This year’s Electric Forest Festival, set to take place June 28th – July 1st in Rothbury, Michigan, announced its initial artist lineup today. The biggest names in the lineup include SCI (3 shows), STS9 (2 Shows), Ghostland Observatory, Girl Talk, and Theivery Corporation. This lineup is yet again shaping up to be a jamtronica fan’s wet deam, and one can only imagine a lot of great artists are still to be added to the bill.
You can buy pre-sale tickets now at the Electric Forest website. You can check out a full list of announced artists also on the official site or here at Jambands.com. Check out a bunch of last year’s shows over at archive.org, or YouTubes of the action here.
As we turn the corner into February, let’s take a look at an exciting upcoming run of shows going down next month. Phil Lesh will reunite Phil Lesh and Friends for the first real P&F shows since 2008. All the info that’s fit to print on these shows can be found below.
Phil and Friends Broomfield Flyer
Who: Phil Lesh and Friends, featuring Warren Haynes, John Scofield, and Jackie Greene on guitars, Jeff Chimenti on keys (just added today!), Joe Russo on drums, and Phil Lesh on bass guitar.
What to Expect: Phil-heads everywhere (yours truly included) have very high expectations for these shows. This is an all-star band and the combination of Warren and Scofield is not something to miss. Expect high-energy, fast-paced, psychedelic versions of Dead classics, lots of covers, maybe some new Furthur cuts, a few Jackie Greene originals, and some surprises as well I’m sure.
To wet your appetite for these shows, and give you a taste of what this lineup is capable of, check out this Phil and Friends show form Mountain Jam 2007 that featured Warren and Sco on red-hot dueling guitars. Or just sample the few vids below from that epic night…
Bob Weir and Bruce Hornsby have added a second show on April Fool’s day (4/01/2012) to their already announced ‘Alone and Together’ show at the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 31st. One show just wasn’t enough to fulfill the deadhead love in the bay area, it’s great to see that our love has really not faded away. Here’s a blast from the past, a wonderful performance of Standing on the Moon from Bruce Hornsby and another WTN favorite, Trey Anastasio, from the Comes a Time tribute to Jerry Garcia on 9/24/2005:
You can get tickets for the newly announced show at Ticketmaster. The APE presale begins this Thursday at 10AM (password is layover) and the public on sale begins on Friday, also at 10AM. The first show sold out lightning fast, so grab em’ while you can phans!
Pre-sale tickets just went on sale for what promises to be an exciting and intimate affair at the Fox Theater in Oakland featuring Bob Weir and Bruce Hornsby, alone and together. The evening will most likely feature solo sets from each artist, some duet performances, and special guests taboot. See you there!
Here’s a taste of Weir and Hornsby together at moe. Down 2011 performing Jack Straw:
To get tickets, head on over to the APE pre-sale now (pw is ‘layover’) and get your tickets while they last.
Furthur closed out the the main leg of their summer this evening with a big second night showing at the Mann Center in Philadelphia. Tonight’s 2nd set looks like a quite the patchwork quilt of rarities, deep cuts, and a solid heaping of psychedelic goodness – can’t wait to hear the tapes of this one!
7/11/10 - Mann Center
7/11/10 ~ Mann Center for the Performing Arts ~ PHILadelphia, PA
Set 1: Jam -> Feel Like A Stranger, Shakedown Street -> Alligator, Money For Gasoline, Magnolia Mountain, Lost Sailor -> Saint of Circumstance, In The Midnight Hour
Set 2: Mountains of the Moon -> St. Stephen, Blues For Allah, Terrapin -> (No LWAF or”Inspiration”) -> Terrapin Transit -> At A Siding -> Terrapin Flyer -> Terrapin Refrain -> Let It Grow, Morning Dew, Unbroken Chain, The Wheel -> Not Fade Away
Encore: Brokedown Palace
Note: Neither the “Lady With A Fan” or “Inspiration” parts of the Terrapin suite were performed.
***DLs coming ASAP***
7/11/10 - Mann Center
If you’d like to go Furthur, be sure to check out the Furthur Summer Tour 2010 Download Page where you’ll find setlists and downloads from every show of the tour!
Continuing the 2010 Couch Tour, iClips.net will offer up a FREE live webcast of the All Good Music Festival, taking place this weekend, July 8-11th, on Marvin’s Mountaintop in Masontown, WV. The webcast will run all afternoon and evening on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this weekend and, while the full webcast lineup/schedule is not yet announced, so far we know that DSO, WSP, Keller Williams, Everyone Orchestra, and P-Groove will all be shown at some point over the weekend!
Other possible big names that may appear on the webcast include Furthur, George Clinton and P Funk, UM, YMSB, and Grace Potter. The full All Good Lineup can be found on the festival’s official site. You can catch the live webcast here, enjoy phans!
Update Sunday 7/11 – iClips Fail: After a satelite went down, no All Good Webcasts were able to be aired all weekend until today. Fortunately, the iClips gang has things up and running again and will be webcasting some live and many pre-recorded sets from the weekend. Go here to tune in. Today’s webcast schedule is as follows:
iClips continues Couch Tour 2010 this weekend with live webcasts from the Nateva Festival all day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. While the exact schedule is still TBD, likely artists to be webcast include Furthur, The Flaming Lips, moe., STS9, Passion Pit, Ghostland Observatory and many many more!
This is Nateva’s inaugural event and all the great artists are sure to bring their A-Game – don’t forget to bring yours… So grab some brews, some friends, fire up the computer and stereo and get ready to throw down from the comfort of your own home. It’s July 4th weekend and it’s party time people!
—Note to Readers: The PHISH Summer Tour 2010 Downloads Page has been updated with DLs from every show of the tour. First hand reviews, setlists, and show notes on Camden and MPP coming soon—
Sorry for the delay Welcome To Now fans – the WTN tour bus is just pulling back into the station and we’ll be back tomorrow with Lots more music and fun and (of course) Phish coverage for you all. In the meantime, remember, whatever you do – Take Care Of Your Shoes, watch out for Wooks, and most importantly….
And while you wait, enjoy this vid one more time – cause we just can’t get enough of it!
A new comment was received today here on Welcome To Now Blog regarding the rumor that Phish is looking to do an end-of-summer festival after Jones Beach. Here is the comment verbatim:
IT Festival 'Tower Jam' - Loring AFB
“Fistyphisy Said on June 22, 2010 at 12:20 pm:
This is totally confirmed… I was backstage at the Saratoga NY show the other night. I am 100% sure that the road after Jones Beach leads to Limestone ME. Phish has rented out Loring Air Force base for the weekend of Aug. 27th, 28th and 29th. This was confirmed by a member of the band and two stage hands (at different times of the night). This is what was stated, “We looked at a place in New Hampshire, the international speedway, it would have been perfect, but they have an event planned already and we were too late. We had to go with the ol’ stand by and book Limestone”. – Undisclosed Band Member.
This is so low key that only a few people back stage knew about where the festival was. However, I talked to others that knew about the festival, but didn’t know where yet. For example, I talked to the bands set/show photographer and he was told that he was booked for a festival in late Aug., but was not told where. He was told to keep the dates open for a Phish weekend festival. I also talked to a guy on the sound board that knew about a festival in late Aug. but stated, “I can’t tell you anymore than that, stay tuned”.
Aerial View - Lemonwheel Festival at Loring AFB
As this past weekend progressed from Hartford->Spac, there was a newly revived comotion about a late summer festival and word getting out from close to the band. Nothing’s confirmed yet folks, but let’s all hope for a return to Limestone this summer! Stay tuned to the NOW as things continue to unfold for Phish Summer 2010!
