Doors: 7 PM
Show: 8 PM
Ages: 21+
About Particle Kid:
Composer/multi-media artist Micah Nelson has a remarkable output that spans
the creative spectrum unlike few others. The visionary, who Rolling
Stone magazine hailed as one of their “New Classics” (“The creative visionaries
celebrated here come from the worlds of music, acting, comedy, sports and
more. …they share a refusal to be contained by the rules of the past as they
define the territory of the future”), produces art under the moniker Particle Kid
and finds no boundaries in his creativity.
Particle Kid has released six albums of his original music, including his most
recent release Time Capsule, a 26-song musical journey through time, space,
and consciousness. It features guest appearances from Jim James, Sean Ono
Lennon, J Mascis, Margo Price, The Lovely Eggs, and Micah’s dad Willie Nelson
on three tracks including "Die When I'm High (Halfway to Heaven).” His previous
albums – self-titled debut Particle Kid, Everything Is Bullshit, Particle War,
Window Rock, Live! Underground – are just part of the catalog of work Nelson
has amassed with other artists and musicians. He was chosen by Neil Young to
become a member of his band Crazy Horse in 2023, and Nelson was also been
featured in Young's full-length film Paradox. For Record Store Day in 2018, he
released Lucky Wheel, a split 12” vinyl collaboration with punk legend and X co-
founder John Doe. He created the cover art on Willie’s recent studio album First
Rose of Spring. (Willie coined Micah “Particle Kid,” when he misspoke a
“prodigal son” greeting.) On tour year round, Particle Kid has headlined shows
around the world as well as opened for many other artists including The Flaming
Lips, Tinariwen, Meat Puppets, Claypool Lennon Delirium, and been part of the
line up for Luck Reunion, BottleRock Festival, UTOPiAfest, and the Outlaw Music
Festival.
As an industrial hemp activist, Particle Kid has served on the National Hemp
Association’s Board of Directors, participates in Farm Aid events and their
annual music festival, and combined the missions of both organizations when
he spearheaded a Change.org petition championing the Industrial Hemp
Farming Act which became law in December 2018. Combining his passion for
music and hemp, for his album Time Capsule the artist hand-made 20 actual
time capsules constructed from hempcrete. Purchasers of the Time Capsule CD
set have a chance of winning a ‘Time Token.’ Each of these randomly hidden
tokens can be redeemed for one of the 20 hempcrete time capsules that
contain a thumb drive that includes the record and videos, printed album
artwork, industrial hemp seeds that Nelson cultivated himself, and a physical
ticket that gains general admission to every Particle Kid concert in the year
2042. Nelson states, "I hope that incorporating industrial hemp into my art will
help educate people not only on the crop’s many sustainable functional uses,
but how it was deeply entwined with our nation’s history and the history of the
world."
For nearly a decade, through his production company (which also includes his
wife Alex Dascalu Nelson aka Sisterlu), Spitball Pictures, he has created music
videos and films for his own music projects as well as for other artists. His
productions include music videos for Edie Brickell & New Bohemians (“Tripwire”
and “My Power”), Promise of the Real’s Anthony LoGerfo (“Love Commando”),
folk-punk musician Sunny War (“Age of a Man“), GRAMMY award-winning
Tinariwen (“Wartilla, Dan Caret Dub”), ukulele and guitar duo Folk Uke (“Small
One”), and Neil Young (“Shape of You"). Watch a collection of his work on this
playlist He is currently working with Young on an animated short film
adaptation of Young’s 1982 dystopian sci-fi concept album, TRANS. Particle Kid
has also built his graphic art portfolio, creating album artwork for his own
projects as well as the poster for his solo tour. He is part of the Moonlight Arts
Collective, an art community founded by Incubus' Brandon Boyd, who is also a
painter and art enthusiast. In 2023, 14 selections of Micah’s original art
debuted as part of the collective. Since the initial showing, new originals and
limited prints are regularly added to the collection for purchase via his online
gallery at Moonlightartscollective.com
