Camp Trunk Space

The Trunk Space is proud to present:
The 7th Annual Gadabout Traveling Film Festival
Sunday November 23rd, 7PM

Website:
http://wwwgadaboutfilmfest.com

Says JRC the Trunk Space Co-owner, “We have hosted the Gadabout every year they’ve come to Phoenix, and every year it is the best show of its kind, surpassing anything like it.”

The Gadabout is a DIY touring film festival that screens a program of smart, funny, and sometimes completely absurd short films by extremely talented and independent filmmakers.  Although focusing on shorter, humor based films, the selection is not limited to just that.  The films are thought provoking, fresh, funny, and beautiful to look at.  These filmmakers love what they are doing, and their work shows it.

Incorporating music and art to the festival, the night will also include a full art show with
Kristine Virsis of Justseeds:
http://www.justseeds.org/artists/kristine_virsis
showing many of her own prints as well as work by other Justseed’s artists.  Justseeds is a radical arts collective made up of a diverse group of talented artists, and focuses mostly on political projects, including the People’s History Posters, and more.  The prints will be for sale, and it is the artist’s goal to make them affordable.

This year’s tour with be joined by:
Halo Fauna:
http://halofauna.com
a threes piece band from NY, who play thoughtful and sincere folk rock.
Their last full length was released on CD by Plan-It-X records, and vinyl by Salinas Records/Dead Broke.

http://www.myspace.com/upacupa

think, Matt & Kim, but w/ 6 members, brass horns instead of drums & keys, and Ella Fitzgerald singing?
Really, I don’t know quite how else to describe it.

A freakin’ blast!

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Really looking forward to this night.
Pass it on, tell your friends!

www.myspace.com/acollectiveofdirt
www.hailseizures.net
www.myspace.com/chinuppeter
http://www.myspace.com/businessmanslunch
http://www.myspace.com/andthemusic

Phoenix New Times Story

Folk Art
Indie singer/songwriter brings his world view to Trunk Space
By Jose Gonzalez

Whether name-checked by Kimya Dawson or cited by Alternative Press as the greatest folk singer of the 21st century, Paul Baribeau’s passion for spinning songs from joy and heartbreak is unmatched. A case in point is his “Ten Things,” in which the Michigan native earnestly implores listeners to make a list of things to accomplish before the inevitable.

On Monday, September 22, the indie-folk singer/songwriter stops by the Trunk Space to share the ups and downs of his life through an acoustic guitar that’s as alive as any electric ax.

Phoenix New Times Story

Good Degrief
Yiddish music duo ushers in the Jewish New Year
By Steve Jansen

You know those performances that you can’t get out of your head, even years later? For us, that’s the Taraf Degrief show from the summer of 2007. The group – composed of pianist Jacob Adler and unplugged vocalist DJ Richard – performed impassioned traditional Jewish songs written by Adler’s great-uncle before the uncle’s untimely death during a snowstorm in Prague. (The must-read story can be found at www.tarafdegrief.blogspot.com.) Needless to say, we’ll be front and center at Trunk Space on Monday, September 29, when the duo ushers in Rosh Hashanah with a rare performance.

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last time was pretty much a life changing event, this one will prove to be at least a little cooler!

I’ve been to Holland on numerous occasions, even living in a small Dutch village for part of a summer.

I never, ever saw anyone like Harry Merry (pictured above).

Last time Harry visited Phoenix (March 2007), he performed a quirky and looonngggg set of one-man band music at the Trunk Space, playing a keyboard over an iPod that played prerecorded, metronomical weirdness.

Then there is Harry’s singing style, which meanders through a few territories, such as inaudible moans, that super annoying sound effect during the theme music of Home Improvement, and happy-bouncy vocal modulations. All of this while wearing a little sailor’s outfit

The entire concertgoing experience is all very uncomfortable, but in a can’t-turn-your-eyes-away-from-it way. It’s also very awesome, too.

You’ll never forget it.

Supporting acts include We Are Good Friends (from Oklahoma City/Los Angeles), Fathers Day, Foot Ox, and Dynamite Poncho.

Links to some Harry Merry tuneage: Official Web site | MySpace

And the supercool show flier:

http://tarafdegrief.blogspot.com/

During the winter of ’63, Shmuel accompanied his 12-year-old nephew, Mendy, to the Spanish Synagogue, the place of his future Bar Mitzvah. An intense blizzard swept through the city and the few people inside the shul (including Shmuel and Mendy) found themselves snowed in, unable to escape the building for three days. Everybody soon hunkered down in the basement, as it was the warmest region of the building. All they had to entertain themselves was a dusty upright piano, Shmuel’s newly purchased recording equipment, a case of blackberry manischewitz wine, and a lone dreydel. During these dramatic days and nights of struggle, Shmuel (who, for reasons unknown, always sang under the name Taraf Degrief) enlivened the spirits of those trapped with his entertaining songs. The songs consist of old Yiddish tunes and improvised piano accompaniment of Russian folk tales. His pianistic style often reveals an intimate acquaintance with the music of Scriabin and Ravel while always preserving the Jewish folk idiom. At times, you can hear Mendy playing the tunes or improvising in the highest register of the piano.

Although he was kept warm with a good supply of blackberry wine and a burning passion to sing, Shmuel had long been in poor health and succumbed to exposure as a result of the three-day and two-night ordeal in the basement. Furniture was burned for heat, and apparently there was a desperate attempt to set the large Torah scrolls aflame. Shmuel intervened and proclaimed that he would sooner die than burn the word of G-d.

I miss everyone and I miss all the amazing things I’m used to seeing at Trunk Space!

I’ve been on the road for nearly a month and it’s been fun, amazing, and crazy, but there’s no place like home!

Actually, we often marvel at how unique a place Trunk Space is in Phoenix, but really it’s a pretty unique place for anywhere in the world.

I’ve been lucky enough to see so many great venues from the small and humble to the grand and mighty (Veterans Memorial Coliseum!  The Madhouse on McDowell is the Taj Mahal of the desert!) and there is no place like the Trunk Space.

Sure, each city and town has their own Trunk Space whether it’s a super-hip speakeasy in some urban metropolis or if it’s an old barn, but there’s no place that hugs like the Trunk Space - that’s a fact!

I will be home soon and I can’t wait to hug you all!

xoxo,

sharkface

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Hey hey hey!
Hew Episode of GAL featuring a special flyer by guest brandon huigens

Due to finacial concerns, this event is postponed.
The film maker hopes to reschedule for late October though.

Sorry, TTS

http://www.lostfilmfest.org