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Traveling Bands Have a Place to Stop, Play During GFL Fest

Posted on: Friday, 17 March 2006, 18:00 CST

Traveling bands have a place to stop, play during GFL Fest

The second-annual Gas-Food-Lodging Music Festival brings a unique variety of performances to venues across Baton Rouge through the month of March.

Some local club owners and entertainment promoters decided last year to take advantage of the national and international acts passing through the region en route to the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.

They coined the term "gas, food and lodging," because many of the bands performing in Austin would need to earn extra money out on the road - and bringing superior live music to Baton Rouge wasn't a bad idea either.

This year's local venues sponsoring the GFL shows are Red Star, Spanish Moon, North Gate Tavern, SoGo Live and Chelsea's Cafe at its new location under the overpass on Perkins Road.

Look for more information at http://www.2theadvocate.com/ gflfest. Rebecca Breeden, 2theadvocate.com staff writer

GAS, FOOD, LODGING MUSIC FESTIVAL '06

FRIDAY, MARCH 17

North Gate Tavern: A Northern

Chorus/ Sianspheric/

The Useful Knots

The Spanish Moon:

ICON Visuals/DJ Young/

Illegal Alias

SATURDAY, MARCH 18

North Gate Tavern: Shiny Toy Guns/Clear Static/Lindsay Spurlock/

The Pretentious

Red Star: Waking State/We Landed on The Moon

The Spanish Moon:

Thunderbirds Are Now!/Rahim/Fred Weaver

MONDAY, MARCH 20

North Gate Tavern: Dreamend/American Distress

Red Star: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?/Wooden

Wand and the Vanishing Voice

The Spanish Moon: Kudu/Eliot Lipp

Chelsea's Cafe: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists/The Duke Spirit/Les Aus

TUESDAY, MARCH 21

Red Star: Treasure Mammal/Fire vs. Extinguisher

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22

North Gate Tavern: Vaeda/The Nein/Harlan

The Spanish Moon: Hangar 18

THURSDAY, MARCH 23

Chelsea's Cafe: Centro-Matic/Great Lake Swimmers/Elsah

FRIDAY, MARCH 24

The Spanish Moon: Ballzack

SATURDAY, MARCH 25

North Gate Tavern:

Lagerhead/Mutehound/Silence of the Orphan Moon

Red Star: Southern Backtones

The Spanish Moon: Reception Is Suspected/Slobot

Source: Advocate; Baton Rouge, La.

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