{"id":18992,"date":"2017-08-24T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=18992"},"modified":"2017-08-24T23:01:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T05:01:23","slug":"richard-dreyfest-v-a-big-hit-plans-laid-for-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/08\/richard-dreyfest-v-a-big-hit-plans-laid-for-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dreyfest V a big hit, plans laid for next year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<div id=\"slides-18992\" class=\"navis-slideshow\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"slide-nav\">\n\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"prev\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"next\"><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"slides_container\"><div id=\"18992-slide1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/lead-art.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/lead-art-771x514.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Missoula artist Joshua Bacha painted this banner for Richard Dreyfest V. Click on the arrow at top right for more photos.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df10-771x815.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Richard Dreyfest sports one of his own T-shirts and shows off a schedule. Mask by the Anderson girls \u2014 Grace, Nolee, and Ellerae.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide3\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Jenni Long, Caleb Addy and Austin Finn, of Idaho Green, finish the fest at NOVA Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide4\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df7-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df7.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Sydney Ausen and the Anderson girls sell wristbands and merch at Smiling Dog Records. Three cheers for the volunteers!<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide5\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df14-771x541.jpg*771*541\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df14.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Denver outfit The Windermeres play in the back room at Smiling Dog Records on Friday. Bozeman visual artist Ernav K. provided projected visuals on both days at the fest.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide6\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-24-at-11.06.45-AM-771x485.png*771*485\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-24-at-11.06.45-AM.png\" \/><h6>Anna Paige <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Bassist Parker Brown and poet Dave Casario perform for a packed house at Craft Local for the Dreyfest Poetry Jam on Friday. \n<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df5-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df5.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Reid Perry serenades the crowd at Annex Coffeehouse and Bakery on Saturday.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df1-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df1.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>A humanoid bear crowd-surfs at NOVA.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide9\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df4-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df4.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Johnathon Beal, Jackson McMurray and Christen Crasco lounge at the Annex after volunteering. They sit beneath a tie-dye tapestry by local artist and musician Drew Mullins.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide10\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df3-771x738.jpg*771*738\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df3.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Bozeman artist Chryanther Wood sells merchandise for his band, Panther Car, at NOVA.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide11\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/DFFFFFFF-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/DFFFFFFF.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Poverty Porn, from Missoula, plays Smiling Dog Records on Friday.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide12\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df6-771x796.jpg*771*796\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df6.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Billings native Zach Kessler poses outside the NOVA Center for the Performing Arts. His band, Rapid Ejac, played there on Saturday.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide13\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/DFFF-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/DFFF.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Bozeman\u2019s Modern Sons at NOVA.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide14\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df2-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df2.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Billings band Bull Market gives an investment seminar at NOVA.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide15\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df12-771x627.jpg*771*627\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df12.jpg\" \/><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Ty Herman and Garret Nash run the door at Smiling Dog. Ty was enjoying himself, if you can't tell.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"18992-slide16\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df11-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/df11-1-771x471.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Mary Kate Teske <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Bozeman projection artist Ernav K. steps outside of Smiling Dog for a breather.\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><script>jQuery( document ).ready( function() { loadSlideshow( 18992, 'https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/08\/richard-dreyfest-v-a-big-hit-plans-laid-for-next-year\/', 16 ) } );<\/script>\n<p>Organizers of Richard Dreyfest V are calling the event a big success, and they are already laying plans for Dreyfest VI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All in all, we were really stoked about how it turned out,&#8221; said musician and writer Phillip Griffin, one of the main organizers of the punk-inspired music and arts festival. &#8220;The event got off without any major hitches, which was something of a surprise because no one in this year\u2019s organizational core had done it before.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Held Aug. 11 and 12 at eight venues in downtown Billings, Dreyfest V attracted an estimated 400 people, Griffin said. They were entertained by 32 musical acts, eight poetry acts (most of which featured collaborations between artists and musicians), 11 comics and eight visual artists.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy show and the poetry event, offered this year for the first time, were both successful, too, Griffin said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18993\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-18993 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/df8.jpg\" alt=\"Fse\" width=\"336\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Mary Kate Teske<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd at Smiling Dog Records sways with the music of The Budgets.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;To me, it\u2019s really great to have multimedia offerings because most of us, artists and enthusiasts alike, have interests beyond our focus,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We\u2019ll definitely include comedy and poetry next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Including visual art was also new this year. Griffin said one of his favorites was the\u00a0video synthesis projection show by Bozeman artist Ernav K. (which you can see in some of the photos above). Griffin\u00a0\u00a0said he&#8217;s already been in touch with a visual artist in Missoula who does something similar, &#8220;so we\u2019ll have even more of that next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are thinking of putting the festival on next year on\u00a0Aug. 1o and 11, to keep it a Friday-Saturday event. They also hope to restructure things so that no more than three events are underway at any given time. At one point this year there were four events happening simultaneously \u2014 the poetry event and three musical performances \u2014 which took a lot of work to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>For next year, he said, they also hope\u00a0to pick up some more sponsorships, &#8220;so we\u00a0can snag a bigger act or two and make the fest that much cooler. We\u2019ll also have more time to organize, which will help overall. And we\u2019re going to do a submission process, at least for the music aspect, to open things up and get more new talent at the fest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the hopes of bringing in Richard Dreyfuss himself, the actor whose name, sort of, more or less anchors the whole festival. As <a href=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/2017\/08\/dreyfest-organizers-interview-the-man-himself\/\">we reported earlier<\/a>, Griffin and Brie Ripley, a reporter for Yellowstone Public Radio who also helped with Dreyfest,\u00a0had\u00a0a pre-festival interview with Dreyfuss, which became the highlight of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/share\/pb-djctc-6e80ae\">24-minute podcast<\/a> they produced.<\/p>\n<p>During that interview, Dreyfuss said he would come to next year&#8217;s festival and\u00a0\u201ctalk about any issue you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll follow up with Richard (I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying this) here pretty quickly, to improve our chances of getting on his schedule,&#8221; Griffin said. &#8220;I think we\u2019ll also send him a swag bundle with a T-shirt with his face on it, some stickers, a poster with his face on it, a hat with his face on it, and whatever other fest paraphernalia we\u2019ve got.&#8221;<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers of Richard Dreyfest V are calling the event a big success, and they are already laying plans for Dreyfest VI. &#8220;All in all, we were really stoked about how it turned out,&#8221; said musician and writer Phillip Griffin, one of the main organizers of the punk-inspired music and arts festival. &#8220;The event got off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,18],"tags":[6133,6132,6183,6134],"class_list":["post-18992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-billings","category-culture","category-diversions","tag-brie-ripley","tag-phil-griffin","tag-richard-dreyfest-v","tag-richard-dreyfuss","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19015,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992\/revisions\/19015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}