On July 12 at Artpark in Lewiston, NY to celebrate 50 Years of the Grateful Dead, The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the music of the Grateful Dead, including performances by bands Crazy Fingers, The Grass is Dead, The Maniacs, Hayden Fogle and the Ambassadors, The Growlers Blues Band, and Savannah and the Kings. Food, drink and memorabilia will be available for sale.
Tickets are $12 for the all day affair, with VIP passes $39.
Honest heartfelt lyrics, and a raw unadulterated voice help to shape Vermont-based Dan Johnson and the Expert Sidemen’s latest album titled Suck It Up, Cupcake. Listening to this album, the band’s fourth, you get the sense that Dan isn’t trying to impress anyone, yet he manages to do just that. So sit, back, relax, and imagine you are sitting around a campfire with a true storyteller who just so happens to be a great guitar (and pedal steel and mandolin and banjo) player, and who has his friends Pete Murphy, Brian Elsenbeck, and Roger Noyes (the Expert Sidemen) along to back him up.
Gleaning influence from none other than Bob Dylan, which certainly comes through in many of his tunes, Dan has also been singing and picking along with more locally well-known (to Upstate NY) musicians, including Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, who have taught him to appreciate the more acoustic and traditional yet simultaneously individual sides of folk music.
To add to the pure sound of this album, Dan chose to record all the parts in his Vermont home, using Garageband for the mixing and mastering, making this artist a talented songwriter and recording artist to boot! Although a couple of the songs are a bit cheesy, which kind of comes with the territory, being that this album falls under the country music genre, each song has a way of working its way into your head, and sticking there all day. Perhaps it’s the easy-going quality of Dan’s voice, or the familiar sounding riffs reminiscent of traditional folk tunes, or the soothing tones of the pedal steel guitar featured on several numbers, but his songs do have an infectious quality.
Once you give Suck It Up, Cupcake a listen, you won’t have to wait too long to hear them performed live, as Dan Johnson will no doubt be playing some of his new tunes during his upcoming shows, which include stops at Skinny Pancake in Montpelier, VT on June 14, Radio Bean in Burlington, VT on July 4 and a performance at Upstate NY’s very own Hardball Café in Cooperstown on July 10, and the Bellstock Festival in the Catskills on July 16.
Key Tracks: Being Free, Seattle Southbound Blues, On My Gravestone
Jay Saint G was born in Syracuse, NY, and his first taste of working in music was taking the radio program at SUNY Onondaga where he wound up launching the first all metal college radio show “Monday Night Massacre” which ultimately landed him with Cumulus Media in Syracuse with 95X (WAQX) working behind the scenes in promotions and board oping.
After a couple years there, he took a stab at radio advertising sales at other local radio stations before eventually landing a job as a Stage Hand Tech at Turning Stone Casino and Resort. During that time, he met NYS Music on the way to a festival in Columbus, Ohio which led him to join the team.
Jay Saint G is a life long metal fan, and is also really into old school Hip-Hop he is just as passionate about his favorite music as his sports. His favorite teams are the NY Giants, NY Knicks, NY Rangers, NY Yankees, and also a proud SU Sports fan. He also enjoys watching boxing, playing football, volleyball, and travels across the state and country to different shows.
The Disco Biscuits officially set the record for the fastest sellout show at Higher Ground ever, when they announced a late night after party for their UVM Springfest show Saturday in Burlington, Vermont. They hauled all their gear a few miles across town for a late night show starting at 11pm and going all night. Given the small size of the venue and the fast sellout, anticipations were high and the band certainly did not disappoint the lucky few who managed to get a ticket.
The band wasted no time, jumping into a nice version of “Aceetobee” which segued into “Bombs”. Bass player Marc Brownstein was really prominent, ironically dropping what some would call “bombs” during the song, before leading the band back into the end of “Aceetobee”. “The Very Moon” followed, and was stretched to almost 15 minutes long, but remained unfinished. It was a rather standard version, but the segue into the Grateful Dead’s “Crazy Finger’s” must be heard. Guitarist Jon “The Barber” Gutwillig really nailed the segue and had the crowd cheering and singing along to the classic tune with a modern electronic twist. They ended the first set by finishing off their own classic song “Mr. Don” from April 16 in Denver,CO.
The second set started things off with fan favorite “Trucker’s Choice”. The time was after 1am, but nobody in attendance showed any signs of letting up, the band included. “Mindless Dribble” followed, and was almost 17 mins in length. The band jammed on several themes through this version, a nod to their older style of jamming, called “rotation jams.” This was a common theme throughout the night, and the band was clearly enjoying it. “Mindless Dribble” segued into “Sound One” which features weird lyrics and a standard jam. The highlight of the night was next in “Crickets”. This 20 minute version was a monster and featured some major jamming across different styles and themes.
Approaching 2am, the band closed the set with “Hope”. A rather unique choice to close the night, but very welcomed by everyone in attendance, many signing along with the band. They quickly returned, and Brownstein gave a huge thanks to the crew for hauling all their gear across town and setting it up again with only a few hours to spare. “Pilin’ it High(er)” closed the night off, and isn’t played very often. This version was great and was a great end to an amazing day and night of music.
The Disco Biscuits. Higher Ground, Burlington VT. 4/25/15
Set I: Aceetobee-> Bombs-> Aceetobee, The Very Moon (unfinished)-> Crazy Fingers-> Mr. Don (completes 4/16 version)
Set II: Trucker’s Choice, Mindless Dribble-> Sound 1, Crickets, Hope
E: Pilin’ it High(er)
*Editor’s Note: Check out Dave’s coverage of the UVM Springfest Disco Biscuits show from 4/25/2015
Camp Bisco is returning home to Pennsylvania at Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA. Featuring beautiful grounds, a world class waterpark, overnight camping space and a bevy of hotel options, Montage Mountain looks like it will shift the festival into a new era.
The festival recently hit a wall with local officials in Mariaville, NY, home to Camp Bisco from 2007-2013, with the denial of a mass gathering permit. Read more here.
The lineup features multiple sets of Bisco along with heavyweights Bassnectar, Big Gigantic, STS9, Pretty Lights and Atmosphere. Check out the full lineup below.
Tickets on sale this Friday, May 1 at 12noon ET on CampBisco.com
Camp Bisco 2015 Lineup
The Disco Biscuits
Bassnectar
Pretty Lights
STS9
Big Gigantic
Atmosphere
Tipper
Cherub
Classixx (Dj Set)
Emancipator Duo
Flatbush Zombies
Floozies
Holy Ghost (DJ Set)
Jauz
Kill the Noise
Lido
Ilovemakonnen
Matoma
Motet
Ex Mag
Ape Drums
Filibusta
Freddy Todd
Rufus Du Sol
Horizon Wireless
Jacklndn
Ghastly
Justin Jay
Louis Futon
Goldroom
Haywyre
Herobust
Slow Magic
Salva
Snails
Trippy Turtle
Wyllys
Manic Focus
Mr. Carmack
Of the Tree
Moon Hooch
Option 4
Reptar
Sweater BEats
More to be announced.
Summer Camp Music Festival has released their Daily Schedule and now the tough part begins – among these 100+ bands over 4 days, who DO you see? While the Soulshine and VIP schedules have yet to be announced, check out the schedules for each day at the Starshine Stage, Vibe Tent, Campfire Stage, Camping Stage and Red Barn. Acts in Bold are NYSMusic’s Don’t Miss artists for the 2015 installment of Summer Camp Music Festival. Buy your tickets now.
Thursday, May 21
STARSHINE STAGE
2:00 PM Chicago Funk Mafia
3:30 PM Dead Language
5:00 PM Wild Adriatic
6:30 PM Family Groove Company
8:00 PM Floodwood
9:30 PM Future Rock
VIBE TENT
1:00 PM The Dawn
2:30 PM Moontang
4:00 PM Fanny Pack
5:30 PM Hog Magundy
7:00 PM Ifdakar
8:30 PM Artifakts
11:00 PM Sun Stereo
12:30 AM KREACH
1:00 AM DJ AMPlifi
2:00 AM Positive Vibr8ions
3:00 AM Filibusta
CAMPFIRE STAGE
1:30 PM Earphorik
3:00 PM Abnormous
4:30 PM The Accidentals
6:00 PM Fox Valley Harvest
7:30 PM Yojimbe
9:00 PM The Werks
11:30 PM The Nth Power
1:30 AM The Infamous Stringdusters
CAMPING STAGE
1:00 PM Blake Gardner & The Farmers
2:30 PM Business As Usual
4:00 PM Little Pizza
5:30 PM Hyryder
7:00 PM Homestretch Ride
8:30 PM Aqueous
10:00 PM Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
RED BARN
11:00 PM Dopapod
12:45 AM Turbo Suit
2:30 AM Manic Science
Friday, May 21
MOONSHINE STAGE
2:30 PM moe.
5:00 PM Keller Williams and Grateful Grass
7:00 PM Trampled By Turtles
9:00 PM Krewella
11:15 PM EOTO
SUNSHINE STAGE
1:00 PM The Infamous Stringdusters
3:45 PM Xavier Rudd & The United Nations
6:00 PM Umphrey’s McGee
7:45 PM GODBONER MEETS GENE WEEN
9:45 PM Umphrey’s McGee
12:30 AM STS9
STARSHINE STAGE
1:00 PM The Nth Power
3:00 PM Oteil Burbridge & Roosevelt Collier
5:00 PM Trigger Hippy
7:00 PM Dopapod
9:00 PM Papadosio
11:00 PM Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
VIBE TENT
12:00 PM Mass Relay
2:00 PM Filibusta
4:00 PM Louis Futon
6:00 PM Klingande
8:00 PM Break Science
10:00 PM Manic Focus
12:00 AM Destructo
1:00 AM Brodinski
2:00 AM Tchami
3:00 AM Claude VonStroke
CAMPFIRE STAGE
12:00 PM Cirrus Minor
1:30 PM SOAP
3:00 PM Digital Tape Machine
4:30 PM Van Ghost
6:00 PM Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
7:30 PM Jakubi
9:00 PM The Main Squeeze
11:00 PM All Them Witches
12:30 AM Keller Williams
2:00 AM Trigger Hippy
CAMPING STAGE
11:00 AM Electric Orange Peel
12:30 PM Bones Jugs N Harmony
2:00 PM 28 North
3:30 PM Citizun
5:00 PM Consider the Source
6:30 PM Koa
8:00 PM Aqueous
10:00 PM Modern Measure
RED BARN
1:00 AM moe.
2:45 AM theNEWDEAL
Saturday, May 23
MOONSHINE STAGE
2:00 PM Freeman
3:45 PM A-Trak
5:30 PM Joe Russo’s Almost Dead
7:45 PM Violent Femmes
10:00 PM moe.
12:30 AM moe.
SUNSHINE STAGE
1:00 PM Turbo Suit
3:00 PM The Floozies
4:45 PM Paul Oakenfold
6:45 PM theNEWDEAL
9:00 PM Umphrey’s McGee
11:00 PM Umphrey’s McGee
STARSHINE STAGE
12:00 PM Family Groove Company
2:00 PM Floodwood
4:00 PM Turkuaz
6:00 PM The Motet
8:00 PM Victor Wooten
10:00 PM The Werks
12:30 AM Future Rock
VIBE TENT
1:00 PM Orphic
3:00 PM NADUS
5:00 PM Milk N Cookies
7:00 PM Hermitude
9:00 PM Protohype
11:00 PM Bakermat
12:00 AM Liquid Stranger
1:00 AM Bondax
2:00 AM Kill The Noise
3:00 AM Snails
CAMPFIRE STAGE
12:30 PM Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers
2:00 PM Old Shoe
3:30 PM Caravan of Thieves
5:00 PM Tauk
6:30 PM Sun Stereo
8:00 PM Judah and The Lion
10:00 PM Sinkane
12:00 AM Elliot Moss
2:00 AM Kung Fu
CAMPING STAGE
12:00 PM Go!Tsunami
1:30 PM American Babies
3:00 PM SPREAD
4:30 PM Fergus Daly Band
6:00 PM The Way Down Wanderers
7:30 PM Crow Moses
9:00 PM Indigosun
RED BARN
1:00 AM The Floozies
2:30 AM STS9
Sunday, May 24
MOONSHINE STAGE
1:15 PM moe. with special guest Bruce Hornsby
3:30 PM Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers
5:30 PM Steve Miller Band
8:00 PM Cherub
10:30 PM Big Gigantic
12:30 AM moe.
SUNSHINE STAGE
1:00 PM Gaelic Storm
2:45 PM Yonder Mountain String Band
4:30 PM John Butler Trio
7:00 PM Widespread Panic
9:00 PM Widespread Panic
11:45 PM GRiZ
STARSHINE STAGE
2:00 PM Turnpike Troubadours
4:00 PM Dumpstaphunk
6:00 PM Nahko and Medicine for The People
8:00 PM Here Come The Mummies
11:00 PM Greensky Bluegrass
VIBE TENT
1:00 PM DJ McFly
3:00 PM Positive Vibr8ions
5:00 PM Gibbz
7:00 PM Wick-It The Instigator
9:00 PM Klevah
10:00 PM Haywyre
1:00 AM Black Tiger Sex Machine
2:00 AM Paper Diamond
3:00 AM Sound Remedy
CAMPFIRE STAGE
12:30 PM Edward David Anderson
2:00 PM Matthew Curry
3:30 PM Chicago Farmer
5:00 PM Brainchild
6:30 PM Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
8:00 PM Jon Wayne and the Pain
10:00 PM Earphunk
2:00 AM Twiddle
CAMPING STAGE
12:00 PM Strung Like A Horse
1:30 PM American Aquarium
3:00 PM Flaccid
4:30 PM Melk
6:00 PM Church Booty
7:30 PM The Heard
9:00 PM ProbCause
RED BARN
4:30 PM Everyone Orchestra
1:00 AM The Motet
2:30 AM Big Gigantic and Friends featuring Cherub & Griz
Lockn’ Music Festival has announced Phil Lesh & Friends as a headliner for the festival’s upcoming third installment – with special guest Carlos Santana. Joining Lesh and Santana are Warren Haynes, Barry Sless, Rob Barraco and Jon Molo.
Phil Lesh & Friends joins a who’s-who of jamband royalty, both past and present, not including bringing Carlos Santana along. The lineup includes Anders Osborne, Billy & The Kids, Deer Tick, Dominic Lalli of Big Gigantic, Fishbone, Galactic, Gov’t Mule, Hot Tuna Acoustic, Jorma & Jack Celebrate 50 Years of Jefferson Airplane, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe with Chuck Leavell, Keller Williams’ Grateful Gospel, Little Feat, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, A Tribute To Joe Cocker Featuring Tedeschi Trucks Band with Special Guests Leon Russell, Dave Mason, Rita Coolidge, Chris Robinson, Doyle Bramhall II and Friends Melvin Seals & JGB with special guest John Kadlecik, Moonalice, North Mississippi Allstars, Phil Lesh & Friends, Phil Lesh & Friends featuring Chris Robinson, Neal Casal, Adam Macdougall, Eric Krasno & Tony Leone, Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters, Slightly Stoopid, Soulive, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Strangefolk, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Incident, The Jayhawks, The Oh Hellos, The String Cheese Incident, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Umphrey’s McGee, and Widespread Panic.
Watch footage of Carlos Santana playing with the Grateful Dead in Oakland in 1993
As reported by PhanArt, Phish has filed paperwork to trademark Jon Fishman’s iconic donut dress pattern.
From PhanArt: “While the dress Fishman wears has been a staple of quite literally every performance in the past 30 years, the filing of the trademark is interesting. This is being done either to protect current interests in use of the red circles on a blue background, or to prevent the pattern from being used by anyone other than Phish for commercial use, comparable to the Phish logo and words Gamehendge, among others.”
“The description of the pattern in the filing states, “The mark consists of a series of red circles with holes in the center, placed in pattern against a blue background, where each circle is equidistant from the other.” What that means is up to interpretation, should the Trademark be approved, a process that can take many months.”
What does this mean for Phish fans making shirts, posters and more with the ‘Fishman Donut’? Stay tuned for more on this breaking story.
Phish would of course go on to perform the ‘Baker’s Dozen’ in 2017, a run of 13 shows, with not a single song repeated, each with a donut theme for the night. Read more on the entire run here.
Canalside Buffalo has announced their summer Thursday free concert lineup for 2015. The outdoor harbor series is nestled on a gorgeous plot of land nestled up against Lake Erie. Beers a plenty will be on hand as well as some of Buffalo’s excellent food trucks and vendors. The lineup is diverse as usual bringing Buffalonians a mix of genre’s with big headliners and top notch locally based talent.
Indie darlings Matt & Kim kick things off June 6. Other acts include Spoon, Everclear, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Yonder Mountain String Band, Iron & Wine and THE En Vogue.
One of the biggest highlights here – Aug 6 Umphrey’s Mcgee will traverse the skyway to Buffalo’s Harbor Series for a free show. Touring behind their latest release – Similar Skin – UM will bring their complex compositions to Buffalo’s exploding harbor district. Joining them will be Buffalo’s fastest growing band – Aqueous. Hot off a way sold out show featuring a Cake themed set at Buffalo’s Iron Works and critical acclaim for their progressive groove rock sound, the combined draw here guarantees to pack the joint. Show up early to get a good spot – these two bands are gonna tear the place up.
Canalside Lineup 2015
June 4 Matt & Kim w/ Made Violent and Bearstronaut
June 11 Arkells w/ Robert Delong and Milo Greene
June 18 Everclear w/ Fuel and American Hi-Fi
June 25 Spoon w/ July Talk
July 2 The Sheepdogs w/ Yonder Mountain String Band
July 9 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
July 16 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra performs Stevie Wonder
7/23 Badfish w/ Reel Big Fish
7/30 Iron & Wine w/ Ben Bridwell
8/6 Umphrey’s McGeew/ Aqueous
8/13 Get the Led Out
8/20 En Vogue