Wakarusa Music Festival
Mulberry Mountain
Ozark, Arkansas
June 2nd – June 5th 2011
www.wakarusa.com

Band Lineup

My Morning Jacket
Ben Harper and the Relentless 7
Thievery Corporation
STS9 (2 sets)
Umphrey’s McGee
Bassnectar
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Mumford & Sons
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Toots & the Maytals
Ghostland Observatory
Modeselektor
Shpongle
Hallucinogen
Ozomatli (2 sets)
Rebelution (2 sets)
Galactic (2 sets)
Lotus
The New Deal
JJ Grey & MOFRO
Quixotic (2 sets)
Dark Star Orchestra (3 hour set)
North Mississippi Allstars
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Ryan Bingham
Lucero (2 sets)
The Heavy (2 sets)
Perpetual Groove
Wookiefoot
Budos Band
Grupo Fantasma
Split Lip Rayfield (2 sets)
Cornmeal (2 sets)
Ekoostik Hookah (2 sets)
MarchFourth Marching Band (2 sets)
EOTO (2 sets)
Skrillex
Beats Antique (2 sets)
Stanton Warriors
Big Gigantic
The Beautiful Girls
Here Come The Mummies
Hot Buttered Rum (2 sets)
Langhorne Slim
Truth & Salvage Co.
Iration
John Brown’s Body
Delhi 2 Dublin
Dana Fuchs
Hugo
Ott
VibeSquaD
Peelander-Z
Roy Davis Jr.
Eliot Lipp (2 sets)
Karsh Kale (2 sets)
SBTRKT
Two Fresh
Resident Anti-Hero (2 sets)
Janover
Paper Diamond (Alex B)
ANA SIA (2 sets)
Syd Gris (2 sets)
Lance Herbstrong
An-Ten-Nae (2 sets)
Emancipator
TOKiMONSTA
Random Rab
Those Darlins
Jay Nash (2 sets)
Carrie Rodriguez
TFDI
Dubskin
Dirtfoot (2 sets)
The Pimps of Joytime
Ha Ha Tonka
Mountain Sprout (2 sets)
Mountain Standard Time (2 sets)
Lubriphonic
Papa Grows Funk
Papadosio
Hoots & Hellmouth
Scythian (2 sets)
Spoonfed Tribe
Zoogma
Family Groove Company
These United States (2 sets)
Josh Phillips Folk Festival
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
Marrakesh Express
Honey Island Swamp Band (2 sets)
Poor Man’s Whiskey (2 sets)
Spiritual Rez
Frontier Ruckus
The Werks
Moon Taxi
Kinetix
The Congress
The Floozies
Somasphere
The Ben Miller Band
Radiohiro
MO7S
TAKE

 

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Great live recordings from top festivals, concerts and in-studio performances …Bonnaroo, Woodstock, Mountain Jam, Monterrey…The Dead, Phish, Dave Matthews, Widespread Panic, Led Zep, Drive-by Truckers and many more…long jams, complete sets, unreleased tracks…24/7 Internet radio channel Radio Woodstock LIVE…available at http://www.radiowoodstock.com.

You should also check out Mountain Jam at http://www.mountainjam.com.

Peace, love, music…life is a festival. RFWoodstock

 

Straight from the horses mouth…

Widespread indolence

By DAN AQUILANTE

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/music/widespread_indolence_TKxp8Z3pN8qx9updIkzdQP#ixzz0udLUlmdI

The musky odors of sweat, cannabis and spilled beer wafted through the air at Radio City Music Hall for a gathering of the vibe at the Wide spread Panic show Thursday.

That was the smell — the stink came from the band.

Celebrating Panic’s 25th anniversary was a disaster: The 22-song-long, three-hour-plus concert was mind-numbingly repetitious. The single, puny video-screen light show was inadequate, and the sound was often murky. And the ancient and decidedly unsexy sextet were immobile during the performance.

The band was so still, you’d think the guys flatlined just standing there, yet most of their fans danced in place with the goofy-footed steps you expect of a spastic monkey. The Panic-heads didn’t seem to notice the concert’s flaws, instead treating the event as if it were a house party and the headliners were just there for background music.
John Bell of Widespread Panic barely shuffled his feet during the band’s long set Thursday.
Joe Kohen/WireImage
John Bell of Widespread Panic barely shuffled his feet during the band’s long set Thursday.

While each member of Widespread Panic is a skilled musician, none seems to be a performer. Nobody expected vocalist John Bell to do a hula as he sang and strummed his acoustic guitar, but he made zero effort to entertain.

If you’re into rambling, you were in luck. In most songs, there was no experience of the music building to a climax. Instead, there was just relief when a 15-

minute tune like “Heroes” ended.

Many liken Widespread Panic to the Grateful Dead, but they pale in comparison. The Dead certainly jammed and extended songs, but every melody wasn’t given that treatment; Jerry and the boys understood the power in a concise tune with a built-in narrative, as in their signature pieces like “Truckin’ ” or “Friend of the Devil.”

Panic’s simple-minded version of narrative is found in songs like “Sewing Machine,” where bassist David Schools repeats the title, mantra-like, in the chorus.

In the end — during the encore — the band finally arose from its musical slumber with a rousing “Henry Parsons Died.” During that final song, John Hermann’s piano work was terrific, and Jimmy Herring stopped trying to fill every gap with lead-guitar noodling and managed to locate the heart of the melody in his fretwork.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/music/widespread_indolence_TKxp8Z3pN8qx9updIkzdQP#ixzz0udOtOOVI

 

The Nadis Warriors, Fri. April 30th at the Parish in Austin TX. One more chance to see Alex Grey. The Manifestion Celebration presents CoSM benefit/GLOBAL MEDITATION FOR PEACE hosted by Alex Grey, Allyson Grey, Nadis Warriors. 100% of profits from this event will go to Alex’s CoSM fund. Ticket info coming soon

 

Phish Blossom Center Seating ChartPhish Concert

Phish Concert Date – 06/12/10
Phish Concert Venue – Blossom Music Center
Phish Concert Location – Cuyahoga Falls, OH

Ticket Information:

Ticket Information: A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets’ online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/. The ticketing request period is currently underway and will end Friday, March 26th at 11:59pm Eastern Time.

Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, April 3rd at 1pm Eastern Time. Tickets can be purchased online at www.livenation.com or www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 800.745.3000. Tickets can also be purchased at select Blockbuster outlets and at the venue box office.

Pricing: $50.00 Reserved / $50.00 GA Lawn

 

Phish Toyota Park seating ChartPhish Concert

Phish Concert Date – 06/11/10
Phish Concert Venue – Toyota Park
Phish Concert Location – Chicago, IL

Ticket Information:

A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets’ online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/. The ticketing request period is currently underway and will end Friday, March 26th at 11:59pm Eastern Time. 

Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, April 2nd at 10:00am Central Time. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 312.559.1212 or 800.745.3000 or 866.448.7849. Tickets can also be purchased at select TicketMaster outlets and at the venue box office. Tapers will need a GA floor ticket.

 Pricing: $50.00 GA / $50.00 Reserved.

 

Disco Biscuits Planet AnthemThe Disco Biscuits will be streaming live from their Planet Anthem CD release party at the TLA in Philadelphia 03/16/10 at 8:30 PM EST.

Click here for the Disco Biscuits live stream.

 

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AJK, long time Tooboarder and member of the band Harvyst needs your help. Every vote counts in the quest to send Harvyst to Summercamp, so click the link and vote to send Harvyst to Summercamp!

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Not much information released from the Furthur camp as of yet, but stay tuned for more information about the upcoming Furthur Festival. Scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, May 28th – 30th, located in Mountain Aire California. We’ll update you as we know.

Furthur Featuring:

Bob Weir
Phil Lesh
Jay Lane
Jeff Chimenti
Joe Russo
John Kadlecik

 

Submitted by Patrick Ward

There is a certain warmth to concerts featuring Grateful Dead music. From cover bands to the actual Grateful Dead to the latest iteration of post-Jerry Garcia bands, Furthur, featuring Grateful Dead founders, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, the familiarity of the music, the camaraderie of the audience’s purpose, it all fits like an old sweater.

On Saturday in Broomfield CO, there was warmth beyond that anticipated metaphoric comfort. Saturday had been gorgeous. Early spring in Colorado makes blue, cloudless skies and draws you out of doors. Halfway through the Furthur show, the inaugural events at a new FirstBank Center in suburban Denver, the weather seemed an important point to consider. After a six week run on a east coast suffering through a long winter, that early spring Colorado sun was the first natural warmth the band had probably felt in over a month. And these are sun guys, raised on the West Coast in the golden, painterly bath of northern California. The concept of sunglasses and shorts must have been welcome.

And it showed. There was an alacrity throughout, as if the vitamin D of the day had fueled new energy in both the old guard approaching 45 years of playing together, and in the newer wave infusing original, respectful lines and synergy to this music. From “After Midnight” as an opener to “Samson and Delilah” as an encore, there was irony and double entendre in almost every song. But this music, even when improvised, isn’t self-propelled or created by chance, it requires leadership. That was embodied in the younger Jerry Garcia and demonstrably lacking in the older one. It seems clear that Bob Weir has taken much of that leadership outside the actual playing, but his role in the mix doesn’t really license leadership within the music. Phil Lesh’s bass lines certainly have the potential and occasional opportunity, but when it all shakes out, its the newest member of the group, lead guitarist John Kadlecik who sits in the driver’s seat of this band ostensibly named after Ken Kesey’s bus.

Kadlecik is unlike any other guitarist who has played with this group, perhaps in his playing, but absolutely in his education. First, Kadlecik most recently played his same role in Dark Star Orchestra, a sort of Grateful Dead cover band in the way the New York Philharmonic is a Mozart cover band. That band re-played (not re-created) specific Grateful Dead shows song for song. But there is one distinct difference. Unlike the Dead, DSO always knew what the next song was. The crescendos, codas and denouements that naturally exist for a listener 30 years after a Dead show, were created on the spot not pre-destrined or contrived. They may have had some vague idea of what was coming next, but the set list was as much an improvisation as the solos within each song. Kadlecik and his former band mates in DSO knew exactly where each set and concert was going and could build a deliberate path inside the music.

Kadelcik also has an encyclopedic knowledge of this music that is only matched by his current cohorts playing stage left. The other formidable players who have stood in his spot were all accomplished and certainly learned the necessary music, but they came from other traditions. Kadelcik, in his old job, needed to understand as many as five arrangements of each song, depending on what year’s show his former band had decided to replay on a given evening. That requires a fluency with the material that no lead guitarist in the Dead, The Other Ones, Phil and Friends or other iteration of Furthur can boast.

That education and his sensibility not to mimic but to honor this music, combined with a tendency to approach the concert as a collective body makes his playing as boundless as Garcia’s. He is not Garcia. Nor does he want to be. But is there another guitar player other than the late Garcia who could know the whole catalog as cold as Kadlecik? Even Garcia himself would have struggled if you asked him to pull out A “Golden Road”, a “Til the Morning Comes” and an “Alligator” in one show. But Kadlecik weaves through the show hinting here, leading there, building improvisational bridges between songs that have never been paired before. He is a consummate professional up there, and, man, he loves his job. He glances across the stage at Jeff Chimenti, the band’s equally talented keyboard player, taking musical cues and riffing off them, and in the foreground are two of the original composers of the music to which he has dedicated his career for the many years.

There were particular highlights. The Alligator into Dark Star into Pink Floyd’s Time into Dark Star into Morning Dew is worth listening to over and over again. The Morning Dew alone is as memorable to me as the Good Lovin I heard in Giant’s Stadium in September 1978 at age 15 and maybe more. But no song or string of songs was the most impressive aspect of this show. Grateful Dead shows can be relatively predictable in set list choices. If you know your history, you can hear three songs in a row and pretty much pick a show down to the season and the year, Spring ‘77, for instance. In the day at any show, Deadheads would play a parlor game of picking the next tune, and someone always won. But with this show, even after a goodly amount of time listening to most of the tour’s shows via online streaming, there was no way to predict where it would go next Someone remarked in the crowd after the pair of openers, “After Midnight” and “You Win Again,” ‘they’re gonna play all covers tonight.’ And they could have. That is as much a testament to Kadlecik’s education as it is to Weir and Lesh’s willingness to shed all convention and legacy from the music and truly try and invigorate it with new life.

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