LA MCA Day - May 4

[DandyFop]

facebook event - https://www.facebook.com/events/1831...an_user_joined

An evening of great music and art to celebrate the life and legacy of Adam Yauch with good people and good vibes. Featuring live performances by What's That Noise and Pollywog Crew. This event is all-ages, open to the public, and FREE, though donations are welcome in any form (monetary or artistic) as we will be striving to raise money and awareness for the fight against cancer.

NOMAD will be creating an exclusive LA MCA DAY 2013 silk screen design, so bring a white shirt to have your very own shirt printed. Also bring a candle to take part in the midnight candlelight vigil. Be sure to arrive early as the evening will kick off at 9:00pm with a special opening ceremony led by MCA's school friend Aura Walker. As a blessing for the event, a tobacco offering will be made to a communal fire on behalf of the quest to cure cancer and striving for world peace. The rest of the evening will be filled with projected videos and images of MCA, as well as awesome live Beastie Boys music while we remember and reflect upon the life of an unparalleled artist and humanitarian.

at NOMAD
1993 Blake Ave, Los Angeles, California 90039

NAMASTE!

9pm: OPENING CEREMONY
10pm: WHAT'S THAT NOISE?!
11pm: POLLYWOG CREW
12am: CANDLELIGHT VIGIL

FREE / ALL-AGES
- May 4

[JoLovesMCA]

I need to turn on notifications or something because I am not on facebook that often and miss all of the news there now!

Anyway thanks for the post!!!

[DandyFop]

I'll be there tonight.

[Drusyc]

MCADAY NYC was a huge success, I'm interested to hear how this went though.

Chicago too, for that matter.

[DandyFop]

I got there a bit late, at like 10:30, but it was pretty awesome. The space, NOMAD art gallery, was a bit east of the Atwater Village area where the Bboys used to hang and record. Really cool space - outside was a fire pit and a screen showing old Bboys vides, AIFST, etc.

Bar was serving beer, wine, and 'pollywog juice'.

I came in for the end of What's That Noise's set - awesome two-man Beastie tribute band. One guy on drums and one on guitar. I can't remember all the songs they did but it was a good variety. Highlight of my night was dancing up on stage during 'Girls'. They ended their set with 'Fight For Your Right' and released white balloons into the audience that had the 'pi' symbol on them. Hahah that was pretty sweet.

Then was 'Pollywog Crew', a straight up 3 MCs and 1 DJ tribute band, and man they really do a good job replicating the Bboys voices. They covered a bunch of songs and everybody danced. Sorry my memory is shitty, can't remember what songs.

Around the place where some classic Bboys photos and some solo ones of MCA. A framed box with some prayer beads, I think given to MCA by the Dalai Lama? There were candles spelling out MCA, which we lit at the end of the night after the music. There was an artist doing a portrait of Yauch in the back which was cool.

All in all it was a pretty awesome night. Not quite as many people as I would hope, but probably around 100 or so? I hope it's an annual thing.

It was really fun...but also very bittersweet (obviously). Especially being in the front row, getting into the music, realizing that I'd never be doing that at an actual Bboys show again.

[beasties#1fan]

I got there a bit late, at like 10:30, but it was pretty awesome. The space, NOMAD art gallery, was a bit east of the Atwater Village area where the Bboys used to hang and record. Really cool space - outside was a fire pit and a screen showing old Bboys vides, AIFST, etc.

Bar was serving beer, wine, and 'pollywog juice'.

I came in for the end of What's That Noise's set - awesome two-man Beastie tribute band. One guy on drums and one on guitar. I can't remember all the songs they did but it was a good variety. Highlight of my night was dancing up on stage during 'Girls'. They ended their set with 'Fight For Your Right' and released white balloons into the audience that had the 'pi' symbol on them. Hahah that was pretty sweet.

Then was 'Pollywog Crew', a straight up 3 MCs and 1 DJ tribute band, and man they really do a good job replicating the Bboys voices. They covered a bunch of songs and everybody danced. Sorry my memory is shitty, can't remember what songs.

Around the place where some classic Bboys photos and some solo ones of MCA. A framed box with some prayer beads, I think given to MCA by the Dalai Lama? There were candles spelling out MCA, which we lit at the end of the night after the music. There was an artist doing a portrait of Yauch in the back which was cool.

All in all it was a pretty awesome night. Not quite as many people as I would hope, but probably around 100 or so? I hope it's an annual thing.

It was really fun...but also very bittersweet (obviously). Especially being in the front row, getting into the music, realizing that I'd never be doing that at an actual Bboys show again.

Thanks for the summary man. I'm surprised only about 100 showed up

[DandyFop]

Here's a vid of the festivities - https://vimeo.com/66104607