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Indie Music Festival for World Peace Lineup
By J.C. Lockwood
Friday, October 22, 2004

Aaron Perrino, perhaps best known for "Dear Leader," his latest project,
which was nominated for three Boston Music Awards, or Sheila Devine, the
band that could-have, should-have made it. His is still the voice of
dissent, with songs like "A Billion Served" and "Raging Red" combining
cultural criticism and, darn it, catchy, melodies.


Boris McCutcheon had been collecting the pieces of his musical mosaic long
before he picked up a guitar 15 years ago. He's an organic farmer and an
irrigation designer. He writes songs with organic, gritty beauty, but
they're not precious. He doesn't like precious. He depicts the natural
world, walls built by human hands, and emotions, and characters cloaked in
sadness with piercing imagery.


Mieka Pauley, who won the prestigious Rocky Mountain Folk Festival
songwriting showcase, has a voice that ranges from haunting, delicate
beauty to an explosion of shattering, soaring soul. Her roots are the
blues, classic soul and R&B, rock, and folk, and the result is a sound that
blends and transcends these genres into a personal brand of pop music
that's uniquely her own.


Noam Weinstein began playing guitar at the age of 8 and performing at
venues such as Club Passim as a teenager. In 1999 he headed for New York
and became involved in the Greenwich Village songwriter's exchange led by
Jack Hardy. He has released three albums of original material in the past
three years.


Antje Duvekot. She has been described as a cross between Tracy Chapman, Ani
di Franco and Shawn Colvin. Her songs are stunning paintings of color and
shade and always generate the heat and light that real art should. In an
unpoetic and in-your-face world, she is lyrical and subtle.


Tiger Saw. Local favorites, this band has it all: Lush, beautiful
harmonies; crisp, fresh lyrics with real emotional weight; little hard-won
truths. The sound on "gimme sweetness/gimme danger," the band's latest
release on Kimchee Records, is a little more aggressive, at least within
the context of the band, but remains true to the concept: Beautiful
male/female harmonies, wailing distant guitars and heartfelt, poetic lyrics
about heartache and disappointment.


JR Gallagher, the Tiger Saw guitarist, heads up his new project, called the
Divorced, which includes fellow TS alum Matt Kulick and Jason Anderson.


Dan Blakeslee is a musician and visual artist from Portsmouth, N.H. He
writes and arranges all original compositions, and designs and illustrates
his album covers and flyers. His signature artwork is as easily recognized
as his voice: cool, energetic imaginative.


Jason Anderson. His music? Sometimes acoustic, sometimes electric. Folky,
but catchy. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad. Always honest. Often
triumphant. There is an emphasis on passionate live performance. And
connecting. And feeling awesome.


Sam Rosen, up-and-coming songwriter, talented lyricist and arranger.

The concert runs Oct. 30, 5-10 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 31 Green
St., Newburyport. Tickets are $12 for adults, or $7 for students and
seniors, and can be purchased at www.thecampfire.org or at the door. For
information, call Mark Rosen executive director of the Campfire, at
978-764-4364 or e-mail mark@....