September Rock Fest on tap
Outdoor Payette venue to host all-ages, 10-band show
By Sean Hart
Argus Observer
Sunday, August 30, 2009 1:14 AM PDT
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| Slain in Silence performs at a Rock The Lot concert at Monkey Bizness in Nampa. The band is one of 10 slated to play at the September Rock Fest Friday and Saturday at Clay Peak Motorcycle Park, 2550 Idaho Highway 52, Payette. |
PAYETTE — Two days of music.
Ten bands.
All ages.
Advance tickets for $5.
And it’s all happening in Payette for the first September Rock Fest, Friday and Saturday at Clay Peak Motorcycle Park, 2550 Idaho Highway 52.
“Kids don’t have a lot to do around here, and the only place they have to go is Boise,” event organizer and Bar Nett News proprietor Dennis Barnett said. “Basically, I just kind of wanted to get something going.”
The event will kick off with music at 7 p.m. Friday and at 3 p.m. Saturday and will last until about midnight both days. Lust Greeds Envy, Slain in Silence, Order Through Chaos, Ashes of Abaddon, Half The World, Demigod, End of All Flesh, Brutality Through Reality, Threshold and Ripshaw are scheduled to perform.
“Maybe next year it’ll pick up and have 20 (bands),” Grady Hansen, a singer and guitarist for Lust Greeds Envy and owner of the Sundance Saloon in Payette, said. “If it turns out to be a good festival, it brings a lot of people together. A lot of families come together and camp out and listen to the music, and a lot of musicians get to meet each other.”
Sundance Saloon is providing the beer garden, the stage and the sound engineering, Hansen said.
Giveaways and contests — tattoo, egg-carrying and face- and beer belly-painting, to name a few — will provide further entertainment at the festival, Barnett said.
“We’ll have some kids’ stuff going on the outside of the beer garden and beer stuff going on the inside, and we’ll just slowly but surely keep it going,” Barnett said. “We are trying to get a dunk tank out there, but that’s still in the works. It also would be nice to get a projector for a TV, but I don’t know where that sits.”
Although it was Barnett’s idea, he said the idea would not have gotten off the ground if not for the help he received.
“It’s kind of a family ordeal. We’re all just getting together and doing it,” Barnett said, citing the efforts of people and clubs like the Knights of Valhalla Heavy Metal Club. “Without the help of my friends doing this, I would not have made it anywhere.”
Barnett hopes the event grows and becomes an annual attraction for local music lovers.
“As soon as we’re done with this year, we’re going to work on bigger sponsors for next year,” he said.
Advance tickets to the September Rock Fest cost $5, available by calling Dennis Barnett, (208) 739-6238. Patrons who purchase five advance tickets can receive one free ticket. Tickets at the door cost $10. Camping, food and a beer garden will be available at the event.
Lifestyle Editor Sean Hart can be contacted at SeanH@argusobserver.com.
Free Ride wrote on Sep 12, 2009 6:51 AM:
Do any of you know how many people from the boise area have stopped coming to claypeak to ride because of the park would not be open for one reason or another.
Familys cant afford to go ride in the back section of the park, and why should they have to pay to ride a unmaintained area that is owned by tax payers. Oh and by the way it's an off road park not Woodstock Carl. Go back to New York. "