Come down to No Fun House around 5pm if you’re hungry and want to participate in the potluck/cookout, stay all night for music, which starts around 8pm.  Emilio Festivez is No Fun House’s annual festival, featuring low volume bands, Estevez movies, and veggie burgers.

Alex and Marcus Quinlan are brothers from Battle Creek.  This will be their first performance together.  Alex has laid down some very thoughtful, reputable folk songs since the demise of both The Almanac Shouters and Rotten Wood Moon.

Sea Couch is a husband and wife duo from Baltimore that has an eerie, haunting aesthetic to their conceptual folk songs.  Their instrumentation includes dual vocal, banjo, and acoustic guitar.  Maryland isn’t close, so make sure to bring some donations, or at least some kind words for the couple of folkies.

Birdfingers is the songwriting project of Kalamazoo musician Bennett Young.    Bennett has been known to perform both solo and with a full band, both of which are captivating set-ups.  His music is bright and uplifting.  It’s a tad folky, but modern and unique.

Lastly, a group that I’d have an awfully hard time writing an unbiased preview of, seeing as they might be the most important band in Kalamazoo to me, is Cold Mountain Child.  CMC have been sharing their earthy, but spacey low volume soundscapes with K-zoo show-goers for years now.  This past year, CMC upgraded from being a duo to being a full (but still quiet) band, including trap-kit drums, bass, violin, two acoustic guitars, electric guitar, keys and harmonizing vocals.  Cold Mountain Child will soothe you and encourage you to think, while also creating an ethereal wall of sound.