The Traveling Bonfires Make Peace with Asheville Aliens

The Traveling Bonfires (Re)Launches The Indie with an Alien Costume / Goa Trance DJ Show at Emerald Lounge on June 8

 

THE Traveling Bonfires (re)launches its partner project, The Indie newsmagazine, with a trance Goa DJ show with aliens costume motif, billed “The Traveling Bonfires Make Peace with Asheville Aliens,” at Emerald Lounge on June 8, Saturday. Show starts at 9:30 PM with a $5 cover charge.

     Proceeds go to the Traveling Bonfires' community program, including the ongoing annual “Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park” concert series in downtown Asheville. The American Cancer Society is also a beneficiary of the event.

     Featured in the event are DJs Kri and Sensoma of the local Goa trance music community, Touch Samadhi. DJ Michael Heinerth opens the show.

     Goa trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, which was regarded as a hippie capital in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The sound which commands a huge following in Asheville, incorporates elements of industrial music and EBM (electronic body music) with spirituality. Touch Samadhi DJs are perennial performers in Traveling Bonfires' centerpiece program, “Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park,” since its birth in the mountains in 2004.

     The Indie is a monthly independent and alternative publication. The tabloid-style newsmagazine is circulated mainly in downtown Asheville—and in neighboring Western NC towns of Weaverville, Hendersonville, Black Mountain, Candler and Waynesville.

     The show also serves as after-party of a “Bonfires for Peace” event that happens that same day at the park, which features local acts The Ones, Lyric, Roberto Hess, and visiting rap artist SheemOne TheMc from Columbia SC.

     Attendees to the Emerald Lounge show are enjoined to come on alien/extra terrestrial outfits; prizes are given out to patrons courtesy of local businesses that support the Traveling Bonfires.

     “Asheville loves this kind of fun,” says Marta Osborne, TBonfires supervising producer. “And when this city's beautiful people are costumed colorfully, dancing and having fun—we forget arguments and bickerings. We just become one.”

     Founded by journalist-editor Pasckie Pascua in Manila during the Philippines' turbulent 80s, the Traveling Bonfires has made Asheville its home since moving here from New York City in 2002. It had a two-year sojourn in Los Angeles from 2007 to 2009, “but Asheville is our home barrio, this is where we belong,” explains Pascua.

     Local businesses that donated gift certificates, among other generous gifts, are: Bruisin' Ales, Fired Up! Loved by the Buffalo/The Indie, Malaprop's, MariJo Moore, Moe's, Mellow Mushroom, Neo Cantina, Old Europe, ScreenDoor, SOLA (Asheville's Therapeutic Salt Cave), Westville Pub, and The Blotter, a publication based in Durham NC.

     The Traveling Bonfires' events enjoyed the support of a number of local Asheville businesses, organizations, and individuals. Projects have benefited non-profit organizations that work with at-risk youths, families of the disappeared, orphans, and disaster victims. For more info, http://ashevilletravelingbonfires.blogspot.com/ or call Marta Osborne at 828 280 1555 or email pasckie@yahoo.com

MAY 18, 2013. DJ LADY LAINE plays 70s music at "Peace Groovin': Saturday Night Fever" dance/retro-costume/disco fundraiser at Westville Pub. Proceeds go to “Bonfires for Peace” community events and the American Cancer Society.  https://www.facebook.com/events/103749946495239/?fref=ts

JUNE 8, 2013. BONFIRES for PEACE at PRITCHARD PARK, Event 3 (Sat, 5 to 9 PM): The Ones, Lyric, SheemOne TheMc, Roberto Hess. https://www.facebook.com/events/190976427722539/

The Traveling Bonfires (Re)Launches The Indie with Twin Event on June 8

THE Traveling Bonfires presents a twin event on June 8 as part of its continuing series of fundraisers that promote “community connectedness through cultural diversity” and to (re)launch its partner project, The Indie publication.
     From 5 PM to 9, the organization holds the 3^rd event in its continuing “Bonfires for Peace” concert series at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville—featuring local hip hop act The Ones and Lyric, a popular blues-folk act fronted by singer-guitarist Leeda Jones. Also performing are spoken word artist Roberto Hess and visiting rap performer SheemOne TheMC from Columbia SC.

     An after-party that also serves as The Indie's launch event, dubbed “The Traveling Bonfires Make Peace with Asheville Aliens,” highlighting trance Goa DJs Kri and Sensoma of Touch Samadhi happens starting 9:30 all the way past midnight at the Emerald Lounge (112 Lexington Avenue), also in downtown. DJ Michael Heinerth opens the show.

     Touch Samadhi is a perennial act in the organization's “Bonfires for Peace” events since 2004. The show is also a costume ball that accentuates Asheville's diversity. Attendees are enjoined to come on alien/extra terrestrial outfits; prizes are given out to patrons courtesy of local businesses that support the Traveling Bonfires. A cover of $5 goes to TBonfires' community projects, as well as the American Cancer Society.

     “Bonfires for Peace” had its birthing in Asheville in 2003; the program also had parallel events in Baltimore, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Manila and Baguio City in the Philippines through the years. This year's series started last April 13. Other dates and performers: July 13, Peace Jones, with Liam Christopher McKay, and Keith Kimmel. Emcee is Jadwiga McKay; and August 11, Kri and Touch Samadhi.

     “Asheville loves this kind of fun,” says Marta Osborne, TBonfires supervising producer. “And when this city's beautiful people are costumed colorfully, dancing and having fun—we forget arguments and bickerings. We just become one.”

     Founded by journalist-editor Pasckie Pascua in Manila during the Philippines' turbulent 80s, the Traveling Bonfires has made Asheville its home since moving here from New York City in 2002. It had a two-year sojourn in Los Angeles from 2007 to 2009, “but Asheville is our home barrio, this is where we belong,” explains Pascua.

     Local businesses that donated gift certificates, among other generous gifts, are: Bruisin' Ales, Fired Up! Loved by the Buffalo/The Indie, Malaprop's, MariJo Moore, Moe's, Mellow Mushroom, Neo Cantina, Old Europe, ScreenDoor, SOLA (Asheville's Therapeutic Salt Cave), Westville Pub, and The Blotter, a publication based in Durham NC.

     The Traveling Bonfires' events enjoyed the support of a number of local Asheville businesses, organizations, and individuals. Projects have benefited non-profit organizations that work with at-risk youths, families of the disappeared, orphans, and disaster victims. 

Downtown Getdown

The Traveling Bonfires and Asheville's Parks & Recreation Department present

Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park
music, community, peace... year 11, event 2

FREE

Pritchard Park, downtown Asheville NC

MAY 12, 2013. Sunday. Show starts 5 PM

Featuring Psychonauts of Touch Samadhi
Kri
Sensoma

An Entire Spring and Summer of Traveling Bonfires Fun

The Traveling Bonfires presents “PEACE GROOVIN': Saturday Night Fever!” as part of its continuing series of fundraiser shows and events that promote “community connectedness through cultural diversity” on May 18, Saturday, at Westville Pub in West Asheville.

     The event, which features DJ Lady Laine spinning 70s disco and soul LPs, also serves as counterpoint show to the organization's centerpiece project, the “Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park” concert series, a movable feast of family fun and community harmony through music, arts and dancing, held in downtown Asheville. DJ Lady Laine is the other persona of Laine Lewis, lead vocalist of the local band, The Ones.

     “Bonfires for Peace” had its birthing in Asheville in 2003; the program also had parallel events in Baltimore, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Manila and Baguio City in the Philippines through the years. This year's series started last April 13, headlined by Peace Jones, a perennial Traveling Bonfires attraction. Other dates and performers: May 12 and August 11, Kri and Touch Samadhi; June 8, The Ones, Lyric, SheemOne TheMc, Roberto Hess; July 13, Peace Jones, with Liam Christopher McKay, Bill Ramsey, and Keith Kimmel. Emcee is Jadwiga McKay.

     “Asheville loves this kind of fun,” says Marta Osborne, TBonfires supervising producer. “And when this city's beautiful people are costumed colorfully, dancing and having fun—we forget arguments and bickerings. We just become one.”

     Founded by journalist-editor Pasckie Pascua in Manila during the Philippines' turbulent 80s, the Traveling Bonfires has made Asheville its home since moving here from New York City in 2002. It had a two-year sojourn in Los Angeles from 2007 to 2009, “but Asheville is our home barrio, this is where we belong,” explains Pascua.

     Local businesses that donated gift certificates, among other generous gifts, are: Bruisin' Ales, Fired Up! Loved by the Buffalo/The Indie, Malaprop's, MariJo Moore, Moe's, Mellow Mushroom, Neo Cantina, Old Europe, ScreenDoor, SOLA (Asheville's Therapeutic Salt Cave), Westville Pub, and The Blotter, a publication based in Durham NC.

     The Traveling Bonfires' events enjoyed the support of a number of local Asheville businesses, organizations, and individuals. Projects have benefited non-profit organizations that work with at-risk youths, families of the disappeared, orphans, and disaster victims. 

ART by Federico Boyd Sulapas Dominguez

UPCOMING EVENT/s, 2013

[1] MAY 18 (Saturday), 9 PM to past midnight

PEACE GROOVIN': Saturday Night Fever

a dance/disco 70s retro DJ party

Featuring DJ Lady Laine
VENUE: Westville Pub

777 Haywood Road

Asheville, NC 28806. (828) 225-9782

$5 cover charge

[2] Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park, Year 11

Shows start 5 PM, ends 9 PM

VENUE: Pritchard Park, downtown Asheville NC

Produced in cooperation with Asheville's Parks & Recreation Department, and our many donors and supporters. FREE

<a> APRIL 13, Saturday

Peace Jones, Riyen Roots, Brief Awakening, Jaime Lauren Webb, and bellydancer Claire Dima. Emcee, Jadwiga McKay

<b> MAY 12, Sunday

Kri and Sensoma of Touch Samadhi

<c> JUNE 8, Saturday (hiphop/spoken word day), with The Ones, Lyric (Leeda Jones), SheemOne TheMc, Roberto Hess 

<d> JULY 13, Saturday

Peace Jones, Liam Christopher McKay, Keith Kimmel, Bill Ramsey

<e> AUGUST 11, Sunday

Touch Samadhi trance Goa DJs

[3] MARCH 27 (Wednesday), show starts 7:30 PM, ends with open mic

Mind Gravy Series presents CALEB BEISSERT, reading from his book, “BEAUTIFUL: Poems of Federico García Lorca & Pablo Neruda.” With guests SYDNEY McMATH, singer songwriter, and PASCKIE PASCUA, poet.

Drip Coffee

729 Saluda Ave

Columbia, SC 29205

803-661-9545

FREE

[4] MARCH 16 (Saturday), show starts 8PM.

THE WIND WHISPERS PEACE  

Featuring Rev. Syd and the Homewreckers, The Caleb Beissert Band, Brief Awakening, with Liam McKay, Pasckie Pascua, Jadwiga McKay.

VENUE: Westville Pub

777 Haywood Road

Asheville, NC 28806. (828) 225-9782

$5 cover charge

[5] FEB 1 (Friday), 8PM.

SYDNEY McMATH (singer songwriter) and PASCKIE PASCUA share a bill at Little River Coffee Bar (188 West Main Street, Spartanburg SC 29306). With guest, Jadwiga McKay, Jaime Lauren Webb. FREE

ALSO, THIS SPRING and SUMMER, 2013: (1) New Wave dance party in June, and (2) more “Food Poets Society” (music poetry food). AND “Bonfires for Peace” in Manila and Baguio City (Philippines), coinciding with “Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park,” Asheville in North Carolina. Music, art, poetry, food, community, peace—and more good stuff in between. [Produced and organized by Donna Phoebe Pascua and Lornadahl Campilan]

THANKS our DONORS and SUPPORTERS (for this year): Bruisin' Ales, Fired Up! Loved by the Buffalo, Malaprop's, Moe's, Mellow Mushroom, Neo Cantina, Old Europe, ScreenDoor, SOLA (Asheville's Therapeutic Salt Cave), Westville Pub. AND Jon Seven and Chris Johnson for the posters; Federico Boyd Sulapas Dominguez for the art.

PROCEEDS, TIPS and LOVE are shared and go to the Traveling Bonfires' “Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park,” free events in Asheville, April to August, our continuing community projects, and overseas humanitarian efforts. The Traveling Bonfires roam the country, ushering arts and music events and bringing people together in celebration of peace and multicultural connectedness. INFO: Call Marta Osborne at 828 280 1555 or email pasckie@yahoo.com

GRACIAS!

MariJo Moore 

is a friend and supporter of the Traveling Bonfires. She donated copies of her book, “Desert Quotes,” to our community projects/events. She has more books in her website (http://www.marijomoore.com/) that you may be interested to purchase. MariJo is of Cherokee, Irish and Dutch ancestry; author, artist, poet, essayist, lecturer, editor, anthologist, publisher, workshop presenter, spiritual advisor/medium.