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See 6 New Bands at the Crown Heights Independent Music Extravaganza

By Rachel Holliday Smith | March 31, 2015 4:24pm | Updated on March 31, 2015 4:35pm
 Crown Heights Independent Music Extravaganza
Crown Heights Independent Music Extravaganza
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CROWN HEIGHTS — Paint a picture while you soak in the local music scene this weekend at the Crown Heights Independent Music Extravaganza, an all-night artist showcase set inside a former car repair shop on Atlantic Avenue.

Six acts  five from Brooklyn and one from Utica  will play at the fourth-ever “CHIME” event on Saturday, April 4, including two soul-rock bands, a hip-hop act and the organizer of the event, Crown Heights resident Eric Vitoff, whose music is a mix of singer-songwriter acoustic and electro-rock.

“It’s all very different approaches,” he said of the groups set to play at CHIME IV. “Everybody’s got a full band, actual instrumentation and real, actual music being generated. That’s something that I’m very big on, as opposed to too much button-pushing.”

And while the music plays, attendees will be invited to paint on the walls with supplies provided by the Brooklyn-based art group Indigo Artist Collective, who will also sell work by local artists at the event.

The show will take place at the Kymberle Project, a venue built from a former repair shop on Atlantic Avenue between Nostrand and New York avenues. Vitoff, who lives around the corner from the space, said he fell in love with its “good, positive vibes” after playing there once last September. Soon afterwards, he put together the first CHIME event, in October.

“I took one look at the space and said, ‘Oh, this is where I would have the most freedom to make this a really cool event,’” he said.

Held on a bi-monthly basis, each CHIME has featured mostly Brooklyn artists to help local acts find support and fans in the independent music scene, Vitoff said.

“I feel like I’m doing my little part to make sure that people who really have something to offer artistically  that they and their fans are all aware of other similar groups like themselves,” he said.

Vitoff, who has a day job in grant-writing and IT work, is hoping CHIME IV will be the biggest yet; ticket sales have nearly doubles since the first one last fall, he said.

The Utica-based band Bad Cello will start the show at 8 p.m., followed by Vitoff, the jazzy duo Lulu Fall and James Theory, the seven-piece band ON THE SUN, pop-rock band Belly Fire and hip-hop artists Nuri Hazzard.

Tickets for CHIME IV are $10. For more information, visit the event page on Facebook. The Kimberle Project is located at 1332 Atlantic Ave.