New for 2011!
This year marks the initiation of a new exhibitor online registration system that will make your experience as a festival exhibitor smoother, easier and more efficient. The system will effortlessly guide you through completing and submitting your registration details in a single online location.
It’s also environmentally friendly by eliminating printing and mailing hard copies of the traditional application. Use this new system if you are an artisan, a commercial vendor or a non-profit booth. Click here to visit our new online registration system.
About Art & Soul A symbol of downtown Oakland’s renaissance, Art & Soul is a great entertainment value that sizzles with two music-packed days featuring Jazz, Rock, Gospel, Latin, R&B, Acoustic and Blues performed by national recording artists and top local talent.
Youngsters will love the kid-friendly carnival rides, interactive art projects, face painting and roaming costumed characters.
Stroll through the Artisan Marketplace, sample exotic foods and tasty treats from a multicultural menu and view great art.
Art & Soul, the Bay Area’s coolest festival, has direct transit access and free parking for thousands of cars.
Having begun his rise to R&B sainthood as a pre-teen performing with teen idol Stacy Lattisaw, Gill enjoyed tremendous success as part of seminal R&B boy band New Edition replacing Bobby Brown. With Gill as it’s leader, the group developed a more mature mainstream sound with hits like “Can You Stand The Rain, N.E. Heartbreak, and the Gill lead “Boys To Men.” Gill became a huge solo star in 1990 with the release of Johnny Gill which spawned classic chart toppers; “My, My, My,” “Rub You The Right Way” and “Fairweather Friend.” Gill went on to do several more records and massive tours as part of New Edition. Gill also joined up with fellow R&B crooners Keith Sweat and Gerald Levert for LSG. Together they produced two multi-platinum CD’s, Levert-Sweat-Gill and LSG2. Recently Gill has been a popular fixture as a live performer and on stage.
Saturday August 27, 2011
ROCK THE BELLS 2011 FESTIVAL SERIES
Ms. Lauryn Hill – “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”
Nas – “Illmatic” with AZ, Pete Rock, and DJ Premier
Cypress Hill – “Black Sunday”
Erykah Badu* – “Baduizm”
Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star – “Black Star”
Common* – “Be”
Raekwon & Ghostface – “Only Built for Cuban Linx”
Mobb Deep – “The Infamous”
The GZA – “Liquid Swords”
Immortal Technique
Doom
Slaughterhouse
Mac Miller* (West Coast Only)
Curren$y* (West Coast Only)
Souls of Mischief – “93 ‘til Infinity”
Black Moon- “Enta Da Stage”
Childish Gambino
Blu + Exile + Fashawn
Random Axe*
Masta Killah – “No Said Date”
Evidence* (East Coast Only)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis* (NY & LA Only)
Freddie Gibbs
Roc Marciano
Killah Priest – “Heavy Mental”
Boy Jones
VIP Package includes: Artist Meet N Greet, 2011 Festival T-shirt, Backpack, Poster, Credential, 2 Drink Tix (Under 21 non-alcoholic), VIP Entry, Private Full Bar, VIP restrooms. VIP Package Buyers present their VIP tickets at the venue on the day of the show to receive package amenities.
The Guerilla Union pre-sale for the ROCK THE BELLS 2011 FESTIVAL SERIES will go from June 3 at 10am PST – 10pm PST. The general on-sale starts on June 4. Fans are advised to visit www.rockthebells.net for the exact lineup per city and are encouraged to sign up for the Guerilla Union newsletter for important announcements and up-to-date information regarding the tour.