WFPK Waterfront Wednesday July 25, 2012

Actor’s Theater presents Christmas in July at WFPK Waterfront Wednesday on  July 25th! Visit their Christmas themed booth on the vendor strip for a chance to win!

9:00pm – JD McPherson
7:30pm – Matt the Electrician
6:00pm – Audra Mae

All times are approximate. Gates open at 5pm. More info is available for parking and everything else you need to enjoy Waterfront Wednesday.

Get there early to buy your new WFPK t-shirts and a new collector’s poster from Mad Pixel Design. We’ll have a new one each month. Collect them all.

Thanks to this months sponsors!

Outside alcohol is prohibited. No coolers, no glass or pets allowed in the event area of the Big Four Lawn.  For more information, please call 814-6518.

JD McPherson (approx. 9:00pm)
As a visual artist, Broken Arrow, Okla., native JD McPherson is well versed in the process of working within clearly defined formal parameters, and he employs a similarly rigorous discipline with his music. On Signs & Signifiers (Rounder), McPherson’s seductively kickass debut album, produced by JD’s musical partner, Jimmy Sutton, this renaissance man/hepcat seamlessly meshes the old and the new, the primal and the sophisticated, on a work that will satisfy traditional American rock ’n’ roll and R&B purists while also exhibiting McPherson’s rarefied gift for mixing and matching disparate stylistic shapes and textures.

Check out the official website

Matt the Electrician (approx. 7:30pm)
Once upon a time, there was a young man named Matt Sever. He lived in Austin, TX, and he worked as a journeyman electrician. Every morning, when it was still dark outside, he would go to work, and wire houses all day long in the blistering Texas heat. When he would come home, again, it was dark outside. And then, sometimes, with no time to shower or change his clothes, he would go straight to the bars and nightclubs of Austin to play his songs for whomever would listen. And he would apologize for his appearance, and explain to the audience that he was an electrician, and he found a certain nobility in this, even if no one wanted to sit too close to the stage. So they called him Matt The Electrician, and he did not mind this, for he was proud of himself, for there is no shame in a hard days work.

Read more bio at the official website

Audra Mae  (approx. 6pm)
Since her acclaimed SideOneDummy Records debut, The Happiest Lamb, in May 2010, Oklahoma-born singer/songwriter Audra Mae has undergone quite a transformation. Her band, The Almighty Sound, including stand-up bassist Joe Ginsberg, guitarist Jarrad Kritzstein, pianist Frank Pedano and drummer Kiel Feher, who have played live with her in a series of residencies around the L.A. area, came together in early 2011 as a close group of friends with no official name. Not even a year later, they completed a new record with a new name, a new look and an Almighty Sound.

Read more at the the official website

ABOUT WATERFRONT WEDNESDAY
Waterfront Wednesday is presented by 91.9 WFPK and Waterfront Development Corporation with support from Friends of the Waterfront and is FREE to all. This seasons sponsors include  Goose Island Brewing Company,   Commonwealth Bank and Jack Daniels.

WFPK Waterfront Wednesday is held on the  Big Four Lawn, located just west of the Big Four Bridge. Gates open at 5pm. A map is available for parking locations.  Start times are approximate. Thanks to DC Productions.

Click here for the 2012 schedule…more bands to be announced!

Outside alcohol is prohibited.  No coolers, no glass or pets allowed in the event area of the Big Four Lawn and the adjacent park areas.  For more information, please call 814-6518.