The Boise Experimental Music Festival is beginning to earn the reputation of being one of the most exciting and well executed creative music events in the world.  Now in its third year, the festival continues to evolve and feature an impressive array of performers from all over the world. This year, the festival runs from May 28 through June 1, 2008, and fans will come from all over to hear some of the finest and most cutting edge creative music artists on the planet. The talent and caliber of this year’s performers will be spectacular. The event will also feature experimental film and the ground-breaking program, Kybermusik, coordinated by one of Germany’s most inventive musicians, Rainer Straschill. The Kybermusik program will give festival performers the opportunity to perform live with musicians all over the world via the internet.  

 

Obtain more information on the festival at www.boisemusicians.com/BEMF-3 or http://www.myspace.com/boiseexperimentalmusicfestival

Schedule

May 28 (Wednesday), 7:00 - 8:30pm
Museum of Eastern Idaho
Eastern Idaho Experimental Music Festival
300 S. Capital Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
208-524-7777
$10 at the door
http://www.theartmuseum.org/

May 29 (Thursday), 7-11pm
3 Shapes Aikido
1512 north 10th street
Boise, ID 83702
$5.00 at the door
http://www.3shapesaikido.com/

May 30 (Friday), 8:30pm - Midnight
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
$7.00 at the door
http://www.elkorah.org

May 31 (Saturday), 1-7pm
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
$6.00 at the door
($10 will cover evening show as well)
http://www.elkorah.org

May 31 (Saturday), 1-5pm
The Record Exchange
1105 W Idaho St
Boise, ID 83702
FREE
http://www.buymusichere.net/stores/recordexchange/

May 31 (Saturday), 8:30pm - Midnight
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
$7.00 at the door
http://www.elkorah.org

June 1 (Sunday), 1-7pm
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
$6.00 at the door
http://www.elkorah.org

 

Festival Performers

Rainer Straschill
(Munich, Germany)
With financial support by the Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe Institut

Jim McAuley
(Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Tom Baker
(Seattle, WA, USA)

The Choir Boys (Jeff Kaiser & Andrew Pask)
(San Diego & Los Angeles, CA, USA)

The Deep End Ensemble
(Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Emily Hay & Motoko Honda
(Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Rob Wallace, Colter Frazier, & Jim Connolly
(Santa Barbara, CA, USA)

The Transhumans
(Ventura, CA, USA)

Robert Price, David Grollman, & Lucio Menegon
(New York, NY, USA)

Ted Killian
(Medford, OR, USA)

Thorrific
(Seattle, WA, USA)

Unicorn Feather (Elijah Jensen)
(Boise, ID, USA)

Gretchen Jude
(Boise, ID, USA)

Craig Green
(Idaho Falls, ID, USA)

Amy Vecchione
(Boise, ID, USA)

Jared Hallock
(Boise, ID, USA)

Krispen Hartung & Robert Sterling
(Boise, ID & Ventura, CA, USA)

Krispen Hartung, Brian McFadin, & Jared Hallock
(Boise, ID, USA)

Mike Blomquist
(Boise, ID, USA)

Emily Hay, Motoko Honda, & Krispen Hartung
(Los Angeles, CA & Boise, ID, USA)

Craig Green, & Krispen Hartung
(Los Angeles, CA & Boise, ID, USA)

 

Funding for BEMF was made possible by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Idaho Commission on the Arts