Saturday, January 26th in Fairfield, Texas
Attention 90’s Grunge Kids… Lisa Umbarger (left), founding member and former bass player of the band Toadies, will be the featured guest at this year’s Iigurubando Con! She will hold a Q&A panel where she will talk about her life as a musician and entrepreneur. You won’t want to miss this opportunity!
Iigurubando Con-5 is a one-day fundraising event benefiting Fairfield High School Band.
Featured at the Con are artists, writers, musicians, video games, tabletop games, Cosplay and everything “Geeky.”
Returning this year is are artists Shonuff! Studio, Wilde Designs, Songbird Pixel Art, Cooper Creative Art, Dusk Comics, and The Art of Eliamaria M. Crawford.
Also returning are Godswill Ugwa, Jr. of Funimation and Darren “TekForce” Columbus.
Iigurubando Con will run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 26, 2019.
Doors open at 9 a.m. and entry is $20 per person; donations are always appreciated. To purchase tickets online, go to ictx.webs.com
There will be a video game room set up with multiple gaming consoles for free play.
New this year is a Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Tournament played on the Nintendo Switch. Come early to sign up to compete!
Lisa Umbarger
Lisa Umbarger looks at the world a little differently than most people. She scans the horizon for the next challenge and follows that path to new solutions. This call to adventure has allowed her to explore the connection between various roles and learn from some incredible mentors along the way. With the guidance of these teachers, she has learned that it is not what you do, but how you do it, that matters.
As a founding member of the platinum recording group, Toadies (most widely known for the song Possum Kingdom), she connected with a new voice to her artistry. Fun Fact: Lisa did not know how to play the bass when she joined the band. The “not knowing” drove her to find a way to courageously move through fear, while ignoring the critics. The Toadies started playing live shows only three months later.
When the Toadies ended, Lisa went out into the world to discover what she wanted to do when she grew up, now that literally being a rock star was checked off the list. She got her irrigators license, managed international marketing for a juice company, and invented some cool stuff using nanotechnology. The common thread here is that she always looked for opportunities to help people and leave spaces better than when she found them.
Being in the music industry helped Lisa realize that there is a huge slant, like a large kid on a see-saw, when it comes to equality and inclusion in the workplace. There will be a day, although it might take some consciousness hacking, when the balance is set right.
Now she is on her next mission… with ZerModus, www.zermodus.com
