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| Campground lake. Jason Koerner photo. |
Our Southeastern spring music festival season is kicking off -- yes!! Let the boogie begin at the dance-tastic Aura Music & Arts Festival, coming right up March 3-5.
Now in its seventh year, Aura has grown into a fest that manages to be both intimate and big-time, showcasing some fine national touring acts with high-end sound and lighting production. This year features The Disco Biscuits, Thievery Corporation, Snarky Puppy, ALO, Turkuaz, Mike Dillon Band, the Main Squeeze, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Particle, The Heavy Pets (doing an '80s tribute with Jennifer Hartswick and Natalie Cressman,) the New Deal, the Werks and more. (full lineup is below.) To hear what's in store check out Florida Music blog's Aura playlist.
I love the vibe at this fest -- it's a fuzzy-lovey ball of music and art, all cradled in the Spanish-moss draped oak forest at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Fla. At night, the lasers come out.
Aura's lineup is surprising and genre-spanning, including live electronica, jazz, funk, soul, jam, world beat, rock, lounge, R&B, indie, Americana, and reggae. Every year I discover new music here. There's even a band that fuses Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, and Phish tunes (Pink Talking Fish) and, improbably, it works. Expect plenty of sit-ins and artist collaborations during the weekend.
Don’t miss Snarky Puppy, a posse of 13-plus musicians who play jazz, in-the-pocket funk, and world music. They won their second GRAMMY this year for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album.
Funk fans should not miss Turkuaz from Brooklyn, one of the best funk bands on the scene today, and Chicago's The Main Squeeze, which fuses funk and rock (They describe it as Stevie Wonder meets the Red Hot Chili Peppers.) ALO, out of San Francisco, is a feel-good jam band fronted by Jack Johnson's keyboardist Zach Gill. When the main stages close down, the Silent Disco rages all night.
Aura has a robust yoga & healing arts program, which will offer more than 25 classes and workshops including Flow Arts, AcroYoga Immersion, Yoga Nidra, Lazy Man’s Yoga (Restorative/Yin Yoga), BoomYoga’s Shake Your Asana, Qi Gong, Thai Body Work Circus, Crystal Bowl and Song Sound Healing, and Using Essential Oils as Spiritual Tools.
Visual artists will be doing painting and sculpture throughout the grounds all weekend.
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| The ENO hammock pod with DJ booth! Aura photo. |
I love the vibe at this fest -- it's a fuzzy-lovey ball of music and art, all cradled in the Spanish-moss draped oak forest at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Fla. At night, the lasers come out.
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| Jason Koerner photo. |
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Funk fans should not miss Turkuaz from Brooklyn, one of the best funk bands on the scene today, and Chicago's The Main Squeeze, which fuses funk and rock (They describe it as Stevie Wonder meets the Red Hot Chili Peppers.) ALO, out of San Francisco, is a feel-good jam band fronted by Jack Johnson's keyboardist Zach Gill. When the main stages close down, the Silent Disco rages all night.
Aura has a robust yoga & healing arts program, which will offer more than 25 classes and workshops including Flow Arts, AcroYoga Immersion, Yoga Nidra, Lazy Man’s Yoga (Restorative/Yin Yoga), BoomYoga’s Shake Your Asana, Qi Gong, Thai Body Work Circus, Crystal Bowl and Song Sound Healing, and Using Essential Oils as Spiritual Tools.
Visual artists will be doing painting and sculpture throughout the grounds all weekend.
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Weekend tickets, (include primitive camping) are $189 advanced, $199 at the gate. Kids 12 and under free. Single-day and VIP tickets available.
You can see the daily schedule here, and here's the full lineup for you:
You can see the daily schedule here, and here's the full lineup for you:
AURA Music & Arts
Festival 2016 Line-Up:
The Disco Biscuits
Thievery Corporation
Snarky Puppy
ALO
theNEWDEAL
The Werks
The Main Squeeze
Particle
Turkuaz
The Heavy Pets '80s
Tribute featuring Jennifer Hartswick & Natalie Cressman
Tom Hamilton’s American
Babies
Mike Dillon Band
Pink Talking Fish
The Bright Light Social
Hour
Jimkata
Pigeons Playing Ping
Pong
NUNCHUCK (Chuck Jones,
Scott Zwang, Mike Dillon & Craig Brodhead)
Fusik
Greenhouse Lounge
Broccoli Samurai
Aqueous
Bedside (live band)
CBDB
The Resolvers
The Fritz
Backup Planet
Dank
Crazy Fingers
ROAR!
Displace
Lucky Costello
Third Nature
Holly Bowling
Garrin Benfield
Ben Sparaco Band
Lather Up!
Fat Mannequin
AURA Silent Disco/ENO
Lotus Lounge
ACKDADDY
Beat Thief Inc.
Bells and Robes
Craig Heneveld
DuBBle James
Eazybaked
Lurk City
DJ Miles Maximus
Mineo Loops
Monarchy
MZG
Rosa Sparks
Scotty Solomon
Selfmayde
Shark Anthony &
Ahsleigh
Telekinetic Walrus
Tomboi
Tony D
Vlad the Inhaler vs.
Matthew Connor
Weazildust
Willie Evans Jr. DJ Set
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