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Lake County Underground Music and Arts

About Me


Who is Lake County Underground Music and Art?
L.U.M.A. is just a group of people trying to create a
much-needed refuge for musicians and artists. Imagine
a place where anyone could come to perform their
music, practice their music, record their music, show
their art, work on their art, and network it all
together. That's what we are creating. The center will
be an artist’s paradise of free expression,
inspiration, and continual motivation. We aren't just
for the artists, but the art lovers too. No one is
excluded from joining the community we are creating
Doug Hill - General Manager/Founder/Public Relations E-mail Doug
Brian Prestopic - Founder/Marketing Director/Booking Agent E-mail Brian
Justin Matalonis - founder/board Member, low end donations/ Recruiter E-mail Justin
visit our website: LUMA PRODUCTIONS
LUMA NOW ACCEPTING DONATIONS
We currently only accept donations through snail mail, make checks
payable to Lake County Underground Music and Arts (not LUMA)
Our address is
Lake County Underground Music and Arts
PO Box 282
Lake Villa,IL 60046-0282
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What exactly is L.U.M.A. looking to do?

After two years of running local shows out of other
people's buildings, we are ready to move into our own
building. It's time for us to become what we set out
to do. A large music and art center. After searching
for a suitable building for a year, it has come to
having to build from scratch. From the foundation to
the finer details. The center would have a large venue
area, recording studio, practice rooms, art gallery,
and a workshop area for the arts. There are eventual
projects down the line to further expand, but these
basic services are the core of what we are going to
offer. As L.U.M.A. has done before, we will continue
to put on charity shows/events, and we do plan to
start up some community-involved projects to help not
only the artistic community, but also the general
community as well.

How do you help?

Right now we are currently looking for investors with
interest in projects like this. And we are looking for
artists and musicians who would like to be a part of
the experience, whether it is online exposure or
furture work later.

Investors can contact Doug Hill at
[email protected] . We can discuss anything you
wish and set up a meeting if you so choose.

Artists may contact Doug Hill at [email protected]
as well currently we are looking to add more art work
to the website and would be happy to spotlight some
artists on it.

Bands may contact Brian Prestopic at
[email protected] and join the many band
contacts. Eventually we will have a spotlight section
for bands, and eventually we will have shows again.
Please keep us up to date with your band's situation
as we do like to hear about the local community.
Brian [email protected] or Doug [email protected]

People looking to volunteer time, and effort, and eventually land a job when we get this thing moving again please write Justin at [email protected], or write him here. All updates for myspace account done by Justin, send him your shows, at least one month in advance.

My Blog

RIP LUMA Productions (2003 - 2008)

Today marks the end of LUMA Productions. It was a very tough decision to come to but we felt that the time was right to cease operations. Time was a huge factor in making this decision. With Justin ...
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 15:21:00 GMT

We are going the grant route

We were looking at doing shows at the Round alek Civic center but it is a lot of money for us right now. I want to take a look at the lake villa place that is doing shows now, but most likely we will ...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:24:00 GMT

WE are looking into getting some shows going again, but

Doug and Brian want to wait a little while longer, so we we can see if we can get some grants, Hopefully there will be something going soon, until then we want to know who is around ,and who...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:27:00 GMT

Nothing yet

I have gone to a few places, but they are very expensive to rent, well for us. The Round Lake Sports Complex said the would do it but the onyl place worth getting is 9000 square foot building for $100...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:12:00 GMT

We may be coming back sooner then later

Doug, brian, and I have all been talking and we are very interested in starting up LUMA again. For the past few years we've gotten older. Doug has an apartment and is getting married. I got marri...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:30:00 GMT

I havn't posted here in a while

We'll now its been a real long time since we've mentioned anything. Doug still works at Spencers, and is dating some girl who I havn't met yet. Brian is working at a bowling alley and still is going ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 May 2007 23:06:00 GMT

This weeks news

There is no news to tell you as of yet. We'll keep you posted.Thank you to the many bands that seem to want to be our friends. It would be nice to get more artists, ect. but it's still nice.
Posted by on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:52:00 GMT

Current LUMA Update

Justin,   The application is submitted, I met the landlords today. I also talked with Dustin, the zoning board guy for the villlage of Antioch. Once we get the go ahead from ...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:11:00 GMT

SAVE 1-800-SUICIDE

1-800-SUICIDE, the non-profit suicide hotline supported by the Take Action Tour is in danger of losing all federal funding. The organization has to date, accepted calls from more than two million indi...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:03:00 GMT

Current Update

Things are going ok. Right now DOug should be finalizing the business plan and then summit it to the landlord. From there we have to go to the bank, and then go to the village board in Antioch. Until ...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:54:00 GMT