Chic-a-Go-Go

Chic-a-Go-Go
Chic-a-Go-Go logo
Format	Music
Created by	Jake Austen Jacqueline Stewart
Starring	Jake Austen Mia Park
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	647
Production
Producer(s)	Jake Austen Jacqueline Stewart
Running time	30 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Chicago Access Network Television
Original airing	May, 1996

Chic-a-Go-Go is a Public-access television cable TV children's dance show that airs on Chicago Access Network Television (CAN-TV). The show bills itself as "Chicago's Dance Show for Kids of All Ages".

Show description

The show invites members of the public to participate in tapings at CAN-TV studios. A typical episode features dancing to prerecorded music, as well as musical guests lip-syncing to their own songs. Each show is hosted by Jake Austen, who portrays Ratso, a teenage puppet rat, and Mia Park as human sidekick Miss Mia.^[1]

Among the show's regular features are the "El Train Line" (based on Soul Train's "Soul Train Line"), the "Fantasy Dance" (which features dancers in front of a green screen), and videotaped interviews with guests.

History and influences

Austen got the idea for the show when he published a story in his magazine Roctober about Kiddie-a-Go-Go, an all-kids dance show produced in Chicago between 1963 and 1970. Austen and Stewart met the show's creators, Jack and Elaine Mulqueen, and were inspired to complete a certification course that would allow them to use the facilities of Chicago Access Corporation. They shot the first episodes of the show in March 1996.^[2]

In addition to Kiddie-a-Go-Go, the show is influenced by well-known dance shows such as Soul Train, American Bandstand, and Solid Gold.

In the 2004 movie The Big Bounce, Morgan Freeman's character is seen watching the show.^[3]

Artists who have appeared on Chic-a-Go-Go

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Acid Mothers Temple Hasil Adkins American Dream Agent Orange Alejandro Escovedo Annie Peacenik Anti-Flag The Baltimores Beck Pedro Bell Jello Biafra Bird Names Blue Cheer Brilliant Pebbles Built to Spill Paul Burlison Busy Kids Butthole Surfers Califone The Cannanes Captured! by Robots Neko Case Catfish Haven Cheap Trick Coctails Bobby Conn Country Teasers Crass The Cramps The Creation Cynthia Plaster Caster Dan Deacon Danielson Famile Dead Kennedys The Dictators The Dismemberment Plan DJ Assault

Electric Six (The Wildbunch) ESHAM Essex Chanel Everlast Perry Farrell Fishboy The Flying Luttenbachers Frank Black French Kicks Edith Frost Fugazi The Germs Golden Birthday Guitar Wolf GZA Leslie Hall Monotonix Neil Hamburger Hanson Hawnay Troof Thee Headcoats HiFi Superstar The Hives Kelly Hogan Honey Blo Hunx And His Punx Hyper Viper Cordell Jackson Daniel Johnston Ernie K-Doe JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound Jesus Lizard Kim King Diamond Bob Log III Loraxx The M's Magic Slim M.O.T.O. Matmos Meat Puppets Metalmags Misfits Momus

Monotrona The Mooney Suzuki Arnold "Gatemouth" Moore Rudy Ray Moore Motörhead The New Pornographers The New Rob Robbies Calvin Newborn Mr. Quintron Nobunny Number Nine One Happy Island OK Go Panacea Pussycat Pere Ubu Plain White T's The Pretty Things Archer Prewitt ? and the Mysterians Marky Ramone Rap Master Maurice Recent Photo The Romeros Room 101 Rebirth Brass Band The Residents Samwell The Sea and Cake The Scissor Girls Screaming Females Sharkula Shannon and the clams Shellac The Shirelles Shonen Knife Sleater-Kinney Slint

The Slits The Smith Westerns Patti Smith Snoop Dogg Sonic Youth Soul Coughing Spoon Stereolab Stereo Total Iggy & the Stooges Los Straitjackets Loto Ball Show Swamp Dogg Le Tigre Sally Timms Tortoise Trans Am Tutu and the pirates TV on the Radio Vanilla Ice Very Truly Yours Wesley Willis X XBXRX Yo La Tengo Andrew W.K. Andre Williams Zolar X

References

1. ^ About Chic-a-Go-Go!
2. ^ "CHIC-A-GO-GO: Building Their Own Bandstand", Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, June 12, 1998
3. ^ http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/2004/0104/040130.html

External links

• Chic-a-Go-Go site
• Chic-a-Go-Go YouTube channel