Suwannee Hulaween Band Spotlight: The Heard

The Heard. Photo by Soundfuse.

festgrrl is going to assume y'all are familiar with the big acts playing  Suwannee Hulaween this Thursday-Sunday at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Fl. -- Colorado jam-funk-jazz-bluegrass-electronica masters The String Cheese Incident,  the popular live electronica band  Sound Tribe Sector 9,  Colorado hillbilly stompgrass band Leftover Salmon, , live electronica band  Emancipator and Disco Biscuits side project Conspirator. If not, see me after class. (Oh wait -- I forgot flatpicking guitar master Larry Keel and his wife, Jenny Keel, absolute treasures of the bluegrass-roots community. They play twice on Thursday.)

Here's a band playing Saturday that you may not have (no pun intended) heard of: The Heard, a  6-piece band out of Chicago. if you like down and dirty horn-driven funk, you're going to love The Heard. This band  is getting some major buzz, and with good reason. They are killin' it!

The Heard plays Suwannee Hulaween at 3 pm. Saturday in the ampitheater. Here's a taste of what you're gonna see::