Electric Forest - returning to the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, Michigan on June 27- June 30 - is just two weeks away. To help fans start planning, new and exciting announcements are being made each day. The festival recently released the 2013 Stage Schedule and just today published this year's Electric Forest Festival Map [link], revealing an expanded Sherwood Forest and Sherwood Forest Stage, and the brand new Observatory stage. Also announced today, a limited number of "2-Day Sat & Sun" Tickets are available now at www.electricforestfestival.com.
Electric Forest's unrivaled GOOD LIFE VIP experience is almost entirely sold out. The GOOD LIFE Program - highlighted in this month's Wired Magazine for its unparalleled amenities and perks - offers onsite lodging options such as log cabins, log homes and resort hotel-style suites, a 60,000 square foot indoor water park, an 18-hole championship golf course, swimming pools, horseback riding, and more. New to the GOOD LIFE experience this year, access to Electric Forest's Woodland Kitchen + Bar, an ultimate EF pop-up restaurant brought to you by restaurateur and Top Chef season 5 champion Hosea Rosenberg. Signature dishes like the Pulled Pork Plate and New Mexican Stacked Chicken Enchilada will take diners on a culinary tour of the U.S. during this whimsical, country dining experience inside the Sherwood Forest....
The past 30 days have been pretty exciting for Nicki Bluhm. First was the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, AL, playing alongside of artists like Tom Petty, Stevie Wonder and Trey Anastasio. This was followed by a couple of CBS This Morning spots highlighting the Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers “Van Sessions” as well as a live spot on Saturday morning. The “Van Sessions” are videos produced by the band, taken while driving from show to show. They feature the band playing tunes, unplugged, in their van and are viewable on YouTube. Then it was a string of dates on the East Coast, opening for Gov’t Mule. Several nights, Warren Haynes even invited Nicki and some of her Gramblers on stage to perform with his band.
Next up it was Warren Haynes’ Ninth Annual Mountain Jam Music Festival in the Catskill Mountains in New York, and then a week later, opening up Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN. All this and she’s about to release a new album in late August. What a month! It seems like everything is going right for the San Francisco Bay Area band. Not so fast! After wrapping up their spot at Bonnaroo, the band was due in Little Rock for a show at Stickyz, which had been postponed from March this year. In Nashville the band realized that the brakes had failed in their rental van, and all of a sudden, the six hour drive to their next gig looked improbable....
