ArtBeat at night: Fri., July 17th

5:00pm — Parade Workshop for Futuristic Fashion Parade (for children and adults!)
Calling all robots, space cadets and eco-friendly designers: the Somerville of the future is fashion forward! We’ll be creating costumes for the “Somerville...of the Future!” parade (July 18, 2pm) from recycled and reused materials: boxes, mylar, and other mixed media will be  transformed into the designs of  the future. Come get shiny!

6:00pm — Hornitz (beatbox, electronica, hip-hop)
The Hornitz will be the first band to take the stage at this year’s ArtBeat!  A trio of childhood friends who have found a way to infuse traditional jazz with modern instruments.  The band members include Sleepa on guitar, Stoo on tenor sax/keyboards and vocals, and Friendship on bass trombone. The band has shared the stage with many big names including Redman and members of James Brown’s Soul Generals. They have also filled in as the horn section for George Clinton and the Funk Mob on several occasions.

6:45pm — Umi no Bodi perform “Fakutori” (dance)
Ellen Godena, artistic director of the Somerville-based butoh movement troupe, Umi no Bodi re-creates the noise, silence, color, and mechanistic environment of a large factory floor. She and the Umi no Bodi dancers inhabit the shifting forms of large animatronic industrial robots paving a series of futuristic assembly line-like paths behind the Davis Square MBTA station using gigantic rolls of multi-colored felt. Dancers shift from  robot to machine to animal forms as a live, eery soundscape is composed by musician Max Lord. 

7:30pm — Jenny Dee & the Delinquents (pop)
Jenny Dee made her start with notable Boston bands, The Downbeat 5 and The Dents, before deciding to indulge her love for the girl group and soul sounds of the 1960’s. After assembling The Deelinquents -  a band made up of friends from other local notable bands (Papas Fritas, The Gravel Pit, The Gentlemen) – she recorded a 2-song single in a weekend with producers Matt Beaudoin and Ed Valauskas (Eli “Paperboy” Reed) at Q Division. This is one of their first performances since returning from a successful tour in Spain with Eli “Paperboy” Reed.

8:30pm — Magic Magic (rock)
Although they may have fallen below the U.S. radar, not so in the U.K. The London Times says, “If you’re looking for comparisons, you might site RadioHead, Arcade Fire...and the like. Really, though, Magic Magic are their own band. And what a band — and what a discovery.” UK-based New Musical Express says, “The spookiest thing about Magic Magic isn’t that they’re from Salem, international home of witches. Nor that they’ve got two drummers, however hydra-headed that always looks.... Their bold orchestral pop is capable of twisting from banjo langor to choral euphoria to Fender-bending agression....Don’t believe the lack of hype.”

7-10pm — Black Hole Robot Dance Party — MAIN TRAFFIC ISLAND in Davis Square
Get down with Robots. On a traffic island.  Expect old school funk, groove and disco. To find out more about this futuristic funk throw down, your attendance is required.