Peoples' Media Mash

Peoples' Media Mash
August 15, 2010 For Immediate Release For Info contact: Norman Stockwell 608-279-1607 or Marc Rosenthal 608-215-3358 MADISON'S INDEPENDENT MEDIA KICKS OFF FIGHTING BOB FEST WEEKEND WITH A CELEBRATION AT THE HIGH NOON SALOON SEPTEMBER 9th (Madison, WI) Dozens of independent journalists, media outlets, and activists and will gather for a 'Peoples' Media Mash' to benefit and celebrate the role of independent media in building community and social movements in Madison and beyond. The public is invited to Madison's High Noon Saloon on Thursday September 9th from 6:30 pm to Midnight. (The High Noon Saloon is located at 701 E. Washington Avenue. $5 donation at the door.) Some of Madison's favorites will be performing, including: 7-8pm - Marques Bovre & SoDangYang <www.myspace.com/marquesbovre>; 8:30-10:30pm - Bonobo Secret Handshake <www.myspace.com/bonobosecrethandshake>; 11pm-midnight - The Pinch <www.cdbaby.com/Artist/ThePinch>. The musical celebration brings together Madison’s community of independent media organizations and media activists: magazines, think tanks, websites, radio stations, blogs, newspapers, and TV. The party will also officially kick off with a bang the weekend's annual Fighting Bob Fest (which will also include an evening event Friday September 10th at the Barrymore in Madison, and a day-long event Saturday September 11th at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo, WI). Sponsors include: WORT-FM, WYOU, both WIDE-LP partners (CityWIDE Radio and SoulWIDE Radio), WDRT-FM, The Center for Media & Democracy, The Progressive Magazine, Lakeside Press, Workers Independent News, Madison InfoShop, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative, Fighting BobFest/FightingBob.Com, Madison IndyMedia, Stuart Levitan and The Mic 92.1FM, A Room of One's Own Bookstore, Bill Lueders, John Nichols and the Capital Times, the Capital City Hues newspaper, Union Labor News, Prolefeed Studios, The Milkweed, Screen Door Studios, Liberty Tree, On the Earth Productions.

August 15, 2010
For Immediate Release
For Info contact: Norman Stockwell 608-279-1607 or Marc Rosenthal 608-215-3358

MADISON'S INDEPENDENT MEDIA KICKS OFF FIGHTING BOB FEST WEEKEND WITH A CELEBRATION AT THE HIGH NOON SALOON SEPTEMBER 9th

(Madison, WI) Dozens of independent journalists, media outlets, and activists and will gather for a 'Peoples' Media Mash' to benefit and celebrate the role of independent media in building community and social movements in Madison and beyond.

The public is invited to Madison's High Noon Saloon on Thursday September 9th from 6:30 pm to Midnight. (The High Noon Saloon is located at 701 E. Washington Avenue. $5 donation at the door.)

Some of Madison's favorites will be performing, including:
7-8pm - Marques Bovre & SoDangYang <www.myspace.com/marquesbovre>;
8:30-10:30pm - Bonobo Secret Handshake <www.myspace.com/bonobosecrethandshake>;
11pm-midnight - The Pinch <www.cdbaby.com/Artist/ThePinch>.

The musical celebration brings together Madison’s community of independent media organizations and media activists: magazines, think tanks, websites, radio stations, blogs, newspapers, and TV. The party will also officially kick off with a bang the weekend's annual Fighting Bob Fest (which will also include an evening event Friday September 10th at the Barrymore in Madison, and a day-long event Saturday September 11th at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo, WI).

Sponsors include: WORT-FM, WYOU, both WIDE-LP partners (CityWIDE Radio and SoulWIDE Radio), WDRT-FM, The Center for Media & Democracy, The Progressive Magazine, Lakeside Press, Workers Independent News, Madison InfoShop, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative, Fighting BobFest/FightingBob.Com, Madison IndyMedia, Stuart Levitan and The Mic 92.1FM, A Room of One's Own Bookstore, Bill Lueders, John Nichols and the Capital Times, the Capital City Hues newspaper, Union Labor News, Prolefeed Studios, The Milkweed, Screen Door Studios, Liberty Tree, On the Earth Productions.