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Homegrown Happenings
by Marcie Vogel - marcie@homegrownmusic.netFirst off, here's where the HGMN booth will be this summer:
July 17-18 PHISH - Oswego County Airport (www.phish.com)
July 30- Aug 1 GRAPE JAM - Erie, PA (www.goerie.com/grapejam)
July 30- Aug 1 CAMP CREEK - New Paltz, NY (www.maxcreek.com)
Aug 13-15 BERKFEST - Barrington, MA (www.berkfest.com)
Aug 20-22 CAMP BISCO - PA(?) (www.discobiscuits.com)
Aug 27-29 WORMTOWN - Escoheag, RI (508-753-8882)
Sept 17-19 HARVEST MOON - Vienna, NY (www.syrworldnet.com/~moonfest)
Sept 24-26 AUTUMN EQUINOX - Brandywine, MD (www.walther-productions.com)
Oct - Magnolia Fest?Hey! Know of any festivals that the Home Grown Booth should be at? Drop me an email with date, location and which bands are playing. Thanks!!!
Hey! Know of any festivals that the Home Grown Booth should be at? Drop me an email with date, location and which bands are playing. Thanks!!!
Please visit www.homegrownmusic.net for updates! See ya at the show!
On to other news...
From: Dail@cconnect.net
Hey everyone Just got finished creating a new newsgroup called alt.music.homegrown Hope to see you all there!
Dail Reed
From: Bryan Pass passiii@erols.com
Hi my name is Bryan Pass and I am the General Manager at WHHS 107.9 FM in Havertown, PA. The stations format is diverse but we have a number of jam shows. The cd's that are played are limited to what we personally own (which isn't that much). So I was hoping that some of the homegrown music bands could send WHHS promotional cd, and if you have any stickers or other things to give away on the air.
Thank you for your time
Bryan Pass
General Manager @ WHHS
200 Mill Rd
Havertown, PA 19083
From: "Turick, Jonathan" Jonathan.Turick@cox.com
Earlier this summer (in June) I was lucky enough to start my vacation up at SmileFest in Greensboro, NC. Thank you to Bob Robertson, Not Fade Away Entertainment & the Hodgin Family for putting on such a beautiful event. The site was amazing on a working family farm in the middle of the woods. We were awakened to goats running through the forest each morning. Plenty of room to camp and dance with kind people everywhere.
I enjoyed many of the bands, but the highlight, and reason we drove from Florida, was Keller Williams. We were treated to an early (11:15 am) set on Saturday morning. He started with an instrumental (forgive me if I don't know the name) which segued into A Day That Never Was. These days WERE. Then came Sideways Tree (is that the real name?), Rochanbo, an unbelievable Fuel for the Road>Pink Panther>Jam>Fuel. Then was a love story about a 1974 Chevy Blazer ; ), Blazeabago. That went right into Breathe, the title track from his upcoming album with String Cheese. This song is beautiful and he sings it with the voice of an angel. Next was the Loup Jam. If you're not familiar with it, Keller will play a bass line, sample and loop it, until it grows to layers of melody, voice, horns, percussion, whatever. Then he'll even do the funky Keller dance (of which I got some great pictures). This version was special, because in the middle of his set, the portapotty guys crank up their truck and proceed to clean the potty right at the back of the stage. Keller doesn't miss a beat and with a big smile, adds words about how the portapotty is now clean etc. That goes into Tribe (harvest the kind but don't do the time / leaders got to lead). I may have missed a song, but the encore was Inhale to the Chief with Jason Bruner (sp?) on drum.
My vacation ended after the next weekend when we caught the Disco Biscuits in Charleston. I couldn't have made a better choice to take the extra week, because the Biscuits landed a Hot Air Balloon in the Music Farm! I'm sorry I don't get to catch bands like the DB's and Seapods down here in FL., but I need time to recover after their show anyway. Mind blowing.
thank you for reading,
jonathan turick
gainesville, flFrom: tracy kilpatrick maesworld@worldnet.att.net
Hi! I'm a casting director on the film "Songcatcher" shooting in Asheville, NC in August. The film is set in 1907 and is about a musicologist who discovers English and Scottish ballads in the Appalachian Mountains and wants to preserve them.
We're looking for a 12-15 year-old girl who sings the traditional style of that period for a role in our film. If you know anyone, please contact me at the email address above, or phone me (Tracy Kilpatrick) or my assistant (Alice Peschl) at 910-763-2778.
Thanks for your help!
From: Nick tapetree@email.msn.com
Whoa! I just walked home from an hour Day By The River set. About a 1/2 dozen times the Leslie kinda tweaked the soundboard the first 20 min, then the power went out onstage about three times during the show. Without missing a beat they slowly moved from an electric to a drum percussion solo each time. The club they played at tonight has a lot to be desired (BTW: An Ominous Seapod CD "Roadside Ecology" was playin on the house system when I was Even with the usual club problems there the band rocked they simply rocked. It kinda sucked that they opened for a local band (got me man)? But I brought out a few people and the buzz was how amazing they were at the HSMF.
So if there is anyway you can check them out. The band has some really large and killer MP3's on their website so check them out. Since tonight's show had some minor problems I won't be treeing it but I will be placing some segments on the Tapetree Radio show to replace the DeadBeats CD.
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