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Pacific Pony Con Announces Jessi Nowack and Eile Monty
Nightmare Nights Dallas Announces Jenn Blake!
Midwest Bronyfest Announces Finalized Schedule
TrotCon 2015 - Musician and Vendor Announcement
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Jessi "Nowacking" Nowack and EileMonty Join the Pacific PonyCon Party!
Pacific PonyCon is proud to announce not one, but two of our community’s most awesome VA’s, Jessi "Nowacking" Nowack and Eileen “EileMonty” Montgomery! That’s right, Vinyl Scratch and Octavia are ready to make some noise this Jan 8-10, 2016 at Pacific PonyCon! Our launch sale will be coming to an end on May 10th at 11:59pm, so make sure to pick up your ticket before then and save yourself $20 dollars on any of our tickets! Just use the code: FUNINTHESUN Don’t forget our venue, the beautiful Kona Kai Resort! They are offering discounted room rates for all our attendees!
Eileen “EileMonty” Montgomery
EileMonty [Eileen Montgomery] is an artiste [Singer/Actress/VA] from the UK who has studied the art of performance since the age of 6. She attended StageCoach for 10 years, was part of the National Youth Theatre (NYT) and also studied at Chichester University gaining a 1st BA Honors Degree in Musical Theatre.
Monty has also appeared in numerous voice over roles in games and animation such as Lady Tethys in Dust: An Elysian Tail, Mustache Girl & Queen Vanessa in the A Hat In Time, Bailey in the online animation TOME and many others. Eileen has also been a YouTube Entertainer for 8 years. She has had many cameo’s in multiple online content creators videos including within the Minecraft community.
She has had tons of fun being multiple roles in abridged series such as Miss Martian in Young Justice Abridged by the FedoraPlayers, Junko Enoshima in Danganronpa Abridged Thing by Faulerro, Aya in Pokemon Bridged Ep 18 by Elite3 and many more. She has also recently started her own Tokyo Mew Mew abridged series entitled Mew Mew Lampoon with Megami33!
Within the Brony fandom she has collaborated with many talented musicians recording original and cover songs and also a popular parody called I Am Octavia. She is also notable for her voice acting roles in the Brony fandom such as Bubbles in Double Rainboom, PhotoFinish in Picture Perfect Pony, Zecora in the Epic Pony Rap Battles Of Equestria and Button’s Mom in Button’s Adventures.
Jessi “Nowacking” Nowack
Jessi “Nowacking” Nowack is a voice actress, parody writer, and a founding member of Elite3. An actress since age six, Jessi has lent her voice to video games, anime, animations, over 100 internet parodies, and more. She is most known in the brony community for voicing Vinyl Scratch in various animations and songs such as “Epic Wub Time,” “Pony Rock Anthem,” and “I Am Octavia.” She also plays LittlePip in “Fallout Equestria: The Radioplay,” Gilda in “Turnabout Storm,” and sings about freezing her flank off in “Winter’s F***ed Up” by AnimatedJames. Jessi can also be seen in many episodes of “Bronies React."
For non-horse things, she can be seen being awful at video games in the gaming series Controller Rollers. She is also the writer and editor of “Dark Swamp” and co-writer of “Pokémon ‘Bridged." She also voices Seras in “Hellsing Ultimate Abridged,” Sasha in “Attack on Titan Abridged,” (both produced by TeamFourStar,) and Hyprelynx in “TOME.” Jessi can also be heard as Izumi in the English dub of “Queens Blade Rebellion.”
Legend tells that when she was a child, she drank some of the liquid out of a glow stick when her mom wasn't paying attention. As she is alive today, we can only assume she is indestructible.
Nightmare Nights Dallas Announces Jenn Blake!
Born and raised in California, "Baroness von Blake" originally studied to become a successful fashion designer. She spent 12 years in the profession, but wanted to broaden her horizons and take her art in a new direction, so she started to work on comic/graphic novel characters and added in a new love of hers: "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". Shortly after she began her work with ponies, Jenn was approached by IDW Limited. Their special release, "The Return of Queen Chrysalis", was in the works, and they were seeking special artists to create original, hand-drawn sketch cards to be released with the books. Jenn was one of a select few artists chosen for the task.
This special project rocketed Jenn's career in the world of art and ponies forward, leading to this summer's "My Little Pony: Friends Forever #16" and a special subscription cover for Four Color Grails. She has done signings at many Free Comic Book Day events and various comic book stores, been a part of several WizardWorld Comic Con shows, and been a featured guest at several conventions. Jenn has also been involved in collaboration work with the online comic "Albert the Alien" and is featured as a guest artist in the newly released book.
We look forward to hosting Jenn this fall in Dallas!
We're only getting started on our announcements for this October, so get ready for more exciting guest news here in the near future.
In other news, our vendor applications are open until June 20th and can be accessed here:
http://ponyvillelive.us10.
Also, our panel application form is now live, so if you've got a panel idea you'd love to put on, let us know here:
http://ponyvillelive.us10.
Keep up to date on things by following us on Twitter @NightmareNights and keeping up with our website at www.NightmareNights.net
Midwest Bronyfest Announces Finalized Schedule
Welcome to Midwest Brony Fest 2015! This is our finalized schedule. We have a plethora of interesting and unique panels, workshops, and events for your enjoyment. Check it!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u8PO2KDw7SQsaB2cscqcje_lPTqiYzI3tGsc2_ua0uU/edit#gid=0
Along with our Schedule is our absolutely, amazingly official LOUDER line up including the incredibly talented Michelle Creber & BlackGryph0n.
As always we will be accepting items for our charity auction in aid of Child’s Play. See you all May 22nd – 24th!
TrotCon 2015 - Musician and Vendor Announcement
We’ve done quite a few VIP guest announcements lately, most of whom work on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Let’s change it up a bit, yeah?
Every year, we bring you some of our favorite vendors, artists and musicians from within the brony community out to TrotCon so they can do their, you know, thing — whether that’s sell you their lovely wares, draw you a pic of your OC suplexing Guy Fieri through a table, create lovely music for your listening pleasure, or maybe all three if they’re particularly ballin’.
This year is no different! Today, we’d like to announce the official lineup for our 2015 concert/rave, as well as the full list of vendors in our Artist Acres!
First, the music: get ready, because just like last year, we’ll be starting the tunes on Friday night with a mini show to get you warmed up. Then we’ll ramp things up Saturday, first with a set from our two full bands, then we’ll get back into rave mode for the rest of the evening.
Who’s playing? For the third year in a row, Odyssey Eurobeat, known to many of you as Eurobeat Brony, will be part of the festivities, and we’re also bringing out Chang31ing, Aftermath, Mogul Dash and Green Tinted Goggles, all of whom have been with us since the first TrotCon concert back in 2013. KnifePony, Steven A.D. and the Shake-Ups in Ponyville are also former TrotCon performers coming back for 2015.
In addition to them, we’ll have quite a few first-timers, among them BluNoseReindeer, The Wonderbolts, Notica, IvoryBrony, Starlight, StrachAttack, (The) R3ctifier and DJ pinkamenaX! Far out, dudes.
We’ve been slowly revealing the vendor list for 2015, but now the full list is available! You already knew about Pirate Dash’s Treasures, Chocolate Pony and Equestria Tarot, KefkaFloyd Prints & Art, Tsitra360 and the like–now, how about our newest, including Aleximus Prime’s Art, the New Gray Mare and many, many more? Get the full list over on our website, yeah?
Now we just need to get our panelist lineup in order, and then suddenly this is gonna be looking like a ready-to-go convention. We’re stoked. We hope you are, too.
Come hang at TrotCon 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Columbus North in Columbus, Ohio, from July 17-19! Badges are still available through next month, $45 for the full weekend, with sponsor badges also available.
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