Day Of The Dead w/ Ford Theatre Reunion

Thu. Nov 1, 2018 at 6:00pm CDT
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Day Of The Dead w/ Ford Theatre Reunion

Day Of The Dead Celebration with Ford Theatre Reunion/ The Maw/ Meat Crush Ministry.  


Sugar Skull Face Painting by Cassie Kendzora w/ Turnaround Arts: Des Moines & Randy Garza w/ Crooked Street Studios


**** Buying your advance ticket INCLUDES sugar skull face painting****


The show will be $10 at the door and Face Painting will be $5 without an advance ticket!!!!


Doors @ 6pm - Show 7:30 (Get there at 6pm to get your face painted!)


Ford Theatre Reunion -  we will eat you.

Their new album, “We Have Only Left Earth,” is both haunting and a hella party. It’s the kind of album Oscar Wilde would raise from his grave to host a salon for, with songs that Mabel Stark coulda waltzed in white leather with her tigers to. If the business opportunity arose of running a swampy steamboat brothel only open on nights when the moon loomed large, dangerous, and dreamy, it’d soundtrack your halls. Meaning: a definite “buy-it.”

"When we finished our second full-length, “Legends and Landmarks,” we were sitting at a bar drinking. It was immediately, “What’s next? What’s the next step?

Our band has aged with us. We started and wrote songs that were more aligned with comic books, then songs with folklore, and then religion and discussions on that. Then it was, what do you do when you’ve covered all of that? I guess we came to the concept that you cover Hell or the fact that there isn’t one - the concept of the void." - Alex Ford


The Maw - "The Maw are an incredible live band, and I have to admit, I am proud to know that they are from the Des Moines area. I hate the label of "Jam Band"... I think it sends out visions of sandal-wearing hippies singing funky melodies in between structured guitar and drum solos... Not that there is anything wrong with that... It's just that I have been there, and that scene has worn thin with me. The Maw certainly do not apply to that form of music... But I think a Band that Jams might be a good fit. Half way through "Chora" the first song in their set, I am thinking to myself, Dem boys be smoking some funky stuff.

They actually caught me off guard... I wasn't expecting to be that entertained.

Who do they sound like? Well if you ask the band, they will tell you Miles Davis, Cannibal Corpse, Pink Floyd, and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, to name a few. That's quite a mix, and if you throw in what I heard, you'd have to add pockets of Supertramp, Jethro Tull, King Krimson, and Sundial. I couldn't help but wonder how a band could be influenced by so many, and yet defy categorization. To put it simply, the only band that sounds like The Maw... Is The Maw."

--Article courtesy of Troy Church of The Big Foot Diaries


Meat Crush Ministry - Des Moines' newest progressive Rock band.  Take 20 of your favorite bands and smash them all together with Jeff Banks, Jay Corigliano, and Kip Heaberlin.  Maybe the name says it all.













 
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Lefty's Live Music 2307 University Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50311