Spring Jam 2009

= SPRING JAM 2009 =

Spring Jam is Hampshire College's annual spring music festival, Accepted Student's Day, and general spring blowout. This year's Spring Jam takes place on Saturday, April 18, and features over 13 hours of music, several rides, junk food / good food, cheap alcohol, and a host of other activities to keep Hampshire's accepted and current students more than occupied. KRS-ONE is 2009's music headliner. Spring Jam is funded by FiCom through the Student Activities Fee and planned by COCA. It should be a blast!

This event is free and open to the public. All listed event times are approximate and subject to change.

= MUSIC =

12:00-12:45 shira e.
TAKEN FROM MYSPACE: shira e. is a musician, poet, and artivist who is daily experimenting with beauty. she has been a part of many delightful musical projects. these local legendary projects include: symphonic folks troupe THE TINY TORNADOES, 60s soul girl group THE POPSICLES, 13-piece improvisational choir and string section from the stars THE BRIGHT HEARTS BRIGADE, acoustic pop-duo with brother shai e. THE SANDCASTLES.

12:45-1:30 The Stimulus Package
First-year rock/pop ensemble.

1:30-2:15 Elephantom
Experimental / Alternative / Progressive rock from Medfield, MA. Myspace.

2:15-3:15 Blind Philly Smith &amp; The House Rockers
Blind Philly Smith @ Hampshire Halloween 2008

Blind Philly Smith and The House Rockers is a blues band that also plays rock music in whatever fashion they feel like. Their favorite color is black.

3:15-4:15 Andrew 'Squid' Frank &amp; Friends
Folky.

4:15-5:15 Scotty &amp; The Pornos
Scotty &amp; The Pornos is a fun rock/funk/pop band from New Haven CT. Their goal is to make sexy but equally creative music for all to enjoy. Their favorite color is pink.

5:30-6:30 Hadoken
Hadoken is an instrumental ambient rock band (with violin) from Amherst. Their favorite color is black.

6:30-7:45 Bubonic Souls
Bubonic Souls on Step It Up Day

Hampshire Legends.

7:45-9:00 Earatik Statik
Earatik Statik is a Chicago based underground Hip Hop group that has been around since 1999. The group consists of two MCs, Sef Rich and Carlos Polk. E.S. has recorded with some of the top names in Hip Hop history, including Sadat X, Diamond D, K-Solo, Ed O.G., Sean Price, Pacewon of the The Outsidaz and Kool Keith.

9:15-11:00: KRS-ONE
After Dead Prez's success as the headliner of last year's Spring Jam (Prez was at UMass for the 2008 Triggering Change Conference but couldn't play there), this year COCA and the Hip-Hop Collective booked KRS-One, perhaps one of the most universally respected seminal voices in all of East Coast hip-hop, to headline the 2009 Hampshire College Spring Jam.

Born Lawrence Parker in 1965, KRS (or Kris) is a former Hare Krishna, a strict vegetarian, and the founder of the "Stop the Violence" movement in 1988. He ran away from home at 13, got his GED at 17, and became a national voice of the South Bronx around the same time many of us were born.

For more info and links about KRS-ONE, click his name.

11:00-12:00 Sarah Barr
DJ Sarah FU**IN’ BARR first made waves at Smith College when she DJ’d a 2007 house party topless. Specializing in Disco/Electro/Bangers, DJ SARAH FU**IN’ BARR will mix her way into your hearts and keep you dancing all night long. Her favorite color is ultramarine.

12:00-1:00AM Shuttle
Shuttle grew out of the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. The classical training in drums, trumpet, and saxophone trained his ear, but the industrial sounds of the streets refined his sound. The Shuttle sound is boundless, genreless, and in constant flux – a sonic chameleon, not changing with the times, but stretching the musical landscape to its inevitable evolution. His favorite color is black.

= TASTE and SMELL =


 * All Day on the Library Lawn - Cotton Candy, Sno Cones, Nachos, etc.
 * 1:00-5:00: Beer Garden by R&amp;P Liquors (21+)
 * 1:30-3:00: Community Council make Grilled Cheese!
 * 5:00-7:00: Local Foods Dinner (Local Beef, Produce, &amp; Ice Cream)

= ACTIVITIES =


 * All Day - Rides &amp; More! The Defender Dome (obstacle course), Slip &amp; Slide, Dunk Tank
 * 12:00-5:00 - USELESS &amp; SEARCH: Trash Activies &amp; Awareness behind the library.
 * 1:00PM - Belly Dance Collective
 * 1:00-3:00: Tag Sale: A Division III Interactive Art Project - in between the library and the RCC..
 * 1:00-8:00: Solidarity Mural unveiling &amp; celebration (Cultural Center)
 * 2:00-3:00: Dodgeball (Basketball courts)
 * 3:00-3:30: Dunk the President
 * 3:00-5:00: Alotta Hoopla Hoop: Hula-Hoop dancing.

= NON-HAMPSHIRE EVENTS =


 * Montague Brain Exchange #16: From the Amherst, Massachusetts, area, take Route 63 North; turn left on Lake Pleasant Road; go across railroad tracks and take right on Broadway; go up hill and bear left on Montague Avenue; go to end of Montague Avenue and park in the TNSA lot or the Post Office lot.