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  • Lookin Forward to Lockn’ Festival September 4-7

    Anyone can tell you that putting on a music festival is no easy task; it takes months and months of planning. Each year is a fresh start to learn from previous mistakes and create improvements for everyone involved from volunteers, festival goers, musicians and more. After the inaugural four-day Lockn’ Music Festival, organizers have made some serious changes involving musical lineups, camping spots, vendors and hopefully less frustrating traffic jams. Check out ‘s own Nick Fitanides’ review and Phrazz’s photos of the last year’s Lockn’.

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    The 2nd annual Lockn’ Music Festival is set to take place Sept 4-7 at the Oak Ridge Estate in Arrington, VA with a star-studded lineup that is sure to make every second of the weekend count. This year’s artists include Widespread Panic, The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The String Cheese Incident, Umphrey’s McGee, Phil Lesh & Friends, Willie Nelson and many more. Bob Weir & RatDog as well as Further were originally set to perform but recently Bob Weir cancelled all remaining shows for the forseeable future, including his appearance at Lockn’. To fill in the void, Lockn’ has booked Bill Kreutzmann’s Locknstep Allstars to Friday’s lineup plus funk masters Lettuce and two-sets from Umphrey’s McGee for Thursday. Lockn’ – the interlocking festival, features two side-by-side identical stages, providing a continuous flow of music with multiple sit in guest possibilities.

    Click here for the weekend schedule so not to miss out on any of the music on the various stages. Check out the official Countdown to Lockn’ 2014 playlist on soundcloud.com with 19 tracks featuring many of the artists performing this year.

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    New this year will be the festival layout with the addition of  a 385 acre farm located next to the current festival site. The new use of fields and woods for camping means that all campsites will now surround the concert site, making them almost a mile and half closer than last year. With the new farm fields, the traffic plan will now allow better site access and hopefully less congestion plus pedestrian and vehicle interactions will be greatly minimized. Also new this year is the on-site Biking program, giving people the chance to explore over 30 miles of bike trails as well as a convenient way to travel from camp site to the main stage. Guests are encouraged to bring their own bikes but may borrow the top of the line mountain bikes brought in by Snowshoe Mountain Bike Park with plenty of bike racks throughout the festival grounds.

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    Lockn’ recently had their liquor license revoked by the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) due to last year’s undercover ABC agents witnessing hundreds of instances of inappropriate drug/alcohol use. This is not the final ruling, the license remains active until the 30 day appeal. Hopefully, everything will work out because Lockn’ is partnering with Sixpoint and many other local craft vendors to bring Brewers Village, a separated section of the festival for fans to enjoy a nice cold one.

    Tickets are still available for general admission, VIP Packages, student tickets and single day tickets. Unfortunately, RV camping tickets are already sold out as well as preferred tent-only camping tickets. Each ticket requires a GA camping pass with various prices depending on your camping situation between tent, car or forest camping.

    Be sure click here to get your tickets now and prepare to lock in your plans for Lockn’ by liking on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

  • The Peach Music Festival 2014 will be an Epic Good Time

    The Peach Music Festival is nestled in Northeast Pennsylvania’s Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA and returns this August 2014. The festival is less than four and a half hours from Pittsburgh and Buffalo and a little over two short hours from Albany, New York City and Philadelphia making it perfectly located for music lovers all over.

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    The Festival will be welcoming back The Allman Brothers Band, who started the festival back in 2012 with Live Nation. This year marks a certain milestone for The Allman’s, they’ve announced this will be their final year of touring together. The Peach is chock-full of some of the most premier touring bands, that for the price of admission, is an absolute steal. Below you will find a break down each day, so that you can plan accordingly, it’s going to be tough to see everyone but with proper planning you can make sure you catch the most bands humanely possible.

    The Peach offers several different options for tickets but options are becoming limited as the festival approaches. Along with a ticket purchase most people either camp on site, bring an RV or stay in a local hotel. Thursday is the official start of the festival and with everyone pouring in for a busy weekend, you will want to get there early enough to set up and catch the opening band, Citizens Band Radio. All of Thursday’s bands will be playing on the Mushroom stage. The Mushroom stage is right smack in the middle of the water park of Montage Mountain. One of the coolest things about the Peach is that with the price of admission you also get to use the water park all weekend. The water park has a lazy river, wave pool and several water slides. There is nothing like being able to float around the lazy river and listen to the acts on the Mushroom stage. Citizen’s Band Radio will start at 6PM

    Cabinet plays at 7:30PM on Thursday, local to the area, this band was the talk of The Peach in past years. Cabinet is bringing the northeast bluegrass scene to the front and center of whatever city they are in;don’t miss this homegrown sensation. George Clinton and the Parliament Funk follows Cabinet in the 10PM slot. George Clinton and the Parliament Funk are absolute legends in the Funk music scene, touring since the ’60s, they have influenced countless music groups and are going to get you fired up for the entire weekend. Closing out the first night will be Dopapod, who are deservedly returning to the festival this year. They got everyone raging last year in the late night slot and are perfectly paired once again, with the Thursday night midnight slot. The night is packed with a great lineup but its only a taste of what the weekend will bring. Don’t burn yourself out too much on the first night there will be plenty of music come Friday.

    On Friday the music starts at 12pm on the Mushroom stage. The Grove stage and The Peach Stage will also start on Friday so this is when the planning will really begin on your part. The Grove stage is a smaller stage outside of The Peach stage’s entrance. It is easier to check out music within those two stages but to get to the Mushroom stage, it’s a short walk to get there but nothing drastic. With music starting first on The Mushroom stage with Bobby Lee Rodgers at noon. Perfect timing for grabbing a bloody-mary from the water park’s bar and chillin to some early tunes from the Jazz rocker.

    Here is where it begins to be tough, 2PM brings Trigger Hippy to the Mushroom stage and From Good Homes to the Peach stage. Trigger Hippy which is a super group of sorts and produces a soul driven rock and roll experience. The group consists of Black Crowes Steve Gorman (drums), Joan Osborne (vocals), Jackie Greene (vocals, guitar, keys), Tom Bukovac (guitar) and Nick Govrik. From Good Homes is a side group of Railroad Earth’s frontman Todd Scheaffer. The band dates back to Scheaffer’s high school days and disbanded in 1999, only to reunite 10 years later in 2009. The group combines Rock, Jazz, Celtic and Folk with Scheaffer’s solid writing. They have toured very extensivly throughout the Northeast, it will be good to see them back at it.

    Blackberry Smoke follows From Good Homes and Bass master Victor Wooten follows Trigger Hippy on the Mushroom stage. Blackberry Smoke, mixing elements of Gospel, Rock and Bluegrass have been on the rise and earning it while touring 250 plus shows a year. The Mushroom stage will see The Revivalists, Boombox, and Papadosio for the remainder of the evening, The Grove stage will include Consider The Source, American Babies, The Vegabonds and Zoogma. The Peach stage begins to pick up quite a bit of steam with JJ Grey and Mofro and Tedeschi Trucks Band. Closing out Friday on the main stage will be none other then Grateful Dead’s legendary Bob Weir, who will be playing with Ratdog. Late night moves over to the Grove stage with Cabinet playing there second show in as many days and Big Gigantic on the Mushroom stage.

    If you do go to sleep Friday night, you’ll want to be back at it in time for the music Saturday mourning, which will start again promptly at 11:15AM with The London Souls. The band will get everyone rocking early and might be a perfect start to the day on the Mushroom stage. The Same stage will also be shared with Rich Robinson Band, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, The Wood Brothers and Particle throughout the day and up until midnight. The Grove stage will see Tom Graham, Big Leg Emma,  Flux Capacitor, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Aqueous, and The Werks will all play up until midnight. On the Peach Stage, Acts Tribal Seeds, Infamous Stringdusters, and The Greyboy Allstars will play the afternoon slots. Headlining Saturdays event will be Gov’t Mule, Trey Anastasio Band, and The Allman Brothers Band. The late night bands include Ron Holloway Band on the Grove stage and Lotus on the Mushroom stage.

    Wake up with Warren, always a good time on Sunday’s at The Peach. Warren Haynes will play the morning slot, last year we saw Bob Weir so for those who were there last year will see a change this year. With only two stages on sunday it makes it easier to travel while both stages open are the Peach and it’s neighbor in the Grove stage. The Grove Stage will include Cherokee Red, George Wesley, Miz, and closing the weekend out on the Grove stage will be Jimkata at 430PM. The Peach stage will include Taj Mahal Trio, The Soul Rebels and only fitting closing the Peach Stage as well as the festival, The Allman Brothers Band.

    Well there is the complete rundown of who is playing where at this year’s festival. Make sure you don’t forget any of your festival gear, bring plenty of water to stay hydrated and bring your dancing shoes as it’s going to be a weekend to remember for years to come. See you at the Peach!

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  • And the Final 2014 Mountain Jam Headliner is…

    The Allman Brothers Band is the headliner for the 10th annual Mountain Jam Festival to be held June 5-8, 2014. Making a return to the mountain, the Allman Brothers Band will perform a special set in which they will play their first two legendary albums in their entirety, The Allman Brothers Band and Idlewild South.

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    This is a big year for the Allman Brothers Band, including an earlier announcement that guitarists Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks will be departing the band at the conclusion of 2014. Founding member, Gregg Allman also noted that this might be the final year of touring while the Allman Brothers Band is celebrating their 45th anniversary.

    Coincidently, Gov’t Mule is celebrating its 20th year and Mountain Jam is in its 10th year, inevitably marking this years festival a big anniversary party. Mountain Jam founder Gary Chetkof stated, “we really aimed to bring the best of the last 9 years back for this year’s milestone and having The Allman Brothers on board feels extremely fitting. The Festival takes its name from one of The Allman Brothers’ most beloved songs and I don’t think there will be a dry eye at the conclusion of their set.”

    Mountain Jam also welcomes back Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Robert Randolph and his band performed at the first three Mountain Jams and are currently touring in support of their latest release, Lickety Split.

    “Pretty Early” tickets are on sale now and offer tickets at up to 22% off day­of­show prices. 4-­Day and 3-­Day Passes are available with and without camping, as well as Jammer (VIP) Passes, Super Jammer Passes and the brand new Ultimate Jammer Pass Package. Single Day tickets will be offered for sale in the Spring.

    View the full lineup and purchase tickets at Mountainjam.com