The Deep Ellum Art Festival is making a comeback, and it is new and improved, organizers say.
That's deep, bro. Deep Ellum is about to get a lot more fun with a newly resurrected arts festival.Fans and supporters of Deep Ellum music will come together on May 26 for an infamous event known as Deep Friday, which is making a long-awaited return. The live music series started in the 1990s as a monthly opportunity for music lovers to see all the bands they could in one night for a ticket price equivalent to a fancy beer.
During the meeting, the community members discussed ideas to bring some form of the newly deceased festival back to life while also making a few improvements along the way. After careful deliberation it was decided that Lee would be named executive director of whatever the new project would become. “My main involvement with the Deep Ellum Arts Festival was putting the ‘Deep Ellum’ back into the festival”, Lee says.
Roland Rangel and Breonny Lee are two of the organizers behind the new and improved Deep Ellum Arts Festival.For young artists like James Maker, who work and often reside in the neighborhood, the prospect of a new and improved arts fair is something to be excited about, so much so he's even volunteered to help out.
The Deep Ellum Community Arts Fair will be booking Deep Ellum-based food truck vendors and funneling festivalgoers all throughout the neighborhood. The new location will also not restrict any local businesses' front doors, a longtime complaint from business owners of the previous arts festival. For musician Roland Rangel, now the Deep Ellum Community Arts Fair marketing director, being involved and helping shape this new project is about nothing more than cultural preservation.
When the neighborhood organization decided to bring back Deep Friday as part of the weekend festivities, clubs such as Club Dada, Reno’s and others took the news with enthusiasm and offered their participation. With so many corporate entities who now call Deep Ellum home — such as Support Ninja, Embark and Common Desk — one would think that the Deep Ellum Community Arts Fair would easily get the funding it needs to help preserve what made the neighborhood so special in the first place: culture.
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