By Rose Scherlis

Audrey Ryan will be hosting the fifth annual Viva La Vinal

The fifth annual Viva La Vinal Festival, hosted by Audrey Ryan of Somerville, is soon approaching.

On Friday and Saturday, there will be a celebration of live music and independent film in the Somerville Community Growing Center. It is a free, all ages event to benefit the Growing Center.

The event starts Friday with an open-air film festival featuring four new independent films. Saturday, 12 talented and diverse musicians will take the stage, ranging from global jazz to old-time Gothicana. Children’s Hour, 12-1, will feature Argentinean bassist Mariana Iranzi.

Following this first hour, International String Trio, Audrey Ryan, Emily Hope Price, Kingsley Flood, Justin Levinson, The Autumn Hollow, Bridget & the Squares, Cactus Attack, TheyWillHateUs, Justin Shorey, and This Blue Heaven will perform.

Kingsley Flood describes their music as “Indie Americana.”

“We like to say that we are trying to take the genre of Americana music and push it around a little bit. That means we play rock and roll with a fiddle. So we’ve got songs that could be country-influenced but go beyond that, with a lot of high energy and lyrics that aren’t normally associated with country music,” Lead singer and guitarist Naseem Khuri said

“I loved the idea of Viva la Vinal. I loved the idea of getting out on the street in September and I love Somerville, I love Union Square,” Said Khuri, who has previously lived in Somerville.

Emily Hope Price, a member of Pearl and the Band, is an indie folk cellist who is working on her 365 Project. To complete this project, Price plans to write a song every day for a year.

“I try to make a different challenge for myself each day,” Price said of the 365 Project. “I try not to pass judgment on songs… I’ve come out with things I didn’t think I’d ever come out with and it has been really freeing.”

“I would hope that if I were conveying anything it would be just emotions that are real and come from real place.” Price said

“A piece of music I would want everyone to at least experience once is the third movement from Rachmaninov’s cello sonata. It is unbelievably gorgeous,” Price said.

Bridget & the Squares, whose music is stylistically similar, describe themselves as “piano-driven indie pop that will move you in one way or another.” They performed in Viva la Vinal in 2008 and released their first album, Still Life, in June.

“The reason we called it Still Life is because I felt like when I was in Boston I did lead a very still life… since I moved to New York, it’s been a very fast-forward experience… The songs are great; they mean a lot to me, I’m really happy with the way it came out., lead singer and pianist Laura Bridget said. Bridget has lived in Somerville for two years and is looking forward to returning briefly to the city for Viva la Vinal.

“We play pop music with relatively dark lyrical content. We play these upbeat songs that are actually about really sad things, so there’s a twist,” Bridget said. “Most of the lyrics are about relationships… I also write my observations on society and culture.”