For the past decade, Jam Cruise has been delivering a musical experience like no other. Whether it's listening to a late night pool deck performance while sitting in a hot tub, hanging with 100 of your closest friends on a private tropical beach, delivering pallets of donated shoes to smiling children ...view article
The Big Up Festival has announced their 2011 summer festival dates as July 28, 29 and 30, 2011. The three-day festival held at beautiful Sunnyview Farm in Ghent, New York, features 50 plus hours of music on multiple stages, arts and culture, and multimedia experiences.
When I was but a wee little fourth grader in Saint Paul, MN I worked on a group research project about a place that I had never seen and, as far as I was concerned, was too far away and too wild to possibly exist in the same universe. Yosemite National Park in California was about as distant to me ...view article
Today, The String Cheese Incident announced their first multi-city run in four years. “Roots Run Deep” 2011 begins Thanksgiving weekend and travels through southern and eastern U.S. historic venues including Atlanta’s legendary Fox Theatre, a return to the newly re-opened Georgia ...view article
Seasoned veterans of Chicago's blues scene Lubriphonic is a horn-infused, funk and soul stew. The Gig Is On is their new CD which is due out later this fall and features a vintage sound steeped in soulful horn melodies that balance the searing guitar and pulsing rhythm section. To give the music community ...view article
Today, prolific singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams announces he’ll spend New Year’s Eve in Telluride, Colorado with his 7-piece funk outfit More Than A Little. Dubbed “Tofunkuride” featuring Keller Williams and More ...view article
Since Keller Williams first appeared on the scene in the early ’90s, he has helped define the term independent artist. Looking at the diversity of his fall plans, you can certainly ascertain why. Look for Keller on tour through the end of the year in several of his various incarnations, including ...view article
Later this week the Dump Truck is getting loaded up and heading out for Dumpstaphunk’s Spring tour. Starting with a 3 night run through Alabama before heading out to to their annual pilgrimage at the Wanee music festival in Live Oak, FL. Their tour continues with a stop at the Historic ...view article
“Summercamp is a marathon, not a sprint” my newly-met young neighbor assures me as I offer him some goldfish crackers. It is 4:00pm on Thursday afternoon and he is trying to stave off “tipsyness” while his bratwurst are cooking. We have been on the festival grounds ...view article
“The picture on the cover, that’s Broadway in Baltimore, maybe back around the time I started playing in the clubs,” Del McCoury says with a smile. Then he adds, just before breaking into his signature, eyebrow-wiggling laugh, “Back then, you could get anything you needed ...view article
.jpg "Umphrey's McGee - Las Tortugas Festival, Groveland CA - 10/30/2009 - 10/31/2009")
