Festing For The Holidays: Home Town Rally

The very fine jamband, Cope

A group of super-fun Central Florida musicians are kicking off the new year right with a little down-home fest called the Home Team New Year's Rally  December 26-29 at Maddox Ranch outside Lakeland. This will be a lovely time with kind folks.

Tickets are $65 advanced, $80 at the gate. The bands playing are:

The Applebutter Express, COPE, Green Sunshine, High Cotton, Funky Seeds, Uncle Johns Band, Come Back Alice, Between Bluffs, Juanjamon Band, Honey Henny Lime, Holey Miss Moley, Shoeless Soul, Displace, Free Range Roosters, Charlie Dandilion, Savi Fernandez, The Stick Martin Show, BlessEd, Seratonic, Sunset Bridge, Legacy, Ghost Country Revival, Alex Foster, John Clark Band, Jeff Caruth and Btru, Josh We Know, Ramble Grass, Jeremy Willis, Brass Legacy, and an ALLSTAR Jam Sunday night!

Many of these bands are part of the excellent Orange Blossom Jamboree which happens in May at the Sertoma Youth Ranch in Brooksville, outside Tampa. 

Comeback Alice

Here's more about the Home Team New Year's Rally  from the promoters:

If you’re unable to make it for the entire weekend, Saturday/Sunday (2 day) tickets can be purchased at the gate for $60. And Sunday will be the only day we offer a day pass at $30. Also, camping until Monday is allowed, because Sunday will be just as funktastic as every other day! Primitive camping is included with the tickets purchase.

Maddox Ranch

• On that note…this is a KID FRIENDLY event, and children 12 and under get in FREE! Kids 17 and under MUST be accompanied by a parent or guardian.**
• Since this event is not ACTUALLY on New Year’s Eve, we’ll have a mock New Years celebration on Saturday night, count down and all!! It’s so fun to do what we want, honestly though.
• **VERY IMPORTANT** NO DOGS ALLOWED. The wonderful people at Maddox Ranch are kind enough to allow us to host our event on their property, and we respectfully oblige to their few requests. Thank you in advance for understanding and obeying
• No electricity is provided, but generators are welcome!
• RV’s and campers are allowed
• Designated parking areas will be scattered throughout the property to allow you to park near your campsite, just not on top of it…you know, for space and camp fung shui reasons.
• Raised or confined fire pits ONLY! Firewood will be available for purchase on site at the event.
• Port-o-potties provided, as well as outdoor showers.
• NO FIREWORKS! We wanna melt the place down with the our music, not our pyrotechnics, that being said, fire hoopers and fire poi’s welcome-cause that’s just really cool to watch.