The Northern California Experimental Music Festival owes its roots to the 1994 Sacramento Experimental Music Series. The 1994 S.E.M.S. was created to draw in outside talent to the Sacramento, and to give local talent an opportunity to showcase their work. The series was composed of four shows spread out over the summer of 1994 at the Guild Theatre. Each show was designed to have two out of town headline bands and two local bands. As the series continued the shows grew in popularity, expanding the local communities understanding of what experimental music truly could be. At the end of the summer, the decision was made to continue the event, but to expand it to include a greater number of performers, and to have the event in a festival form rather than a series, allowing the large gathering of talented individuals to network and create a more synergistic atmosphere.
Some of the bands that played the 1994 Sacramento Experimental Music Series are:
If you have any questions or would like additional information about the Norcal Experimental Music Festival, contact Jay Truesdale at: dz-015@emrl.com.
Check back here regularly as we will be putting in digitized sounds and images from NF95 in the next couple of weeks.
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