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Table Of Contents
Letter from the Producer ...................................... 1
Performances (alphabetically listed by act) ..... 3
Map.............................................................................10
Venue Listing ..........................................................11
Calendar....................................................................12
Performances (continued) ...................................14
“The world is a
complicated place, and
there’s a lot of division
between people. The
performing arts tend to
unify people in a way
nothing else does.”
— David Rubenstein
Sponsors ...................................................................26
Letter from the Producer
Dear Zootown Fringe Festival Fans,
Welcome to the 4th Annual Zootown Fringe Festival, Montana’s only live
performance organization that is structured to unify all performing artists as
a cohesive community. Our mission is to support and celebrate performance
art in our community and to showcase Missoula as a place to perform. We
are honored to present this year’s fabulous line-up of entertainment and
workshops.
A heartfelt thanks to the visiting artists, the lovely local talent, our volunteers,
venue staff and to our generous sponsors who have helped to create this year’s
Fringe! We’d also like to thank this year’s audiences. We couldn’t do it without
all of you.
Michelle Risho, Producer
zootownfringe.org
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August 16 - 20, 2016
A Sorted Affair:
A Bureaucratic
Adventure
Lolo Fringe at Dunrovin Ranch
Thu, Aug 18th 6:30pm *
Free
Crystal Theater
Fri, Aug 19th 5pm * $10
Downtown Dance Collective
Sat, Aug 20th 7pm * $10
Welcome to your new job
at the Bureau of Sorted
Affairs! Take a seat; we have
positions opening up in
the Division of Good and
the Division of Bad. This
prestigious agency is a
completely safe and reasonable place to work. Our sorting system safely disposes
of all volatile concepts that once plagued the past. Towers of boxes, full of every
imaginable and unimaginable thing in the world, are swiftly archived in a sterile
and orderly fashion. Our staff function like a perfect machine. As will you—
Until an odd new employee joins the Bureau.
Now, imagination leaks out of the dreambox,
categories can’t contain the wind, paperwork
refuses to work, and gravity goes on strike. Good
& Bad start to meld. This world is crumbling.
The Fine Print of our universe spirals down the
drain liberating a super-natural disaster that
will rearrange our hearts. A theatrical comedy
brought to life with magic, puppetry, juggling,
mime, dance, clown and you.
Performance by Figment. What is Figment?
Figment is Circus. Dance. Mime. Physical
Comedy and clown. Juggling, puppetry, and
acrobatics. But mostly, Figment is imagination in
action, a dream on a ship in the ocean of your
mind. Figment is Drea Lusion and Eric Parthum.
Categories: Art, Comedy, Multimedia, Theater
zootownfringe.org
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August 16 - 20, 2016
A Word Inside Itself
Fish Creek on Alberton Gorge
Thu, Aug 18th, 1-1:45pm * Free
Crystal Theatre
Fri, Aug 19th, 6:30-7:15pm * $8
Sat, Aug 20th 6pm-6:45 pm * $8
“A sentence is inside itself “ is a
meeting of Gertrude Stein and Samuel
Beckett illustrated in music, dance and
text.
3 women, 3 hats, 3 stools and an
accordion rummage around in the
words of Gertrude Stein and Samuel
Beckett.
Music, movement and text pastiche
with Cindy Webster, Peggy DeCoursey,
Nan Busse of the Bay Area’s Word/Dance Productions.
Categories: Art, Comedy, Music, Theater
Abbie Miller: Exit
Strategies
Missoula Art Museum/
Aresty Gallery
Tues, Aug 16th 7pm
* Free
Artist’s Lecture:
August 16, 7pm
Join us for a last
chance to see
Miller’s site specific
sculpture made from
of hundreds of yards
of vinyl and zippers!
This Portland-based
Billings native will talk
about the conceptual underpinnings of her larger than life abstract sculpture
that draws from fashion, modernism and architecture. Not to be missed.
Category: Art
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Performance Outside the Box
An Evening with Pale
People
Crystal Theatre
Thu, Aug 18th 10:30pm11:30pm * Free with
Fringe button
Take an embittered music
school dropout. Add two
spoonfuls of faintly balding
neurotic. Add heaping
handfuls of dark-eyed love
prince. Add antidepressants,
a piano, small noisy
crowds, unsatisfying sex, a
wheelchair, a lamp.
The band is called Pale
People, and one of their
songs contains this phrase:
“Fetish food play--babysitter
wet dream.”
Pale People provides live scoring for the Fringe Comedy Cabaret and closes out
the evening of entertainment with a set dripping with insanity.
Mature audiences only.
Categories: Comedy, Music
Back to the Future Staged Reading
Shakespeare & Co.
Thu, Aug 18th 7pm - 8:30pm * Free
A staged reading with gusto of “Back to the Future”
parts 1-3 by Cool Hat Productions.
“The power of love is a curious thing, make one man
weak, makes another man sing.”
Categories: Comedy, Film, Storytelling, Theater
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August 16 - 20, 2016
Fringe Awards and
Closing Ceremony
Crystal Theatre
Sat night, Aug 20th
12midnight - 1am
* Free with Fringe
button
Join us for this year’s
awards announcements
and a toast to the
closing of Zootown
Fringe Festival 2016!
This event is open to Fringe participants, festival friends, family, audience, and
supporters!
All are welcome.
Category: Special Events
Fringe Comedy
Cabaret
Crystal Theatre
Thu, Aug 18th 8pm
- 11:30 pm * $10
Enjoy an evening of
laughter with the Fringe
Comedy Cabaret!
ZootownFringe
ComedyCabaret
If you love comedy and
enjoy being entertained,
you’re in for a great treat!
Hosted by Jo Dworschek and Fringe Producer Michelle Risho featuring Pale
People, Chris Sand, Cody Howell, Figment, Gingers on Ice, Sean Kirkpatrick, Evan
Smith, and Word/Dance Productions. Live scoring by Pale People.
Set aside an evening for equal risk as audience members and artists, for
uncertainty breed comedy!
For mature audiences only.
All proceeds go towards funding the Zootown Fringe Festival.
Categories: Comedy, Special Events
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Performance Outside the Box
Fringe Costume Bike
Ride with Free Cycles
Missoula
Meet at Fringe Lounge, B&C
parking lot.
Fri, Aug 19th 5pm - 6pm
* Free
Don your favorite futurethemed costume and
experience Free Cycles
Missoula’s famous
downtown bike tour.
Sweet prize for best costume! Family Friendly and Free
Category: Special Events
Fringe Float
Sing-a-Long
Big Dipper Ice Cream,
then Clark Fork River
Fri, Aug 19th 12pm 4pm * Shuttle fee $3
Zootown Fringe Festival
invites fringe fans to join
us for a musically inspired
community float.
Gather @ Big Dipper Ice
Cream and be treated to
performance by Duluth, Minnesota’s beloved ska band WoodBind while enjoying
the best ice cream in Montana!
One of two shuttles trips begin departing at 1pm for the East Missoula
put-in. Float takes about 1 1/2 hours. Bring your tube and favorite river
accouterments.
Floaters are met at put-in with music by Alyssa Hands. Ephie Risho leads the singa-long. Take out at Fringe Lounge under the Higgins St. Bridge at the Boone and
Crockett parking lot.
*Alcohol consumption prohibited on the shuttle bus.
Category: Special Events
zootownfringe.org
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August 16 - 20, 2016
Fringe Ladies
Fashion Swap
Crystal Theatre
Wed, Aug 17th
5pm - 8pm * $10
Zootown Fringe
Festival cordially
invites ALL women
to share in an early
evening fashion
swap.
All proceeds go
towards supporting
Zootown Fringe Festival. Bring a bag, take
a bag. Extra bags are $10. Remaining
clothes are donated to the YMCA women’s
shelter.
Shop to your hearts content with dance
music provided by a live female DJ. Wine,
beer and tapas available from The Silk
Road.
Free make-overs by our favorite Tyra Banks
beautitainer. Amateur and seasoned
fashion consultants on site to assist in your
wardrobe decisions. This is an all-ladies
event. Drag queens and trans welcome.
See the listing on zootownfringe.org for
more detailed information.
Categories: Special Events
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Performance Outside the Box
Fringe Lounge Sessions
Fringe Lounge, Under the Higgins St Bridge,
B&C Parking Lot
Friday, Aug 19th 5pm - 11pm * Free
Be a part of Missoula’s Friday night
heartbeat during Fringe Lounge Sessions.
Stationed in the Boone & Crockett parking
lot under the Higgins St. Bridge, artists and
audience gather to experience live sound
scape art, music, poi, aerial and pop dance
performances.
Emceed by Missoula’s beloved Coach
Shane with live streaming by MCAT.
Free community event. Bring a chair and
bask in Missoula’s burgeoning Fringe art
scene.
5pm-11pm, audiences will be delighted
by music, dance, aerial arts and poi
performances by local and visiting artists.
Itinerary:
5-6pm The Organism performs The Great Open Heart Display.
6-7pm Song and story sharing by Chris Sand, Seth Pogue, Alyssa Hands and Mark
Chase.
7-8:30pm D.Ryan: Audience members will be charmed and captivated by
Missoula’s most recent musical implant’s uplifting performance. Not to be missed.
8:30-10:30pm MASC Artisans, Aerial Acts of Bozeman and Bozeman’s Fire in the
Attic share their acrobatic and athletic talents.
Categories: Multimedia, Music, Special Events
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August 16 - 20, 2016
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Performance Outside the Box
1. E3 Convergence
Gallery
229 W Main St.
7. Ghetto
Gypsy Bus
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at 515 S.
Higgins Ave
2. Missoula
Art
Museum
335 N.
Pattee St.
8. Porchfest
200-300
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S. W. 4th St
3. Downtown
Dance
Collective
121 W. Main St
9. Big Dipper Ice
Cream 631 S
Higgins Ave
4. Fringe Lounge
Under Higgins
St Bridge, B&C
Parking Lot
250 Station Dr.
10. Dunrovin
Ranch
5001
Expedition
Dr.
5. Shakespeare &
Co.
103 S 3rd St W
11. Alberton
Gorge
Meet in town
with Lewis
& Clark Trail
Adventures (not
shown on map)
6. The Crystal
Theatre
515 S. Higgins
Ave
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Fringe Mural
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Downtown Missoula,
alleyway by Red Bird
Tue, Aug 16th - Sat,
Aug 20th, 6pm –
12am * Free
Watch amazingly
talented Missoula
artists create,
collaborate and paint
their way across
the Fringe mural in
the alley between
Main and Front St. in
Downtown Missoula.
Since 2013, Fringe Mural Project continues to grow thanks to artists at
VonCommon Studios and Jason Bohmen. Welcome back Jason!
Evenings after 5pm.
A huge Fringe thank you to the Red Bird Restaurant for supporting the arts!
Category: Art
Fringe on the Ghetto
Gypsy Bus
Ghetto Gypsy Bus, boarding at the
Crystal Theatre
Wed, Aug 17th 8:30pm 10pm * Price varies per show
Theater outside the box in
inside a bus! Experience
three outstanding fringe
performances while traveling
in style on Missoula’s famous
Ghetto Gypsy Bus. Performances
by Cody Howell, Gingers on Ice
and Spiritus: Generations. All
shows end at the beginning.
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Performance Outside the Box
Showtimes:
8:30-9:00pm Stand up comedian Cody Howell frankly discusses his experiences
as a 24 year old gay man from Bozeman, Montana. Discover what all his professors
and family describe as “the real world” and what it’s like to become an adult in
it. Topics range from Tinder, dating , getting a job, and relentlessly explaining
to people why kids aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. $5 ticket to ride. Mature
audiences only.
9:00-9:30pm Gingers on Ice brings their comedy improv to a whole new level
aboard the Ghetto Gypsy Bus. $5 boarding fee. Mature audiences only.
9:30- 10pm Spiritus Presents: Generations invites audience members to hop
on the Ghetto Gypsy Bus for a provocative Fringe theatrical adventure. $5, $2 for
seniors. Mature audiences only.
Categories: Comedy, LGBT, Multimedia, Special Events, Theater
Gingers on Ice
Ghetto Gypsy Bus, boarding at
Crystal Theatre
Wed, Aug 17th 9pm * $5
Crystal Theatre
Fri, Aug 19th 10pm * $7
Since their inception in 2015,
Gingers On Ice has been
entertaining audiences with
a highly original and wildly
inventive comedy show that
is always evolving. With Jacob
Godbey and Alex Tait’s two year
experience with the Stensrud
Playhouse behind them, the
duo continues to tinker and
perfect their interactive comedy
show to provide the best
entertainment possible and
with improv sprinkled in, no two
audiences get the same show.
Get ready for the Gingers On Ice experience! Opening stand-up comedy by Native
Comedian Evan Smith.
Mature audiences only. Adult Themes. Sexual Content. Strong Language
Category: Comedy
zootownfringe.org
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August 16 - 20, 2016
Great Open Heart Display by
The Organism
E3 Convergence Gallery
Thu, Aug 18th 6pm - 7pm * Free
Experience Cody, Wyoming’s
soundscape artist, The Organism
during their sound installation at E3
Convergence Gallery.
The Great Open Heart Display is a
beautiful approach to creating an
atmosphere with melodic guitar and
expressive lyrics. For folk and electronic
fans alike, this is a journey of resonance
and powerful tone. May we all find a
path of compassion.
Category: Music
It’s Who You Know
Crystal Theatre
Sat, Aug 20 4:30pm - 5:30pm * $10
Downtown Dance Collective
Sat, Aug 20 8:30pm - 9:30pm * $10
Chambers Stevens’ exciting oneman show returns for an encore
presentation.Here’s how it works.
On stage there is a table with a large
box. Inside the box are hundreds of
cards. Each card has the name of a
different actor, celebrity, musician, or
writer on it. The cards are shuffled and
put back in the box.
Chambers enters.
He pulls a card and tells a true story
about his run in with that performer.
Some stories are funny. Many are
touching, exciting, inspiring. Every
show is totally different.
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Performance Outside the Box
Chamber’s previous one-man show, Desperate for Magic, won the Backstage
Garland award, with the Los Angeles Time writing “Star shines in ‘Desperate for
Magic’ The dude is worthy! Way!!!” The paper also called him a “kinetic explosion.”
Categories: Soloshow, Storytelling, Theater
Lolo Fringe at Dunrovin
Ranch
Dunrovin Ranch
Thu, Aug 18th 5pm - 10pm
* Free
Set aside an evening for Lolo
Fringe at Dunrovin Ranch
where memories are created!
Entertainment includes horse
painting, story-telling, live
performances by Dunrovin
Ranch camp attendees, Bay
Area performing art duo
“Figment”, songwriter Charla Bauman, Ritchie Doyle as Captain Clark and Montana
mountain man Rick “Hawk” Hurst. Horse art by Marlo Crocifisso of VonCommon.
Itinerary:
3:00pm Guests are welcome to watch Marlo Crucifisso and Dunrovin Kid’s Camp
paint live horses.
5:00pm Painted Pony Parade in Dunrovin pastures.
5:30pm Community open grill “bring your own” picnic featuring music (about
horses) provided by Charla Bauman.
6:30pm Dunrovin camp kids’ performance, directed by Figment’s Drea Lusion
and Eric Parthum.
6:45pm Performance by Figment, performing segments of “A Sorted Affair: A
Bureaucratic Adventure”.
8:00pm The evening closes at Dunrovin tipi with campfire stories/songs about
horses, Lewis and Clark expedition and mountain men with Ritchie Doyle and Rick
Hawk Hurst.
This is a free event, open to the public. Tips are appreciated, but not imperative.
Dunrovin Ranch live streams everything on their website. Photographer Jonathan
Qualbin will document the evening.
Categories: Special Events, Storytelling, Theater
zootownfringe.org
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August 16 - 20, 2016
No Refunds
Crystal Theatre
Fri, Aug 19th 8:30pm - 9:30pm * $10
Sat, Aug 20th, 8:30pm - 9:30pm * $10
“No Refunds” tells the tale of three
performers who, when backed into
a corner, create a show that makes
everyone forget that the world is ending.
Part sketch show, part art installation,
part torrid love affair,
“No Refunds” has something for
everyone (18+).
Mature audience only. Nudity. Adult
Themes. Sexual Content. Strong Language
Categories: Comedy, Theater
Oh Man!
Crystal Theatre
Sat, Aug 20th 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm * $8
Pitch: Comedian Jo Dworschak
brings you on an entertaining
journey into the mind of an
mother to be. Hormones mix with
a harrowing but humorous history
reveals why Jo fears bringing
another man into this world in this
multi-media masterpiece. 62%* of
men think this play is about them.
Men are truly in danger. How?
Come find out. Will she learn that
men aren’t all bad?
Shorter Pitch: Jo should be
ashamed of what went through
her mind the moment she found
out she was having a boy. Instead
she wrote a solo show about it.
Hormones mix with a harrowing
but humorous history in this
Zootown Fringe Festival
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Performance Outside the Box
entertaining journey.
Canadian radio talk show host, comedian and storyteller, Jo Dworschak is most
importantly a mom. Instead of going to university Jo decided to procreate. Which
was a great idea, but she kinda freaked out when she found out she was having a
boy. Why? There was a 50/50 chance. This hormonal tailspin of a solid solo show
will explain.
Also experience Jo Dworschek’s brilliance at Fringe Comedy Cabaret!
Mature Audiences only.
Categories: Comedy, LGBT, Multimedia, Soloshow, Storytelling
On the Fringe
Documentary
Crystal Theatre
Thu, Aug 18th 6:30pm 8pm * $8
Catch the Fringe vibe and join
us for the Montana premiere of
“On the Fringe”.
10 cities, 8 artists, 1 tour: A
documentary about life on the
Canadian Fringe Festival circuit.
In the summer of 2014,
an intrepid team of
documentarians set off to
chronicle the adventures of
artists touring the Canadian
Fringe Festival circuit. After 10
cities, over 18,000 kilometres,
countless hours of interviews
and more coffee than your
doctor would advise, they
collected a treasure trove of
the stories behind the stories
and the scenes behind the
scenes.
The result - On the Fringe, a feature-length documentary that takes you on a fun
and poignant road trip through this undeniable force in the world theatre scene.
Category: Film
zootownfringe.org
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August 16 - 20, 2016
Porchfest
200-300 Block S 4th St W
Wed, Aug 17th 3-10pm * Free
Join the Porchfest fun on 4th and
Myrtle Streets where porches
become music venues and the
streets become an art gallery
complete with a food & beverage
court.
Audience is encouraged to bring
chairs, blankets & families!
This free event is sponsored by Outside In Garden, KBGA, Missoula Independent,
KettleHouse Brewing, & the lovely neighbors on the 200 & 300 block of S 4th St W.
Porchfest Line-up (porch assignment TBA)
2:00pm Mathew Nord-Living Rhythm
Community Drum Circle, bring your
drum and chair!
3:00 Mark Kersting and Friends
3:30 Andrea Harsell
4:15 Marlene Hutchins & Carla Green
5:00 Micki Singer Allstars
5:45 Montana A Cappella Society
6:30 Ruby Jewel Band
7:15 The Organism
8:00 D. Ryan
9:00 Cash for Junkers
PORCH
FEST
Street Art Show includes:
The Tippy Top
Brass District
Mermaid Ave
Tawna Herrera
VonCommon Artists
Adaleaide Gale Avery
Bridey O’Brian
ladypajama
Kerry Eyman
Stephanie Colley
Marlo Crocifisso
FREE
Weds, August 17th
200-300 Block S. 4th St. W.
Live Bands on Neighborhood Porches
more info: zootownfringe.org
Featuring Cash for Junkers, Micki Singer Allstars, Basses
Covered, Ruby Jewel Band, The Organism, D. Ryan,
Montana A Capella Society, Andrea Harsell, Mark Kersting,
Matthew Nord - Living Rhythm Community Drum Circle.
Brought to you by
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Categories: Art, Music,
Special Events
Zootown Fringe Festival
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Performance Outside the Box
River Fringe
Alberton Gorge
Thu, Aug 18th 10am - 5pm *
Registration fees apply
Commune with the Fringe on the
Fringe! Just when you thought your
summer couldn’t get any better...
Zootown Fringe Festival and Lewis
and Clark Trail Adventures invite you
to join us for the first ever Zootown
River Fringe.
Performances begin at Cyr Bridge
launch with a physical comedy skit
by Figment.
Upon embarkment, audience
members are expertly guided
through the breathtaking Alberton
Gorge stopping at Fish Creek to
be entertained by Word/Dance
Productions performing “A Word
Inside Itself”. It is here, audience members will
experience new sensations as a time-traveler
Captain Clark (Ritchie Doyle) discovers he’s on
the “Fringe of Time.”
Audience participation imperative! Costumes
suggested! Meet you on the River Fringe!
Lewis and Clark Trail Adventure fees apply. Tips
always welcomed, but not imperative.
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August 16 - 20, 2016
Register Online.
Spiritus Presents:
Generations
Ghetto Gypsy Bus
boarding at Crystal
Theater
Wed, Aug 17th,
9:30pm * $5, $2
Seniors
Downtown Dance
Collective
Sat, Aug 20th, 6:30pm
* $5, $2 Seniors
Baby Boomer/Bomb Baby performance artist Simone Lazzeri Ellis debuts her latest
work investigating the unspoken stigma facing millennials, their life choices in
light of war(s) and the how our country’s infamous flimsy education works/not
works in today’s world.
*Audience members are encouraged to engage this partially scripted, improvised,
multi-media installation play.
*Lead performers and audience members are welcome to interject, participate
and express themselves with call and response.
Simone Ellis is well-known for her provocative, sharp and thoughtful multi-media
flare that audiences will be talking about for years!
Category: Theater
The Ho Play
Downtown Dance Collective
Sat, Aug 20th 10-11pm * $10
One Star? A bad review angers a young
woman who takes pride in her work.
There’s only one catch. She’s a prostitute!
And now, she is determined to track down
the mystery John.
After all, nobody likes a critic.
Featuring Taylor Foster
Mature audiences only. Adult Themes. Sexual
Content. Strong Language
Categories: Soloshow, Theater
Zootown Fringe Festival
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Performance Outside the Box
What I Learned from Porn
Crystal Theatre
Fri, Aug 19th, 11pm * $10
Sat, Aug 20th, 10pm * $10
Frank Bukkwyd, the highest paid porn
star who never took off his clothes, gives
audience members a behind the scene
detailed view of the often entertaining porn
industry.
Each show rendition is an intimate, (or not),
look into the world of porn. His surprising
stories and insights take the audience where
they could never venture, yet never seems “dirty” or voyeuristic. Even if you’ve
never seen a porn movie Frank sets you at ease while still offering plenty of detail
that would satisfy any fan of the genre.
And, you’ll discover how to create your own porn stage name.
This is Frank’s 4th year performing at the Zootown Fringe Festival. Thanks for
coming Frank! Mature Audiences Only
Categories: Comedy, Multimedia, Soloshow, Storytelling, Theater
Wood Blind
Big Dipper Ice Cream
Fri, Aug 19th 12pm - 1pm * Free
Spend your lunch hour dancing to the tunes
of Wood Blind at the Big Dipper Ice Cream
parking lot.
Wood Blind features the combo of Duluth,
Minnesota mainstay guitarist Jason Wussow
and Los Angeles studio/ touring bass player
Veikko Lepisto.
Wussow’s credits include the bands Flux
Skapacitor, No Room to Pogo, Yeltzi, Fuzzy
Ellis and ownership of all-ages music venue Beaner’s Central. Lepisto has worked
with Mike Ness of Social Distortion, Royal Crown Revue and Bette Midler while on
the West Coast. Teamed together they make acoustic ska à la 1960s’ Jamaica and
70s’ England. Their sets include traditional reggae, ska versions of classic rock and
R&B hits, and original rocksteady numbers.
See Fringe Float Sing-A-Long for more info. Float on the Clark Fork River to follow.
Category: Music
zootownfringe.org
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August 16 - 20, 2016
Zootown Fringe Opening
Ceremony
Crystal Theatre
Tue, Aug 16th 6pm - 12am *
$10 with Fringe button, $13
without
Join us as we usher in another
year of Fringe with a blowout
celebration!
Meet Fringe artists, bid on
auction items, dine with friends
and experience vaudeville-style
Fringe entertainment at its
finest.
Live scoring by The Organism with various snippets of Fringe acts peppered
throughout the evening.
All proceeds fund Zootown Fringe Festival.
Itinerary:
6pm Registration
7:00 Opening ceremony begins with performance by Figment.
7:15 Magical welcoming by Fringe Wizard, Coach Shane.
7:30 “Word From Our Sponsors” comedy game show hosted by Gingers On Ice.
Audience participation encouraged.
8:00 Fringe Announcements and Participant Introductions by Fringe staff.
9:00 “On the Fringe” trailer followed by Fringe Participants sneak peaks.
10:00 DJ Coach Shane keeps the party vibe pumping into the night!
Category: Special Events
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