NYC Wizard Rock Festival November 21, 2010

The NYCWRF is an incredible event for fans of the Harry Potter book series and for lovers of independent music. New York will host the return of the NYC Wizard Rock Festival, featuring bands from the Wizard Rock community. Families, sci-fi/fantasy fans, and music enthusiasts from all over the world will converge upon New York to “wrock” out to a great line-up of amazing bands. This festival will be an all ages, daylong wizard rock extravaganza! In addition to the musical performances, there will be all kinds of Harry Potter geekery. This will be a truly magical event for witches and wizards of any age!

Wizard Rock, or Wrock, is a burgeoning independent music movement fostered by the Harry Potter fan community. The artists write music inspired by events, characters, and even objects from the Harry Potter series of books and films. Lyrics are often written from the point of view of the character or object from which the band gets its name. For example, Draco and the Malfoys - one example of a wizard rock band - sings from the point of view of Harry Potter's arch-nemesis. Sometimes the artist anthropomorphizes an inanimate object, such as The Whomping Willows, who performs as the human embodiment of a magical tree. Occasionally, bands will create their own characterizations, such as Swish and Flick, who developed a character that exists in the Harry Potter universe in name only (Astoria Greengrass). The artists generally distribute their music and publicize themselves via Myspace.com.

Including:

Ministry of Magic
Draco and the Malfoys
The Remus Lupins
The Whomping Willows
The Blibbering Humdingers
Celestial Warmbottom
The Cruciatus Curse
Diagon Alley
Hawthorn and Holly
The House of Black
Justin Finch Fletchley and the Sugar Quills
Madame Pince and the Librarians
Snidget
Swish and Flick
Tonks and the Aurors

Official Website: http://www.nycwizardrockfestival.com/index.htm