[Imc-events] Upcoming events in March at the UCIMC/Save-the-date for Grassroots Radio Conference

[Alex Cline]

Hi everybody!

First of all, I want to remind you all to save the date:
Join MAG-Net, Free Press, Prometheus Radio project, and other national &
local media groups at:
2012 Grassroots Radio Conference
at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
July 26th-July 29th, 2012

Interested in using media to transform your community? The Grassroots Radio
Conference (GRC) celebrates the vibrant and democratic medium of local
community-driven radio. We bring together radio operators, media artists,
community activists, engineers, and ordinary citizens from across the
nation to learn, discuss, brainstorm, and build. Due to last year’s
historic Local Community Radio Act, the government will be issuing brand
new community radio station licenses all across the country to nonprofits
and their partnering community groups, including for the first time in
major cities! To that end, the GRC will feature an LP-FM Clinic to help in
the process of starting your own LP-FM station and helping existing
stations adapt to the digital age. This year’s GRC will celebrate RFU
(Radio Free Urbana) raising its new radio tower and the UC-IMC becoming an
anchor institution in Urbana-Champaign’s new public broadband system.  Stay
tuned to grassrootsradioconference.org <http://grc.ucimc.org/> for more
information as the conference approaches. To get involved, contact Austin
at austinmccann at ucimc.org.




Also, check out what we'll have going on this month at the UCIMC:


*Andrew MacNamara, Orla Harrington, and Ged Foley Presented by Piper's Hut
Concert Series*<http://ucimc.org/content/andrew-macnamara-orla-harrington-and-ged-foley-presented-pipers-hut-concert-series>

Mar 2 2012 - 8:00pm - 10:30pm

Tickets $20, $10 students and seniors. http://www.pipers-hut.com



 Andrew MacNamara is a native of famously musical Tulla in East Clare. In
his teens he played with Ireland's most renowned traditional dance band the
Tulla Ceili Band and toured with them extensively in Ireland, England, and
the USA. Later he teamed up with the group Skylark touring Ireland, Europe,
and the USA regularly. In 1996 he formed his own band The Lahawns. Andrew
plays his own individual style of traditional Irish music and has the knack
of electrifying audiences. His solo performances and group collaborations
are unique and listeners are never disappointed. In the past few years he
has brought his inimitable magic to audiences in Europe, North America,
Japan and Australia.

 Orla Harrington has spent her formative years developing and nurturing two
art-forms, traditional Irish music and dance. From session music and dance
competition to entertainment and folk festivals, she went on to tour with
Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance in 2004 and spent the following three
years touring extensively with the show as a solo violinist and troop
dancer. After returning home, and meeting with influential musician friends
around Ennis and East Clare, Orla began concentrating on the more organic
style of music she grew up with. Orla has traveled and performed with
various other groups such as Rhythm of the Dance and the Merriman Ceili
Band and performed at such international music festivals as Le Grand Bal de
l'Europe in France, Hemlig Festival in Sweden and on Broadway with the
traditional Irish performance group Style. After a lifetime of competing
successfully as an Irish dancer on Munster, All-Ireland and World stages,
Orla graduated as T.C.R.G (Teagascoir, Coimisiun le Rinci Gaelacha) at the
World Ball, held at City West, April 23rd 2011 and is now a registered
Irish dancing teacher with An Coimisiun le Rinci Gaelacha.

 Growing up in County Durham in the northeast of England, Ged (Gerard)
absorbed the area's rich tradition of folk song and dance music. It was
there that he learned to play mandolin and Northumbrian Smallpipes (the
bellows-blown bagpipe native to that part of England), and began to develop
his guitar style. At first he teamed up with singer-songwriter Jez Lowe and
toured the British Folk scene. Several years with Scotland's Battlefield
Band followed. He toured with them throughout Europe and North America
before returning home to co-found The House Band with Chris Parkinson. This
saw the start of a long period of recording and touring which has taken him
all over the globe. Alongside his House Band duties, in 1994, Ged was asked
to take over the guitarist's role in Irish super group Patrick Street with
Kevin Burke, Andy Irvine and Jackie Daly. In 2001 he became the accompanist
for the unique trio of fiddlers, The Celtic Fiddle Festival, now consisting
of Kevin Burke, Christian Lemaitre, and Andre Brunet. The year 2002 saw
another significant change in Ged's career when for two years he became
Artistic Director of the Catskills Irish Arts Week based in East Durham NY.
This is a week long teaching festival covering all aspects of Irish
traditional music, dance and arts. In addition to his considerable
instrumental acumen on both guitar and fiddle, Ged is also a fine singer
and a well thought of Record Producer. His teaching credits include guitar
at all of the major teaching festivals in the USA and fiddle at the
acclaimed Feakle Festival in East Clare.
Contact Information
Contact Name:
Dean Karres
 Phone Number:
217-493-4654
Email Address:
pipers.hut at gmail.com

*Arduino for Total Newbies workshop with Mitch
Altman<http://ucimc.org/content/arduino-total-newbies-workshop-mitch-altman>
*Mar 3 2012 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

We're excited to announce that Mitch Altman will teach a 3 hour workshop
sponsored by Makerspace Urbana- Arduino for Total Newbies on Saturday March
3rd from 2-5pm at the Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center, 202 S.
Broadway

Mitch has taught thousands of people to solder and make cool things with
microcontrollers at his workshops at hacker spaces and hacker conferences
and schools almost everywhere. He can teach you, too, if you like.

If you have ever had any curiosity about making something with electronics,
then please join us. Anyone and everyone can learn to make cool things. And
it’s fun. And easy! You can learn to make something cool with electronics
in one workshop, and take your cool project home with you!

*Cost*: Instruction is Free! If you use any kits, $30 reimbursement for kit
price is requested.

Space is limited! Reserve your spot today! http://goo.gl/qGSPo
Contact Information
Contact Name:
Chris Ritzo
Email Address:
critzo at ucimc.org

*The Mourning After and Elephant in the
Room*<http://ucimc.org/content/mourning-after-and-elephant-room>
Mar 3 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

An evening of local teenage bands! Come and see the bands The Mourning
After and Elephant in the Room play. $5 Cover.
Contact Information
Contact Name:
Colin Althaus
Phone Number:
217-550-5333
Email Address:
colinalthaus at gmail.com

*CU Collective Show <http://ucimc.org/content/cu-collective-show>*
Mar 5 2012 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm

Punk/Pop Punk show featuring Direct Effect (FL), You Blew It (FL - Top
Shelf Records), and 2 locals tba. $5 Cover.
Contact Information
Contact Name:
Nathan Landolt
Phone Number:
618-979-2860
Email Address:
Nathan Landolt

*Fundraiser and Meet-and-Greet for Dr. Evelyn
Underwood<http://ucimc.org/content/fundraiser-and-meet-and-greet-dr-evelyn-underwood>
*
Mar 8 2012 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Family-Friendly event featuring music and chilldren's activities as well as
a meet-and-greet with Dr. Evelyn Underwood, who is running for the
Democratic nomination for Champaign County Circuit Clerk.
Contact Information
Contact Name:
Margret Miller
Phone Number:
2173675812
Email Address:
meglovenora at yahoo.com
*The Awakening <http://ucimc.org/content/awakening>*
Mar 10 2012 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm

Metal show with the bands Isle Nine Asylum, Draxsis, Ode Vinter and Trials
of Treachery. Doors at 7pm, show 8-11. $5 door
Contact Information
Contact Name:
Kevin Miller
Phone Number:
217-778-9089
Email Address:
IsleNineAsylum at gmail.com

*compostQ ensemble and ODD Music ensemble joint
concert<http://ucimc.org/content/compostq-ensemble-and-odd-music-ensemble-joint-concert>
*
Mar 11 2012 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm

compostQ ensemble and ODD Music ensemble joint concert.  music,
improvisation, dance
Contact Information
Contact Name:
erik lund
Phone Number:
217-621-7061
Email Address:
eriklund at illinois.edu


*Laurence Nugent and Patsy O'Obrien in Concert, Presented by Piper's Hut
Concert Series<http://ucimc.org/content/laurence-nugent-and-patsy-oobrien-concert-presented-pipers-hut-concert-series>
*
Mar 31 2012 - 8:00pm - 10:30pm

*http://pipers-hut.com admission is $20, $10 for students and seniors*

Laurence Nugent carries on a great tradition of virtuoso flute and whistle
playing that has graced Irish music on both sides of the Atlantic. As an
established performer and recording artist on the Celtic music circuit,
Laurence has performed with scores of musicians, including The Chieftains,
Shane McGowan, Van Morrison, The Drovers, The Green Fields of America,
Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill and Paddy Keenan. He has been a featured
performer at Milwaukee Irish Fest, San Francisco Irish Fest, the Glen Echo
Festival in Washington DC, the Willie Clancy Summer School in Ireland, and
the International Flute Festival De Cornouaille Quimper in France. He has
toured extensively throughout Ireland, the United States, Canada, Europe
and Japan. His CDs (Laurence Nugent, Two For Two, and The Windy Gap, on
Shanachie Records) have met with critical acclaim. On them, Laurence was
joined by some of the greats of Irish music, including fiddle legends Kevin
Burke and Liz Carroll, and guitarist Arty McGlynn. He has been heard
extensively on radio, including A Prairie Home Companion, The Studs Terkel
Show, and Ireland's national network RTE. He also appears on the Shanachie
recording Celtic Tapestry along with Solas, De Dannan, Clannad, Planxty and
Silly Wizard.

Laurence Nugent comes from the little village of Lack in County Fermanagh,
an area steeped in the traditional arts of music, singing and storytelling.
Not surprisingly, his first musical influences came from within his own
family. His father Sean Nugent was an All-Ireland fiddle champion and
leader of the Pride of Erin Ceili Band, one of the top Irish dance bands of
its day, and Laurence grew up listening to some of the finest players in
the land. Like many young musicians of his generation, Laurence entered
many of the regional and national competitions held under the auspices of
the Irish musicians association Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann; he took first
prize in junior competitions three times in the late 80's, and went on to
win the senior All Ireland Championships in 1994 and 1995. Since moving to
Chicago in 1992, Laurence has played a large part in the local scene as an
anchor and resource for traditional Irish music in the area. The informal
music sessions he has led over the years in Chicago have been well-known
for their fine quality of both music and hospitality. He has taught
hundreds of students in private lessons, in classes at the Old Town School
of Folk Music, and in workshops throughout the United States and Ireland.
Contact Information
Contact Name:
Dean Karres
Phone Number:
217-493-4654
Email Address:
pipers.hut at gmail.com


*Futhermore,*
I'd just like to remind you all that the IMC is available for birthdays,
weddings, other parties, recitals, and any other event you'd like to throw
here. Just send me a line at alex at ucimc.org for more information!

I look forward to seeing you at the IMC this month!

Thanks,

Alex Cline
Venue Coordinator
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
202 S. Broadway #100
Urbana IL, 61801
http://www.ucimc.org
o: 217.344.8820
m: 571.294.2419
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