Keeping it Weird: 419: Music/Movement celebrates local arts at Ottawa Park

Listen Up Toledo  |  By Ryan A. Bunch  |  09/20/2016

Toledo’s best, brightest, weirdest, and wildest are set to send off summer in an unprecedented multimedia performance adventure at Ottawa Park. The diverse event hangs on one simple request: Keep it weird, Toledo.

419: Music/Movement is billed as “an experiment in music, art, and words” and is one of the most interesting and impressive event concoctions in recent years. Set among the serene setting at the oft-under-utilized Ottawa Park Amphitheater, the day-long event puts on display some of Toledo’s finest artists in the realms of music, film, spoken word, and visual arts. What’s more, the thing is free. 

Toledo’s creative community is strongest when presented in coherent platforms that elevate the intersections of its finest and strongest sects. Moreover, when local artists seize the opportunity to tug at the reigns of the city’s multi-faceted and infinitely talented artists and performers, amazing things tend to happen. Kudos to event organizer and local wordsmith Silke Goudos for celebrating the season with such a fine roster, and for building an event that is sure to reverberate in coming years … not to mention give us one last warm fuzzy feeling to hold as we head into the cooler (and colder) part of this fling around the sun. 

419: Music/Movement features musical performances by Logic Alley, Current Resident, Bitch, Thunder!, GOLABULA, Johnny Nevada, Purple Rhomboid Plateface Goatcabin, and Valerie Kuehne; spoken word sets by Jodie Summers, Huntor Prey, Drew Coomer, Douglas Outman, and Silke Goudos; film screenings of Amiri Baraka’s “The Dutchman,” and “Cloud Farming Detroit;” and features art and murals by “The Contaminator” and Darius Simpson. 

For more artist information, bios, and additional event info, RSVP on Facebook. 

419: Music/Movement takes place at Ottawa Park Amphitheater on Sunday, September 25 from 2-6:30pm. Free.