Other Events
Other cool things going on in and around the MarsCon Dementia Track you should know about include…
TABLE 27: THE OFFICIAL MERCH TABLE OF THE MARSCON DEMENTIA TRACK
Bring cash. Bring lots of cash. It might take you a while to sift through the over seven dozen albums for sale by the performers of MarsCon, muttering to yourself “got it, need it, need it, got it, got it, need it, got it”, but it’ll be worth the effort when you walk away from the table with your fingers spread wide to hold your digitally encoded comedy music bounty. No wonder MarsCon has become THE place where every act wants to drop their new album. Table 27 is located, as always, just outside the doors of the main stage room where all the performances are happening, and will be open during the main stage Dementia Track concerts:
Friday – 8:30 pm to 12:30 am
Saturday – 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Sunday – 12:30pm to 4:30 pm.
We are currently looking for 3 to 5 volunteers for Table 27. You’ll get a free weekend badge to MarsCon 2012 in exchange for working at the table. If you are interested, read the details at the bottom of this page, and contact us. Thank you.
SPACE ODDITY MUSIC CLUB & BREW PUB!
Once again, Beth Kinderman and her filky friends bring you three nights of geeky fun at MarsCon 2011, featuring music circles, snacks and drinks, and board and card games in a comfortable, laid-back space. They’ll be open from 7 pm until ‘late’, and they’ll have a P.A. system there, so if any of the filk, dementia, or nerdcore acts want to come in and plug in their backing track devices, you can do a spontaneous show! Please drop by to sing a song, share a pint, learn a game, or chat with your friends! For more details and to donate to help make the party happen, visit their website. They also have a Facebook page.
DEMENTIA SMACKDOWN WRESTLING!
Every year Dementia Radio DJ and pro wrestling fan Jered Perez uses the latest WWE video games to create avatars of all of the acts appearing at the MarsCon Dementia Track. Then he records them fighting against one another in a 30 minute Battle Royal to see who will be crowned the champion of “Dementia Smackdown Wrestling”! So come root for your favorite act, and witness the virtual violence and senseless slaughter for silly supremacy! Featuring live commentary by DSW commentators Commissioner J.P. Tuesday (Jered Perez) and Duke ‘Flyboy’ DuJour (Luke Ski). Snap into it! Oooh yeah!
The one and only DJ Particle will host this event that puts YOU in the spotlight! It’ll be your chance to get up in front of the crowd and show your demented stuff! Are you an up and coming dementia artist with some songs to sing? Are you a Karaoke fanatic who loves to sing your favorite funny tunes? Do you and your friends want to do a lip-sync to the latest demented hit? Then this is the show for you!
If you’d like to sign up, just show up and bring any background music you need to perform with either on CD or in MP3 format on a Flash Drive. We’ll put your name in a hat along with our other participants, and we’ll pull names out at random to determine the order of our first rotation. Once we’ve gotten through the first rotation, we’ll go through it again giving people who want to more chances to perform. So bring your talent and creativity and be a Dementia Star! 
THE FuMP JUKEBOX!
In the history of the MarsCon Dementia Track, we’ve had well over 27 different comedy music acts perform, and unfortunately there just isn’t enough Main Stage time to give everybody a 30 minute main stage concert every year. That’s why last year, I added to the schedule a show called the FuMP JUKEBOX, in which some of our returning regulars and new faces from the FuMP & the FuMP Sideshow who didn’t get main stage concerts this year will have a chance to get up on stage and do one of their songs for the awesome MarsCon audience. This year we’ll have one-shot performances by DJ PARTICLE, JEFF REUBEN, BETH KINDERMAN, and DERWOOD BOWEN, and other acts to be figured out later! If you are a FuMP or FuMP Sideshow act and you’d like to do a song during the FuMP Jukebox, just contact us and let us know. So be sure to come check it out on Sunday at 2:30 pm.
THE DEMENTIA SMACKDOWN!
Our traditional ending to the best weekend ever for fans of comedy music, the Dementia Smackdown will once again feature almost all of our weekend’s performers coming back to the stage one last time to perform cover versions of well known comedy songs, both by established legends, and by each other. The only word to describe it is ‘legenda-epic-awesome-ary’!
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“TABLE 27″ IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS
Our huge double-wide merch table for the acts of the MarsCon Dementia Track is returning once again, and we need people to staff it. In exchange for your services, you’ll get a free badge into MarsCon for the weekend. Table 27 is just outside the doors to the Main Stage room, and will be open during the Dementia Track concerts, on Friday from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am, Saturday from 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm, and on Sunday from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm. We will do our best to make sure our volunteers don’t miss out on anything at MarsCon they really want to see or do. We have 1 volunteer already, and we’re looking for 3 to 5 more volunteers to help run the table during those times. Our goal is to have 2 or 3 people behind the table at all times when it is open, so if we have 6 volunteers, that should be easy to figure out. So if you’re willing to give us some of your time at MarsCon to help the Dementia Track in exchange for a free weekend badge, email me at thegreatlukeski@gmail.com . Thanks.