Flight of the Valkyries is an annual metal festival with editions held St. Paul, MN and recently (beginning in 2010) Baltimore, MD. The music festival is dedicated to metal bands with female lead vocalists.
In 2007 SwordLord Productions announced the first ever Flight of the Valkyries metal festival - dedicated to metal bands with female lead vocalists. Shortly after seeing the Minnesota promoter's festival announcement, Maryland-based promoter Bobbie Dickerson of BlackRoseMetalHeart Promotions contacted promoter Nathan Block of SwordLord Productions and the two immediately began working together to create and promote the US-based festival that showcased the talent and the diversity of women in the metal genre.
In 2010, the Flight of the Valkyries festival began to spread its wings under the guidance and promotion of BlackRoseMetalHeart Promotions to include an east coast show, aptly titled FotV East. FotV East is debuted in Baltimore, MD at The Ottobar on Saturday, November 6, 2010. The FotV East Mini-Fest showcased regional female-fronted metal acts attempting to gather more east coast support for future FotV festivals in Baltimore, MD. Due to the positive response to the first FotV East festival in 2010, the east coast edition of Flight of the Valkyries is already planning for continued growth with another festival in Baltimore in 2011 featuring more well-known national acts.
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Famous quotes containing the words flight of the and/or flight:
“A curtain of wax dividing them from the bride flight,
The upflight of the murderess into a heaven that loves her.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)