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Meridian-based acoustic indie rocker Jerry Fee will be playing a free concert at 8 p.m. tonight, on the first floor of the Student Union Building.
The show will be the start of a tour honoring the release of his new independent album, “Memories, Photographs and History.”
The official CD release party will be held in Boise on April 11.
“He’s just kind of chill,” said Vandal Entertainment Promotions Chair Kelsey Laroche. “He’s good to listen to on a stressful day.”
A statement on Fee’s official Web site defines his music as, “one part Americana Roots Rock, two parts Britpop and just a dash of Pinache.”
According to his Web site bio, Fee has been playing music for over a decade and began his solo career in mid 2007.
He learned how to play by ear on his college roommate’s guitar, and eventually sought formal music training while performing small shows around his college town.
He joined a band made up of several close friends, and was initially the drummer for the group.
He eventually ended up playing guitar before the band’s members gradually went their separate ways.
Fee has also worked with several music projects in the Northwest and played music with various artists while living in Nashville, Tenn. for a year.
He briefly fronted a Boise rock band before deciding to pursue his current project alone.
Vandal Entertainment Small Concerts Chair Archie Inoncillo booked Fee after stumbling onto his Myspace page.
“Like with any other artist, we do a Google, MySpace and PureVolume search to find who’s available,” Inoncillo said. “I personally like to look locally, and I just happened to find him in Meridian.”
Inoncillo said that he personally enjoys Fee’s style and wouldn’t be surprised to see his national popularity rise quickly.
“In a way, he’ll be different,” Inoncillo said. “The series is geared toward acoustic acts, so lately this is what we’ve had. But genre-wise, he’s a little different.”
For students who want to be consistently informed about Vandal Entertainment’s small campus events, Inoncillo has established an “invite tree” through his event forum on Facebook.com.
He said that information for any event that he books is available on the “ASUI Vandal Entertainment” and the “ASUI Vandal Entertainment Board Members” Facebook pages.
Inoncillo also said that the Facebook groups are open to anyone interested in joining the board or making suggestions for performers.
“Any of our concerts are essentially geared toward students, and we want to keep it that way,” Inoncillo said, “but because it’s free we don’t stray away from inviting community members who just want to see live acts.”
The concert marks the third-to-last event in Vandal Entertainment’s 2007-2008 Small Concert Series.
On April 22, Intervision, the Portland-based R&B pop group, will be playing in the Student Union Ballroom.
On April 39, New York new-wave rock band Jupiter One will play in the Ballroom for Tuesday of Finals Fest.
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