Spring brings with it flowers, birds and now raves?

This Saturday Boheme will be jumping, as regional bands and DJ’s rock the house with Spring Fever.

Kim Heiderscheidt, manager of Boheme, said Saturday night’s rave, Spring Fever, isn’t truly a rave.

“Raves are usually considered underground,” Heiderscheidt said. “They aren’t in commercial areas or places where cops could raid it.”

Heiderscheidt has been planning Saturday afternoon’s concert and all night rave for the past three months.

Even though this is the first year Boheme has planned an event for Veishea weekend, this was not done as a response to the lack of entertainment planned by the Veishea committee.”We knew Veishea was coming up,” Heiderscheidt said. “But we didn’t know anyone on the commitee or anything.”

Local bands and DJs will populate the event. During the day, audience members will hear Karma Lab, Paz, Medulla Oblongata and Interstellar Bus Stop. Most of the bands are “funk-rock,” with the exception of Karma Lab, which has more of a hippie sound, Heiderscheidt said.

Heiderscheidt is also searching for another band for Saturday. She doesn’t have a preference as to the genre of the band, (so long as it isn’t too loud.)

Aaron James, drummer for Interstellar Bus Stop, feels that both the bands and the DJs will please the audience.

“They’ll like what we’re doing if they like rave. There’s good music coming out of there,” James said.

Solarz and Kryptic, Boheme’s “resident DJs,” will both have sets during Spring Fever. Other DJ’s on the card include Des Moines-based Phase II, and Omaha’s En Green and DJ Lee, part of the International House of Boogie.

Solarz, who has also spun at Lumpy’s, is glad to see the return of electronica to the Central Iowa area.

“I’m glad to see that it’s happening in Des Moines,” Solarz said.

Heiderscheidt said Boheme chose to make the event all ages and alcohol-free during a weekend traditionally known for its heavy alcohol abuse.

“We could probably make a lot of money with alcohol, but kids 21 and under want to have a good time too. If people want to drink, they can do somewhere else,” Heiderscheidt said. “When I was a teenager, there were places in Des Moines where we could go.”

Boheme plans on expanding the all-ages philosophy to this summer, when the now bi-weekly Thursday techno nights will become weekly, Heiderscheidt said.

By the number of recent all-ages electronica events in Iowa, it’s clear that techno music has become all the rage. However, Solarz isn’t sure that other Ames-area watering holes will hitch a ride on the beat bandwagon.

“It’s hard to tell,” Solarz said.