The countdown to ACL continues and the starting line for the 10th Annual Austin City Limits Festival is now within sight. We’re beyond psyched to see My Morning Jacket headline another 2011 mega fest and those who haven’t had the chance to see Stevie Wonder should definitely go see the living legend rock Zilker Park, but if you’re reading this, chances are you don’t need any convincing to see either of Saturday night’s headliners. So here are four artists that perhaps weren’t on your custom schedule for Saturday’s Day Two.
Only three dates remain in Phish’s reinvented and redefined Summer of twenty-eleven. Before we look forward to the turquoise (okay, maybe they’re closer to purple) mountains of Colorado let’s take a glance back at what Phish served up to the West Coast and Chicago. Instead of dissecting every nook and cranny, let’s cut out the red tape and hit the high notes. >>>
Béla Fleck has released more details surrounding his Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra planned for September 22-24 with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Very cool.
Béla Fleck will present the world premiere of his Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra — one of the first ever written for the instrument — with the Nashville Symphony on September 22-24 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. To be performed by Fleck on his vintage 1937 mahogany Gibson Mastertone banjo, the Concerto marks a significant new departure for Fleck, who calls the piece “a liberating experience for my efforts as a composer and hopefully for the banjo as well.” Commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra will be the centerpiece of the orchestra’s opening concerts in the 2011/12 SunTrust Classical Series.
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Friday’s FREE and rockin’ New Orleans Suspects show @ Tipitina’s piqued my interest in a big way to watch this new local musical outfit grow (and excited to hear from the band that an album is already in the works). Hopefully the nation at-large gets wind of what’s cookin’ down here with this new band. Camille Baudoin’s guest appearance for “Let’s Radiate” was a very memorable segment of this show and for a fleeting moment it felt like the Rads June retirement was just a dream and Fish Head music resonated at Tipitina’s once again. Thanks to Jeffrey Dupuis for sharing his photos with us. Continue on after the jump for a full photo gallery from the show.
Sept 2-4, 2011
Gelston Castle Estate, Mohawk, NY
While we’ve obviously been covering the hell out of the Phish Summer Tour, we’re also hella excited about this weekend’s annual moe.down Festival in Mohawk, NY. Our friend Nick Irving is going to be on-site shooting photos for the site (as best he can; we were too late to get a photo pass for the pit) and we’ll hope to have some coverage up after the fact. This lineup is eclectic as hell and the announcement is something I love to see year after year. While it’s definitely stacked with heavy hitters that you’d know and love already — moe., Bob Weir with Levon Helm Band, TV on the Radio, etc. — I’d take a look at the following artists on the lineup and make sure they get your full attention as well. READ MORE
The Olivia Tremor Control is as much of an abstract high concept as it is an experimental rock band, while opening act One Man Machine kind of just left me, well, speechless.
One of the music festivals that can often get overlooked amidst a sea of the bigger OSL’s and ACL’s of the world is the upstate New York gem known as Catskill Chill Music Festival. We’ve written about the festival in the past and would be remiss to not mention this mini-festival again in 2011. This year’s lineup is stacked with some jamband middleweights like Umphrey’s McGee, but following right behind are the untz-Bisco stylings of Conspirator and the Dead-based nostalgia funk thing called 7 Walkers (with the Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann at the helm). Dumpstaphunk with Nikki Glaspie is on the lineup as is Perpetual Groove, Big Sam’s Funky Nation and Break Science — all LMB favorites and a sure-fire good time if we were able to attend this festival in the flesh.
If you’re going, get in touch as we’d love a report or two of how everything goes down. Read on for the full lineup and don’t miss this one if you’re within driving distance. The schedule is live so you can start planning your attack now… >>>
A few clips from Osheaga, a three day music festival earlier this month in parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal.
Canon 60D
Sigma 30 f1.4
Tamron 17-50 f2.8
Tokina 11-16 f2.8
Mic – Sennheiser MKE400
Audio
grapes – I dunno
Oh Land
Jesuslesfilles
Joseph Arthur
DJ Cosmo
Eminem
Stephen Wood shot this for the site and I couldn’t be happier with the result; he manages to capture a mood and feeling much like any regional music festival we’ve all been to.
Fantastic work; check out his Vimeo channel for some of his other edits…
