Vineland Place at the Walker Art Center is the place to be from 6-11 pm Friday, June 9, for Walker After Hours: Rock the Garden 2000. The street party of the summer features a concert by indie rock pioneers Sonic Youth and British alternative-pop sensation Stereolab,on the first stop of a national tour, and noise experimenters Sunship Sextet. Vineland Place will be closed to traffic and food booths will be situated up and down the street. Enjoy an evening of sculpture under the stars, take a twilight tour of the Garden, paint on a giant community canvas, or slip inside the Walker to view the newest exhibition, The Home Show. The Martini of the Month is beer. Advance tickets are $18 ($9 Walker members); day-of-event tickets are $20 ($10). Call or stop by the Walker box office (612.375.7622/voice; 612.375.7595/fax) or purchase tickets online at www.walkerart.org/tickets. Tickets also are on sale at Let It Be Records and The Electric Fetus. Event parking is available at nearby lots, and on surrounding streets. MTC bus lines 1, 4, 6, 12, and 28 serve the Walker. Rock the Garden will be held rain or shine. Walker After Hours is sponsored by Dayton's Project Imagine. Media sponsorship provided by startribune.com/freetime and Zone 105. Walker After Hours: Rock the Garden 2000
Friday, June 9, 6-11 pm
Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Advance: $18 ($9 Walker members)
Day of event: $20 ($10)
612.375.7622
www.walkerart.org/tickets Food and Beverage Sales
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Snack all evening on food for the street. Everything from fried to fresh squeezed. Beer provided by James Page. Soft beverages also available. The Home Show, Galleries 1, 2, and 3
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Take a break from the concert chaos and walk through The Home Show, a four-part presentation featuring The Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed exhibition The Un-Private House, a look back at the Walker's Idea House from the late 1940s, a working Architecture Studio, and blueprint drawings of famous TV residences by Mark Bennett. The Un-Private House was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was made possible by The Lily Auchincloss Fund for Contemporary Architecture. Music: Sunship Sextet, 6:15 pm
Three overlapping visually and aurally eclectic sections will flow and flux between ambient, hard improv, and sound sculpture from this experimental rock-noise conglomerate featuring underground players from London, Chicago, and Minneapolis. The Sextet is John Vance, turntables, electric guitar; Emil Hagstrom, amplified acoustic guitar, flute; Matt Bacon, electric guitar, synthesizer; Weasel Walter, saxophone, percussion; Misty Martinez, shortwave radio, vocals; and Phil Todd, tapes, sampler. Tours: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, 6:45, 7:15, 7:30, and 8 pm
Half-hour twilight tours explore a sampling of the more than 40 works on view in the Garden. Art Activity: Community Canvas, 6 pm until completed
Grab a brush and leave your mark on a giant community canvas. Music: Stereolab, 7:15 pm
Founded by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier in 1991, Stereolab has consistently fulfilled and confounded people's expectations. While the critics have mused and abused, from the outset the band has attracted a loyal audience throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States for its stylized blend of international retro-pop and hypnotically futuristic jazz. The band's latest CD, entitled Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage In the Milky Night, features 15 songs written by Gane and Sadier that blend Stereolab's more mellow side with its trademark experimentation. Jim O'Rourke, among the recording's guest artists, provides breathtaking string arrangements. Previous CDs include Emperor Tomato Ketchup and Dots and Loops. Richard Harrison, bass; Laetitia Sadier, vocals; Morgane Lhote, keyboards; Mary Hansen, guitar/keyboards; Tim Gane, guitar; Andy Ramsey, drums. Music: Sonic Youth, 8:30 pm
Ever-evolving and widely considered one of the most innovative and influential groups in rock history, Sonic Youth has spent nearly 20 years exploring and exploding guitar sounds, feedback, and alternate tunings to create undiscovered sonic landscapes and unmistakable songcraft. Fusing the free-form experimentalism of the Velvet Underground with the raw guitar power of the Stooges, and melding it all with a performance art aesthetic, the band continues to redefine the role of noise in rock and roll. The group's Walker concert will feature material from its newest CD, NYC Ghosts and Flowers. Thurston Moore, guitar; Lee Ranaldo, guitar; Kim Gordon, bass; Steve Shelley, drums; and Jim O'Rourke, guitar. Martini of the Month: Beer
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