Huzzah! ESC, SGA, CCSC and GSC have allocated a combined total of $20,000 to the Bacchanal Committee this year. This allocations is still a one-time-deal, and future allocations to Bacchanal will depend on a separate resolution. Council members will sit on the Bacchanal selection committee (hey Learned– Weezy F. Baby!) for oversight.

The one thing you can look forward to after the sky fell on Morningside Heights this week: Spring Concert!

As promised, the finalized Chewbacchanal schedule:

Friday, April 23
Party with Chewbacca

Revson Lawn, 12-3pm (next to Ancel Plaza on the bridge over Amsterdam)
Free food, giveaways, music, photo ops with Chewy and life-size checkers!

Saturday, April 24
Chewbacca’s Hope For Haiti Fundraiser
12-3pm, South Lawns
Free food, giveaways, music, giant inflatable obstacle course and life-size foosball

SPRING CONCERT
6pm, Low Plaza
Wiz Khalifa, Ghostface Killah, Of Montreal

Sunday, April 25
Annual Bacchanal Brunch catered by Kitchenette
12-3pm, Van Am Quad (outside of John Jay)
Free delicious brunch

Photo by Burning Star Core

Barnard College Radio WBAR has posted the lineup for their annual outdoor BBQ and concert! On Sunday April 25^th_­­ from noon to 10pm on the Lehman Lawn, you can look forward to hearing:

Cold Cave

Blues Control

Liturgy

Burning Star Core

Jana Hunter

Twin Stumps

U.S. Girls

Thing About Life (They’re playing early, so get there early)

Prince Rama of Ayodhya

Old Men

There will be free food too (and they promise not to run out)!

Nervous energy borne of coffee and unfinished CC papers pervaded Lerner as the tech crews set up for Bacchanal’s annual spring concert last night. Kids who arrived at 8 p.m. camped out near the white plastic barricade like they were at Webster Hall ca. 2003 waiting for the Get Up Kids, or maybe Interpol. In any case, they came, they clustered on the floor, they took out a laptop or two to maximize efficiency. WBAR jockeys spun the de rigueur ambient noise and obscure electronica, and the elite with green backstage passes perched near the merchandise table.

It didn’t take much prying to determine that a lot of people at the show arrived sans knowledge of what they were in for, despite Bwog’s best efforts to the contrary. And if they thought “indie rock” was in any way related to “rock and roll” apart from the implementation of the same instruments, the first swirls of Grizzly Bear’s atmospheric noodling hopefully set them straight. But lukewarm crowd responses, ample chatter among the grad students in the back—including one prescient, tight-pantsed character who had slipped a Stella Artois into bone-dry Lerner—and bored-looking couples glued to the auditorium chairs all indicated a lack of rapport between band and crowd, give or take the clusters towards the front who hummed along to each four-part harmony.

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Do not forget that the Spring Concert is tonight at 9pm in Roone with Grizzly Bear and The National.  And according to some guy with a microphone at last night’s Planet Earth screening, there are still tickets available!

Today’s Tomorrow’s the day to reserve tickets for the Spring Concert, and contrary to earlier reports citing a $5 figure, tickets are actually going to be free. However, the show is CUID-only and seating is limited. Book early, either online or at the Lerner Box Office. 

Courtesy of planning staff, here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for… Bacchanal! A Monday night concert in Lerner! A not-free luau! Exciting…?

BacchanALIENS 2008

Keep an eye out for free BacchanALIENS t-shirts and giveaways!

Wed. April 9:

Comedy Show (Ardie Fuqua w/ Fruit Paunch)

9-10:30pm, Davis Auditorium (Shapiro)

*Pick up FREE tickets at the Lerner Box Office*

Thurs. April 10:

Dinner & Space Comedy

6:30-8:30pm, Lerner Party Space



RESLIFE’s “Wild Wild Columbia” CAPTURE THE FLAG      

9pm, College Walk

Sat. April 12:

Relay for Life                               

12pm-3am, All over campus  Read more…

This is part two of a two-part series introducing you to the acts playing at this year’s Bacchanal.

“Everything but country,” is an all too familiar way for unimaginative people to define their taste, or lack there of, in music. Sure, we all like different kinds of music, but the ambiguity of that statement is preposterous and country is just not that bad. Like it or not, Grizzly Bear’s music incorporates all sorts of genres and to some extent reflects that glib tag mentioned before. Their music has been described as everything from folk, country-folk, folk-rock and psychedelic folk-rock to electro-folk, post-rock and Baroque pop.

Fortunately, this Brooklyn based quartet coordinates their eclectic influences with dreamy cohesion. The pluck of acoustic guitars, reeds, retro organs and the occasional banjo articulate the soporific voice of the band’s lead singer, Ed Droste. With breathy gasps and sighs, Droste’s vocals give Grizzly Bear’s songs a natural, nonchalant sound. Read more…

2008′s Bacchanal has been announced and a (mostly) complete schedule has been released. In addition to performances by Grizzly Bear and The National, this year’s festivities will include stand-up comedy by Greg Giraldo, an outdoor screening of Planet Earth on the Low steps for which absolutely no one will arrive stoned, and a Hawaiian Luau.

If you couldn’t tell from the indie rock, Hawaiian luau and stand-up comedy, this year’s theme is “Bacchanaliens.” “Fun has landed,” proclaims Bacchanal’s flyer; without an article, without a doubt.

UPDATE 8:04 PM: The outdoor screening of Planet Earth is on 4/20. Best. Bacchanal. Ever. (Thanks commenter no. 5!)

Eschewing their own tradition of booking hip hop acts for spring, Columbia Concerts has booked awesome Brooklyn-based indie rockers Grizzly Bear and awesome Brooklyn-based indie rockers The National for this year’s Spring Concert.

An anonymous source also informs Bwog that this year’s Spring Concert will also differ from last year’s because it’s going to be indoors and tickets are going to cost a completely reasonable and completely worth it $5 fee.