Just as the day prior, the Tennessee sun decided to give me a rude awakening by cooking me alive in my tent. Sleep is not something that happens very often at a major music festival. Either you are up too late or the morning comes too soon. Thank goodness for pure adrenaline and Kashi granola… Continue reading Bonnaroo 2011 | Part Three
Sporting muddy bare feet and a flowing tie-dyed sundress, a flaxen-haired teen pumped up Sunday’s physically drained crowd by waiving a satellite image of “our home from outer space.” Reminding us that “this is where we live,” the angelic blonde implored us not to “throw your garbage on the ground, because that’s where the animals… Continue reading 2011 Outside Lands Festival Part III
1968. Oakland, California. R & B, funk and soul legends Tower of Power kept reminding us of their roots all throughout their show at the Boulder Theatre on August 7, 2011. A much older crowd populated the Boulder Theater on this evening, another indication of the band’s longevity. Still, the band had a dedicated group… Continue reading Tower of Power: Funkifized at the Boulder Theatre
Bragging of Friday night’s extensive substance abuse while exposing their bare midriffs to the golden, mellow California sunshine, throngs of eager fans poured into Golden Gate Park for a Saturday morning encore. Attendees threw back booze with gusto all throughout the day, padding promoters’ profit margins with $7 glasses of Heineken. Vetiver San Francisco natives… Continue reading 2011 Outside Lands Festival Part II
Past an array of rainbow tinted Victorians, countless psychedelic peddlers, and that iconic Haight-Ashbury intersection, a dusty footpath leads into the thousand acre site of 2011’s Outside Lands music festival: San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Attendees of the extravaganza, which returned to its full three-day incarnation following last year’s brief truncation, were treated to a… Continue reading 2011 Outside Lands Festival Part I
This weekend the International NewGrass Festival will be held in Oakland, Kentucky. The area is the birthplace of NewGrass music and the festival features some of the genre’s top musicians including Sam Bush and Curtis Burch (NewGrass Revival) along with rising stars like The Farewell Drifters, Dread Clampitt (with special guests from Duckbutter), Rockin Acoustic Circus… Continue reading New Grass Festival this Weekend!
Grateful Web’s June Reedy caught up with Kyle Hollingsworth of The String Cheese Incident backstage at the inaugural Electric Forest Festival discussing Kyle’s love of the brew, Lynx and becoming the speaker… GW: Right you’re doing the Brewru, Can you tell me about this? KH: Yes we’re doing…um… I’ve been traveling the country for the… Continue reading Grateful Web Interview with Kyle Hollingsworth
