A Little Bit of FLOW: watson the band Performs at the BLO Music Stage and Beer Garden

More pictures and videos from the 6th annual FLOW, the northside art crawl and community celebration, will be shared across the internets by various folks in the near future. But for now here's a little slice of the BLO Music Stage and Beer Garden.

NoMi Homie Brian Mondl is on the drums and band member John is on vocals and the guitar. Together they make up half of watson the band. Word is watson will be playing next week at the St Paul Saints baseball game, check 'em out!

(Apologies for the abrupt ending. I did say a "little" slice, it was busy, and more people were approaching to converse and the talking is a terrible addition to the rock and roll)

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FLOW and The BLO Music Stage and Beer Garden TODAY!

Photos from Facebook, blog post by Nomi Passenger

Today is FLOW, the annual Northside Art Crawl that was started through efforts by The PEACE Foundation six years ago. Each year the event continues to evolve and always ends up being a lovely day along West Broadway for northsiders to celebrate our community. Full event details can be found here.

This year, the tornado-battered business, Broadway Liquor Outlet, affectionately referred to as BLO, is sponsoring a music stage and beer garden. The BLO Music Stage and Beer Garden will be held in the parking lot of another tornado-battered business, Fire-n-Ice, on the northwest corner of Penn and West Broadway. The music stage is set to go from 3-9pm today and features several musicians and bands, some of them from right here in NoMi.

One of the featured bands, watson, has been mentioned on this blog before. The drummer, Brian Mondl, aka thongmaster, is a NoMi Homie and frequent hanger-outer of the Jordan Pond.

Here's the details from the BLO Music Stage and Beer Garden Invite:

Join us this Saturday, July 30th at the BLO Music Stage and Beer Garden as a part of the 6th Annual FLOW northside arts crawl. Our stage will be rockin' with 4 great music groups starting at 3 p.m. until 9 p.m. while our beer garden, sponsored by New Belgium Brewery will be pouring the suds throughout our live music event! This is a free music event for all to enjoy. Stop by and check out local artists displays, a live chain saw art exhibition, great music, food and drink, and a whole lot more!

What: BLO Music Stage and Beer Garden

Where: 2220 West Broadway at the corner of Penn and West Broadway Avenues

When: Saturday July 30, 2011 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Scheduled bands to perform include:

3-4 p.m. Dan Hylton & Krista Johnson, NOMI Alt-Acoustic Sensation

4-5 p.m. Watson, NOMI Rock & Roll

5-6 p.m. Tornado Volunteer Photo Shoot

6-7:30 p.m. The Undergroove, R & B Funk

8-9:30 p.m. Ruben, Pop/Rock band from Stillwater, MN

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Watson Storming the Stage!

Guest post by the Hawthorne Hawkman, image from the band Watson

In case anyone doesn't already have plans tonight (and if you already do, I hope they involve this great show), I'm helping spread the word about the most famous NoMi band, Watson.

WATSON will be storming the stage of the Fine Line next Friday, Oct 23rd!! We are the opening band for a double CD release show featuring 2 great local bands – Capital Sons, and The New Congress. Since half of the bands playing the night are releasing CDs, we figured we’d join the fun and release our newest single “You Are The Only One” for FREE at this show. That’s right, it’s FREE!!! A limited quantity will be produced for the show, so be sure to get there early to secure your copy of the newest Watson release.

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