Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho Two-Year Anniversary Party

Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho to hold two-year anniversary party at the Linen Building Saturday, Nov. 21

Public event will feature DJs Art Hodge, Tony Baker and Pedro spinning vinyl, plus full bar and raffle prizes

The Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho will hold its two-year anniversary party at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Linen Building,1402 W. Grove St. in downtown Boise's Linen District. This all-ages special event is open to the public. Admission is free for VPS members and $2 for member guests and the public, and includes a free raffle ticket. Full bar.

The second annual Boise Record Show and Swap will follow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Linen Building.

VPS Idaho will celebrate two years of communal listening enjoyment with live DJs spinning vinyl all night long. Scheduled to spin are Art Hodge, Tony Baker and Pedro.

The party is a chance for members to toast VPS Idaho’s two-year anniversary and the public to learn more about the Society and sign up for free membership.

For more information, contact VPS Cofounder Chad Dryden at 208.284.0355 or info@vpsidaho.org. Visit vpsidaho.org and interact with VPS Idaho on MySpace and Facebook.

ABOUT VPS IDAHO: The Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho is an independent social recreation enterprise dedicated to communal listening enjoyment.

VPS Idaho has three main charters: preservation, education and entertainment. By actively promoting the preservation of the vinyl record as a medium, VPS Idaho hopes to play a small part in ensuring the enduring presence and future vitality of this unique and culturally rich musical format. In its educational efforts, VPS Idaho hopes to increase the knowledge of group members as well as the general public in all matters related to analog musicology, from record production techniques and the performance and maintenance of associated electronics to the history of vinyl in Idaho and beyond. In pursuing its entertainment goals, VPS Idaho simply hopes to help existing vinyl aficionados discover and enjoy more music while cultivating a wider community of new listeners; in short, to keep the records spinning and the music alive.

Monthly meetings (held every fourth Wednesday of the month) include guest speakers and DJs, opportunities to buy, sell and trade vinyl and, of course, a chance to share some of your favorite albums with fellow music geeks and vinyl junkies. Membership is free and open to anyone who listens to music of any kind. While members and guests don’t have to own any vinyl, it is assumed they at least have an interest in and appreciation for vinyl as ONLY VINYL RECORDS WILL BE PLAYED AT MEETINGS.

ABOUT THE LINEN BUILDING: Built in 1910 and originally known as the American Laundry Building, the Linen Building Event Center has been transformed into an architecturally unique special events center. The two-story facility houses three distinct music venues: a 350-capacity concert hall in a retrofitted warehouse space; an intimate, 150-capacity upstairs performance space housed in an art gallery; and a 1,500-capacity open-air performance space in the epicenter of Downtown Boise’s Linen District.

For more information on the Linen Building, call 208.385.0111 or email info@thelinenbuilding.com. Visit thelinenbuilding.com and interact with the Linen Building on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.