The 13th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival will be held Thursday June 21st through Sunday June 24th at the Eagles Hall with a Post-fest Party Sunday the 24th at Le Voyeur.

To purchase tickets online, visit www.buyolympia.com

Visit the Festival website at duckhugger.com/olyexpfest

All shows start at 7 p.m, except for Sunday, which starts at 6 p.m. and the Post-fest Party at Le Voyeur which starts at 10 p.m.

Thursday, June 21st

Celesteville (Portland, OR)
Mood Ring (Portland, OR)
Marissa Magic (Olympia, WA)
Derek M. Johnson (Olympia, WA)
Shitty Vibe Smasher (Portland, OR)
Acre (Portland, OR)
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer (Seattle, WA)

Friday, June 22nd

Childhood Friends (Portland, OR)
Argumentix (Portland, OR)
Plants (Portland, OR)
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (Montana)
White Rainbow (Portland, OR)
Dead Air Fresheners (PDX, OLY, Seattle)
Alps of New South Wales (Australia)

Saturday, June 23rd

Film showing of Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan: Thailand's Psychedelic Ghost Fesitval at the historic Capitol Theater - 1p.m.

Nequaquam Vacuum (Portland, OR)
L.A Lungs (Tacoma, WA)
METAL (Portland, OR)
Long Legged Woman (Athens, GA)
JPTR (New York, N.Y)
Better People (Athens, GA)
Oliver Squash (North Cambria, PA)

Sunday, June 24th

A Garden to Play with Ghost (Portland, OR)
Wendy Atkinson (Vancouver, B.C)
Wood Paneling (Mason County, WA)
Midmight (San Francisco, CA)
Eric Ostrowski (Seattle, WA)
Noisettes/Walrus Machine/LAMP (Seattle, WA)
Hans Grusels Krankenkabinet (San Francisco, CA)

Post-fest Party also Sunday, June 24th - 10 p.m. at Le Voyeur, this event is free to all, pass-holders or not.

Mattress (Portland, OR)
Your Drugs My Money featuring La Maison (Paris, LA, Fiji)

What is the Festival about?
The Olympia Experimental Music Festival was founded in 1995 by L. Jim McAdams and was produced under the umbrella of the Olympia Strange Music Society, which Arrington de Dionyso had created earlier in the same year. While Mr. McAdams gladly served as a conduit for the very first event, the festival began through a series of e-mails by fringe music artists from around North America who actively wished to play in Olympia. Thus it could be argued that the first festival really founded itself.

Since it's magical beginnings as a group vision on internet mailing lists, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival has been curated by L. Jim McAdams, Arrington de Dionyso, Aerick Duckhugger, Ashley Shomo, Eric Ostrowski, Michael Griffin, Harlan Mark Vale, and Dick Metcalfe (who was also responsible for starting the festival's first ever website). This years chief organizer is Domenica Clark.

The festival continues to move forward every year on the fervent belief that while Olympia is certainly a fertile ground for independent rock music, there are other genres of very visceral music that were and continue to be underrepresented in the "scene".

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