Nerdapalooza
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Nerdapalooza is a nerd music festival. The first of its kind to invite all genres of the new movement under one roof, Nerdapalooza was scheduled to have its first two day festival in September 2007 at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds. Due to funding issues it has since been pushed back to a later date. The creator of the event is John T. Carter, who goes by the handle "hexWarrior" and hosted a Nerdapalooza themed radio show through KRFH, the student-run radio station at Humboldt State University. This word is coined from nerd and palooza, slang word for all-out crazy party.
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[edit] Nerdapalooza Southeast 2007
The most successful Nerdapalooza yet, Nerdapalooza Southeast is a branch of the nerd music festival centered in Central Florida. The show also showcases nerdcore hip-hop over the other "subgenres" of nerd music. On August 25, 2007 at Tim and Terry's in Gainesville, Florida, Nerdapalooza Southeast was the first Nerdapalooza show to be held, and it was a charity event. Organized by Rob Tobias.
Performers:
- funky49
- Bushido Stylus
- Emergency Pizza Party
- MagiTek
- MC Koga
- Ultralaser
- Rocket Propelled Geeks
- MC Wreckshin
- mCRT
- CSHC
- Random
- Sir-Up
- Select Start
- High-C
- Krondor Krew
- ZeaLouS1
[edit] Nerdapalooza Beta
Designed as a small show, the performers were Dungeon Master, Josiah the Messiah, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the World's Greatest Ghosts, Category, and Pixelh8. It was sponsored by KRFH and was held in Arcata, California at the Kate Buchanan Room at Humboldt State University on September 22, 2007. Organized by John T. Carter.
[edit] Nerdapalooza UK
Nerdapalooza UK is the United Kingdom equivalent of the American nerd music festival. Like it's United States counterpart, it is also planned to take place in 2008 twice. Once will be a trial run, in Bradford, UK at the Delius pub. The date for this event will be June 14, 2008 and it will consist of fewer artists than the main event. The venue for the main event is currently unconfirmed but will be somewhere in Leeds, UK. The date has been tentatively set for some time in October 2008, depending on interest, artists available and what venues are available.
It is being planned as a free event and all the artists will be performing for free. Although supported by Nerdapalooza US's creator, John T. Carter, the creator and organizer of Nerdapalooza UK is Stevie "MisterB" Brunton who also writes and records his own Nerdcore Rap music, and will be performing at the festival.
[edit] Nerdapalooza Southeast 2008
A continuation of the previous show, Nerdapalooza Southeast will once again be organized by Rob Tobias, but John T. Carter moved to Orlando, Florida to help organize the show. Scheduled for July 4th and 5th, this will also be a charity event benefiting Child's Play.
Scheduled Artists:
- Captain Dan and his Scurvy Crew
- chozo_ninpo
- CSHC
- DJ Snyder
- Dual Core
- Emergency Pizza Party
- Former Fat Boys
- funky49 and Redvoid
- Killer Robots!
- Krondor Krew
- LogicOne
- Magitek
- MC Frontalot
- MC Gigahertz
- MC Inadequate
- mCRT
- Myf
- Nora Ricci
- Pixelh8
- Random Beats
- Rocket Propelled Geeks
- Schaffer the Darklord
- Select Start
- Stoney
- Sudden Death
- Whoremoans
- Wordburglar
- ytcracker
- ZeaLouS1
- Zombies! Organize!!
