NYS Music 202​1

Category: The South

  • moe. announces Memorial Day plans, Summer shows

    moe. will head out on the road for Memorial Day 2021, with performances slated for North Carolina and Virginia. They’ve also announced their first Drive-In shows for mid-June in Maryland.

    moe memorial day

    On May 27, moe. will perform in North Carolina at Maggie Valley Festival Grounds, roughly 40 minutes west of Asheville. For moe.morial Day, they’ll head north to Martinsville, VA for “A Rooster Walk Family Gathering” at Pop’s Farm, the site of Rooster Walk.

    Normally the date of the Rooster Walk Music & Arts Festival, social distancing guidelines have Pop’s Farm improvising with moe. and a few bands on hand for the Memorial Day weekend.

    In addition to two nights of moe., the weekend at Pop’s Farm will see performances by Cris Jacobs Band and Isaac Hadden Project on May 28, and on May 29 will feature Kendall Street Company, Neal Francis, South Hill Banks and Disco Risque’.

    moe.morial Day Weekend will have on-site camping, drink and food vendors, with no outside alcohol allowed. While not a POD show, there will be social distancing and mask wearing required for all in attendance. For a complete rundown of the COVID-19 Safety Plan, click here.

    All ages are welcome, but all are required to have a ticket to attend the shows, so kids will not get in for free.

    Finally, moe. will perform at Showtime at the Drive-In in Frederick, MD. Tickets for all shows are on sale Friday, April 9 at 10AM at moe.org. Memorial Day weekend tickets are also available here.

    moe. Summer Tour 2021 dates

    May 27 – Maggie Valley Festival Grounds – Maggie Valley, NC
    May 28 & 29 – moe.morial Day: A Rooster Walk Family Gathering – Pop’s Farm – Martinsville, VA
    June 18 & 19 – Showtime at the Drive-In – Frederick, MD

  • Disco Biscuits Orlando shows to Stream on CouchTour.TV

    The Disco Biscuits’ upcoming Orlando performances from Dr. Phillips Center’s Frontyard Festival will be livestreamed on Couchtour.tv on Thursday, March 25 and Friday, March 26, starting at 7:30pm ET.

    disco biscuits orlando

    Couchtour.tv is a new concert streaming platform that gives artists the ability to create the highest quality concert livestreams available on the internet; filmed and delivered in 6k video and high def audio from anywhere on Earth – and all without the artist having to know a thing about livestreaming.

    The Couchtour.tv team brings insight from many different facets of both the entertainment and tech industries. The senior team comes from leadership roles at companies The Disco Biscuits, JamBase, Splice, Gracenote, Full Circle Music Productions, Oracle and IBM. Still in it’s infant stages, fans and artists can expect to see advanced features and new artists, shows and festivals announced in the coming months.

    Disco Biscuits founding member and lead guitarist, Jon Barber, is the founder of Couchtour.tv. Thus, it made perfect sense for his band to perform on the startup platform when it launched in October, 2020.

    Couchtour.tv wasn’t a new idea, but time that would have otherwise been spent on the road opened up the space to finally bring Couchtour.tv to fruition. We’ve got a great team working on this, but it’s still gonna’ be a few months before we can roll this out in its complete form – bells, whistles and all – then it’ll be available wherever fans go to get their apps.

    Jon Barber, Disco Biscuits guitarist and founder of CouchTour.Tv

    Tickets for the Disco Biscuits Orlando streams are on sale now and available at Couchtour.tv.

  • Kyle Tuttle Releases High-Energy Live EP ‘Kyle Tuttle Live in 2020’

    Today, Kyle Tuttle releases his live EP, Kyle Tuttle Live in 2020, almost a year to date when the album was recorded.

    The album features songs recorded live two different nights, at The Mill & Mine in Knoxville, TN on February 26, 2020 and The Hunt House in Atlanta, Georgia on February 28 2020, opening for Railroad Earth.

    At the time of recording, no one knew what the next year would bring. It was Kyle Tuttle Band’s (KTB) first tour of the year, and subsequently also the last before COVID-19 hit.

    kyle tuttle

    The live EP starts with “Mystery Train,” an exhilarating track that exemplifies Kyle Tuttle’s rock and bluegrass influences and first released as a single on February 12th. While a cover of a song originally by Junior Parker, Tuttle and his band make it their own. Tuttle on banjo and fiddler Julian Pinelli each take an incredible solo that flows great with the song and matches its energy.

    “Birdie Strut” is another great track and more laid back compared to the first song, but still grooves. The band is tight throughout the whole EP, but this track is a prime example of their togetherness and chemistry with one another. Julian Pinelli rips another awesome fiddle solo as well.

    Kyle Tuttle is a Berklee College of Music graduate who has toured across New York with a number of bands, including the late Jeff Austin. His band consists of James Kittleman on drums, Julian Pinelli on fiddle, and Ben DeBerry on bass.

    Now that this live EP is out, we can look forward to the days when Kyle Tuttle can get back out on stage and wow the crowds as he and his band did in these performances.

    Key tracks: Mystery Man, Birdie Strut

  • Phish Revisits Summer 2003 with next Dinner and a Movie Installment

    For the next installment of Phish’s Dinner and a Movie archival stream series, the band goes back to the ‘2.0’ era, revisiting a Phish Summer Tour stop on July 25, 2003 in Charlotte, NC. The next installment airs on Tuesday, January 26 at 8pm

    phish summer 2003 charlotte
    via GolgiProject.com

    Previously released on Live Phish, the Charlotte show found the band in the middle of their 2003 Summer Tour that started in California and headed to the northernmost reaches of Maine for their IT Festival. Part of a three-night southern run that included Atlanta, GA and Raleigh, NC, the Charlotte show featured a wide ranging setlist, covering the band’s then-nearly 20 year career. A few monster jams are found in the show, including an 18-minute “Bathtub Gin” and a nearly half-hour long “Harry Hood.”

    phish summer 2003
    Fan Poster from Summer 2003

    For the dinner portion of the night, the band intends to keep things easy and hearty with Betty Frost’s recipe for Chicken Pot Pies, including a veggie option. The full recipe can be found here.

    Meals On Wheels will be beneficiary for the webcast, with all donations made via The WaterWheel Foundation will be given to support vulnerable seniors who are at the greatest risk amid COVID-19. Local Meals on Wheels programs are on the front lines every day, focused on keeping older Americans safe and nourished in communities across the country.

    Charlotte 2003 poster by Ryan Kerrigan

    Phish – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC – July 25, 2003

    Setlist via Phish.net

    Set 1: Funky Bitch > Chalk Dust Torture, Two Versions of Me, Bathtub Gin, Limb By Limb, Back on the Train > Horn > Golgi Apparatus > Character Zero

    Set 2: Drowned -> Kung -> Twist -> Heavy Things, Harry Hood > David Bowie

    Encore: The Star Spangled Banner, Bug

    Kung (first since September 29, 1999, or 106 shows) was sung over the jam connecting Drowned and Twist. Bowie included a full-band Tweezer tease.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJB81aiJLJE

  • NIVA Awards First Set of Grants To Venues Across the Country

    It’s no surprise that the music industry has struggled to stay afloat since the start of the pandemic. Venues have shut down permanently and performers have resorted to online live streaming instead of in-person concerts. There is light at the end of the tunnel, though. The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) is giving out its first set of grants to music venues around the country.

    NIVA Grants
    A concert attended by a huge audience before Covid.

    Music fans, artists and corporations from all over donated to NIVA’s Emergency Relief Fund. This amounted to $3 million in short term relief for independent venues and promoters in need of economic help. The recently passed COVID-19 Relief Law includes provisions from the Save Our Stages Act, to give financial assistance to the music industry. Unfortunately, there’s still time before they see any of the funds coming through. These grants are put in place to help keep the venues doors from closing.

    This aid would not have been possible without the help of everyone who has supported NIVA. Thank you especially to the NIVA Emergency Relief Fund Committee co-chairs, Lisa Gedgaudas, Chris Zacher, and Carl Swanson, who dedicated endless hours to making sure this program could assist as many venues and promoters as possible. We’re immensely grateful to them, but the NIVA Emergency Relief Fund is just a temporary life raft for these small businesses.

    Rev. Moose – NIVA Executive Director

    NIVA came to fruition when the pandemic forced large gatherings to come to an abrupt halt. Since then they have acquired 3,000 members in all 50 states. NIVA’s goal is to preserve the environment of live music and to focus on separate and supplemental initiatives, such as the Emergency Relief Fund.

    The Giving Back Fund administered The Emergency Relief Fund through a panel of third party industry experts.

    “It’s hard to imagine our futures without the lively spirit and culture of independent music venues,” said Marc Pollick, president of the Giving Back Fund.

    The fund is tax-deductible so that individuals, companies and foundations can contribute. They are currently still taking donations with a goal of $11 million to provide essential business relief to everyone who has applied.

    With a maximum grant amount of $25,000, this is only short-term help. And we are pained that we can’t provide grants to all who applied, because our industry’s need far exceeds the donations we’ve collected so far. We’re grateful that Congress passed the latest COVID Relief law, but it will likely take months before the grants are received. We’re trying to help those most at risk of going under while they wait.

    Rev. Moose – NIVA Executive Director

    For now, NIVA will use these critical grants to help hold suffering businesses over until the COVID-19 law provides more permanent economic stability. This allows them to maintain their current payments in hopes that the industry does not flatline and when everything goes back to normal they can prosper ahead of this economic disaster.