Metro Gnome Music’s Gnome Fest 2012
Saturday April 7th, 11:30-6PM
4044 E. Speedway, Tucson, AZ 85712

Bands & Beards! Music & Mischief! Food Trucks, Local Bands, Contests and More!

Metro Gnome Music is having their first annual Gnome Fest on Saturday, April 7, 2012 from 
11:30-6PM. This family friendly event will be the first of its kind in Tucson and is guaranteed to put a smile on everyone’s face! So, be sure to grab your picnic blanket and lawn chairs and come check out this free concert event featuring six local bands! (The Bad News Blues Band, The Bouncing Czechs, Catch the Ghost, Genevieve & The LP’s, The Ronstadts, and Under the Bridge.)

In addition to the bands there will also be some of Tucson’s best food trucks for people that want to grab a bite to eat. Food trucks to include Jamie’s Bitchin Kitchen, Guero Loco’s Bubba Que and Trucking Good Cupcakes!

Children’s activities will keep the kids happy! From a crafty table where kids can color gnomes or draw their own gnomes to a dance contest during The Bouncing Czechs.

You can get in on the Gnome fun early by participating in a Show Your Gnome contest, currently on Metro Gnome Music’s Facebook site. Post your favorite gnome image and the picture with the most likes wins a prize.

AND, for you guys, don’t shave that beard, because there will be a beard contest for the best beard! ALSO, come hungry and participate in the Gnome eating contest.

About Metro Gnome Music: This one-of-a kind store has been serving the Tucson community since 2000. It is Tucson’s destination for used musical instruments & equipment, as well as video games, DVDs, Vinyl, and CDs. They carry musical instruments from entry level to professional. Whether you need a trumpet, electric guitar, drum set, keyboard, or violin, this is the place to go. Metro Gnome Music also specializes in renting musical instruments for students in school band and orchestra programs. They provide affordable, quality, pre-owned musical instruments which are refurbished and maintained by their knowledgeable repairmen. Minor adjustments and repairs are promptly provided for no additional charge to their rental customers. In addition to their band and orchestral rentals, Metro Gnome Music offers a wide range of parts and accessories for all your
musical needs.

Media Contact:
Todd Crawford, Metro Gnome Music
520-609-6789
metrognomemusic@aol.com
www.metrognomemusic.com

For you gnome fans, check out the French move “Amelie” where gnomes play a large (and humorous) role.

In French, with English subtitles, the charming cult classic “Amelie” is coming for 2 nights only, August 13 and 14 to the Loft Theatre’s Late Night Cult Classics (10 p.m. showings).

“Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s magical French comedy is perhaps one of the most charming movies of all time. Amélie (played by the impish Audrey Tautou, in a role that forever made her an arthouse pin-up girl) is a painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe. One day she makes the grand decision to help other lonely people fix their lives, dedicating herself to inspiring others to find true happiness … in the most delightfully unexpected ways. Her widowed father yearns to travel but won’t, so to inspire the old man she sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world; with whispered gossip, she brings together two cranky regulars at her café; she reverses the doorknobs and reprograms the speed dial of a grocer who’s mean to his assistant. Gradually she realizes her own life needs fixing, and a chance meeting leads to her most elaborate stratagem of all.
A beguiling mixture of cartoonish comedy, visual panache and whimsical romanticism, Jeneut’s follow-up to his classic films “Delicatessen” and “City of Lost Children” is sheer movie bliss.”

Don’t miss this one, as it’s an all inspiring, quirky, “do gooder” type of movie with a French twist. This movie actually made me smile! The Loft Cinema is at 3233 E. Speedway, east of Country Club.

Coming up in September for this same cult classic series: “The Big Lebowski” on September 3 to 6, for you Joel and Ethan Coen brothers fans.