I’m still without a full voice a full day and a half after my return from my first year at the High Sierra Music Festival, a wonderfully intimate festival with an unbelievably great crowd and great set of musicians hanging out all weekend. The music was fantastic but arguably part of the background for most of my experience. I got to chill with a pretty solid crew of peeps that I now consider my best friends in the word. Four days in the music festival teaches you to band together, like brothers. Although not literally band together, except for the impromptu camp jam sessions that kept coming from the talented folks I was crashed with. I digress.
I hope to post some killer stuff from the festival once I filter through all of it, but this video caught my eye and I figured it to be perfect to get the coverage started. I saw no Banana Man this weekend, but this dude ran into Robot Guy and took some funny video of him grooving hard during Galactic.
High Sierra 2011: 5 Must-See Artists to Get It Started Yeah! It's finally time for this year's High Sierra Music Festival up in Quincy, CA, and my crew in Camp Cock Awe has already secured a healthy chunk of Big Meadow to get ready for the music starting...
High Sierra 2011: Ween to Headline Sunday, Lineup Coming Soon While the heavily rumored news of a potential Phish festival in upstate NY at the Watkins Glen Raceway is potentially imminent, I'm still eagerly awaiting the lineup for this year's High Sierra Music ...
High Sierra 2010: Marco Benevento Trio (and Ruby!) – “Greenpoint” I thought I’d drop a quick post honoring the man responsible for my absolute “favorite moment ever” witnessed this year at High Sierra. The Marco Benevento Trio played the final day of the festival, a...
High Sierra 2010: Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer [caption id="attachment_16543" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photo by Justin Ward"][/caption]
By 3pm on the second day of High Sierra, I felt like I had already seen a few living legends i...
High Sierra 2010: Preservation Hall Jazz Band [caption id="attachment_16527" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photo by Justin Ward"][/caption]
After Zach Deputy's set and some time back at camp to rally a crew together, Camp Cock Awe mad...
High Sierra 2010: Zach Deputy [caption id="attachment_16466" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photo by Justin Ward"][/caption]
Ask anyone at High Sierra 2010 what one of their highlights would be, and you'll likely hear a...
High Sierra 2010: Nels Cline Singers
I'm finally moving onto my second day of roaming around High Sierra and revisiting the memories I have from this year's amazing festival. Hands down, the best surprise of the weekend for me was t...