Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival today announced Bassnectar, The Avett Brothers, and Odesza are joining previously announced headliners Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Future, Miguel, Fetty Wap and Big Grams (Big Boi & Phantogram).  Other new additions to Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival’s diverse bill include Kill The Noise, Lil Dicky, Nahko and Medicine For The People, Lettuce, White Denim, Booker T. Jones, Post Malone, Dungen, Family And Friends, and The Shelters.  The Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is slated for March 4^th – 6^th, 2016 just North of Florida’s magnificent Lake Okeechobee. For complete details and further updates, please see okeechobeefest.com.

The Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival initial line-up was unveiled last month alongside a special look at the festival’s Sunshine Grove site. Both clips and more can be viewed now at the official Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival YouTube channel.

The Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is Florida’s biggest ever camping festival to date, with an extraordinary multi-genre bill boasting multiple major headline artists, more than 80 artists, bands, and DJs from around the globe performing on five diverse stages.

“Although we have booked an amazing artist lineup for Okeechobee, this festival is so much more than just great music” adds Soundslinger Founder & Chief Executive Officer Steve Sybesma, “It is the realization of the collaborative effort of my partners and colleagues to create something special and unique in a magical space, a place to spend some days and immerse yourself in all that it offers.”

“Sunshine Grove”, which contains The Grove and Moonlight Oasis, is 800 acres of pristine South Florida land with beautiful lakes and natural scenery. The Grove features the three main stages surrounded by a Jurassic Park like tropical woods.  Moonlight Oasis contains 3 distinct areas: The Lakeside Swimming Beach, Yogachobee and the Jungle Stage.  The Lakeside Swimming  Beach features  the Beach Stage, the Beach Bar, a Ferris Wheel, and more.   Yogachobee features yoga, workshops, flow arts, performance, visionary art, interactive spaces, sculptures, sound healing, thai massage, and a healing house.   The Jungle Stage, a dusk-till-dawn stage in a tropical outer space setting, showcases some of the world’s best house and techno artists, to be announced soon.

One of the highlights of the festival is ”PoWow! A Live Superstar Mashup,” featuring once-in-a-lifetime artist collaborations produced by Paul Peck, the creative force behind the world famous Bonnaroo SuperJam. Peck’s curative aesthetic will ensure major surprises and special performances will be a key part of the event.

3-Day General Admission Passes and VIP Packages for Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival are on sale now. 3-day GA Passes are available for $259.50 (plus fees) through Thursday, December 10^th, at which time the price will increase to $279.50 (plus fees).

Payment plans are available. Fans are encouraged to purchase early to take advantage of the lowest initial deposit required. For complete ticketing information, please visit okeechobeefest.com/tickets.

In addition, fans attending Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival can choose among a number of customized ticket and lodging packages that include a variety of Tent and RV Rental options, the “Eternal Sunshine” VIP Experience, the ‘Eternal Sunshine’ VIP Boutique Camping Experience, or a Super VIP Luxury Tour Bus. Complete details – including remaining VIP package availability – can be found at okeechobeefest.com/tickets and Eventbrite.

Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is presented by Soundslinger, LLC, an independent company founded by Steve Sybesma formerly of concert pioneer Sunshine Promotions, Paul Peck formerly of Superfly, and a team of all-star producers who have presented other major festivals  and countless concerts around the globe.

For additional information, please visit okeechobeefest.com, facebook.com/okeechobeefest, twitter.com/okeechobeefest, and instagram.com/okeechobeefest.

Twisted Pine is coming to Colorado for a week beginning June 20,  to tour their joyous new  LP, Love Your Mind, out from Signature Sounds Recordings. Dubbed “a band to watch” by NPR, Twisted Pine has a strong devotion to Colorado, having found many fans at festivals which include Telluride Bluegrass Festival, RockyGrass Festival, WinterWondergrass / Steamboat Springs, and MeadowGrass.

Love Your Mind  is the band’s first album in four years, a  long-awaited follow-up to their pandemic release, Right Now, which No Depression praised for its “sheer pop glory,, funky all-day grooves, and spacecraft sonics.” 

On vinyl and on stage, the sound of Twisted Pine is unmistakable, exuberant, daring. 

What started as a semi-traditional bluegrass band in the trenches of the storied folk, bluegrass, and Americana scene in Boston a decade ago has bloomed into an ensemble cast of players who shapeshift across genres to feature whatever music they love. Even the expansive term  “progressive bluegrass” doesn’t come close to capturing their musical scope. They’ve been called everything from jamgrass to jazz. 

Co-produced by the band and longtime collaborator Dan Cardinal at Dimension Sound in Boston, Love Your Mind is the sound of fearless songwriting, experimental production, finely crafted collaborative arrangements, and virtuosic playing. 

On stage Chris Sartori’s upright bass anchors the band with an articulate groove. Dan Bui’s mandolin is crisp and propulsive. Kathleen Parks’ fiddle and Anh Phung’s flute are at constant play, with pedal effects for layered textures and psychedelic sounds. Out in front Parks’ lead vocals are an instrument too  – equal parts mystery, power, haunt and a search for the edges. 

Twisted Pine has a particularly deep devotion to Colorado and can’t wait to get back for a short run this month. 

“Colorado has always been a second home to us, musically and spiritually,” says Chris Sartori, bass and vocals. “Some of our first great tours happened there, where we caught glimpses of how our music can connect, live and breathe with open minded audiences.” 

““We love Colorado's open-minded music scene: musicians, fans, promoters,” says Dan Bui, mandolin and vocals. 

“Colorado has some of our favourite audiences,” says Anh Phung, flute and vocals. “Super open minded and ready to go to space with us. The landscape is gorgeous and there’s plenty of rock climbing. Our band’s favourite pho is also there! The Pho Tai Kobe from Pho Duy in Broomfield CO!” 

Kathleen Parks, fiddle and lead vocals, says, “Love the beauteous mountains, creeks to dip in, and vivacious energy of the people…don’t love the elevation sickness.” 

These are Twisted Pine’s public appearances in Colorado, beginning with June 20. 

COLORADO RUN 

June 20 FRI 7pm Delta Egyptian, Delta CO

June 21 SAT 9:30pm The Lariat, Buena Vista, CO 

June 23 MON 8pm Steve’s Guitars, Carbondale, CO 

June 26 8pm THURS Velvet Elk, Boulder, CO w/ Salomé Songbyrd*

June 27 FRI 8pm Cervantes Other Side, Denver, CO w/ Megan Letts and Friends, River Spell