Solaris Music Festival June 27-29, 2008 | Grand Forks BC

[JGirl]

Boundary Elements Productions Presents:
SOLARIS MUSIC FESTIVAL
June 27 & 28, 2008
In collaboration with Flydjs, Deleterious Productions, & INDUST:REALIZE.



Solaris Music Festival is a two-day outdoor camping experience that celebrates life & promotes peace through the common element of electrified sound and spoken word. The festival is in its second year!! Solaris is taking place on Friday June 27 to Sunday June 29, 2008 at a Historic Doukabor Village in Grand Forks BC. Boundary Elements Productions is a dedicated team of individuals with a passion for music and art who strive to create an environment that is fun, engaging, and safe.


Saturday Hip Hop Showcase

Saturday's all-day Hip Hop Showcase runs from 12PM to 9PM and offers live performances with talent from across BC and as far as California.

The showcase also offers its patrons free interactive workshops with MCees, DJs, Break Dancers, & live Graffiti-style Artists. Flydjs (Fly News!) - Kelowna's local all-girl DJ collective - is hosting a hands-on DJ lesson on Saturday in the early afternoon, an opportunity for curious beginner ladies & gents to learn about the turntable craft right on site at the Area49 Festival stage. Vancouver’s Timothy Wisdom (Timothy Wisdom) offers a DJ workshop focusing on turntablist & scratch tricks for the advanced DJ. Guest performers taking to the Pyramid stage in the early evening include:

ZION-I California (ZION I CREW)
TIMOTHY WISDOM "The Turntable Wizard" Vancouver
KIA KADIRI (MySpace.com - Kia Kadiri - - Hip Hop / Reggae / Soul - www.myspace.com/kiakadiri)


Solaris at Nighttime

Friday night and Saturday night promise to be a visual, auditory, & spiritual journey with performance, dance, live art installations, DJs, & vocalists at two stages; Area49 & the Pyramid. Dance under the stars to the electrified sounds and infectious rhythms of Break Beats, Drum & Bass, Mash-ups, Reggae, Funk, House, Electro, and more with guests:

DIG DUG Seattle (djdig-dug.com)
WOODNSOO Vancouver (WoodnSoo-ComingSoon)
APPLICATION | BRYX | DION REGO | JAY WIKID | STICKY BUDS

Alongside BC favorites:

AudioHazard | Breakfluid | BreO | Deleterious | DJ G3N3R4L | EPID3MIK-7 | Excision | Express | Eyedawg | Grandpa Phunk | Heidrogen | Isinipit | JGirl & Manousos | Jonny Dubbs
Lions of Solemn City | Lola | Lyssa | Man In Havana | Mishadow | Nog’n’Chilli | Spinderella | Socool | Terrorista | Tim-C

Kelowna's Kinshira Fire Spinning Crew will perform intermittently throughout the festival. Interactive Visual Experience by INDUST:REALIZE decorating the Pyramid stage with exhilarating projections & visual displays. Come for the music, the art, & the culture.


== ADMISSION ==
$50 - Weekend Pass (advance)
$60 - Weekend pass (gate price)
(18+ w/photo ID)


$20 - Youth (Hip Hop Showcase only)
$30 - Adult (Hip Hop Showcase only)
(Under 16 to be accompanied by an adult)


Solaris Music Festival ~ June 27, 28, 29 ~ 2008




Tickets now available!

ONLINE

Ticket Stores:


Vancouver : Beat Street Records
439 West Hastings St. @
(604) 683-3344
BEATSTREET.CA » New Releases

Grand Forks : Thimble Mountain Books
358 Market Avenue @
(250) 442-3344

Kelowna : Hemp City
526A Bernard Avenue @
(250) 868-3088

Nelson : Ripping Giraffe Enterprises Ltd
3-502 Baker St. @
(250) 354-4843

nice work! <3

[dj_soo]

looking forward to this one...

[socool]

Birthday madness, whuut?!

[G3N3R4L]

solaris was SO effing fun last year


if you can take the time off for a great camping festival.. this is the one to hit!

[JGirl]

Birfday - rilly????


goodtimes!

[JGirl]

Tons of updates and the sked!!

facebook entry---> http://www.facebook.com/events.php?r...eid=9727242887

[Pennywise]

Zion-I!

[manousos]

Anyone in the Okanagan....look out for a feature story on Solaris in the Daily Courier's Event insert - link to be posted soon

[JGirl]

The Solaris guide is ready!

Solaris Music Festival 2008 Survival Guide and Schedule


Dude!

[JGirl]

Press!



http://event.ok.bc.ca/stories.php?id=117182

[EPID3MIK-7]

Totally looking forward to this weekend!!!

[dj_soo]

anyone else going to this? Should be fun!

[G3N3R4L]

LOVING the weather network projected 14 day trend

Grand Forks, British Columbia - Weather Forecast - The Weather Network

bam!

[EPID3MIK-7]

The boys from the DeviantBreaks camp will be up there all weekend. '

I finally get to spend some time in the sun.

[JGirl]

Ask about my sunburn. LOL!! Holey!

Saturday afternoon saw 41 degrees celcius, not a cloud in the sky. Sunday was similar. Shit was it hot!


BIG THANKS to our Vancouver friends: The Deviant Crew, Wood'n'Soo, Socool, Kia Kadiri, Timmy Wizzy, JayWik, Heidrogen, & Jonny Dubbs for making the long trip to Grand Forks and rocking proper!


Hilites:
Graf Expo, Kia & Zion-I's show, 3-way turntable jam with Bryx, Timothy Wisdom, & Stickybuds, "raving" with Dig Dug lol, Mr. Fresh's Thai Wraps, shade, & sunrise. :)

AND --> Beer cans that fell out of a truck that crashed into a frosty cold river about 10 kms north of the Solaris site.




It supplied Solaris LOL


Lowlites:
The long walk back and forth to my damn tent. Blisters were worth it. :)



See you in 2009.

[ty:rone]

Originally Posted by JGirl

AND --> Beer cans that fell out of a truck that crashed into a frosty cold river about 10 kms north of the Solaris site.

so u guys bought beer with a fake credit card? sweeeeeet!

[socool]

What a great weekend : ) Yay Solaris!

[JGirl]

Originally Posted by ty:rone

so u guys bought beer with a fake credit card? sweeeeeet!

no.


~blink~


We grabbed beer cans that fell out of a truck that crashed into a frosty cold river about 10 kms north of the Solaris site.

[G3N3R4L]

beers from the heavens!!

incredible weekend! lived up to every ounce of hype

can not wait till next year!