
Again The Alumni Coffeehouse Commandeers the Vollum Gallery / Lounge throughout Renn Fayre weekend. Stocking decorative craft supplies, tea, coffee, munchables, board games, music galore and you, our patrons!
Friday 2:00 - 3:30 parade prep The Coffeehouse starts the percolation just in time to help you get your costume on for the Fayre. Add that extra dash to your celebratory attire! We'll have makings for sparkly head wreaths, funny bracelets, weathergrams, prayer flags, and whatever your imagination can come up with. All ages welcome!
5:30 -Open for post parade coffee, tea and treats.
7:30 - 9:00 Ben Salzberg '94 and the Trash Mountain Boys, Wes Kempfer and Tim Forsberg (AKA Timo Landia) sing songs of bike riding and sorrow.
9:30 – Midnight close or therabouts, Justin Miller '90 and special guests sing classic songs of meatsmoke camp and more.
Saturday Noon - Coffeehouse opens for more treats, music, games and crafts!
2:00 - 4:00 Broadside Johnnie (aka John Remington '83) wrestles his concertina around lyrical gems plundered from the Age of Sail through the Age of Aquarius and beyond up till bugs set in...
7:00 - 9:00 audio host Will Morgan '88 puts something quiet on until fireworks time...
10:30 - 1:00AM close Respectable Citizen. A newly formed electronic improv-core trio: Bruce Bennett '90, Byron H. Diel from Reed to the 82nd Airborne in '92 and Vance Galloway '91. Together, they bring in a dynamic and varied web of sound texture, rhythm, and melody sure to delight the commoner and the dilettante alike.
Sunday Noon - Coffeehouse Opens for more carrots, celery, crackers games and crafts.
1:00 to 2:00 Ben and Izarra - A dynamic duo of guitar and cello warm the room.
2:30 to 4:00 PM or thereabouts Becky Chiao '85 hosts an Open Poetry Reading
5:00PM Coffeehouse close.

revised 04/27/06
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