While organizing the What Doth Life DIY Music Festival over the summer, Kiel Alarcon couldn’t help thinking about a 1990s Mike Myers comedy that he watched religiously in his teens and early adulthood.
Both the anxiety and the hilarity levels are just now abating, on the eve of Saturday’s celebration of, by and for Upper Valley musicians at the Windsor Farmers Exchange.
“It’s 11 bands and 11 vendors,” Alarcon said recently. “I was definitely having flashbacks to Waynestock from Wayne’s World 2.”
This festival came together a little easier than that fictional gathering. Aside from the fact that Christopher Walken isn’t threatening Alarcon’s love life, the festival lineup includes two of the bands for which Alarcon plays guitar — The Pilgrims and Derek and the Demons — and most of the rest belongs to the What Doth Life collaborative.
Leading off the festival will be The Jobz, a Windsor-based rock quintet, followed by the Boston-area hard-rock trio Death Pesos; the Claremont indie rock ensemble Chodus; Enfield native Hannah Hoffman’s electro-pop group Dune Hunter; the White River Junction power punkers The Law Abiders; the veteran alt-rockers of Windsor-based Carton; Upper Valley-native Faith Wood and Ida Mae Specker’s surf-rock ensemble Faux in Love; the Maiden Voyage hip-hopsters Teece Luvv, Nathe Renmus and Jarv.
And after Maiden Voyage finishes its set, the celebration moves to Windsor Station at 10 p.m., where the country-infused blues rockers of Moxley Union will incite the audience to, well, live out Wayne Campbell’s tagline: “Party on!”
The What Doth Life DIY Music Festival runs from to 2 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, at the Windsor Farmers Exchange. Admission is by donation.
David Corriveau can be reached at dcorriveau@vnews.com and at 603-727-3304.