Wookie Foot and many other local bands are playing this festival, along with some well-known non-local bands.
www.10klf.com
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