Please note that the date and time of this event has been moved due to weather – New date is September 8th.

Ringling Underground:
A series of one night only events combining live music and experiential artworks in the Courtyard.
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Tomboi (Jacksonville, FL)
Electronica trio Tomboi braid a pulsing synth with candy guitar licks to force your surrender to the groove. Emotive lyrics swim the effervescent pop stream and further the group’s progressive roots. Stirring wails pick up an urgent gait, gleaming with a wink all the while. These women know how to make you dance.

Members Alex E. (vocal, sequencing, beats, guitar), Paige McMullen (guitar) and Summer Wood (drums) first came together through mutual friends, cementing a deeper bond through music and youth advocacy efforts with local non profits, Girls Rock Jacksonville and JASMYN. They dropped their debut release, Queer Tears EP, March 2014 and another single, Lobos, January 2015. Since then they have shared bills with outfits such as Of Montreal, Big Freedia, Neon Indian, Hunter Valentine, La Femme, The Black Kids, Hunter Valentine, Fit for Rivals, Boyfriend, Moon Hooch, and Hank & Cupcakes. They have performed at events such as 7th Annual AURA Music & Arts Festival, Indie Grits, MurMur Media’s Atlanta Zine Fest, NYE333 Fashion Show at MOCA, GastroFest, Elestial Sound Showcase for One Spark, FolioFest, Queer The Fest, Harvey Milk Fest and LadyFest Pensacola. In correlation with their youth advocacy efforts they have Emceed events like Jacksonville Public Library’s 10th Annual Battle of the Bands, Girls Rock Jacksonville Arm-Wrestling Competition, as well as hosting Workshops on Songwriting & Sustainable Banding Practices.
https://www.facebook.com/tomboiband

Soapbox Soliloquy And The Nimbus Initiative
(St. Petersburg, FL)
“Soapbox Soliloquy sounds like what you might find in the tape deck of an Old Ford Galaxy, a psyched-out lovechild of Loretta Lynn and Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe (with all the work ethic, but minus the drama). Deja’s vocals are a siren’s song, neither breathy nor contrived, but earthy and mesmerizing. Combined with her multi-instrumental skills on guitar, bass, drums and percussion, the result is distinctly Deja.”
– Creative Loafing
https://www.facebook.com/SoapboxSoliloquy

Cassolette (Sarasota, FL)
Cassolette is a 5 (sometimes 6) piece jangly indie-pop band from Sarasota (and Gainesville) Florida, with a love of 90’s Britpop, unabashedly catchy hooks, fuzzy guitar solos and occasionally awkward performances. Featuring Jesse Coleman on guitar and vocals, his wife Ciera singing and playing keyboards, Darren Ankersmit on guitar and vocals, John Ewing on bass and Todd Weissfeld on drums, the band is returning to the scene exiting a brief hiatus. Three years after a successfully funded Kickstarter tour – which culminated in performing at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn for the NYC Popfest – Cassolette is back with new songs, new energy, and a renewed love for creating sugary sweet indie-pop tunes you can pogo to.
https://www.facebook.com/Cassolette

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Art in the Courtyard at Ringling Underground:
Ringling Underground event and artist liaison Sarah Viviana Valdez presents: Products of ‘The Zone,’ a collection of five artworks by artists who utilize the power of the machine to process images with a synthetic treatment. ‘The Zone’ references a philosophy forwarded by filmmaker Chris Marker, claiming that the use of treated images allows for the depiction of things that do not exist in history, redefining a new illusion of the past. Nina Hartmann’s four large prints enact a true photocopy texture even though the images are effectively distorted from their original source using a cropping technique that zooms into an area of the image. Almost ceasing to exist as a shadow-like figure is David Vassalotti in Ghost Town, a silent video manipulated with color-saturation and sepia treatments depicting the plausible reality of a simultaneously cluttered and abandoned world. A violent servitude can be detected in the enhanced digital collages by Nic Hamersly: Please don’t look at me I’m desperate and Gacy in love, classical sculptures arranged with an ironic testimony. Also included is a rose in a glass box surrounded by chains elevated to an emotional appeal in between Nic’s collages. An honest image of a rose slayed by the reality of such a ‘masterful skill’ – to be perfect is painful and unrealistic. A portal for reflective consciousness is presented with a projection mapped to a door frame for Wet Myriads I, the first in a video series by Andrea Williams. A transit character is observed drifting in a ’post-industrial interior.’ The ephemerality discussed in this collection of works passes through a filter of memories, attempting to sort things out in order to be properly understood. Extending from their predecessors who worked outside the hierarchies of film and print industries is a group creating a realm outside of space and time, products of the ‘The Zone’.
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Ringling Underground is always free for college students with a valid college ID. It is an extension of the Art After 5 program held on Thursdays after 5 p.m. After hours discounted admission is $15 for adults; $5 for children 6-17, children 5 and under and Museum Members are free.

Cash bar provided by Modern Events at The Ringling.

Ringling Underground is a rain or shine event.
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