Dread Clampitt Film Premieres in Panama City

(This video shows Dread Clampitt live at Magnolia Fest.)

Back From The Dread, a documentary about the fine band Dread Clampitt from Walton County, premiers at the Marina Civic Center in Panama City this  Saturday night (Oct. 1)

The film starts at 6:30 (Central time), lasts about an hour, and then the boys from Dread Clampitt will take the stage. It's a BYOB kind of party, and expect a big ole Dread family affair.

Filmmaker Kris Wheeler  followed the four-man band from 2005 to 2007 as they hit the road and played Gulf coast bars. The film - co-created by Wheeler and filmaker Wayne Franklin -- is illuminating and personal, with really strong performances by the band.

If you can't make it to the Panama City show, here's the link to buy the DVD. And while you're at it, pick up the band's fine CD, Learnin to Live, which features Newgrass Godfather Sam Bush shredding the fiddle in ridiculous proportions! You can catch Dread Clampitt playing at Magnolia Fest. The schedule isn't online yet, but Dread will be playing numerous times during the weekend, including the late night set Saturday in the Meadow after Tornado Rider.

Blues Festival This Weekend in Tallahassee

The little juke joint under the live oaks outside Tallahassee will be hopping all day and all night this weekend when the Pat Ramsey Memorial Benefit for Hospice happens at the Bradfordville Blues Club.

Ramsey was a great blues artist and truly a hell of a harmonica player who succumbed to cancer in 2008. He asked that his friends and fellow musicians help out Hospice, since they helped him in his final days.

Tickets for the event cost $20 per person or $30 per couple, and kids under 12 are free! There will be RV space available, silent auctions, raffles and plenty to eat and drink! The FSU football game will be broadcast. For tickets and additional information, please contact Steve Howell at 745-8340 or stevemissy711@comcast.net.

Here is the schedule:
MAIN STAGE

1pm Cheap & Easy

2pm Swingin' Harpoon

3pm Harvest Gypsies

4pm Road House

5pm Major Bacon ( Blues Disciples Guitar player Dave Renson & Bass player Eloise Davis with their new band, coming to town from New Orleans )

6pm Wiley Coyote Band

7pm Acme R&B

8pm JB Zydeco Zoo

9pm Lisa D and the Infidels (from Biloxi, Miss)

INSIDE THE CLUB

10pm Blues Disciples All Star Jam with special guests Duane Wader (drums) , Rick Perez (guitar) Choo Choo Charlie (slide guitar monster) Clyde Ramsey (Harp & Keys)

11:30p m Pepper Drive (with Steve Howell on drums

SOLO STAGE

2:45 pm Big Daddy

3:45 pm Drew Reid

4:45 pm Michael Brawer

5:4 5 pm Rick Perez

6:45 pm Steve Taff

7:45 pm Lori Kline


NO DOGS, PETS or COOLERS

subdudes in port st. joe??!!

Yes, it's true. Amazing New Orleans dance-o-matic band the Subdudes are playing a free concert in downtown Port St. Joe. Nothing ever happens in downtown Port St. Joe. We have BP reparations to thank for this cool occurrence in the middle of nowhere. No time's listed, but a friend says 5:30 to 7:30. There are other musicians as well, check out the link.

Neil Young: Just Wonderful

Photo of Neil Young by Starcasm

First, off, seeing Neil Young in a smallish theatre -- the Marina Civic Center in Panama City, was unbelievable. Second of all, walking up to the venue and seeing surpise New Orleans great Allen Toussaint on the marquee-- well, yipee!!!!!!

This was a very, very special show. Toussaint started things out with an intimate set on piano, running down his hit songs ("Yes We Can Can," "Workin in a Coal Mine.") He told an absolutely gorgeous story about growing up in the country with shotgun houses and moon glinting off the shiny oak leaves, which left everyone rapt and led to a rousing standing ovation.

There were numerous standing O's for Neil Young, who absolutely gave this crowd his stripped-down all, running through classics and newish songs. His voice sounds as clear and lonesome as it did 30 years ago. Young was solo with an organ, piano, and a suite of seriously bad-ass guitars that made him sound  alternately like an electric band shredding mercilessly and an old-school tender crooner in a piano bar.
The stage set was way-cool, with big ole fringy hippie lamps, a tie-dye painted piano, and a classic old pipe  organ on a platform (Hurricane -- natch!)

Festgrrl felt truly lucky to be there!!!

Young has a new solo record coming out, and you can stream it for free through Oct. 5 at the NPR music site

Here's the Panama city setlist, with thanks to Starcasm


1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)

2. Tell Me Why

3. Helpless

4. You Never Call

5. Peaceful Valley

6. Love And War

7. Down By The River

8. Hitchhiker

9. Ohio

10. Sign Of Love

11. Leia

12. After The Gold Rush

13. I Believe In You

14. Rumblin’

15. Cortez The Killer

16. Cinnamon Girl

 

ENCORE:

17. Old Man

18. Walk With Me

Jambando This Weekend

Just a reminder, folks, about the bargain Jambando this weekend at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. Just $30 at the gate, and that gets you 2 days of bands and 3 nights of primitive camping. Sweet!

Tornado Rider's New Video! Love it!

OK, I have to add this one, the time Rushad hung from the rafters at the tent at Magnolia Fest. I'm glad someone took video of it, because no one seems to believe me when I talk about it....it was a cliffhanger trying to figure out how he'd get .... DOWN FROM THERE, even knowing Rushad's fearless acrobatic nature.

Jambando coming right up!

Here's a bargain and a fun time for sure -- Jambando Sept. 17-19 at Spirit of the Suwnnee Music Park in Live Oak. This is a compilation on jambands and get this -- it's only $25 in advance, $30 at the gate, and that includes primitive camping!

Some great bands are playing and here is the lineup:

The Legendary JC's ( You can;t beat a band with a lead singer who can do the James Brown split multiple times in a row), Cope,Thomas & Olivia Wynn with Chris Bell, The Burnin' Smyrnans, Junkie Rush, funkUs, Middle Rhythm Session, The Funky Seeds, Rob Irie,Marley's Collie, Kaleigh Baker with Nathan Anderson,Green Sunshine, Jeff White with Fancy Pants,Acoustic Swamp Project, Legacy, All Capital KYLE

The shows will be in the ampitheatre, the music hall, and the porch stage -- no meadow for this one. Should be nice and intimate. Here is the schedule

If ya wanna get fancy, The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park is offering a special cabin & golf cart deal to guests during Jambando In The Park. 4 people can enjoy a cabin and a golf cart Friday and Saturday night for only $400. The cabins have a queen sized bed, a pullout couch, a kitchen, bathroom, shower and air conditioning.