Each year since 2007 my Monster House roommates Richard Wehrenberg and Matt Scheuermann have organized a DIY punk festival called "Do It Together Fest" in Kent, Ohio. This year's iteration takes place over September 10th & 11th at The Vineyard and at Professor's Pub.
Wehrenberg, a renowned poet as well as an accomplished DIY promoter, said, "It's going to be pretty cool, I guess."
Scheuermann, of Punknews.org's band/record of the year, The Sidekicks, said, "It's your typical fest."
But would your typical fest have Tao Lin, author of Shoplifting From American Apparel and the forthcoming Richard Yates, fly in to read, slapping himself or his publisher with "mad" fees, and staying with Jordan Castro + Jordan Castro's parent(s) for four days in Solon, Ohio? Would your typical fest do that?
No. It's the most internet-literature-DIY-punk fest in the world. Or, at least, more so than Berea Fest.
Also out of the norm: rumored "awesome" after show will feature the debut of underground hip-hop sensation, Monstrosity. The first in the wave of 3rd floor hip-hop acts that call The Pocket home. Soon we will have something to rival St. Catherine's incipient "Spy Girl" scene.
Full DIT Fest schedule after "The Jump."
DO IT TOGETHER FEST IV, KENT, OHIO, SEPT 10-11, 2010
Friday September 10th
6:00 - 6:20 = Toby Foster (IN)
6:30 – 6:50 = Letters
7:00 - 7:20 = Ashley Brooke Toussant
7:30 - 7:50 = Bobby Stevens
8:00 - 8:10 = Sam Pink (IL)*
8:20 - 8:40 = Galgozy/Zeleny Duo
8:50 - 9:00 = Ryan J.*
9:10 - 9:30 = Andy Cook & the Wanderloons
9:40 – 9:50 = Richard Wehrenberg, Jr.*
10:00 - 10:20 = Signals Midwest
10:30 - 10:50 = American War
11:00 - 11:20 = Defiance, Ohio (IN)
Aftershow @ Professors Pub
11:30 – 11:45 = Cleveland Undercovers
11:55 – 12:15 = Slugging Percentage
12:25 - 12:45 = Sloppy Joe
12:55 – 1:15 = Monstrosity
Saturday September 11th
12:00 - 12:20 = Pheramones
12:30 - 12:50 = Girl Fight (PA)
1:00 - 1:20 = Heads Held High
1:30 - 1:50 = Worn Out Tigers (PA)
2:00 - 2:20 = Vacation
2:30 - 2:50 = Playoff Beard (PA)
3:00 - 3:20 = I Am the Sky
3:30 - 3:50 = Hold Tight (VA)
4:00 - 4:20 = Bethesda
4:30 - 4:50 = Light Years
5:00 - 5:20 = Underdogs of Nipomo
5:30 - 5:50 = Reverse the Curse
6:00 - 6:20 = New Creases
6:30 - 6:50 = Three Man Cannon (PA)
7:00 - 7:20 = The Hit and Miss Engines (PA)
7:30 - 7:50 = Asinine
8:00 - 8:20 = Jordan Castro *
8:30 - 8:50 = Gunnerson
9:00 - 9:20 = Noah Cicero *
9:30 - 9:50 = Two Hand Fools
10:00 - 10:20 = Tao Lin (NY)*
10:30 - 10:50 = Annabel
11:00 - 11:20 = Tigers Jaw (PA)
11:30 - 11:50 = The Sidekicks
12:00 - 12:20 = Delay
* denotes poetry or literature reading
Do It Together Fest is a donation based festival and relies upon attendee donations to help make it what it is. All donations from attendees help pay for gas for out of town musicians / writers and support the Vineyard and its multiple outreach programs.
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