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2nd Bicycle Music Festival grows 200% over last year

fossilfool — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:30:04 +0000

Cruising from Precita Park to Dolores Park at Saturday’s BMF

photo: Adam Aufdencamp

Cruising from Precita Park to Dolores Park at the first annual BMF in 2007

The largest crowds at Dolores Park showed similar growth.

Photo captain Adam Aufdencamp posts initial shots from yesterday’s festival

fossilfool — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:29:43 +0000

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Bring supersoakers tomorrow, cause mother nature’s bringing the heat!

fossilfool — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:27 +0000

BMF falls on the longest day of the year, and it’s going to be one of the hottest. Bring squirt guns!

Mounting a piano on a bike for mobile performance at this year’s BMF

fossilfool — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:45:10 +0000

Soul singer Janaysa will be going mobile, performing at the nighttime cruiser ride (beginning at Dolores Park). She’ll be playing piano and singing. The piano will be rigidly mounted to the back of a Mundo Utility Bicycle, using a custom bamboo piano mount. The red tractor seat is another recent mod designed to turn this bike into a serious mobile performance venue.

Other mobile performers in the nighttime cruise will include Mafiosa Felice and Joel Elrod. Joel (shown below street performing at KFOG Kaboom) will be backing me up on the Roland 808, and Mafi will be playing cuatro and singing.

Fossil Fool’s BMF performance to be a street performance / mobile performance this year.

fossilfool — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:42:15 +0000

My favorite part of performing at last year’s BMF was leading the call and response section of the Boda Boda rap as we cruised down Valencia. At the time, I thought I was just doing the ride to lead people to the biker beer bar, but once we arrived at the bar, the energy fell. I now realize that my art form is rocking the mic as I rock the bike. There aren’t too many other bike rappers out there who would even really try it. So this year, I’m just going to celebrate it. I hope you’ll be part of my performance, which will begin after Pete Brandt’s BMX performance.

Fortunately I won’t be alone. We just finished this new aTractor seat for the Mundo, so I can have Joel and Mafi play percussion for me.

Ginger Ninjas host Human Power stage at Harmony Festival — another successful BMF shakedown.

fossilfool — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:56:41 +0000

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The Ginger Ninjas, just back from an epic 5000 mile bicycle tour to Mexico, got yet another chance to test out their sound system and rock festival-goers at this weekend’s Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa. With 4 pedal-power generating bicycles, there was enough clean, clear audio power to get over 100 people dancing. Musical highlights included Cipes and the People, and Los Ginger Ninjas.

The weekend was a good chance to work out any last kinks in the human power system before the Bicycle Music Festival. While there was a little troubleshooting to do on Sunday morning after Saturday night’s jam session, the system didn’t let fans down and was loud enough to have 8-piece bands rock out with a full drum set. You really don’t want to have to ask a drummer to play softly because the mains don’t have enough power to bring other instruments and vocals up to their level. It’s much better when a drummer can play out, and you can adjust the other instruments accordingly.

Fortunately the Ginger Ninjas’ sound system has that much power and more! We are psyched and grateful that they’ll be setting up the Human Power at this year’s BMF!