RIVER FOREST, IL, November 18, 2008
/24-7PressRelease/ -- An event boasting such a diverse bill piled into such a historic building couldn't go unrecorded. Wiggle Puppy Productions, the enigmatic filmmakers behind popular High Definition concert films of icons like Phish, The Flaming Lips, Umphrey's McGee, Matisyahu, and The Secret Machines, have offered their services to ensure that it won't.
While David Grisman, The Avett Brothers, The Giving Tree Band, Ha Ha Tonka, Lil 'Ed and the rest of the artists lead the foot-stomping on-stage at the inaugural Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival (www.cbgbfestival.com), Director Mark Krieglstein and Producer Sara Yule will coordinate the filming of 18 sets and 24 hours of music. The dynamic duo will use their recordings to create a live album, feature concert documentary, and individual edits of selected songs from Chicago's historic winter music festival that will be available for digital download in return for a small donation to the Saving Tiny Heats Society's (www.savingtinyhearts.org) research efforts. Please check back with the CBGB Festival or Wiggle Puppy for more information on purchasing these downloads to benefit charity.
In addition to helping a righteous and homegrown cause, the production will mark the first performance to be filmed inside the historic Chicago City Landmark.
Upon completion of the feature length documentary, Wiggle Puppy's cinematic tribute to this needed addition to the city's winter concert calendar will be available on cbgbfestival.com and leading download destinations. All profits from the sales of these HD video downloads will go to support the Saving Tiny Hearts Society's mission to find cures for America's #1 birth defect.
ABOUT WIGGLE PUPPY PRODUCTIONS:
WPP has cut out a small niche making films and videos working with an eclectic group of personalities, organizations, artists, and bands including but definitely not limited to: Phish, Barack Obama, The Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals, The Secret Machines, Dios (Malos), Ingrid Michaelson, The Benevento Russo Duo, Dead Meadow, Preface 73, Califone, Dan Wilson, Meiko, Natalie Walker, Bustle in Your Hedgerow, Grace Potter, Addison Groove Project, The North Mississippi AllStars, Taj Mahal, Los Lobos, moe, Matisyahu, The Mink Lungs, Burning Spear, Jennifer Hartswick Band, Big Frog ("Japan's only Jamband"), Chris Berry & Panjea, The Violent Femmes, Raq, Joshua Radin, Panavision, The Hotel Caf Tour 2008, The Art of Being, etc. as well as local Chicago talents such as: Umphrey's McGee, Ultra Sonic Edukators, Gio, The Giving Tree Band, Future Rock, Van Ghost, Verbal Kent, Todd Carey, Dearborn, Andreas Kapsalis Trio, Oucho Sparks, Treologic, Wicker Park Festival, Silver Wrapper Presents, Triple Dat Mas, Sparkfactor, amongst many others. In addition to their music related efforts, WPP keeps busy working with some of Chicago's top ad agencies, as well as doing commercial, corporate, and web related video and multi-media projects.
For More Information About Wiggle Puppy Productions Please Contact info@wigglepuppy.com or visit http://www.wigglepuppy.com
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
On November 22nd, 2008, the Congress Theater will host the inaugural Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival (http://www.cbgbfestival.com). While rooted in the foot-stomping influences of bluegrass and blues, the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival will transport the concertgoer through the genre-defying evolution of music today. The one-day event will serve as a tribute to two schools of music that continue to shape and inspire contemporary rock, jamband, funk, folk, roots, Americana, and indie cultures, while allowing festivalgoers to save a heart. A portion of each $31 ticket will be donated to the Saving Tiny Hearts Society (http://www.savingtinyhearts.org/), a non-profit organization that raises money for America's #1 birth defect, congenital heart defects (CHD).
# # #
- avett, bluegrass, blues, brothers, chicago, congress, david, documentary, flaming, grisman, lips, mcgee, pbs, phish, puppy, rockumentary, theater, tonka, umphrey's, wiggle
Other Press Release Headlines:
