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Mini ska festival to get Lincoln funky this weekend
By Bret Schulte
Staff Reporter
A caravan of Midwestern ska bands are cor
ralling at Lincoln’s Wagon Train Project this
weekend to support the local music scene and
offer minors the opportunity to attend a mini
ska festival.
The festival will feature Omaha’s self-de
scribed first-wave ska band, the Bishops—who
cite heavy influence from the Jamaican ska fore
fathers, the Skatellites. Also appearing are three
more aggressive ska-funk bands: O’Phil, out
of Wichita, Kan., Dr. Castrato and the Measles,
who hail from Des Moines and dubiously claim
to be Iowa’s only indigenous ska band, and,
finally, the infant Omaha band, the Beatnets.
Intended to rally support for the Midwest’s
growing ska scene, this concert is the first of
several designed to create a community of tour
ing bands.
“There are about a half-dozen bands in Ne
braska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri,” said Dylan
Mitchell, bassist and manager for the Bishops.
“(These bands) will start pulling together and
be on a rotation to put some traditional feel
back in ska.”
Currently, top 40 bands such as No Doubt
are laying claim to ska roots, leading Dylan to
be concerned about the future of “traditional”
ska.
“That may be ska, but it’s not traditional,”
Mitchell said. “We want to bring the roots of
music back to people who don’t even know it’s
there.”
The three bands play three dates: Saturday
in Springfield, Mo., Sunday’s show at the
Wagon Train Project in Lincoln and Feb. 21 at
the Cog Factory in Omaha.
Although the tour has broader ambitions,
promoter Lilly Ristagno said it stemmed from
a local need.
“Lincoln hasn’t had a ska show in a super
long time,” Ristagno said. “It worked out that
we got it all together, and I think it’s really
u-—
We want to bring the
roots of music back to
people that don’t even
know it’s there.”
Dylan Mitchell
The Bishops
important to have an all-ages venue.”
“There are a lot of people talking about com
ing to this show just because it’s something to
do,” Ristagno said.
But the ska show this Sunday promises to
have something for everyone interested in the
sound. Patrick Stura of Dr. Castrato and the
Measles promised an incredibly loud and very
accepting atmosphere.
“We’re definitely an aggressive third-wave'
ska without being punk — not that we’re try
ing to be un-punk,” Stura said. “There seems
to be a divisiveness between rude boys, punks
—whatever. It doesn’t make a difference to us
at ail.”
“Dancing is encouraged,” Mitchell said.
The show begins at 5 p.m. at the Wagon
Train Project, 512 S. Seventh St. Admission is
$5 and all ages are welcome.
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