TRIBUTE to the ELECTRIC GUITAR: Y2K13 LOOPFESTIVAL HEADLINERS CONCERT

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

I"m very excited to announce this year's *HEADLINERS CONCERT *
for the *Y2K13 INTERNATIONAL LIVE LOOPING MAIN FESTIVAL*
at the TREASURES ROADHOUSE (*2908 Freedom Blvd, Watsonville, California*)
on SATURDAY EVENING,  OCTOBER 19th (9:00 p.m.)


We are blessed to have four wonderful headlining artists
in a special
*
**TRIBUTE TO THE ELECTRIC GUITAR*
featuring;

*DANIEL THOMAS*
http://y2kloopfest.com/artists/daniel-thomas/
   In his first festival headlining performance, this amazing award 
winning producer,
accomplished and innovative guitarist,  multi-instrumentalist and composer
will take all over the world in his set,   like he has done as a 
guitarist and producer
in his long professional career.    I'm personally really excited about 
this set

*ANDRE LaFOSSE*
http://y2kloopfest.com/artists/andre-lafosse/
  Andre is a legend in the live looping community;   a pioneer in many 
techniques
and a constant font of out of the box creativity,  he also has a deep 
musicality
and lyricism and great command of his 'axe'.   Andre has developed an 
iconoclastic approach
that discards the ambient, effects-heavy, progressive guitar paradigm so 
favored by
many live looping guitarists drawing inspiration, instead, from 
turntablism, glitchcore,
hip-hop and dance music.   He has also innovated with and worked with 
and inspired
many innovations in the EDP Echoplex that he is a master of.  He has been
a great source of knowledge for the live looping community and has given 
his
advice freely and generously over the years.   He is a stalwart in the
international live looping world!

This is Andres' very first appearance at the looping festival and we are 
very lucky
to have him.

*BILL WALKER
*http://y2kloopfest.com/artists/bill-walker/
After an amazing year,  with a highly praised duo record with Turkey's 
Erdem Helvacioglu
that garnered them a prestigious five page spread in Guitar Player 
Magazine this year,
Bill will come fresh from featured performances at this years' Seattle 
and Portland Y2K13
International Live Looping festival to perform a set celebrating his 
very first solo
album,   'SANCTUARY'.    Saturday nights concert will be an official 
'Album Release Party'
for Bill's beautiful new recording along with a 2nd  'Album Release'  by

*HENRY KAISER
*http://y2kloopfest.com/artists/henry-kaiser/
Henry Is one of the most versatile and innovative guitar players on 
earth.   The first person in history
to use digital looping in his work,  he has been a ceaseless innovator, 
composer and collaborator.
From scoring films for Werner Herzog to collaborating with a Who's Who 
of musicians from the
pop world to the new music/experimental world and major master musicians 
from all over the world,
Henry has done it all!     The following is a very SHORT list of people 
he's collaborated with in his long career:

Herbie Hancock, Richard Thompson, David Lindley, Bob Weir, Lukas Ligeti, 
the ROVA Sax Quartet, Elliot Sharp,
Michael McClure, Bill Laswell, Fred Frith, Terry Riley, John 
Abercrombie, Negativiland, Michael Stipe,
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Diamanda Galas, Sonny Sharrock, Hans Reichel, Chris 
Cutler, Henry Cow, John Zorn,
David Torn, Bill Frisell, Eugene Chadbourne, Evan Parker, Sang-Won Park, 
Thomas Mapfumo, Ali Akbar Khan,
Material and the Golden Palominos.

He has worked as a television producer and soundtrack artist and has an 
Academy Award nomination for
Werner Herzog's  ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD.

In that capacity he has also been a scientific diver in the US 
ANTARCTICA PROGRAM.  2012 marked his tenth deployment
beneath the 20 foot thick ice of the Ross Sea.

He will be playing selections from his new solo CD accompanying footage 
that he took underneath the beautiful
Antarctic ice.

This is Henry's second headlining performance at the Y2K Main Festival