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It’s no Coachella and There’s No Alcohol or Beer Garden, But It Brings in 60 LA-Area Independent Bands and 100,000 Music Fans
Who needs big concerts venues, going way out to the desert and paying high prices and having to put up with the likes of Ticketmaster when there are events like the Eagle Rock Music Festival?
Sure, it’s a neighborhood event and it’s only one afternoon and evening – 4-11 p.m., on Saturday, Oct. 1 in 2011 – but it attracts LA-area independent bands, brings in 100,000 people and asks just $5 as a donation.
The event is full of music for its seven hours. There are seven stages, the main one called the Emerging Stage. It alone has six bands scheduled.
In all, 60 bands are performing. Among them are Health and Flying Lotus, both which have played Coachella, the huge multi-day festival in the desert that charges $300 for a required all-weekend pass.
With the cancellation this year of the popular but apparently ill-funded Sunset Junction music festival, the Eagle Rock Music Festival provides music festival lovers in Los Angeles and Hollywood the opportunity they missed earlier.
One drag for music lovers is that there are no on-site alcohol sales. Somehow, having a drink, be it beer or a cocktail, listening to concerts is part of the live music experience. The alternative is to grab drinks at Verdugo Bar and the Black Boar, two bars in the area.
The Eagle Rock Music Festival takes place on at Colorado Blvd., and Eagle Rock Blvd. The link to its website is here.
Story contributed to ShakedownNews.com by Kevin “The Bartender” Wilkerson. Check out his site Pubclub.com .
Known for consistently booking some of the finest performers in new and traditional folk, roots rock, bluegrass and newgrass, and other American roots music, Suwannee Springfest returns in 2012 for its 16th straight year. Suwannee Springest will be held March 23-25, 2012 at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida and features some of the biggest names in the scene with veterans and up-and-comers alike. Yonder Mountain String Band, Peter Rowan & Tony Rice Duo, Justin Townes Earl, Emmitt-Nershi Band, and Darol Anger and the Republic of Strings will be joined by The Gourds, Hot Buttered Rum, The Infamous Stringdusters, Greensky Bluegrass and more, with additional artists still to be announced.
Three-day early bird festival tickets are only $125.00 and children age 12 and under are free of charge. Discounts are offered for students and retired and active military. Fans at this year’s MagnoliaFest (October 20-23, 2012 at Suwannee Music Park) will have the opportunity to purchase tickets to Suwannee Springfest 2012 on-site at MagnoliaFest for only $115.00. To purchase tickets online or to find out more, please visit http://suwanneespringfest.com/.
2012 Suwannee Springfest confirmed lineup below, more artists to be announced.
Yonder Mountain String Band
Peter Rowan & Tony Rice Duo
Justin Townes Earl
Emmitt-Nershi Band
Darol Anger and the Republic of Strings
The Gourds
Hot Buttered Rum
Infamous Stringdusters
Greensky Bluegrass
Great American Taxi
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Larry Keel & Natural Bridge
Ryan Montbleau Band
Split Lip Rayfield
Elephant Revival
The Pinkham Family
Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park is also home to other Big IV Productions, including the Blackwater Music Festival (taking place this weekend), the Purple Hatter’s Ball and the Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival. Hosted each November, the 2011 Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival lineup includes Trey Anastastio Band, Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood, The Funky Meters, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, John Scofield & Piety Street, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Lettuce, George Porter, Jr., Jon Cleary, and the Pimps of Joytime. For more information on the Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival go to: www.bearcreekmusicfestival.com
About Big IV Productions:
Big IV Productions is owned and operated by Paul Levine and Lyle Williams, founders of the Bear Creek Music Festival and co-producers of the new Blackwater Music Festival with Blackwater Music, LLC (a company owned by Williams and Judy Van Zant / owner of Jacksonville Beach, FL’s Freebird Live). In 2011, Big IV Productions added Suwannee Springfest to their family of festivals. Deeply engrained in the Florida music scene, Big IV Productions is also partners in Tallahassee’s Engine Room as well as Suwannee River Jam, and producers of the Purple Hatter’s Ball.
After a last minute battle with LA City Board of Public Works, the Sunset Junction Music Festival has officially been canceled for failure to produce the $141,000 in fees necessary to move forward with the event scheduled for the weekend of August 27-28th.
From RollingStone.com:
The Sunset Junction Street Fair, a music festival that has been running annually in Los Angeles since 1980, has been officially canceled after the city’s Board of Public Works denied organizers permits to hold the event this weekend. The five-member panel unanimously rejected pleas from promoters who failed to produce $141,000 in fees to cover the event.
The festival, which was to include sets by stylistically disparate acts such as Hanson, the Butthole Surfers, k.d. lang, Peaches, Bobby Womack and the Melvins, is now entirely scrapped. It is unknown whether or not the artists, promoters or volunteers will be compensated.
The Sunset Junction organizers owed the city $400,000 in unpaid fees for the 2010 and 2011 events. The nonprofit Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance faxed a document showing that they had received a $100,000 loan from the concert promoter Live Nation to bail them out of the mess, but Board president Andrea Alarcon dismissed the gesture, saying that it was not an indication that the funds would be available to pay for the permits. “I do see a deposit of $100,000, but that doesn’t mean a whole lot,” she said.
The sudden loan from Live Nation did not improve their standing at all. A spokesperson for City Councilman Eric Garcetti accused the organizers of trying to “flimflam $400,000 from the taxpayers” and noting that coming up with a large sum of money at the last minute “shreds their credibility even more.” “They should have spent the last 12 months coming up with the full amount,” he told the Los Angeles Times.
-Rolling Stone report by Matthew Perpetua
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7092 St. RT. 540
Bellefontaine, Ohio 43311
All Ages | Free Camping and Parking
4 Day Pass $85 pre-sale | $95 At The Gate (Thursday Arrival)
3 Day Pass $65 pre-sale | $75 At The Gate (Arrival on Friday)
Campsite and VIP Upgrades Available
Cavern tours and dogs welcome, for an extra fee ($10 per dog)
children under 12 are free.
FEATURING
THE WERKS (3 Nights)
Dark Star Orchestra
(performs The Jerry Garcia Band w. special guest
Donna Jean Godchaux)
EOTO and Kyle Hollingsworth Band
Everyone Orchestra + Michael Kang
(feat. members of The String Cheese Incident)
Donna Jean Godchaux Band with Jeff Mattson
The New Mastersounds (Leeds, England)
Future Rock | Ganga Giri (Melbourne, Australia)
Johnny Neel (from The Allman Brothers Band)
Jamie Janover (solo set & lecture on Unified Field Theory) | Family Groove Company | The Ragbirds
Ultraviolet Hippopotamus
Rumpke Mountain Boys | RoeVy (late night)
The Twin Cats | Freekbot (Freekbass + DJ Tobotius)
Mike Perkins | The Floorwalkers | The Mantras Fiddleworms | Jahman Brahman | Psychedelphia Boogie Matrix | Higher Organix
Romeo Champagne | Jones for Revival
Fletcher’s Grove | Headstash | Grown Folks Band | Andy Shaw Band | Fresh Hops | Arpetrio
Eumatik | Sweet Earth
Blue Moon Soup | Wheels
The Folkadelics | Broccoli Samurai
Soul Rebels | First Street Heat | Canago
Glostik Willy | Nine False Suns
Oh Kee Pa (Phish Tribute) | Dr. Dwyer
Lost Lingo | Sport Fishing USA
The Manifest Station | Aliver Hall | Carma Attak
DJ Thunder St. Clair | The Main Squeeze
The Show | Pilgrims Of The Wild | Kris Hanson
DJ Creepingbear
On August 28th in Nederland, CO at NedFest, a “Super Group” will perform a one time only show featuring The Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann on drums, Steve Kimock on guitar, String Cheese Incident’s Kyle Hollingsworth on keys & The (funky) Meters’ George Porter Jr. on bass. Epic to say the least merging old jam, new jam and funky jam all together in one Jaminstien Monster!
Nedfest takes place Nederland, CO August 26-28th.
The Line-up of Bands also scheduled to perform at NedFest – Leftover Salmon, David Grisman Sextet, The Motet, ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra), Cornmeal, Hot Buttered Rum, Split Lip Rayfield, Head For The Hills, Leftover Salmon’s Vince Herman & Great American Taxi, Larry Keel & His Big Friends, String Cheese Incident’s Keith Moseley w/ Scott Law & Friends, Runaway Truck Ramp, Fox Street All Stars w/ Bill McKay, Whitewater Ramble, Smooth Money Gesture and more to be announced. ‘Tweener sets include Billy & Jilian Nershi, Bret Mosley, John McKay, The Shwilbillies, Salmon Eggs, Magnolia Row, Acoustic Mining Company, Lesley Kernochan, Jaden Carlson w/ The Motet’s Garrett Sayers & Scott Messersmith and more TBA. Late Night Shows include Oakhurst on Saturday and Magic Gravy on Sunday. Click HERE for the current NedFest Schedule. Click HERE for Band Bios.
Headlining the 2011 festival on Saturday, September 10, will be multiple-Grammy Award winning guitarist and singer, BEN HARPER, who is known for his fusion of rock, reggae and roots music. This will be Harper’s exclusive Southern California concert in support of his newest release, Give Till It’s Gone. Sacramento based, CAKE will headline on Sunday, September 11. Cake produced their latest album Showroom of Compassion (released in January 2011) and recorded it in their own solar-powered studio in Sacramento. The album was preceded by its first single, “Sick of You”, hitting number 4 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. The album itself opened at number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums.
Also appearing at Doheny Days will be G Love & Special Sauce, Neon Trees, Donavon Frankenreiter, Katchafire, JJ Grey & Mofro, Black Uhuru and Shwayze & Cisco. The festival will feature three stages of roots, rock, reggae and funk music with a total of 25 performances during the weekend. Additional acts will be announced in the coming weeks.
Doheny Days is produced by Omega Events, which has successfully operated 25 festivals at Doheny State Beach, including 8 years of Doheny Days (1997-2004) and fourteen consecutive years of the internationally recognized Doheny Blues Festival. “For years, fans of Doheny Days have been awaiting its return and we felt it was time to deliver,” says Rich Sherman, President of Omega Events. “I can’t tell you how many emails and phone calls I’ve received over the years from people asking about the festival.” The excitement and love for Doheny Days never faded, inspiring the producers of the event to re-launch their beloved beach festival.
For more information visit DOHENY DAYS WEBSITE.
Heads and Hippies everywhere will likely be hitting the festival circuit next year in the hot new VW Microbus Tent from Firebox. The big concern in my mind is someone coming out of a show slightly impaired and trying to drive your tent home. It's gonna set you back a couple of duckets though. Retail is £299.99 ≈ €339 ≈ $492.
Check out the full description below from the folks at Firebox.
If you love music, mud and Mother Nature you’re probably heading to a camp site at some point this summer. But why take shelter in some dull, conventional tent when you can recreate the Summer of Love in the hippie-tastic VW Camper Van Tent.
View from behind and the side (with doors rolled open)
Officially licensed, this stunning four-man (or lady, natch) tent is a luxe, full-size replica of the iconic 1965 VW Camper Van synonymous with 60s counterculture. It’s so evocative you can almost hear the Mamas and the Papas singing California Dreamin’ every time you feast your eyes on its beautifully breadloaf-ish form. Indeed we half expected Mama Cass to tumble out when we first saw this groovy Vee-Dub. You’ll be the envy of the campsite!
But there’s more to this highly realistic pretend hippie/surfermobile than mere good looks. Just like its vehicular counterpart you can stand up inside – handy if you don’t fancy crawling around on your hands and knees after a day at the main stage. What’s more its fabric roof and sides are 3000mm and 1000mm respectively – mighty impressive, especially when you consider British Military spec is only 800mm (and we consider things like that quite a lot).
Spot the coolest tent!
Factor in two zip-separated double-size rooms, allowing couples to sleep/knit yoghurt/spread the love in private, plus an outer that can be put up first to offer some shelter as you erect the other bits and bobs, and you’re looking at the greatest thing to hit the world of boho living since… well, since the original VW Camper Van. All together now, ‘If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to take your Vee-Dub Camper Tent…’
Colorado’s acclaimed neo bluegrass quartet, Yonder Mountain String Band, will host the 6th Annual Harvest Music Festival at Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas from October 13 – 16, 2011. Home to two nationally celebrated festivals – Wakarusa and Harvest Music Festival – Mulberry Mountain stands as one of the country’s most remote and scenic live music venues. A family friendly and community focused musical extravaganza, Harvest Music Festival brings fans and their favorite bands together for an intimate 4-day affair amid the beautiful autumn foliage in a premier destination. Festival attendees rave about Mulberry Mountain as being a standout setting for live music as well as an exceptional place for hiking, biking, fishing, river-rafting and disc golf. For detailed information, please visit www.yonderharvestfestival.com.
Presenting the festival for the second year in a row, YMSB pulls out all the stops and rounds up today’s biggest names in bluegrass, folk and Americana, and an array of lauded singer-songwriters including Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Railroad Earth, 7 Walkers featuring Papa Mali & Bill Kreuztmann, Emmitt-Nershi Band, Corey Smith, Cornmeal, Split Lip Rayfield, The Travelin’ McCoury’s, Peter Rowan, Trampled By Turtles, Todd Snider, James McMurtry, Sara Watkins, Great American Taxi, Steep Canyon Rangers, Matthew and the Atlas, That 1 Guy, David Lindley, Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings, and many other distinguished artists. The official confirmed line-up is listed below.
Nestled in the pristine Ozark Mountains, Harvest Music Festival intentionally limits its capacity to 7,500 attendees in order to remain stewards of the land and provide an intimate festival experience. Joining the festival this year is Conscious Alliance, a Boulder, CO-based national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to the distribution of much-needed food to impoverished communities across the United States. Conscious Alliance will conduct the “Art That Feeds” Food Drive at the festival to benefit the River Valley Regional Food Bank (Fort Smith, AR), which distributes food to nearby residents who have recently been displaced due to the devastating tornadoes this summer. All patrons that donate 10 non-perishable food items will receive a free Harvest Music Festival poster created by Amber Patten. Food donations will be collected at the Conscious Alliance “Art That Feeds” onsite gallery.
Rock The Earth also joins Harvest Music Festival along with river-rafting experts Turner Bend and the Shimon Presents Work Exchange Team to lead a “River & Road Cleanup” on Wednesday, Oct. 12 (10 a.m. – 2 p.m.) in the vicinity of Mulberry Mountain. The Mulberry River is an extremely popular destination for canoeing, kayaking and rafting, and has become a staple in the local culture of Arkansas and the country. All participants in the clean-up activities will receive free early admission to the festival, snacks & beverages, and a free event shirt. To sign up or for more information, inquiries can be sent to harvestfest@rocktheearth.org.
Harvest Music Festival is debuting the “First Annual Fiddlin’ and Pickin’ Contest,” which will be judged by celebrity musicians (TBA)! The contest will include four instrument categories: Mandolin, Banjo, Flat Picking Guitar, and Fiddle. Contests will be held on October 13, 14, and 15, and submissions will be accepted up to 15 minutes before the competition and can be submitted via www.yonderharvestfestival.com. Please note that competitions will be held within the Harvest Festival grounds for Harvest ticket holders only.
A special children’s area will be led by Quixotic Fusion School of Performing Arts (facebook.com/quixoticfusionschool), a sister company of Quixotic Fusion (quixoticfusion.com); who wowed fans at Wakarusa on their very own performance stage. Children are highly encouraged to attend Harvest Music Festival! Bring your kids along and let them explore their creative sides. Quixotic Fusion School of Performing Arts will offer lessons in painting, tumbling, dance, and will be face painting during the festival. Supplies and mats will be provided.
Out of the coop and onto The Roost! The Roost Stage is where you and your family can enjoy the splendors of the Ozarks with planned daily workshops, which will include greening initiatives, mind/body wellness, drum circles, and interactive art for kids and adults alike. The Roost Stage will showcase multiple genres of music including rock, jam, funk, soul, hip-hop, reggae, and children’s music. Bring your hoops, bring your drums, and bring an open mind. Daily workshops will include yoga, kids yoga, meditation, hooping daily, poi instruction, glass blowing, tie-dye creation, informative environmental responsibility workshops, and many other activities. So join us on The Roost where you will discover new activities and new friends!
Below is a list of all the confirmed artists performing at the 6th Annual Harvest Music Festival:
Yonder Mountain String Band, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Railroad Earth, 7 Walkers featuring Papa Mali & Bill Kreuztmann, Emmitt-Nershi Band, Corey Smith, Cornmeal, Split Lip Rayfield, The Travelin’ McCoury’s, Peter Rowan, The Wilders, Trampled By Turtles, Reckless Kelly, Todd Snider, James McMurtry, Sara Watkins, Great American Taxi, Dirtfoot, Mountain Sprout, Greensky Bluegrass, The Greencards, Steep Canyon Rangers, Matthew and the Atlas, That 1 Guy, David Lindley, Jay Nash, Adam Aijala and Larry Keel, Danny Barnes, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge, Nathan Moore, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, The Trishas, The David Mayfield Parade, Elephant Revival, Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings, Big Smith, Oakhurst, Deep Fried Pickle Project, Deadman Flats, Truckstop Honeymoon, PKB – Pete Kartsounes Band, The Alaska String Band, Gleny Rae Virus & Her Tamworth Playboys, Whistle Pigs, Dead Winter Carpenters, Mountain of Venus, Charliehorse, Dumptruck Butterlips, The Blackberry Bushes String Band, and Honeyshine
Fourty-two years after the original Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, NY beside White Lake, Irvine Lake just outside Orange, CA will be transformed into the 6th Annual Woodstock ’69 Festival. The original featured music from Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Grateful Dead, Credence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, The Band and many more great acts from the 1960′s. It was the festival that launched a million more. ‘
In that tradition, the Woodstock ’69 Festival will feature music by Experience Myke (Jimi Hendrix Tribute), Mad Dogs (Joe Cocker Tribute), Bad Moon Rising (CCR Tribute), Cry Baby (Janis Joplin Tribute), The Who Review (Who Tribute) and Delilah Jones (Grateful Dead Tribute) all helping flashback the lakeside crowd to the days at Yasgur’s Farm in upstate New York. We’re flashin’ back to Woodstock ’69.
Details:
August 20th 2pm-9:30pm
Tickets: $20 regular ticket/$50 VIP ticket
Purchase tickets at the gate or ahead of time at http://www.irvinelake.net. Click the “Concert Series” button.
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