Yonder Mountain Spring Band's Southern Tour

Yonder Mountain String Band will be heading to the southeast for a tour in February, including five shows in Florida. The band will also be at Suwanee Springfest March 22-25. Tickets for the 'Cabin Fever" tour shows are here.

Below is a video of the band playing live, and here are the tour dates for your planning (and holiday gift-giving) pleasure:

02.08 Fayetteville, AR George's Majestic

02.09 Baton Rouge, LA Varsity Theatre

02.10 Nashville, TN Marathon Music Works

02.11 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle

02.12 Birmingham, AL Workplay Theatre Soundstage

02.15 Pensacola, FL Vinyl Music Hall

02.16 Orlando, FL Beacham Theatre

02.17 Fort Lauderdale, FL Revolution

02.18 St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Live

02.19 Jacksonville, FL Freebird Café

02.22 Charleston, SC Music Farm

02.23 Asheville, NC Orange Peel

02.24 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
 

Thanksgiving Bluegrass Festival

The lovely Sertoma Youth Ranch in Dade City (near Brooksville)  is hosting a bluegrass festival and potluck Thanksgiving dinner, starting tomorrow and lasting through Sunday. This is such a pretty campground and such a relaxing venue.

Advanced tickets are $63 for Thursday-Sunday and $69 at the gate. If you want an electric/water campsite, it's $60 for the weekend.

Here's the lineup:

THE LONESOME RIVER BAND – IIIrd TYME OUT

LARRY CORDLE & LONESOME STANDARD TIME - SPECIAL CONSENSUS – THE CHAPMANS - PACKWAY HANDLE BAND – PAM CURTIS & UP THE CREEK REMINGTON RYDE –

CHERYL WATSON & WATERTOWN - BACKWATER BLUEGRASS - MARK JOHNSON

THE LONESOME SPECIAL - CHAPPED OUT STEW - CRISPY BAKED BANJO'S - AND MORE

Have fun picking!

Bear Creek live recordings!

If you're missing the funk in the woods, here are some links for some live recordings of performances from the recent Bear Creek Music and Art Festival, as well as links for some videos:

Anders Osborne Trio


http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=5501
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Big Gigantic

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=5501
 ... =1#seeders

Breakestra

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550144&uploaded=1


Chali 2'Na

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550145&uploaded=1

Chapter 2

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550146&uploaded=1


Dr Lonnie Smith

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550147&uploaded=1

Funky Meters

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550148&uploaded=1

Galactic

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550149&uploaded=1

George Porter, Jr. & Runnin' P

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550150&uploaded=1

Jon Cleary

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550151

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

11-10

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550163


11-11

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550164


Lee Boys

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550166


Lettuce

11-12

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550167


11-13

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550168


London Souls

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550169


Medeski, Martin & Wood

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550170

New Mastersounds

11-12

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550171


11-13

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550172

Papadosio

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550173


Soulive

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550174

Spam All Stars

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550175

Trey Anastasio

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550176


Zongo Junction

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=550177
 
And here are some video links:
 

http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/bear-creek-music-festival-2011-the-videos/

http://funkit.virose.net/?p=1316

Enjoy funkateers!

Discount Ticket Special for Bond-Fire Fest

The funkalicious New Year's Eve festival (Dec. 29-Jan. 2) in rural Lake County outside Orlando, called the Bond-Fire festival, is now offering 4-day tickets for $100. This promo lasts one week, ending next Sunday, Nov. 27,  at 11:55, use the case sensitive promo code SIRPRIZE. Kids 15 and under are free.

The lineup includes George Clinton and P-Funk, The New Mastersounds, North Mississippi All Stars, Soullive, Zach Deputy, Papadosio, Cope, The New Orleans Suspects, and more.

This is a first-time affair, so I can't advise much about festing conditions. I can tell you these bare details: The venue has port-o-lets only -- no brick-and-mortar bathrooms. They plan several stages and a late-night tent. They will be restricting campfires to designated areas -- that part of Florida has been so very dry. No pets, no charcoal grills. You can have coolers at the campground but not at the stages.





The four-day pass includes primitive camping. You cannot reserve RV sites ahead of time -- if you want to bring an RV in and set it up in primitive, you have to pay an extra $65 at the gate. If you want an electric site, it’s $85. The promoters were not sure, when I contacted them about a month ago, whether RV sites would have water as well as electric. So I'd bring my own water if I were you, along with my festive disco outfits. They have a no-glass policy, so not sure about how to handle New Year's bubbly. Do they make champagne kegs?

Wanna Be In A Video?

Newgrass aces Dread Clampitt will record a live show (CD and video) on Sunday at The Red Bar in the Panhandle's  Grayton Beach. This excellent  band is about to celebrate its10th anniversary, and the Sunday Red Bar gigs have been their bread and butter throughout that time. The show starts at 7 pm., kids are welcome, and it's free!

Here is a great Dread Clampitt original from Suwannee Springfest... note that Rashad Eggleston from Tornado Rider is sitting in.

Playing In The Band

Tonight, Tallahassee band Harvest Gypsies plays The Mockingbird Cafe in Tallahassee. Harvest Gypsies is a hard-working local band that always put on a heartfelt show with a mix of jazzy, bluesy, pop originals and covers that gets everybody dancing and smiling. At the keyboards will be the wonderful songwriter Mike Rychlik, a public school teacher, writer, all around great guy, and father of several fine musicians.

Mike has been playing the Tallahassee scene in various bands, including the Labamba Brothers,since the eary 1970s. This month, in his excellent blog, he has written a wonderful entry about playing on Tennessee Street in the old days at the Pastime, the Pastime II and Tommy's. Read it and take a trip back. 

Tonight, at the Mockingbird, Mike and Warren Sutton will play acoustic versions of Mike's songs from 7-8. The full Harvest Gypsies band plays from 8-11. The show is free. It's always a good idea to reserve a table, and get something to eat, since the venue is pretty small.  Have fun!

George Clinton's Makeover

Well, we hardly recognized George Clinton without the rainbow dreads he's sported for decades. Here he is last night in Tallahassee:

Clitnon's suprprise show at Tallahassee's club The Moon featured the time-honored P-Funk shenanigans --  simulated sex on stage, fur chaps, booty shakin girls, Indian headresses, zombie costumes, a giant doobie-smoking skull head, and killer funk. At the end, I counted 46 people on the stage.

Clinton and P-Funk now head out on tour after spending time in Tallahassee recording a new album. They go to Gernamy, the Netherlands, Belgium and England. They will be back in Florida on New Year's Eve, where you can catch them at The Bond-Fire Festival outside Orlando along with The New Mastersounds, The North Mississippi  All Stars,  Soullive, Particle, Cope, Papadiosio, Zach Deputy, and more.

If you get tickets now, it's $150 for a four-day pass. Kids 15 and under are free. This is a first-time affair for this festival, so I can't advise much about festing conditions. I can tell you the site has port-o-lets only -- no brick-and-mortar bathrooms, and will have several stages and a late-night tent.

The four-day pass includes primitive camping. If you want to bring an RV in, you have to pay an extra $65 at the gate. If you want an electric site, it’s $85.

P Funk New Year's? Oh yeah, I'm in.