RR Earth, Cornmeal, and New Mastersounds in Tally

Check out two Engine Room shows this week in Tallahassee -- one a Newgrass treat and the other a Brisitsh Funk Invasion:

Railroad Earth and Cornmeal play tonight, 8 pm, $20 cover. Cornmeal is a super cool newgrass band out of Chicago that impressed at Suwannee last year.

The New Mastersounds, a British funk/electronic act that positively Laid It On Down at Bear Creek Music & Art Festival last year, plays The Engine Room Wednesday night at 9. $10 advance, $12 at the door. That's gonna be some big fun.

Keller, P-Groove, Earth Day Jam this weekend in Tally!

The fun and talented one-man band Keller Williams and electronic-jammers Perpetual Groove hit The Engine Room Friday night with live elctronica act Zoogma. Doors open at 8 pm., with Zoogma at 8:30,  Keller at 9:30, and  P-Groove at midnight. Tickets are $20 here

On Saturday, Bradfordville Blues Club hosts the Earth Day Jam, a benefit for the Magnolia School. Festgrrl faves Dread Clampitt headline at 9 pm. Opens at noon, tickets are $20 advance, $30 at the gate. Kids 12 and under get in free.

It'll be four stages, three outdoors and one indoors. Bands will rotate on all four stages all day and into the night.

Acts include The JEFF MOSIER TRIO (with David Blackmon and Curtis Jones -- Mosier plays with Blueground Undergrass), and KING COTTON, with Big Daddy & Red Hot Java, The Sarah Mac Band, Trial By Stone, The New 76ers, The Deborah Lawson Group, The Swingin Harpoon Blues Band, Harvest Gypsies, Stranger Still, Roadhouse, TZ Jonz & The Ontological Elephants, MoonPie Fever, Big Chops, Mechanical Lincoln, Jim Crozier, and featuring Scott Campbell’s All-Star Earth Day Jam to close out the night.Bring your camp chair or blanket and enjoy music on three outdoor stages, or slip into the blues roadhouse for a rousing indoor set.There will be food and community organization booths, so come on out and enjoy your neighbors and some great live music,y'all!

wanee wow!

That's a lot of festers for Suwannee Music Park!

Good News for Wanee

Ticket sales for Wanee, this weekend at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Fl., are up 50 percent over last year, says this story in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Great for the promoters!

My advice is make sure you've got what you need when you get there because going in and out will be a royal pain. There is plenty of room at the park for primitive camping, but the later you get there the more you'll have to hike. Still, weather's gonna be fine and the music ---- the music, wow --- stellar!

Wanee Ticket Price Deadline This Week

Tix for the Wanee Festival at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Fl. April 16-18 go up on Thursday 4/15. They are $178 now and will go up to $188 thereafter (and at the gate.)

I have had lots of questions about Wed. and Thurs music and fees. Really, they should advertise this festival as April 14-18, because there is music Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Wednesday's music is free - with the great Grateful Dead cover band Crazy Fingers and jam band Little Brown Peach  You  have to pay $20 to camp. Show starts at 7 pm.

Thursday's music and camping are free and are included with your Wanee ticket. Kickoff is at 3 pm with Devon Allman's Honey Tribe. George Clinton and P-Funk are scheduled for 10:30 pm Thursday.
Here is the indredible lineup!!!

The Allman Brothers Band will lead a cavalcade of outstanding performers in the All-Star Line-up for the 2010 Wanee Music Festival. The festival is Friday April 16th through Saturday April 17th at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL. There will be an expanded Wanee Kick Off Party on Thursday April 15th starting at 3pm. Tickets for the Festival are on sale now. The Allman Brothers Band and Widespread Panic will perform Friday and Saturday night of the Festival. Other performers include: Widespread Panic; Gov't Mule; Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band; Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman, & J ay Lane are Scaring the Childern; Stephen Stills; The Black Keys; The Word featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph, and North Mississippi Allstars; Dr. John; Hot Tuna Electric; 7 Walkers featuring Bill Kreutzmann & Papa Mali; JJ Grey and Mofro; Johnny Winter; George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic; The Funky Meters; The Wailers; Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings; North Mississippi Allstars; A Family Affair with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk (performing Sly & The Family Stone); Chuck Leavell with The Randall Bramblett Band; Particle; Oteil and Kofi Burbridge with the Lee Boys; Col. Bruce Hampton; Devon Allman's Honeytribe; Hill Country Revue; Scrapomatic; Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio; Bonobos Convergence and The Auctioneers.

This is gonna be one to remember, y'all!!

Early Bird Keel Family Function

Early bird tickets are $50 for the Keel Family Function in Lafayette, Ga. if you buy them by this Thursday, April 1 .  It happens April 2-3 at T-Dawg's Cherokee Farms, which is in Georgia up near Chattanooga, Tennessee. I've heard is a fabulous, intimate farm where strings masters get down. Larry Keel is a flat-picking champion who will blow your mind. This one's gonna be SWEET!

Here's a look at the lineup:


~ LARRY KEEL & NATURAL BRIDGE ~ DJ LOGIC ~ JOSH PHILLIPS FOLK FESTIVAL ~ COL. BRUCE HAMPTON & THE QUARK ALLIANCE

~ THE MOSIER BROTHERS BAND ~ 3rd Stone ~ MICHAEL TOLCHER ~ BOBBY MILLER & THE VIRGINIA DARE DEVILS ~ DONNA HOPKINS w/ JEFF SIPE & CHARLIE WOOTEN ~ THE RAGBIRDS ~ RALPH RODDENBERY & THE SIDE EFFECTS ~ LEFTY WILLIAMS & FRIENDS ~ ZOOGMA ~ GRAYSON CAPPS & GUTHRIE TRAPP ~ POND FARM PICKERS ~ 3RD STONE ~ SUGAR KAYNE ~ SLIM PICKINS ~ DIGITAL BUTTER ~ TREY STEIN

** EYE OF THE DAWG SHOWCASE on Saturday afternoon, 4/3! Featuring Jeff Sipe on drums with Col. Bruce Hampton, Rev. Jeff Mosier, Larry Keel, Donna Hopkins, Josh Phillips, Michael Tolcher, Bobby Miller, Ralph Roddenbery, Caroline Pond, Scott Mecredy, Grayson Capps, Erin Zindle, and some surprises.

** PEPPERLAND KIDS JAM w/ Donna Hopkins, Caroline Pond & Erin Zindle, accompanied by a surprise group of musicians!

** SUNDAY EASTER EGG HUNT @ CHEROKEE FARMS