| 3S Fest Features Fountains of Wayne |
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3S Artspace, in partnership with Prescott Park Arts Festival, The Wire, and 92.5 the River present 3S Fest, an outdoor concert at Prescott Park, in Portsmouth, NH on Saturday, August 27. The concert will feature Fountains of Wayne, Mike Doughty, Soft Swells and Tan Vampires. This all ages show begins at 5:30pm, gates open at 3:30. (Continued below)
“Not only was 3S Fest a great opportunity to partner with three great groups, but this concert is going to be a monumental send-off to summer,” says 3S Artspace Programming Committee member AJ Tobey. “All four bands’ songs have great energy, irresistible hooks, and choruses you’ll be singing along with after the first round”
Prescott Park Arts Festival Director Ben Anderson adds, “We’re always looking to make strategic partnerships, which will strengthen our community and diversify our audience, so it’s fun to be working with 3S to bring a different genre of talent to our stage and hopefully introduce a whole lot of new people to PPAF.”
Artist Bios:
Fountains of
Their long-awaited new album, Sky Full of Holes, will be released in the
Mike Doughty: Mike Doughty is a singer/songwriter, noted for smash hits "27 Jennifers" and "Looking at the World From the Bottom of a Well." He led the band Soul Coughing in the 90s, wrote an Aquaman story for DC comics, photographed naked tattooed girls for SuicideGirls.com, published Slanky, a book of poetry, wrote one-act plays for the 24 Hour Company, was a pseudonymous gossip columnist at the New York Press, and used to drive an ice cream truck. He is acclaimed for his lyrics, once described by the New Yorker as having, "...more puzzling allusions than the Cantos of Ezra Pound." His forthcoming album, “Yes And Also Yes,” will be released this September. www.mikedoughty.com
Soft Swells: Soft Swells is the new bi-coastal collaboration of newly relocated LA transplant Tim Williams and NYC's Matt Welsh, formerly of the Wilco-approved alt-country band Phonograph. Named for and inspired by Williams' beachy new surroundings, the band is an extension of his gifted songwriting, which he previously showcased on his three well-received albums on Dovecote Records. Soft Swells are the inaugural signing of Modern Outsider Records. Their full-length debut album will be released this fall. www.softswells.com
Tan Vampires: What began in 2006 as Dover, New Hampshire-based Jake Merhmann's solo project has blossomed into a full band with a stellar new album, “For Physical Fitness.” The Tan Vampires flesh out Merhmann's shrugging emotional skeleton with seasick drums and underwater electric-piano flourishes that give that wavering vibrato of his some well-worn Muscle Shoals tread to roll with. The Tan Vampires were voted “Best Alternative Act” at the 2009 Spotlight on the Arts Awards, and represented New Hampshire in the Boston Phoenix’s “Best New Music: 50 Bands, 50 States” in 2010. www.tanvampires.com
About 3S Artspaces’s Open Space series
3S Artspace’s Open Space series is an ongoing series of events presented in various locations around the Seacoast region in partnership with different regional arts groups. The series, which will continue until 3S takes occupancy in the fall of 2012 at the
About 3S Artspace
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