Yes! moe. added to Bear Creek lineup

As if the lineup for the Bear Creek Music & Art Festival November 12 - 14 at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL couldn't get any hotter, the promoters have added stellar jamband moe. to the bill. It's already gonna be a throwdown with Umphree's McGee, funk luminaries Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Lettuce, Dr. Klaw,  and more.

Bear Creek is a great festival -- the weather's fine, the park is gorgeous, the crowd isn't too huge, and the promoters know how to pick bands. There are always surprise sit-ins around very corner. In the four years I've attended, I've been turned onto somethng new and exciting every time. You can't ask for much more than that.

It's a good idea to snag those tickets now -- don't dally!! -- the Early Bird price of just $125 is in effect through Sept. 8. It goes up in increments from then on through November, with a $175 price at the gate. No matter what you pay, you'll get your money's worth - trust me on this.

Click here to see festgrrl's review of last year's Bear Creek Music & Art Festival.

festgrrl: Neil Young is touring Florida next month!

festgrrl: Neil Young is touring Florida next month!

Neil Young is touring Florida next month!

I SO JUMPED ON THE TICKETS when I found out that Neil Young will be playing the Florida Panhandle in September, the third leg of his Twisted Road solo tour. It is so improbable for him to tour here!

He'll be playiong Panama City Sept. 20, a Monday, and the Saturday of that week, September 25, Crosby Stills & Nash are playing Jacksonville. (Dream: They meet in Tallahassee for a CSNY reuinion.)

It's worth driving across the Panhandle in any case. Check out Neil Young's Twisted Road  tour reviews here. Here's where to get pre-sale tickets at $60.

Young will also play Pensacola on September 28.

Here are the Neil Young tour dates and venues:

2010-09-20, Marina Civic Center, Panama City, Florida


2010-09-22, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Florida

2010-09-23, Hard Rock Live, Hollywood, Florida

2010-09-25, IP Casino, Resort & Spa, Biloxi, Mississippi

2010-09-26, Saenger Theatre, Mobile, Alabama

2010-09-28, Saenger Theartre, Pensacola, Florida

After an anxious summer on the Gulf, this is some welcome Fall relief.

festgrrl: Blackwater Festival Coming Right Up

festgrrl: Blackwater Festival Coming Right Up

Blackwater Festival Coming Right Up

I am getting psyched for the Blackwater Festival Aug. 26-28 in Live Oak. Check out the schedule here and make your plans accordingly!

Mofro Mini Documentary!

So check it out, JJ Grey and Mofro, who will be playing the Blackwater Festival at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park Aug. 26-28 have a new album in the works, Georgia Workhorse, and they produced a mini-documentary for it. (Click here for my previous post on Blackwater Music Festival)

This documentary is awesome. Here's how to see it: Go to the Mofro website, or to the  Mofro Myspace page . Well worth your while!

Mofro has Florida tour dates for the new record: Oct. 26 at the Engine Room in Tallahassee, Oct. 27 at Common Grounds in Gainesville, Oct. 28 at the House of Blues in Orlando, Oct. 29 at The Ritz Ybor, Oct. 30 at the Southern Monster Smash in Pompano Beach

Ringo Starr Delivers

First off, Ringo looked great -- trim, with black hip hugger jeans, beatnik beard, and hipster T-shirt, and he seemed like he was having a blast with his All Star Band at St. Augustine Ampitheatre. He looked like he was in his 40s- not 70!

We sang along to Beatles' classics -- All You Need is Love, Act Naturally, Photograph, Imagine, Boy, Yellow Submarine, Little Help From My Friends, I Wanna Be Your Man. Over and over, these familiar tunes brought the mostly white, middle aged crowd (and their kids) to their feet over and over.

He was funny, introducing a song from his January 2010 CD "Y Not," with the quip: "Thanks to the eight of you who bought it."

The best thing of all was the real affection pouring out of the Beatles-fan audience. The crowd was loving the man from Liverpool as he jumped from drums to lead vocals and back again.

My daughter and I couldn't help laughing, however, at some of the bad '80's top forty songs by members of Ringo's All-Star Band; Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, Rick Derringer, Richard Page (Mr. Mister), Wally Palmar (Romantics), and Gregg Bissonette on a second set of drums.


Richard Page was especially excrutiating with "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings." We could not understand why we were sitting at a Ringo Starr concert listening to songs that would make us change the station on the car radio in a heartbeat. At least Gary Wright's "Dreamweaver" was good for a laugh. My daughter tapped out "cheesy" on her phone and held it up for me.

The exceptions were Edgar Winter, who absolutely KILLED it on "Frankenstein," alternating from the synthesizer hung around his neck to the saxophone to the drums, Wally Palmar, who delivered with the steppy Romantics song "What I like About You," and Rick Derringer, who did "Hang on Sloopy" from his band the McCoys.

The whole concert alternated from Beatles Church to Vegas Act.  It kind  of IS a Vegas act -- The band's next stop? Beau Rivage casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Rock on Ringo, we're glad we made the trip to see you live.