New Meetup: Vans Warped Tour - Libertarian Outreach Booth

Announcing a new Meetup for The Houston Metro Region Libertarian Meetup Group!

What: Vans Warped Tour - Libertarian Outreach Booth

When: July 3, 2009 9:00 AM

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Meetup Description: We need volunteers to help the Libertarian Party of Texas and the Harris County party reach out to the tens of thousands of young people who will attend this event. The Warped Tour has invited our participation to make young people aware of Libertarian politics. Please call Robert Butler at 512-758-9134 to confirm that you can volunteer and to get specific instructions on how to participate.

The Warped Tour is a touring music and extreme sports festival. The tour is held in venues such as parking lots or fields upon which the stages and other structures are erected. The BMX/skateboarding shoe manufacturer Vans, among others, has sponsored the tour every year since 1995, and it is often referred to as the Vans Warped Tour. The tour started out as a showcase for punk rock music, but its more recent line-ups have featured more electronica, alternative rock, emo, post-hardcore, metalcore and Christian rock bands.

As of the mid-2000s, the Warped Tour has featured as many as 100 bands per show. The bands play for up to 30 minutes over approximately 10 stages, although the biggest bands generally play the two main stages. Bands typically start at 11:00 a.m. and end around 9:00 p.m., with several bands playing at once. The individual band times and stages where each band play is marked on a large board usually centered in the middle of the venue. The stages are set up in various locations around the venue to ensure one band's music is not disrupted by the other bands performing at that time. Fans can vote online for the band they want to see play a longer set as the last band of the night.

http://www.warpedtour.com/warpedtour/index.asp

Learn more here:
http://libertarian.meetup.com/276/calendar/10522729/