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Hear local bands at Fillmore Fest

By Stephanie De Pasquale | Friday, June 20, 2008 | () comments

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What: Fillmore Fest

Bands: Firesale, Atomix, Emplyfi, Negative Nation, Still Chyld, Buried Twice, Plagued by Saints, The Post Mortems, I Declare War, Six to the Chest, The Afterdarks, Ghosts of Vaudeville, August Zimbal, Ancients, Charday, Reelfoot Rift, Atreus (formerly Last to Awaken)

When: All-ages outdoor show 3-11 p.m Saturday, May 31; 21 years and older after-party 11 p.m. Saturday, May 31, to 2 a.m. Sunday, June 1

Where: Corner of W. 3rd and Fillmore streets, Davenport; Rockin’ Ham Bar and Grill, 1334 W. 2nd St., Davenport

How much: $7

Information: myspace.com/fillmorefest

Also on the Web: Find out more about these and other local bands by clicking here.

Promoting local music is the goal of the fourth Fillmore Fest, which will feature 16 local bands and one Seattle group whose drummer is a Quad-City native.

“We want to get a large crowd of people together in one place and support the local music scene,” said David Craig, the Fillmore Fest promoter. “It’s quite a rush for any band to play in front of 200, 300 people, and they have a really good time doing that.”

Craig wants to take the audience at Fillmore Fest back to the ’60s and ’70s, when, he said, going to see bands, well-known or not, was a part of the culture.

“People met friends there; people met husbands, wives there,” he said. “And it really sort of formed a community through the music.”

The 17 bands scheduled to perform at Fillmore Fest and the after-party at Rockin’ Ham Bar and Grill, play a mixture of hard rock, metal, rockabilly and alternative music.

As the festival continues, Craig would like to see it expand to include rap, hip-hop country and soft rock.

“I’d like to see a festival in which, as long as it’s local, area music, no matter what the genre is, everybody is playing together,” he said. “Because I know a lot of these bands play metal or they play all rock or they play rockabilly, but they have tastes in all different music genres.”

The Fillmore Fest will run from 3 to 11 p.m. on the corner of West 3rd and Fillmore streets, Davenport. The after-party begins at 11 p.m. at The Rockin’ Ham Bar and Grill, 1334 W. 2nd St., Davenport, and will run until 2 a.m., or closing time.

Tickets are $7 at the gate, and a ticket to Fillmore Fest also will get attendees 21 years and older into the after-party at Rockin’ Ham Bar and Grill.

Stephanie De Pasquale can be contacted at (563) 333-2639 or sdepasquale@qctimes.com. Comment on this story at qctimes.com.