From April 6th to April 15th AS220's Fools Week will serve up its smorgasbord of art, music and performance on Empire Street with eight nights of special events and the first AS220 Fools Ball Parade through downtown Providence. Fools Week gets bigger every year, and attendees will be treated to the work of over 150 Rhode Island artists.
Key sponsors for this years event are Citizens Bank, Liz and Kim Chace, Cox Communications and McLaughlin & Moran. Supporting sponsors include Aetna/Dominion Rebar, BankRI, Fleet Bank, QC2 and Textron. Media sponsors are the Providence Phoenix and WBRU-FM Additional foolishness provided by Oop!
Tuesday April 6th 8pm $5
I Was A Teenage Rock Star
- With Jazzmine and Ted Only Knows
Goldstar Invitational Showcase
- The Gold Star is fast becoming an AS220 legend, wherein curators Geoff Griffin and Sheri Van Antwerp invite the AS220 community to put together ten minute performances of things they don't normally do onstage. The result range from the profound to the profoundly stupid, but it is always entertaining, and hey, you can stand anything for ten minutes.
Fools Ball Parade
- Through Downtown Providence - Music, marchers and people-powered floats.
Rain date: Friday April 9th
An Open Rehearsal with Kristin Hersh
- Her only US date before her European tour. Solo and with a band, recent and older material. Not to be missed.
100 advance tickets available at Mobee's Music, Thayer Street
Rock and Roll Party
- With Delta Clutch, Plymouth Rock and the Fall City Kings
100 advance tickets available at Mobee's Music, Thayer Street
Fools Ball Sponsors Dinner
- At Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, with the Fred De Christofaro Trio featuring Rose Weaver.
Call 401 831-9327 for reservations.
Fools Ball Three Story House Party
- This is the only evening of the year when the entire building is thrown open to the public, and revelers will be able to explore artists' studios, play games of chance and skill to win hand-crafted clay birds, take in the AS220 Residents Show and Neil Salley's astonishing Portal: A Time Machine installation and enjoy three stages' worth of continous music from artists including The Smoking Jackets, Erin McKeown, The Neo-'90s Dance Band, The Eyesores and The Panic Band.
Fools Week Aftershock
- Two nights with jam band superstars The Slip
200 advance tickets available at Mobee's Music, Thayer Street
