MVMF Publicity Contact

Doug Fuchs
Flying Ink Media
(541) 461-4448
douglasf@flyinginkmedia.com


Radiance Dome
Light At Play

Publicity Contacts & Images

Kenyon Acton

Radiance Dome color photo


Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
(Saturday night)

Publicity Contacts & Images

Calabro Music Media
Kevin Calabro

KDTU web site

KDTU Color photo 1
KDTU Color photo 2


Phutureprimitive
(Saturday night)

Publicity Contacts & Images

Autonomous Music
Chris Richards

Phutureprimitive web site

Phutureprimitive color photo 1
Phutureprimitive color photo 2


Nahko and
Medicine for the People
(Saturday night)

Publicity Contacts & Images

Jim Merlis
Big Hassle Media

Nahko and MftP photo 1
Nahko and MftP photo 2

Nahko and MftP web site


Pimps of Joytime
(Friday night)

Publicity Contacts & Images

Matthew Thompson
Silverback Music
(310) 559 8990

Pimps of Joytime photo

Pimps of Joytime web site


Govinda
(Friday night)

Publicity Contacts & Images

Jamie Minotti and
Tim Gould
The Madero Group
619-358-9939

Govinda photo 1
Govinda photo 2

Govinda web site


Shook Twins
(Sunday night)

Publicity Contacts & Images

Jesse Cutler
JP Cutler Media 415.826.9516

Shook Twins photo

Shook Twins web site


Fruition
(Sunday night)

Publicity Contacts & Images

Josh Nicotra
Kat Bataillon

Fruition photo 1
Fruition photo 2

Fruition web site






Mohawk Valley Music Festival
August 8, 9, 10
Bob Russell's Ranch
Marcola, Ore.
Click here for Google Maps

Click here for JPEG copy of 2014 MVMF Poster


Press Releases

2014 Mohawk Valley Music Festival Announce One Sheet

2014 MVMF Radiance Dome One Sheet

2014 MVMF with Kids Stage and Main Stage Updates

The Mohawk Valley Music Festival will feature a 3-day family friendly multi-media jubilee with live music, a kid’s stage, the multi-media Radiance Dome, free camping within a variety of shaded locations close to water, a beer garden, and food booths from Friday, August 8 through Sunday, August 10, 2014 at Bob Russell's Ranch, located 25 minutes east of Springfield at 39638 Mohawk Loop Road, in Marcola, Ore.

Advance tickets for all three days including camping are available now at TicketsWest within a tiered pricing system in which advance tickets currently cost $100, with monthly increases scheduled up to the week of the festival.  Folks 12 years of age or younger will be admitted for free when entering the festival with a ticketed family member or friend.

Tickets for all three days will also be available at the venue when the gates open on Friday, August 8, 2014 at 8 a.m. for $125.  Family camping options and locations are available.   Camping is included with all tickets.  The festival gates will open to the public beginning Friday, August 8, 2014 at 8 a.m.  Parking will cost $10 for most vehicles and $30 for large vehicles.

For more information about the Mohawk Valley Music Festival, including updated line-up, camping, family friendly atmosphere and ticketing, please visit http://www.mohawkvalleymusicfestival.com.

Live Music will feature Karl Denson's Tiny Universe; Nahko & Medicine for the People; Phutureprimitive; Pimps of Joytime; Govinda; Medium Troy & the Bohemian Dub Orchestra; Fruition and the Shook Twins.

Additional artists will feature Head for the Hills; Polyrhythmics; Quick & Easy Boys; Solseed; Love Bomb GoGo Marching Band; Marv Ellis and We Tribe; Blue Lotus; Luke Mandala; All Uke'n Handle; DJ Addictive; Dan Craig; DJ Stacy; Circus Luminescence; Beatcrunchers; and Chibuku with Paul Prince.

A beer garden hosted by Hop Valley Brewery will open each day at noon.   A variety of delicious cuisine will be available at the following food booths: Family Dogs; Get Fried Rice; T.R.E.E. (The Reason Everyone Eats); Tradewinds Café;  Cafe Mam; Sammitch; and Blazin' Pies.

Available during the entire festival day and night, the multi-media geodesic Radiance Dome, which debuted to great acclaim during the 2013 Burning Man Festival, will feature glowing panels designed to inspire creative expression by melding art and interactive technology.

Winner of the 2013 LuciteLux© Just Imagine Award, the Radiance Dome during the day will project geodesic structures and transparent panels that will resonate with nature in their elegant geometry, with the triangular panels and steel creating intriguing shadows and perspectives, highlighted by colorful discs illuminated by the sun. At night, the faces of the domes vividly glow with swirling mosaics of colors in response to their surroundings. A DJ will add sound to the play of light, creating a magical experience.

Designed by Light at Play, the Radiance Dome multi-media environment composes layers of light, perspective, and animation in a 40-foot interactive and immersive geodesic environment that responds to participants as they dance to the music.

“The Radiance dome is an illuminated structure controlled by an interactive software system designed to facilitate a closer relationship between music and movement,” said Kenyon Acton, Light at Play co-owner.

“The dome consists of 200 light trans missive acrylic panels, each individually controlled and illuminated by LEDs. Each panel contributes to a coordinated light show directed by the music, the movement of those within the dome, or through interacting with an iPad. It was conceived of and created for the 2013 Burning Man festival to provide a space for tango and blues dancing,” Acton said.

For more information about the Radiance Dome, please click on the YouTube documentary prepared and posted by Light at Play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLOmLlShpVk.

The Mohawk Valley Music Festival Kid’s Stage will juggling with Circus Luminescence; wizard school with Wizard of Maz; banjo with Danielle Lee; bubbles with the Bubble Guy; creative workshops making masks; an early soccer clinic Saturday and Sunday; and a parade featuring the Love Bomb Go Go Marching band that will start at the Kids' Stage and will end at the main stage beginning at noon on Saturday.

About Bob’s Ranch
Set on a beautiful 150 acre private property in Marcola, Ore., Bob’s Ranch has also hosted the Northwest World Reggae Festival for the last seven years.  Giant fir trees line the property and surround the camping areas and festival grounds providing an abundance of camping options and comfortable shade.  One can splash in the shallow creek during the heat of the day and take a walk down the shady 1,000 foot trail adorned with visual art to our Mohawk Valley Music Festival Gypsy Stage.  A family friendly event, the Mohawk Valley Music Festival will also feature a Kid’s Stage during the day with a parade and family camping options and locations.

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

For nearly three decades, Karl Denson has been electrifying adoring audiences around the world. He was a member of Lenny Kravitz’sband and garnered critical acclaim as one of the founders of boogaloo revivalists The Greyboy Allstars.

More recently, Denson joined Slightly Stoopid, while his primary creative vehicle, Tiny Universe, has become a major festival and club attraction.

Karl Denson has led a storied career as a multi-faceted recording and performing artist who first came to prominence as a member of Lenny Kravitz’ band debuting on his first release, Let Love Rule, and staying on for the next five years.

While developing a following overseas, he joined Fred Wesley’s band, touring and recording with him on multiple releases. This led to five straight ahead jazz albums by Denson on Minor Music, the last of which was released to rave reviews and featured Karl in a trio setting with Miles Davis alumni Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette.

In 1993, Denson joined DJ Greyboy in creating Greyboy Records and released the legendary acid jazz staple, Freestylin. Out of that collaboration, Denson formed The Greyboy Allstars, which became world renowned as the ultimate groove band, spreading their “West Coast Boogaloo” style worldwide.

Denson took this formula to the next level by putting more emphasis on vocals and adding some funk, R&B and hip hop elements. It turned out to be a winning combination, which set KDTU on the top of the heap in the touring world from 1999 through 2005, selling over 250,000 records to date.

Nahko and Medicine for the People

Oregon-native Nahko, born a mix of Apache, Puerto Rican, and Filipino cultures and adopted into an American family, suffered an identity crisis from an early age. But the unifying power of music entered his life as a healing remedy, when he took up the piano at age six.

Armed with his newfound talent, he set out to bridge the cultural gaps dividing his own psyche and began producing a public, musical journal of his journey toward personal, spiritual, and communal healing.

Whether solo or with the dynamic group of musical troubadours known as “Medicine for the People,” Nahko delivers a soulful dose of curative vibrations that moves audiences to dance, laugh, and cry.

His humor disarms, and his lyrical stories open listeners to the power of “Real Talk Music”—songs that reveal an honesty and depth so raw, it inspires an internal revival that echoes out into the world. Sometimes exuberant, sometimes savage, but always transformational, Nahko makes the movement move.