VOLTAGE: FASHION AMPLIFIED
Band Designers: Grayline, Jenny Carle Designs, Emily Melchert, Jodelle Gerdes, and Standard Issue Clothing with Branch Office Design
Runway Designers: 2709, Allison Quinnell, Amanda Christine, Arwyn Birch, Calpurnia Peach, Carmichael Claith, Emily Weich, Ivan Idland, Maritza Ramirez, and Max Lohrbach
MNfashion, Voltage's umbrella organization, is an emerging non-profit organization that serves as a resource for our fashion community. Proceeds from Voltage 2009 are earmarked for the development of a sewing co-op. The co-op will educate, build community and be a professional resource for designers.
VOLTAGE: FASHION AMPLIFIED
Voltage: Fashion Amplified is MNfashion's premier event, held annually during Spring MNfashion Week. It seamlessly combines rock and runway into an intimate mix of sound and style. Through its annual events, Voltage seeks to foster collaboration, engender community and unite music and fashion while providing a national forum for local talent. MNfashion is a locally-bred organization dedicated to providing resources and professional development to the local fashion community that will enhance and support a thriving, sustainable local fashion industry.
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MARIA ISA
Beginning her arts education at El Arco Iris Center for the Arts in 1992, Maria Isa quickly progressed from the role of student to the role of singer, songwriter, emcee and performer Her 2009 release, Street Politics, has received much critical acclaim. She has been featured on the cover of Twin Cities Metro and City Pages. She is currently shooting indie film Strike One in LA with Danny Treo; then she is headed to Puerto Rico to shoot the documentary We Rock Long Distance with filmmaker Justin Schnell.
LUCY MICHELLE & THE VELVET LAPELLES
Take a pinch of mountain gypsy, a dash of psych-folk and a combine it with an ocean of split-open-and-melt lyricism, intricately delivered by one of the most unique voices in music, and you have Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles. Since bursting onto the Twin Cities music scene in 2008, the fiery sextet have blossomed into one of the most celebrated and cherished young talents to emerge from Minnesota in recent history.
GOSPEL GOSSIP
Minneapolis' Gospel Gossip plays a noisy, shimmering brand of post shoe-gaze rock and roll. Sarah Nienaber sings in a full toned whisper while wielding her guitar like a weapon as Justin Plank and Oliver Moltaji, on bass and drums respectively, round out this powerful trio with the collective force to match.
FIRST COMMUNION AFTERPARTY
First Communion Afterparty's music belongs to a distinct family: psychedelic rock. It's true: there is no other honest way to describe it. The point is they belong. Their sound is built on psychedelic bands you've heard and some you haven't. There is nothing unfamiliar but there's a fresh personality behind it. With seven band members it would be easy to get tangled up in too many limbs, but that never happens. Each song is an artful balance of dual guitars, bass, keyboard, tambourines, drums, floor tom and vocals from all over.
MERCURIAL RAGE
"Speaking of mercurial things, the Mercurial Rage show at the Dinkytowner last night was awesome. Them boys are stars! If you like Depeche Mode and contagious ass-shaking, I highly recommend checking them out." Diablo Cody The Pussy Ranch
DJ JAKE RUDH
Former Radio K, REV 105 & NPR alum and present host on The Current, Jake's been voted "best DJ" in the Twin Cities by the readers & critics of City Pages magazine nine years running (2003-2011) and one of Star Tribune's "Artists of the Year" (2012).
