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DRONE NOT DRONES: The 7th Annual 28-hour Drone


  • The Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Avenue Minneapolis, MN, 55454 United States (map)

The Cedar, KFAI and Drone Not Drones Present
DRONE NOT DRONES: The 7th Annual 28-Hour Drone
Friday, January 31st 2020 at 7:00pm to Saturday, February 1st, 2020, at 11:00pm
$20 Advance, $30 Day of Show

This is a standing show with an open floor. Bring a pillow if you'd like!

Tickets are available online and by phone. Door price on second day will drop to $20.

For the seventh year in a row, 50+ musicians from across the musical spectrum will unite to create a continuous, uninterrupted, 28-hour drone of unified sound to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.

This is a standing show with an open floor. Bring a pillow if you'd like! Door price on second day will drop to $20. General Admission tickets are available online, by phone, ​Electric Fetus, and The Cedar during shows.

ABOUT DRONE NOT DRONES
Held every winter in Minneapolis DRONE NOT DRONES is part benefit concert, part art project, part community event. Now for the seventh year in a row, more than sixty acts will rotate on and off the stage to create a single uninterrupted 28-hour drone to protest the extrajudicial and immoral drone program and raise money for the victims of the United States military-industrial complex.

The experts at Wikipedia say "Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds... It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics."
Be part of a unique experience while supporting a just cause. Come by before work, after work, or both. Bring a pillow/blanket to make yourself comfortable. Spend the night with us.

We will be airing the entire performance on KFAI and streaming online so you can enjoy it even if you can't be with us here in Minneapolis. Direct your browsers to dronenotdrones.com to watch the webstream, get an up to the minute schedule, listen to recordings of our previous drones, and donate directly to Doctors Without Borders.

We may feel powerless to stop the military industrial complex from spreading war. But we can spread peace if we drone on and on about it...

Full Lineup is TBA but features:

Clarice Jensen
Saariselka
Lea Bertucci
Ami Dang
Jessica Moss
BCMC (Cooper Crain of CAVE and Bill MacKay)
Alan Sparhawk (of Low)
Paul Metzger

And dozens more to be announced in January.

You can also purchase the freshly unveiled recording from last year's program. (all proceeds are donated to Doctors Without Borders). https://drone-not-drones.bandcamp.com/