Jam Band News

Here’s a look at confirmed artists set to perform July 3-6, 2008 – many of them are jam bands:
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND   +   WIDESPREAD PANIC   +   JOHN MAYER   +   311   +   PHIL LESH AND FRIENDS   +   PRIMUS   +   THIEVERY CORPORATION   +   SNOOP DOGG   +   MODEST MOUSE   +   MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD   +   GOV’T MULE   +   STS9   +   COLBIE CAILLAT   +   SLIGHTLY STOOPID   +   THE BLACK KEYS   +   KELLER WILLIAMS AND THE WMD’S   +   YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND FEATURING JON FISHMAN   +   GOGOL BORDELLO   +   CITIZEN COPE   +   THE DISCO BISCUITS   +   MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD   +   RAY LAMONTAGNE   +   DEREK TRUCKS …read more

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We are pleased to announce that Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds will join Jack Johnson at the Fifth Annual Kokua Festival on April 19-20, 2008 at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu, Hawaii.  All proceeds from the Earth Day weekend festival will benefit the Kokua Hawai’i Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Jack and Kim Johnson to support environmental education programs in the schools and communities of Hawaii.

Other artists in the Kokua Festival line-up include Paula Fuga and Go Jimmy Go, and Brushfire Records’ latest addition, the Hawaii-born, Minneapolis-based Mason Jennings.
Please visit the event official website here for …read more

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Coming this March 6-8, 2008 will be the 6th Annual Langerado Music Festival at Big Cypress, Indian Reservation, South Florida Everglades. And of course, many of our Jam Band Artists will be performing during the events with other band performers which includes:
Widespread Panic – Trey Anastasio – The Black Crowes – Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals – Wilco – The Flaming Lips – The String Cheese Incident – O.A.R. (….of a revolution.) – Cake – moe. – Matisyahu – G. Love & Special Sauce – The Meters – Bela Fleck & the Flecktones – Toots & The Maytals – …read more

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Wakarusa Music Festival
June 7-10, 2007
Clinton Lake Reservoir
Lawrence, KS
Artist includes: Widespread Panic, Ben Harper, Yonder Mountain String Band, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Michael Franti and Spearhead, and many more…
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w00t! Summer Camp 2008 Music Festival will be coming this May 23, 24, and 25, 2008 at Three Sisters Park, Chillicothe, Illinois. The event is brought by Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment and Jam Productions, Ltd.
And, it is already confirmed for Summer Camp 2008 performers are: moe., Umphrey’s McGee, The Flaming Lips, The Avett Brothers, Cornmeal, Groovatron, Family Groove Company and 56 Hope Road. Please do check the website for more additional performing artist during the big event.
Also, check out Summer Camp Talent Search MySpace Website where organizers will visit key cities looking for bands who can do premier during …read more

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Vegas 96:   available now! The Aladdin show from 12/6/96 has been one of the most requested shows since we launched Live Phish. Download Vegas 96 at LivePhish.com and receive two exclusive bonus video downloads from this show: “You Enjoy Myself” and “Wilson.”
By the time of Phish’s pioneer gig in the Silver State of Nevada, they had toured Europe for the second time, had masterminded their first single-band mega-festival and released their sixth studio album Billy Breathes. On December 6, 1996, they reached the Aladdin Theatre for the last show of a 35-show fall tour that stretched from Buffalo, NY to …read more

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Glide Magazine did a feature about Burning Man which sets off at the end of August.
I never realized that Burning Man was not considered a music festival, that they had no central booking committee. Any band that plays basically sets up their own stuff and creates their own camp or stage, it isn’t anything that was booked by the actual people that run Burning Man.
Personally I don’t know how interested I would be in attending Burning Man, I would lean much more heavily towards Bonnaroo or other festivals. While Burning Man comes off as an interesting social experiment I don’t …read more

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The slew of festivals continues with Camp Bisco which takes place August 16,17, and 18th at the Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, New York, which is also the home of Camp Creek.

Here is the announced lineup:
The Disco Biscuits
Umphreys McGee
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Hallucinogen in Dub
Infected Mushroom
Slick Rick
Amon Tobin
The Bays
The Join
Girl Talk
Adam Deitch Project
and many more.
For more information on Camp Bisco visit their official site
Technorati Tags: disco biscuits, camp bisco, Umphreys McGee

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The lead up to and the reviews of Bonnaroo provided me with a lot of reading material leading up to the site launch. Here are a few postings that I clipped and noted, I figured I would share them with you.
Bonnaroo Review: Smaller Bands That Flew Under the Radar
Bonnaroo Wrap Up: All Good Things Must Come to an End
What did Variety have to say about the festival? It seems like they concur with a lot of other people when talking about the presence of John Paul Jones at the festival and him sitting in on more than one set.
Rolling Stone …read more

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The lineup for moe.down has been announced for this year. Taking place from August 31 to September 2 at the Snow Ridge ski area in Turin, NY.
Some of the announced acts for this years show is as follows:
-.moe
-The Roots
-Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
-Meat Puppets,
-Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
-VietNam
-The Brakes
-Ra Ra Riot
Sound like an eclectic lineup, I am thinking about going to this depending on how grad school is going to be treating me at the time. I like the fact that the lineup has a wide range in acts and I think this bill is a perfect end to the …read more

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