The Northern California Noise Festival originally grew out of the summer-long Sacramento Experimental Music Series, originally held in 1994.
The festival was officially kicked off in 1995 and was held at the Guild Theater in Sacramento, on November 3rd, and 4th. Performers came from all over the western United States and Canada. Waffles were served free of charge to fest goers for the early Saturday show, thus a waffle brunch tradition was started and continues every year.
With the original designers of NF (Floyd and Jay) moving on to other projects, the fest lay dormant for the years 1998 & 1999. In 2000, Bill Burg reanimated the rotting corpse to great success. Soon after, a small committee of locals involved in noise joined Bill to help keep The Norcal NF occurring every Fall.
In 2005, Lob of Thee Instagon Foundation joined the NF Crew team as booking and stage manager, and official MC..giving even more diversity to the NF event.
2008 will mark the 13 year anniversary of NOISEFEST happening in the Sacramento area, and will be the 12th time this event has occurred. After searching the web and beyond ..we have yet to find ANY other Noise/Experimental festival happening anywhere else in the World that has continued for as long as NorCal NoiseFest has..
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We thank you for your patronage.
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This site is dedicated to the Norcal NOISE Fest...If you wish to add us as friends, please understand that this is truley a festival of NOISE. For examples of what we mean by "noise", please listen to the mp3s availible on this page and/or check out artists that have played in previous years. If your are not interested in this genre and just want to add us to promote yourself, please look elsewhere
Local Sacramento News story about NF1995
TRALPHAZ (sf,ca) at NF2005
