AND WE'RE OFF! Our bags are packed, our lists are checked and double checked and our spirits are high, off we go!
We just wrapped production on our new video, what a marathon weekend (22 hours in just the first day! Phew!). With over 85 cast and crew pulling together, it is going to be something truly magical, we can't wait to see and share the end result!! A sneak peak photo:
At this point we can finally wrap our frazzled little heads around packing every last detail needed for a three week tour of Portugal, Ireland and Canada. Moon? Check. Trapeze bar? Check. Wigs? Check. Eyelashes, fishnets, PASSPORT? Check, check, check!
VIOLIN PLAYER? CHECK! We are pleased to announce that we have found our contest winner in the great violin player hunt of 2010! Ladies and gentlemen we give you: PAWEL GRUDZIEN aka "Pav the Fiddler" hailing from the capital of Ireland: DUBLIN!
We had many AMAZINGLY talented people submit their violin playing talents, from New York, San Francisco, Ireland, Los Angeles and London but, we could only pick one. A big thank you to all that submitted! You are all super talented! Below are the videos we were sent, wow!
We now bid you adieu and look forward to our adventures together in the fall!
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Here are the awesome violin players that made videos for us:
Hello all you glorious and beautiful people out there, Giant things are happening in the world of Lucent Dossier this summer and fall and we are up to our eyeballs in preparation (and perspiration)! We had an absolutely AMAZING time performing and playing at Lightning in a Bottle Festival over Memorial Day weekend. We were literally buzzing with excitement for this performance and it paid off! The stadium sized roar that came from you all as we took our bow was epic as were all your smiling faces!Mad love to the Do LaB for all their hard work and dedication, we love you!!!You can watch the video of our show on YouTube HERE Along with a wild, whirlwind trip to the Bahamas to perform at the grandiose Atlantis Resort on the 4th of July, we blew the minds of 1200 party goers, television execs, and celebrities at a private party on the Warner Brothers Studio back lot, they seriously had no idea what hit them. This from the Executive VP and chief marketing officer for Warner Bros, "Thank you for the most amazing experience. You are the most extraordinary and talented people on the planet". Jeepers! ~You can see pictures from our trip to the Bahamas right HERE. We closed out July with two incredible events. We opened for the legendary electronic production powerhouse The Crystal Method to a packed crowd at the Music Box Theatre in Hollywood! We also just returned from co-producing & performing in the finale show at Horning’s Hideout in Oregon, featuring The String Cheese Incident, the response was overwhelming! Our festival plans are still in full swing- we visit Portugal this month for the Boom Festival, which is touted as one of the best in Europe along the lines of Burning Man (we’ll let you know!), then we hit up the beautiful rolling countryside of Ireland in September for our fifth Electric Picnic and finally it’s off to Canada for the Frosh Week Celebration at Ottawa University! We will also be shooting a video in downtown LA this month that will be unlike anything you have ever seen…get ready! You can find all of our upcoming events on our Facebook fan page or the Lucent Dossier website, which has just been blessed with a new section: The Oracle! Every week The Oracle pulls an oracle stone and conducts a collective reading for us all along with insight, videos and more. This week’s stone is PLAY- click on her page in the menu on the left read why you should take having fun seriously. Don’t be left in the dust, keep up with all the latest Lucent Dossier news- and learn about fabulous new contests- on our Twitter page. Please follow us athttp://twitter.com/lucentDossier, and please suggest Lucent Dossier to your Facebook friends as well. And finally, your opportunity to perform with Lucent Dossier! We are looking for a violinist with fiery soul, exuding love and extreme talent to perform with us on our European adventure this summer. Please pass this information along to all violinists you know! Find all the information about entering the contest below. That’s it folks! Thank you from the bottom of our fast beeting hearts for your continued support and love, and thank you for shining YOUR Lucent light, having fun and making this world more beautiful. xoxo, LDE
Summer Time and the Livin's Easy
It's official, the first day of summer has come and boy, are we ready!
We are gearing up for some summer travels! We are blessed to be packing our bags for a jaunt to THE BAHAMAS! Heck yeah! We will be ringing in the 4th of July at the beautiful Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island (better work on those tans right quick!) Check this place out!: Atlantis
We are pleased as punch to have been asked to perform at....BOOM FESTIVAL!!! Stand by while we pinch ourselves! This amazing festival is located in the magical setting of the lake of Idanha-a-Nova in Portugal. This is said to be one of the most incredible festivals in the world. We have been crossing our fingers and toes for this one for some time now! Weeeeeeeeeeee!
And, for the fifth consecutive year, we return home to the green hills of Ireland with The Do LaB for the beloved Electric Picnic Festival! Said to be Europe's Burning Man in the mud. EP is always a jaw dropping time, we love you Ireland, bring on the craik!
photography by Roger Fojas
We had one heck of a Spring. Our new stage show at Coachella, as we mentioned, was AWESOME! The 420 Festival, a fun, different experience on both sides of the stage, for sure! We also helped unveil the newly renovated Music Box Theatre in Hollywood. Goes to show you can never stop improving yourself! And Lucent Dossier has become their in-house entertainment group, so, if you want to book an event in the near future and would like us to perform, we highly recommend the epicly beautiful Music Box. See it HERE.
We rocked the socks off of the Warner Brothers back lot for a 1200 person private party and they never knew what hit them! Lucent's mad crew ushered in the festivities in true dark, underground carnie style and kept the group of international execs, directors and celebs entertained for hours with fire, dance, aerial, and even body suspension! (yep, we're talking suspending a beautiful girl from her skin folks! YIKES!) We also activated the store fronts into a little Lucent Village and tantalized the curious with one-on-one interactions such as Rose Water Foot Washing with Shrine, The Post Portal Post Office with postmistress Erin (lost letters finally hand delivered to their rightful owner!), our own mystical Oracle, Ceci, The Baroness, our Elixir men Jade and Westley pawned snake oils and one time cures...and our traveling minstrels roamed the streets. With fireworks, a carousel, one giant Ferris wheel and us, this was a party to go down in the record books!!
photography by Roger Fojas
photography by Roger Fojas
photography by Roger Fojas
But, nothing is truer to our hearts than LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE. Ah, it was like welcoming back a family member who has been away too long! It came back to us bigger and better than ever before! Mad love and thanks to The Do LaB and the 100's of staff and volunteers involved to make this festival a reality. It's truly a labor of love, THANK YOU!!! We were literally buzzing with excitement for this performance and it paid off! The stadium sized roar that came from you all as we took our bow was epic. Looking out into the sea of beautiful faces and radiant smiles lifted us to new heights!
Photography by KyerPhotography
photography by Daniel Jung
Thank you everyone that visited the Lucent Temple of Consciousness. It was such a beautiful place to learn, love and be. We want to thank our partners Sayta Yuga who created the incredible alters and stage. We absolutly love you and look forward to future collaborations.
Phew, lots of news and more to come! So, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Myspace so we can keep you informed of our whereabouts. You don't wanna miss out on all the amazing happenings in Los Angeles (and contests too!) We would love for you to join us! Sending warm summer hugs! Don't forget to wear your sunscreen!
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"A burst of energy and sexual tension. . . Lucent Dossier. . . RISQUE!" ~SPIN
"Best known for its Coachella water spectaculars, the circus troupe... reaches to the past and the future for its fantasy performances. Sepia-stained clowns, as if from an old-timey circus, teeter by on stilts. Dusty post apocalyptic warriors slither down from the sky on aerial silks. Sooty urchins of the Great Plague dance hypnotically. At a Lucent Dossier show you experience a world that doesn't exist, a place where the future and the past happen simultaneously, as if under some metaphorical big top in a David Lynch dream sequence." ~LA Weekly 2009 People Addition
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