Starz Denver: Film Festival Music Lounge

Starz Denver Film Festival Music Lounge
Evening Performances

Every year that the Denver Starz Film Festival comes around you can count on
plenty to do. For the first time this year Starz has decided to inject more local
music into its events. This is great news for Denver, and the bands. The concept
was to provide a relaxed venue that would have not films, but music for the
locals, out-of-towners, and filmmakers to come listen enjoy and to see what this
music scene has to offer. The chosen bands are not only some of Denver's best,
but also great candidates for the big screen scores.

"At the inaugural Music Lounge, festival guests and filmgoers alike will have
up-close-and-personal access to Denver's exceptional indie music scene."
-SDFF

The music events with take place at 3 Kings Tavern located at 60 South Broadway on November 16th through the 19th. Music will be starting around 8pm until 11pm.

The featured band line up is as follows:

Sunday, November 16th:
Opening Band - The Still City
Headlining Band - Laylights

Monday, November 17th:
Opening Band - A. Tom Collins (Aaron Collins from Machine Gun Blues)
Headlining Band- Bad Luck City

Info:
Denver's Bad Luck City: Its self-titled debut is a thick, mucky quagmire of piss, bile, mean spirits and whiskey-spiked backwash. Like the Mekons dunking the Dirty Three in a septic tank full of blues, the group scrapes slithery violin and slide guitar against wheezing harmonica and piano until the friction starts to stink like a rotting corpse. Singer/bassist Dameon Merkl is the hate child of every great, drunken-fuckup-genius-crooner that was ever ejected from rock's scabby underbelly: Tom Waits, Michael Gira, Shane MacGowan, even Jim Morrison. As dark, dank and dirty as it is, Bad Luck City is worth breaking out the shovel for. -Jason Heller, Westword 11/04

Tuesday, November 18th:
Opening band - John Common
Headline band - Hearts Of Palm(acoustic)

Info:
"As the band overwhelms audiences with its colossal sound, the players also smother them with love, elation and smiles all around. It turns out all that brazen delight was well-founded. Hearts of Palm was voted the No. 1 band in Colorado, according to the 2008 Denver Post Underground Music Poll."
- Denver Post

Wednesday, November 19th:
Opening band - iuengliss
Opening band - Dust On The Breakers
Headline band - Ian Cooke

Info:
This lanky pushover makes art for your ears using his cello and voice as core instruments for songwriting. Components of his style are pulled from classical music, pop, folk, avant-garde, world music, and jazz. Cooke’s recordings also employ piano and percussion. The piano was his first instrument, which he began playing at age 5, and picked up the cello at age 11. In a live setting, he accompanies himself using a loop pedal to layer his cello. Paying special attention to innovative meter, chord progression, and melody, the Denver-based musician breeds a truly original and moving type of music. -Westword

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased online or at the door; the fee for SDFF 31 ticket-stub holders is $3. (Festival badge holders may enter free of charge.)

For more information: http://www.denverfilm.org/festival/events/