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August 28th - 31st, 2003 at the Sheraton Society Hill, One Dock Street, Philadelphia, PA, a new music industry will be born.

Philly is a symbol of independence...

AND just like this great country of ours was founded by a bunch of rebels seeking freedom, so too are we seeking the freedom of independence from a music industry that is no longer run by musicians for the love of music. Instead, it's now run by multi-national corporations that are more concerned with profits than with artists and the music which they lovingly create to share with the world.

There are currently over 2200 indie musicians and industry people on the IMC2003 email group, working to create a new music industry... the INDIE music industry!

Please check out the web site at IMC2003.com, join us in building this revolutionary event. Nothing about the IMC will be the same as what we’ve been used to regarding music conferences. Throw out your preconceptions and help us make this exactly what YOU need it to be!

Showcase Performance Workshop submission deadlines have been determined, watch the site for the Phase 1 Application Form. The application deadline is October 31, 2002.

On the site you can download a print-ready poster to promote IMC, help us determine your needs by answering the Poll questions, read the brand new FAQ page with lots of updated info, check out the beginnings of our radical PDF Conference Directory, and much more. InterMixx Webzine 3

by Steve Bornstein

Who can fathom the allure of music? It can loves. I can’t explain it, but I accept it, as though August 1st. Though Todd Rundgren is at Toad’s thrill, incite passion, elicit old memories or we were meant for each other somehow. I hope that night. Hmmm, maybe I can do both ... induce new ones. It can sustain a person’s that my love of music comes through what I say Laura Cantrell is one of a small but inspired interest for the duration of a song (transporting in these pages, and leads to better days for all group of country rockers based in New York. Yes, the listener meanwhile), or an album of songs, of us, when such driven determination to effect New York, about as far as you can get from the or a concert, or a short musical phrase, upon an improvement in the state of music for all of us hills of southern Appalachia often considered the first hearing and for a lifetime. Few things is no longer necessary. heart and soul of country music. But there is a created by humans have this evocative effect. One of my favorite groups growing up was The longstanding if often overlooked tradition of Its power is so subtle yet strong, one often Lovin’ Spoonful. Indeed, they are one of the groups country music in the city, and for years the most wonders about delusion. After all, it would have from back then that I still listen to regularly. I always popular country radio station in the nation was no effect on an unemotional entity. Still, its wished I could have seen them, but the next best WHN, based right there in the Big Apple. Laura is effect on the emotions is undeniable - if you thing is seeing John Sebastian backed by NRBQNRBQ. also a DJ on New Jersey’s WFMU, where her believe in emotions, of course. Some may think that an odd juxtaposition, but in Saturday afternoon Radio Thrift Shop show has many ways The Q can recreate the good-natured been pleasing listeners with a hankering for bounce of The Lovin’ Spoonful better than any country for years. Elena Skye and Boo Reiners of other band. A co-bill at The Mohegan Sun Casino The Demolition String Band carry on where Amy was thus a must-see for me. This was held in The Rigby (of the late lamented Last Roundup) left Wolf DenDen, where the seating is free (though for such off. Clubs like Rodeo Bar, Nine C, and The popular shows reservations are necessary). The Lakeside Lounge cater to fans of the music even architecture resembles a teepee: slanted vertical as the now-defunct Tramp’s once did, and other poles suggest a conical framework, linked 30 feet clubs like The Mercury Lounge and even Fez in the air by horizontal stage lighting tracks. The welcome country to their stage occasionally. verticals do not come to a point, but instead end Such was the case on May 15th, when the slim in flat sections about 50 feet above the floor, atop songstress took the stage at the eclectic-minded which are statues of wolves. The area is delineated club. At first her wispy voice seemed ill-suited to but not enclosed by this structure, so that people the passion in the words she was singing. But she can listen from the perimeter without entering - soon warmed up, and the band kicked out some though the din of slot machines becomes sweet and hot licks. They sounded a lot more deafening the further away one gets. Sebastian’s like real country than what gets played on Ani DiFranco in motion at The Palace voice has not kept pace with his advancing years, typical country radio stations. That this was com- (photo by Barry Tenin) so it did seem wise that he trade stage time with ing from a basement club with a Moroccan another act. He sang several hums, in his theme in cosmopolitan New York added a tion, even after a full day of musical diversity. engagingly soft voice, then left the stage for NRBQ. delicious irony. A followup to her fine debut As much as I enjoy traveling, sometimes it’s They bounded through a good number of tunes, album, Not The Tremblin’ Kind, should be out nice to stay home to catch a good show. I don’t including a rarely-heard (by me) “Green Light,” and soon on Brooklyn-based Diesel Only Records. do that often enough, but it’s not always my then Sebastian came back out for the last few Two days later found me heading up to The fault. After all, until the day comes when the numbers. All in all, this was sheer delight, a Towne Crier in Pawling NY to hear Susannah kind of music I like gets played on the radio, it testament to the casino’s hipness as well as the Keith, John Coster, and The Acoustic Medicine will be necessary to drive great distances to enduring, endearing appeal of clever pop music. BandBand. I’ve known them and enjoyed their Stan Sullivan in action (photo by Barry Tenin) hear it performed live. I appreciate it that Club Helsinki in Great Barrington MA is a albums for years, and even hung out with them much more when a strong lineup comes to So when a guitarist who is pushing sixty still flies charming place home to a diverse roster of once or twice, but never heard them live Toad’s PlacePlace, to which I can walk. Stan Sullivan in action to St. Louis for an annual guitar competition, you performers. It’s shaped like an L, with the stage at before. Since I was driving down to rural Such was the case on the last day of April, must appreciate the devotion music inspires. the corner and the bar along one straightedge. Pennsylvania the next day anyway, this seemed when The Spin Doctors came to town. The Unluckily, his flight was scheduled for Sept. 11, and Its capacity is about 100, and it fills up pretty quickly an opportune time for a somewhat roundabout opener was Andy BuzziBuzzi, a local satirical it was cancelled, and he was surely disappointed for big name acts. Such was the case on May 9th, road trip. The two singers are rather tall, with a songwriter who was playing with a band, a re- as well as sorrowed. When you hear Stan Sullivan when Maria Muldaur packed the place despite commanding presence in this cozy room with cent development. They provided solid backup play “Summertime” in his distinctive style, you a hefty ticket price on a weeknight. I arrived just its warm earth tones. Susannah is quite striking, for the songs springing from his pointed poison begin to understand the dedication to his craft slightly before show time, and there wasn’t a seat with long straight black hair, a model’s face, and pen. Andy seemed either ill at ease or troubled that bespeaks a lifetime committed to music. At left anywhere - except for a few folding chairs a powerful voice that she held in check most of by some sound glitches. Too bad, because he a concert at Roaring Brook Nature Center, he they had just set up smack dab in front of the the evening, standing far from the mike. John has a lot to say and says it well. I hope he works enthralled an eager audience with his expert stage. I usually prefer to melt into the crowd, but was gruffer and more subdued in contrast - out the bugs, and gets another chance there. blues and rag fingerpicking, understated but there was really no room to do that. And almost anyone else would be - and the Next came The Mercury SeedSeed, a Fairfield County heartfelt singing, and well-considered program. besides the two attractive women already interplay of their styles worked quite effectively. band making a name for themselves. Their sound He dedicated his opening song to the recently sitting in this new front row insisted I join them, so The band was hardly acoustic, though I imag- seemed to take a cue from 70s-80s power pop, deceased Dave Van Ronk. He then sang his I did. I could have rested my feet on the stage ine the electric version would have screamed a Cheap Trick meets Kiss, without the theatrics. original ballad, “Church Steeples,” followed by a monitor, that’s how close I was. It must have bit louder. Their songs were well-written and Lead singer Volker Lemmer prowled the stage, Latin number, “La Guitara.” That’s his secret weapon, been strange for Maria to see someone right in performed, a hybrid of pop, rock, and folk, with in a pinstripe suit with a wide collar shirt, his range - a little something for everyone. front of her taking notes. It didn’t stop her from occasional flashes of country and even recalling Bryan Ferry somehow. A twin guitar One of the hats that Stan wears (besides his belting out some smoking blues, jazz, and pop. psychedelia, and the lyrics were thoughtful and attack propelled him along. Both guitarists had ubiquitous fisherman’s hat), is musical coordinator She may be concerned about putting on a little evocative, sometimes touching on spiritual some solid chops, though John JacksonJackson, playing for this time-honored acoustic music series. Held at weight or losing her looks, but to me she looked concerns. Opener Mark Erelli turned in a fine solo the Les Paul and singing occasionally, had the an active, interactive, educational nature center, hot as ever and sounded even hotter. I chatted opening set, having evolved quite adroitly from edge, with a smooth soulful feel. The band started where the stage’s backdrop is a stack of (kindly with her briefly between sets, explaining that, not someone with promise into a performer who has strong, but soon slipped into a rut with most songs covered) snake cages, the proceeds help fund only did we have a mutual friend in Eric Von lived up to his potential and still promises more. sounding indistinguishable from each other. programs for children (For more information, go to SchmidtSchmidt, but I had actually done a gig with her After the show I drove off into the night, The Spin Doctors were all the more welcome www.sciencecenterct.org/rbncpage). Director once, at the 1991 Winnipeg Folk Festival. She managing to avoid New Jersey on my way to after this. Recently reunited after many years, Jay Kaplan’s brainchild is now twelve years old and didn’t recall that - she’s had many more gigs than Pennsylvania. The following day was the annual which included singer Chris BarronBarron’s sputtering thriving, thanks also to Stan’s good taste in music. I, after all - but at least this seemed to mollify her Spring Gulch Folk Festival (an offshoot of The solo career, they took the stage by storm as if Another hat he wears is as opening act, and Booker curiosity. When she did “Don’t You Feel My Leg” Philadelphia Folk Festival), and I was both cov- they had never been away. With a finely tuned Stan allows Guitar Stan one set a season, typically late in the second set, close enough for me to ering this and performing in it, as an adjunct funky rhythm section flailing feverishly, Eric opening for a talented relatively unknown artist actually do so - well, let’s just say that I’m member of The Philadelphia Jug BandBand. I pulled Schankman twisted his guitar strings into staccato whom he wants to introduce to a wider audience. breaking into a sweat just thinking about it now. over in a rest area about an hour from the site, riffs and crunchy chords. Chris bounded all Indeed, his fan base helps contribute to the Let’s go clubhopping again. (I love that word; and slept through a bit of a rainstorm in my car. around the stage, teasing and pleasing the attendance, a win-win deal. it freaks out my spellchecker. So does When I got to the festival site in the morning I crowd with smart-aleck remarks and witty Lisa McCormick was so honored this evening. “spellchecker” - go figure.) I have a particular learned they had fared far worse, and many She has been pretty much off the road for over fondness for The Mercury Lounge in New York’s people had suffered through torrential two years, exploring other aspects of life than SoHo district. I have seen quite a few concerts downpours in their soaked tents. The sun coop- music, though of course she kept writing songs. there, and it is here that I first saw in person some erated soon enough, and helped to raise camp- She spent several months living in Guatemala, of my favorite artists - namely, Sara Hickman, Blue ers’ dampened spirits. So did that jug band which helped inspire an affection for Latin music. Rodeo, and Lucinda Williams. This last started one music, with its irresistible good-timey sound. A This showed in “Fernando,” but also “Right Now” of the most intriguing chapters in my life, which is hastily assembled set proved just the thing to start had a Latin inflection in the guitar rhythms. She still being written. I celebrated Groundhog Day off the day’s entertainment. When Pete has an intriguing singing style Often she’ll hit a note, there with Kelly Hogan,Hogan a Chicago-based Kennedy, the gifted guitarist who is half of The hold it till it resonates and continue to build it in a country-rock singer. Her excellent album Beneath KennedysKennedys, compliments you on your playing, soft slow crescendo. But it’s what she’s singing that The Country Underdog made my Best of 2000 list you thank not only him but your lucky stars that really puts her over the top - her cleverly worded and helped introduce me to the country scene you’ve hung around long enough to impress songs. Her use of sarcasm is nothing short of blowing in from the Windy City. She was quite the someone that good. I was unable to hear their brilliant. In “Do Something Stupid,” rather than say fireball in person, with a big voice and powerful set, unfortunately, as they were scheduled at the how wonderful her lover is, she implores her to stop delivery that belied her petite frame. She did same time as our workshop appearance. being so wonderful, by listing the ways she is so, some of my favorites from her album, including Loudon Wainwright got the crowd revved up saying stop this, stop that, do something stupid. Stephin Merritt’s three-verse opera “Papa Was with his riotous satire, occasionally tempered with Of course the object of her desire is too perfect to A Rodeo,” and the soul/country classic, “Wild truly poignant observations, such as his new display any faults. Twisted genius. She may try a Mountain Berries.” This last was a minor hit for masterpiece, “White Winos.” These two rather bit too hard, or be over dramatic at times. Then Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson way back when, disparate approaches to songwriting actually again, you want to work an audience,. You’re their with its thinly veiled double entendres. Her enhanced each other in his well-paced set, a dancing monkey for an hour, and they want to guitarist stepped up to the mike to sing his parts, microcosm of the human condition. Later on be amused, even worked over some. and as soon as he opened his mouth I recog- toward evening, blueswoman Debbie Davies hit Music’s allure manifests itself in many ways. nized his voice as the one on the album. the stage, wailing with both her guitar and voice. Some friends are confounded by my willingness Good old jukebox brain. Look for this on She has the chops to hold her own with just about to drive for hours for a good show; to spend hours Chicago’s independent Bloodshot Records, also anyone, yet doesn’t showboat or upstage her writing about music; to go over to a friend’s home to Robbie Fulks and Neko CaseCase, who have band, preferring to play solid, strong, wrenching house and play music; to devote what often both appeared in my annual best lists. I am riffs that really rocked. The closer was Bill MillerMiller, seems like every waking moment to some psyched to finally get a chance to hear Neko an Indian folksinger whose path had not crossed aspect of music. I can’t explain it, beyond some Case in person, when she and Laura Cantrell play mine for years. He had lost none of his forceful Louise Taylor and Dean Sharp in the library vague notion of devotion to that which one a free sunset concert at New York’s Battery Park singing voice, and held a tired crowd’s atten- (photo by Barry Tenin) Continued on Page 9 InterMixx Webzine 4 FESTIVAL GUIDE 2002

Spring has sprung, and summer is coming right Spider John Koerner, John Gorka, Bill Morrissey, bluegrass act, plus some intriguing genre- Reid Genauer, Gov’t Mule, Phil Lesh & Friends along. I can't tell what that means to you, but to David Massengill, The Burns Sisters, GrooveLily, bending artists andcombinations to make Sunday: The Rafter Bats, MoFro, Peter Prince, me that means folk festivals! What better way to Vance Gilbert, Peter Yarrow, Carrie Newcomer, things even more interesting. Wish I could go. Soulive, John Mooney, Third World enjoy music than in the fresh air, surrounded by a David Wilcox,The Austin Lounge Lizards, The Waifs, myriad of performers and styles to choose from? Trout Fishing in America, Cathy Fink & Marcy June 21 - 23 1st Annual Bonnaroo Music Festival July 5 - 7 11th Annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival The northeast is blessed with a wide variety of Marxer, The Waybacks, Goose Creek Symphony, Manchester, TN www.bonnaroo.com Sherman, NY www.greatblueheron.com festivals, and with so much to choose from it's Aztex, Pied Pumpkin, Cosy Sheridan, Bett Butler, [email protected] 716-487-1781, email: [email protected] difficult to be discriminate. I hope to come back Tom Prasada-Rao, Clandestine, Darden Smith, Weekend: $140, includes camping and parking P.O. Box 791, Jamestown, NY 14701 as a teacher in my next life so I can have the Dry Branch Fire Squad, Rachel Bissex, Tom Russell Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, String Weekend: $47 advance/$55 gate; Friday: $20; summer off and go to every one of these festivals. w/ Andrew Hardin, Limpopo, Paul Glasse Quintet, Cheese Incident, Phil Lesh & Friends with Bob Saturday: $25; Sunday: $18 To make such decisions even more difficult - Albert & Gage, Ronny Cox, Allen Damron, Weir, Ben Harper, Norah Jones, Gov’t Mule, Donna the Buffalo, Southern Culture on the Skids, I mean tantalizing - I have included more western Dogwood Moon, Steven Fromholz, Michael Blind Boys of Alabama, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Fred Eaglesmith & the Flying Squirrels, Leroy and Canadian festivals this time. After all, although Fracasso, Stefan George, Steve Gillette & Cindy Amon Tobin,Les Claypool’s Frog Brigade, North Thomas & the Zydeco Road Runners, The we are based in New England, many of are Mangsen, Bill & Bonnie Hearne, Billy Jonas, Madcat Mississippi Allstars, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Overtakers, Boy With a Fish, Ti-Ti-Chickapea, readers live elsewhere. Indeed, some of the & Kane, Ian Moore, Del Rey, Lorin Rowan, Eric Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Jack Delaney Brothers Bluegrass, Plastic Nebraska, festivals in Colorado and California tempt me to Schwartz, Susan Shore, Lucie Blue Tremblay, Bill Ward Johnson, Soulive, Ween, Keller Williams Incident, Kilbrannan, Sunny Weather, Mercy Creek, Sim devise a road trip. There also seem to be a Yes, you are reading that right. Spread over three The Disco Biscuits, moe., Galactic, DJ Cut Redmond Band, Zydeco Experiment, The Buvas, lot of jam-band festivals springing up, which cater consecutive weekends and the weeks in Chemist, DJ Z-Trip, Bernie Worrell, Campbell Hank Roberts, Edna’s Driveway, The Bill Ward to devotees of this quasi-psychedelic movement. between, this 18-day festival is truly Texas-sized. Brothers, Rana, Jurassic 5, Blackalicious, Brain, Band, Ritual Space Travel Agency, Vox Lumina, Zorbing out to such musical explorations in the The emphasis is on songwriting, and they feature Corey Harris, Buckethead, MoFro, Particle, John The Homewreckers, Cowpoke Willis, Inner Orches- wilderness sounds like a lot of fun. Just remember a prestigious competition for new songwriters. Butler Trio, Umphrey’s McGee, Col. Bruce tra, The Macgillicuddies, Turtle Island Dream to respect nature and your Hampton and neighbors as well as May 25 - 26 - the Code Talkers, July 5 - 7 - Mariposa Folk yourself and you’ll be fine. Santa Cruz Blues Gabe Dixon Festival Tudhope Park, I’ve also noticed a few Festival, Aptos, CA Band, Acoustic Orillia, ON, Canada small festivals - attendance www.santacruz Syndicate 705-329-2333 limited to a few bluesfestival.com This is the first of www.mariposafolkfestival.com hundred - which cost more 831-479-9814 several jam band mariposafolkfestival@ but offer longer sets by a info@santacruz festivals this on.aibn.com more selective group of bluesfestival.com season. Perhaps 33 Mississaga Street E., performers, appealing to P.O. Box 85, this is one way this Orillia, ON L3V 1V4 Canada more discriminating Santa Cruz, CA scene is evolving. Weekend: $55 Advance/ festival-goers. Limiting the 95063 Pretty soon there $65 Gate number of both performers Dr. John, Otis Rush, may be a Friday night only: $20/$25; all and audience members is Delbert national circuit for day Saturday: $35/$40; an intriguing solution to McClinton, Sue bands and fans of Saturday night only: $25/$30; some of the more daunting Foley, Indigenous, this music. all day Sunday: $20/$25 problems of large festivals. Shemekia Steve Earle, Lynn Miles, Keep in mind that Copeland, June 28 - 30 - Kate Si Kahn, Sarah Slean, David attendance at outdoor Sonny Landreth, Wolf Memorial Francey & David Clarke, festivals often means you The Boneshakers, Music Festival Cindy Thompson, Steel Rail, will be at the mercy of the Tommy Castro, Black Oak Ranch, Northbound Blue Grass, elements, and you should Eric Sardinas Laytonville, CA Nancy White, Serena Ryder, plan accordingly, while 707-829-7067 Quartette, Roger James, balancing the need for June 1 Appel www.katewolf.com/ Orchid Ensemble, The Silver comfort with the desire to Farm Arts & festival/2002.htm Hearts, Snapping Toes, travel light. I find it’s best Music Festival www.monitor.net/ Martyn Joseph, Kanenhi:Io, to pack the essentials - Appel Farm, kate Creeative Harmony layers of clothing, Elmer, NJ [email protected] raingear, tent, blankets, www.appelfarm.org Weekend: $120 July 5 - 7 31st Annual folding chair, boots, 800-394-1211; advance/$125 Northern Lights Festival/ Bob Dylan in 1966, young man with an acoustic guitar, Bob Dylan in 1997, seasoned pro with an electric guitar, flashlight, etc. - and go [email protected] gate; Sat/Sun: Festival Boréal ready to change the world (Photo by Barry Tenin) easy on amenities which Jackson Browne, $110/$115; Friday having changed the world (Photo by Barry Tenin) Bell Park, Sudbury, ON, serve to recreate the comforts of home, Jonatha Brooke, Nerissa & Katryna Nields, Kelly only: $35/$37; Sat/Sun only: $45/$47 Canada www.nlfb.on.ca especially where food is concerned, as this may Joe Phelps, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Greg Brown, Bruce Cockburn, Kathy Mattea, Nanci P.O. Box 1236, Stn. B, Sudbury, ON P3E 4S7, involve much carrying followed by a great time DaVinci’s Notebook, 4 Way Street, Patty Blee Griffith & the Blue Moon Orchestra, Jimmy LaFave, Canada, 800-465-6655, 705-671-3000: expense. Precious notes may be slipping away This is one of the strongest one-day lineups all John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Cliff Eberhardt, Utah [email protected] while you are busy fussing over dinner. Splurge a season. OK, there are two stages, but still… No on- Phillips, Rosalie Weekend: $45; Day: $20 (US $) little on vendor food and save your time for the site camping, but plenty of camping in the area. Sorrels, Karla Bonoff w/Kenny Edwards, Garnet Rogers, Cowboy Junkies, Charlie Major, The Barra music. You can manage without a homecooked Cheryl Wheeler, The Waifs, The Waybacks, Sarah MacNeils, Fred Penner, Metalwood, Penny meal for a weekend, but you can’t get these June 14 - 16 Live Oak Music Festival Elizabeth Campbell, Nina Gerber (Kate’s longtime Lang, Mose Scarlett & Jackie Washington, unique musical opportunities at any other time or Live Oak Camp, Santa Barbara, CA accompanist), Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Tony Quarrington, Hilario Duran, Katherine place. ‘Nuff said. www.liveoakfest.org 805-781-3030 Choir, Laurie Lewis Trio, Marley’s Ghost, Dave Moore, Wheatley with Wendell Ferguson, Danny Though most of the ticket prices listed here are for 4100 Vachell Lane, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Don Coffin & Paul Ellis, Tom Rigney & Flambeau Bakan & Chris McKhool, Swamperella, The adults, many festivals offer a reduced rate for Michelle Shocked, Sam Bush, Rhonda Vincent & Much of the crème de la crème of the current Groovebug, The Road Dog Divas, Les Batinses, teenagers and seniors. Also, Canadian festivals The Rage, Dave Alvin, Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, singer/songwriter scene convene in an annual Kendall Sullivan, Jim Harney & Peter Cliché, typically make no mention of whether their prices Battlefield Band, Joe Craven Trio, David Tanenbaum tribute to this influential and beloved artist. Jesus Murphy and the Son of a Guns, Dolores, are in Canadian dollars. I assume that is the case, & Peppino D’Agostino, Culture featuring Joseph Hill, Madrigaia, The Mighty Popo, Lucie Idlout, however, and specify US dollars only when they do. Floyd Dixon, Les Yeux Noirs, Michael Fracasso, Kenny July 3 - 6 21st Annual American Music Festival George Leach, Chantalle Soganich, Dale It’s best to check websites for the latest and most Blackwell & Dorian Michael, Salson, Glider, Nate FitzGerald’s, 6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn, IL Pepin, Princess Karma, Douglas John (Ants in complete information. Also, I thank the folks at Dirty Birkey Quintet, New West www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com 708-788-2118 Your Pants), Solar Jazz Ensemble, The Jazz Linen Magazine (www.dirtynelson.com/linen) for Admission: $20 per day, no advance sales Lamas, Richard Hale, Stephane Paquette, providing an exhaustive listing of festivals. June 15 - 9th Annual Bridgeton NJ Folk Festival Wednesday: Marcia Ball Band, The Dudes, Terrance Antoine et Ses Amis Artists are listed in reverse performance Rainear AmphiTheater, Sunset Lake, Bridgeton, NJ Simien & the Mallet Playboys, Bill Kirchen & Too Much order (headliners on top) when such information is 800-319-3379; 856-451-9208 [email protected] Fun, Hot Club of Cowtown, Beaver Nelson, Jeff & Vida July 10 - 14 5th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, available, unless specified otherwise. Otherwise, if www.bridgetonfolkfestival.com Thursday: Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men, The Treniers Okemah, OK www.woodyguthrie.com artists are not listed alphabetically, then they are Bridgeton Folk Festival, P.O. Box 472, Bridgeton, with Milt Trenier, Los Straitjackets, Big Sandy and his Woody Guthrie Coalition, P.O. Box 661, listed in some semblance of order in terms of NJ 08302 Fly-Rite Boys, Pontani Sisters, Jon Dee Graham, Jim Okemah, OK 74859, 918-245-4294 talent, in my humble estimation. Bear in mind that $17 advance/$20 gate Lauderdale, The Paladins, The Resentments (Stephen Abe Guthrie & Xavier, Ellis Paul, Jimmy LaFave, Bill a lot of these names are new to me too. That is part Commander Cody, Janis Ian, Steve Forbert, John Bruton, Jon Dee Graham, Scrappy Judd Newcomb, Miller, Eliza Gilkyson, Vance Gilbert, Slaid Cleaves, of the intrigue about festivals. One often discovers McEuen & Jimmy Ibbotson (from Nitty Gritty Dirt and Dennis Kenmore), Dallas Wayne, Chicago Jazz Kat Eggleston, Peter Keane, Tom Prasada-Rao, Ray worthy artists sprinkled in with the more familiar ones. Band), Terri Hendrix, Toshi Reagon, Blackthorn, Orchestra featuring Kurt Elling & Frieda Lee, Jeff & Vida Bonneville, Chuck Brodsky, DoublNotSpyz, Darcie And always remember: most festivals depend on Chubby Carrier & Bayou Swamp Band, Friday: Sonny Landreth, Billy Joe Shaver, Junior Brown, Deaville, Larry Long, Michael Fracasso, Johnsmith, volunteers to run them. For a few hours of service This delightful one-day festival in southern New Little Charlie and the Nightcats, Robbie Fulks, Joel Rafael, Don Conoscenti, Emily Kaitz & Mary you can get free admission, camping, and food. Jersey has a grassy hillside for audience seating Chicago Salty Dogs, Alvin Youngblood Hart, The Reynolds, Red Dirt Rangers, Randy Crouch, Dustin Plus make new friends and have some adventures and a swimming pond behind the stage. No on- Ranch Girls, Jeff & Vida Pittsley, Bob Childers, Travis Kidd, Roger Tillison, Effron that will impress your less timid friends back home. site camping, but plenty of camping in the area. Sat: Mavis Staples & the Staple Swingers, Otis Clay, White, Tom Skinner, Scott Aycock, Jim Dirden, The See you ‘round the campfire! Billy Joe Shaver, Alex Chilton, The Treniers, The Farm Couple, David R., Brandon Jenkins, George June 20 - 23 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Blazers, Hackberry Ramblers, Lavay Smith & her Red & Linda Barton, Cedarcase, Merlene Taylor, Susan April 27 2nd Annual WAM! Festival Telluride, CO www.bluegrass.com Hot Skillet Lickers, The Rockamatics, Lonesome Bob, Shore, Don White, Owen Lynn, Crow Johnson, Josh Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA P.O. Box 769, Lyons, CO 80540, 800-624-2422 or The Honey Bees, Brienn Perry Orchestra, Jeff & Vida Kanary, Greg Jacobs, Patti Whitten, Jake Speed, email: [email protected] 303-823-0848, fax 303-823-0849, email: This is a nightclub in a suburb of Chicago. Jeff Plankenhorn, Luke Reed, Caroline Herring, Voices On The Verge (Erin McKeown, Jess Klein, [email protected] Beaver Nelson, Bill Chambers Rose Polenzani, Beth Amsel), Patty Griffin, Jill Sam Bush Band, Peter Rowan & Crucial Reggae, July 4-7 - 7th Annual Gathering of the Vibes Sobule, Tish Hinojosa, Kris Delmhorst, Amy Fairchild, Lucinda Williams, John Cowan Band, Rhonda IIndian Lookout Country Club, Mariaville, NY July 11 - 14 29th Annual Winnipeg Folk Festival Toshi Reagon, Antigone Rising, Edie Carey, Anne Vincent & the Rage, Emmylou Harris w/Linda www.gatheringofthevibes.com/ Birds Hill Park, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Heaton, Alix Olson, Flora Reed, Bitch & Animal Ronstadt, Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, Tim O’Brien 203-748-7363 [email protected] www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca The penultimate performance by Voices On The Band, Nanci Griffith & the Blue Moon Orchestra, $136 for the entire weekend 203-211 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B Verge is but one reason to attend this event. Jerry Douglas, David Grisman Quintet, Del McCoury Special guest Emcee: Wavy Gravy 3P2, Canada, 204-231-0096; 888-655-5354 Band, Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys, Thursday: The Grapes of Vaudevillian Fantasy, Weekend: $70/ Day: $26 May 23 - June 9 31st Kerrville Folk Festival The Boomchicks, Ben Harper, Hayseed Dixie, Lucy Chapin, Zen Tricksters, Deep Banana Thursday: The Wailin' Jennys, Ron Sexsmith, Dervish, Quiet Valley Ranch, KerrvilleTX Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Todd Snider, Blackout, Lightnin' Wells, Steve Kimock Rokia Traore, Sam Bush, Fabulous Thunderbirds www.kerrville-music.com The Saw Doctors, Leftover Salmon, Railroad Friday: The Bomb Squad, Andrew Gromiller, Friday: Mason Jennings, Jane Bunnett, Tim O'Brien, Box 291466, Kerrville, TX 78029, 830-257-3600 or Earth,Bearfoot Bluegrass Band, Eddie From Ohio, NRBQ, Fuzz & Stephen Kellogg, Strangefolk, Amampondo, Habana Sax, Horace X 800-435-8429 [email protected] Cake, Yonder Mountain String Band, Mike Marshall Lightnin' Wells, Les Claypool, Warren Haynes - Saturday: Ellen MacIlwaine, Lennie Gallant, Colin Patty Larkin, Sara Hickman, Tish Hinojosa, Terri and Chris Thile, Single Malt Band, Béla Fleck & Edgar Solo Acoustic, Phil Lesh & Friends Linden, Kristi Stassinopoulou, Ian Tyson, De Dannan Hendrix, Slaid Cleaves, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ellis Meyer, Sam Bush & David Grisman Saturday: Deni Bonet, Aaron Katz Band, Jess Sunday: Toshi Reagon, Oscar Lopez, Richie Paul, Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, Jimmy LaFave, Just an incredible lineup, nearly every major Klein, Lake Trout, John Mooney, Max Creek, Havens, Nick Lowe, Oysterband InterMixx Webzine 5 FESTIVAL GUIDE 2002

Missy Raines, Jim Hurst & Casey Driessen), David Kerr, Skip Bement, Woody Mann, Blue Nile, Via & Corn Tornado w/ Curtis Burch Jim Turner Blues Band, Josey Wales Band, Thu/Fri/Sat: Slippery Sneakers, John Kirk and Trish JumpStart, Kane Daily Blues Band, Mean Blue Miller & Quickstep Spirit, Rodney & The Mustangs Still the premier bluegrass festival in the northeast, with a balance of progressive and July 25 - 27 7th Annual Podunk Bluegrass Music traditional performers, and also including Festival Martin Park, East Hartford, CT related genres such as Cajun and Western swing www.ci.east-hartford.ct.us/Podunk.htm East Hartford Parks and Recreation, 50 Chapman July 18 - 22 - FingerLakes GrassRoots Festival of Place, East Hartford, CT 06108, 860-282-8241, Music and Dance Trumansburg, NY 860-291-7350 [email protected] www.grassrootsfest.org Weekend w/ camping: $35 Advance/$45 Gate PO Box 941, Trumansburg, NY 14886 (price includes 2 tickets) Friday: $6 Advance/ 607-387-5098 [email protected] $10 Gate;Saturday: $14 Advance/ $25 Gate Weekend: $60 advance/$75 gate; Single Day: Thursday: Thunder Mountain Bluegrass, Amy Thursday $25;Friday $30;Saturday $35; Sunday $25 Gallatin & Stillwater Tent Camping $30 (avail at gate only till sold out) Friday: Blistered Fingers, Thunder Mountain Del McCoury, Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Bluegrass, Dry Branch Fire Squad, The Larkins Super Rail Band, The Mahotella Queens, Roakia Saturday: Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek, Traore, Campbell Brothers, Iyasa, Walter Mouton Auldridge, Bennett and Gaudreau, Larry & the Scott Playboys, Bambalao, Keith Secola & Stephenson Band, The Larkins, Blistered Fingers, the Wild Band of Indians, The Second Hand, Turtle Vassar Clements w/Northern Lights, Jonathan Island Dream, Samite, John Specker, Blackfire, Edwards w/Northern Lights, Seldom Scene Kallihio Singers, Mamadou Diabate, Preston Frank Reunion withTom Gray, John Starling, Ben & his Zydeco Family Band, Johnny Dowd Band, Eldridge, Mike Auldridge, Larry Stephenson The Flying Clouds, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Overtakers, Whistle Chant Singers, Fantcha, Bernie July 25 - 28 - Calgary Folk Music Festival Milton & Soul Patrol, Sim Redmond Band, Horizante Prince’s Island Park, Calgary, AB, Canada Llanero Bandola y Arpa, Sunny Weather, John www.calgaryfolkfest.com Brown’s Body, Jones Benally Dance Troupe, 403-233-0904, email: [email protected] Bobby Henrie & the Goners, Bubba George Weekend: $104; Thursday or Friday: $32; Stringband, Zydeco Experiment Saturday or Sunday: $36 (Canadian $) Mainstage performers: July 19 - 20 - The Green River Festival Thursday: Brothers Cosmoline, B'Net Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA Marrakech, Co-Dependents, La Bottine www.greenriverfestival.com 413-773-5463 Souriante, Chantal Kreviazuk Advance weekend tickets: $30; at the gate: Friday: D'Gary, De Dannan, The Sadies, Laio, $10 Friday, $40 Saturday; under 12, free Warren Zevon, Jim Cuddy Band Friday: Cajun and Zydeco dancing into the Saturday Afternoon: Fairport Convention Katryna Nields in a moment of grace, singing ... night with two of the genre’s premiere bands, Saturday Evening: John Reischman and Also appearing on other stages: 4 Corners, Tippy Colleen Sexton, Richard Shindell, Livingston Steve Riley And The Mamou Playboys and the Jaybirds, Lynn Miles, Robyn Hitchcock, Agogo, Kiran Ahluwalia, Rani Arbo & Daisy Taylor, Art Tebbetts, tongue & groove, April Verch Chris Ardoin & Double Clutchin’. Local blues Dervish, Spearhead, Jesse Cook Mayhem, Kim Barlow, Beautiful Joe, The Bill Hilly Band, Jeff Warner & Bruce MacIntyre, Susan favorite Alan Marcus opens the evening. Sunday Afternoon: Rokia Traore Band, Manitoba Hal Brolund, Rhian Brynjolson, Werner, Brooks Williams, Ye Mariners All Saturday: Little Feat, Chris Smither, Tim O’Brien & Sunday Evening: Hayden, Swamperella, Olu Aaron Burnett, Jake Chenier, Brothers Cosmoline, The Crossing, Peter Case, Fred Eaglesmith & Band, Dara, Nick Lowe, Buffy Sainte-Marie Easily Amused, Ruthie Foster, Filippo Gambetta Trio, July 13 - 14 8th Annual SolarFest Dave Alvin, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Mary Also appearing on other stages: Bill Garrett and Sue Lothrop, Lucie Idlout, Mason Middletown Springs, VT www.solarfest.org Gauthier, The Kitchen Table (featuring Mark Kiran Ahluwalia, Dan Bern, Bomba, Ray Jennings, jj the juggling fool, Martyn Joseph, Just 802-235-2866 [email protected] Erelli, Jim Henry, and Pete Nelson) Bonneville, Peter Case, Dottie Cormier, David Kiddin' with the Simply Superb Symphony, Kanicosa, PO Box 1052, Middletown Springs VT 05757 There is also a workshop stage, where some Essig, Filippo Gambetta Trio, Mary Gauthier, The Laws, George Leach, The Lee Boys, Marilyn Weekend: $40; Saturday: $25; Sunday: $20 of the mainstage performers also play. Also, Christine Graves Trio, Ralph Boyd Johnson, Lerner and David Wall, Madrigaia, John Mann, Rory Saturday: Singer/Songwriter Competition, Amy two workshops scheduled sound intriguing: a Anne Loree Trio, Harry Manx, Carolyn Mark, McLeod, Jonell Mosser and Tom Britt, Scott Nolan, Fairchild Band, Gopher Broke, Lori McKenna, tribute to Mississippi John Hurt called “Avalon Rory McLeod, Mortal Coil, Norouet, Steve Sheldon Oberman, David Olney, Anders Osborne, Bonepony, Balla Tounkara and Groupe Spirit, Gandalf Blues,” featuring Dave Alvin, Peter Case, and Pineo Trio, Rambling Roses Revue, John Alice Peacock, Jeremy Proctor, John Reischman Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams Chris Smither; and a Bob Dylan song workshop, “A Reischman and the Jaybirds, Restless Lester, and the Jay Birds, Sherman Robertson, Tom Russell, Sunday: Dayna Kurtz, Duane Carlton and Jim Nod to Bob,” with Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Silk and Steel, Martina Sorbara, Michael Franti Steve Schellenberg, Nash the Slash, Silk and Steel Gilmour, Chasse-Galerie, Jeff Lang, Entrain Tim O’Brien, and Chris Smither. These titles come and Spearhead, Mike Stack, Jim White Ensemble, Martina Sorbara, Summer Bear Dance from tribute albums with the same names. Troupe, Paul Thorn, Undertakin’ Daddies July 18 - 21 26th Annual Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival A one-day Americana festival with a strong and July 26 - 28 - Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival Ancramdale, NY diverse lineup. There are also hot air balloon Ossipee Valley Fairgrounds, Cornish, ME July 12 - 14 New Bedford Summerfest www.greyfoxbluegrass.com 888-946-8495 launches and rides to add to the festivities. Both www.ossipeevalley.com New Bedford, MA Weekend w/ camping: $105; w/o camping: $90; nights close with spectacular fireworks. P.O. Box 593, Cornish, ME 04020, 207-625-8656 www.ultranet.com/~koro/summfest.htm Thursday: $25; Friday: $35; Saturday: $40; Sunday: $10 Weekend: $48; Friday/Sunday: $12; Saturday: $22 508-673-8523, [email protected] Dry Branch Fire Squad, hosts for the weekend July 19 - 21 - 25th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival Friday: Turkey Hollow, Steve Kaufman, Harvey The cost of a button, good for the entire Thursday: Nickel Creek, Natalie MacMaster, Yonder Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada Reid and Joyce Anderson, 1946, North Star weekend including all concerts, showcases Mountain String Band, Gibson Brothers, Honi Deaton www.thefestival.bc.ca 602-602-9798 Saturday: Gibson Brothers, Schankman Twins, and workshops, is $7. Bargain of the season. & Dream, Gopher Broke, The Mike Burns Band Weekend: Advance, $120/Gate, $130; Friday: Natalie MacMaster, Steve Kaufman, 1946, Kruger Scott Alarik, The Beans, Rory Block Kevin Burke, Friday: The Del McCoury Band, The Sam Bush $40; Saturday: $55; Sunday: $55 (Canadian $) Brothers, Harvey Reid and Joyce Anderson Howie Bursen, Liz Carroll with Daithi Sproule, Band, Tim O'Brien with the Crossing, Old Crow David Francey, La Bottine Souriante, Roy Bailey, Ferron, Sunday: Gibson Brothers, Kruger Brothers, Erica Michael Cooney, Copper Family, Deb Cowan, Medicine Show, Big Sandy & the Flyrite Boys Veda Hille, Toshi Reagon, Linda Tillery & the Cultural Brown, North Star Johnny Cunningham, Andy Cutting & Karen Saturday: Seldom Scene, Ricky Skaggs & Heritage Choir, Zubot & Dawson, B’Net Marrakesh, Tweed, Jeff Davis, Cliff Eberhardt, Ray Fisher, Kentucky Thunder, Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen, Filippo Gambetta, Oliver Schroer, Ruthie Foster, July 26 - 28 - Hillside Festival Fishken & Groves, Vanida Gail Group, Livio Guardi Lonesome River Band, Buddy Merriam & Back Norouet, Les Charbonniers de L’Enfer, De Dannan, Guelph Lake, ON, Canada & Wilson Montuori, Gypsy Wranglers, Jack Hardy Roads, The Hazel Dickens Band (with Dudley Slainte Mhath, Bitch and Animal, Freeworm, Adel 123 Woolwich Street, 2nd Floor, Guelph, ON N1H Band, David Jones, Lucy Kaplansky, The Connell, Barry Mitterhoff, Tom Gray, Jack Awad and Sahara, Amampando, The Backstabbers 3V1, Canada, 519-763-6396, 519-763-8817 Kennedys, Patty Larkin, Late Bloomers, Little Leiderman & Richard Underwood), Steve Riley & Country String Band, Kim Barlow, Les Batinses, Dan Bern, email: [email protected] Johnny England, Matapat, Bruce Molsky, the Mamou Playboys Jane Bunnett and Alma de Santiago, Eugene Weekend: Advance, $60/ Gate, $70 Montcorbier, Chris Pahud & Phil Kissinger, Ellis Paul, Friday/Saturday: Bill Keith, Skip Gorman, The Carters, Chadbourne, Susan Crowe, Stephen Fearing, Tanya Michelle Shocked, Karen Savoca, Susan Werner, John Roberts, Garnet Rogers, Sally Rogers, The Schankman Twins, Mark Schatz & Friends (with Tagaq Gillis, Great Uncles of the Revolution, Habana Neko Case, Guy Davis, The Waifs, Alejandro Sax, The Heather Sessions, Horace X, Katerah Parvenah Escovedo, Nick Ali & Cruzao, Kim Barlow, with Amir Koushkani, James Keelaghan, Rory McLeod, Barmitzvah Brothers, Beautiful Senseless, The Bill Marchand-Morin Ornstein, Mernie Folk, Mortal Coil, Hilly Band, Bitch & Animal, Bullfrog featuring Kid Kelly Joe Phelps, Utah Phillips, John Reischman, Kathy Koala, By Divine Right, The Changelings, The Kallick and Friends, The Road Dog Divas, Karen Savoca Constantines, Kathleen Edwards, Christine with Pete Heitzman, Silk and Steel, Tegan and Sara, Fellows, Aengus Finnan, Fireweed, Ghetto Pony, Paul Thorne, Rokia Traore, April Verch, Ugarte Anaiak, Glamour Puss, Glenn, James Gordon, Hayden, Universal Gospel Choir, World Rhythms Youth Gregory Hoskins, House of Velvet, Johnny Ensemble, Vivian Xia Rainbow, Jughead, K-OS, The Kramdens, Rob Lamothe, Lisa Winn & Jamie Oakes, Matapat, July 19 - 21 4th Annual Riverhead Blues Festival Scott Merrit, Microbunny, Noah 23, Palenke Riverhead, NY www.riverheadblues.com/ Orchestra, Passenger, Peculiar I, Royal City, FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE Slainte Mhath, Tannis Slimmon, The Snipetones, email: [email protected] Martina Sorbara, Stephen Fearing Band, Bill Stunt, Jerry Portnoy, Sue Foley, Savoy Brown, Caroline The Weakerthans, Well Charged, Katherine Aiken, The Voodudes, Black Cat Bone, Wheatley, Andy White, The Williams, The Andy Aledort & The Groovekings, Big Al & The Wyndham Hillbillies Heavyweights, Cadillac Moon, Chumslick Nick There are also 18 spoken word performers & The Sharks, Dona Oxford, Hackensack Men & The Trenton Horns, Jim Moran Band, Kerry Kearney July 26 - 28 Vermont Alternative Energy Festival Band, Memphis Soul Review, The Mojos, Muletrain Neibling Farm, Randolph Center, VT Vaughn, Phil Varca & The SlamJammers, www.pondapalooza.com Shadetree Mechanics, T-Bone & The 802-863-5966 [email protected] Hatchetmen, Wolfe, Big Mike Meyer & The Blues Weekend: $30, includes camping Streak, Bruce MacDonald, Dan Stevens, Doc Friday: Jalapeno Brothers, Salad Days, Seth O’Connor, Doug Ashby, Flip City Rockers, Hell Yacovone Band, Bob Coons & Martin Holland Hounds, Ken “The Rocket” Korb, Little Toby (former members of the Jerry Garcia Band), Rick Walker, Main Line Gospel Blues Ensemble, Mojo Redington, Aaron Katz Band Cosmic cowboy Peter Rowan getting into his Rhythm and Roots at Ninigret (photo by Barry Tenin) Stu, Muddy Rivers, Park Avenue Blues Band, Penny Saturday: Chad, Zarabanda, Spookie Daly Pride, InterMixx Webzine 6 FESTIVAL GUIDE 2002

Zig Zag Zen, Entrain, Salad Days, Reid Genauer Marxer, Steve James, Steve Baughman, Cathy Fink, Sunday: The Reverend Brady Crain, Law Of Fives, Ron Ross, Sally Van Meter, Randy Hughes, Scott Seepeoples, Scarecrow Collection Ainslie, Ira Gitlin, Tena Moyer, Ed Dodson The Swannanoa Gathering offers a range of July 26 - 28 14th Annual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival thematic workshop weeks all season long. These Long Hill Farm, Hillsdale, NY are but two of them, which hold the most interest 74 Modley Road, Sharon, CT 06069 for me, especially as they’re held on the same 877-844-7742 or 860-364-0366 week. Talk about total immersion. I expect there email: [email protected] will be many opportunities for impromptu improvs. Weekend: $75 Advance/$90 Gate ($20 less w/o camping; single day: $30; dogs: $25, and must August 2 - 4 - Apple & Eve Newport Folk Festival stay in campgrounds Fort Adams State Park Newport, RI Combo package (Falcon Ridge and P.O. Box 122, Newport, RI 02840, 401-847-3700 Winterhawk) : $140 Advance/$180 Gate (w/ Tickets by Ticketweb, 866-468-7619 camping) Friday night: $25; Saturday or Sunday: $55; All Weekend: Greg Brown, Kris Delmhorst, Gandalf Two-day ticket: $90 Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, The Friday, Hotel Viking, Grand Ballroom, 8:00pm Kennedys, Lucy Kaplansky, Jeff Lang, David Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Geoff Muldaur Massengill, Erin McKeown, Beth Molaro, Patti Saturday, Fort Adams State Park, 11:30am-6:30pm O'Brien Melita, Paul Rosenberg, Chris & Meredith Fort Stage: Bob Dylan, Shawn Colvin, Jonatha Thompson, Christopher Williams, Kathryn Brooke, John Gorka, The Waifs, Rosie Ledet Wedderburn, and The Falcon Ridge House Band Borders Stage: Maura O'Connell, Slaid Cleaves, (Mark Dann, Radoslav Lorkovic, and Lisa Gutkin) Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem, Bob Kendall, Song Sat/Sun: Airdance, Bare Necessities, Big Table, Circle with Vance Gilbert, Caroline Herring, Bob Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Da Vinci's Hillman, Geoff Muldaur, and Louise Taylor Notebook, Eddie From Ohio, Dave Fry, Trina Roots Stage: Mark Erelli, Pastures of Plenty, Rachael Hamlin, Billy Jonas, Laurie's Stories, Zoe Lewis, Davis, Josh Ritter, Jabe Beyer, Dennis Brennan Gene Murrow, Nerissa & Katryna Nields, Tom Family Stage: Tanglewood Marionettes, The Cottars, Landa & The Paperboys, Railroad Earth, Eric Pastures of Plenty, Dawn Lesley Stewart, author Schwartz, The Storycrafters Sunday, Fort Adams State Park, 11:30am-6:30pm Fri/Sat: Jimmy LaFave, Small Tattoo, Chris Smither Fort Stage: Arlo Guthrie, Dar Williams, Bruce Fri only: Rhonda Vincent and The Rage Cockburn, Natalie MacMaster, The Blind Boys of Sun only: Ani DiFranco Alabama, Richard Shindell, Melissa Ferrick Yes, Ani is back this year. This is her only east Borders Stage: Richard Shindell, Laurie Lewis, coast festival appearance (she’s touring Hassan Hakmoun, The Hackberry Ramblers, Song Europe this summer), and she will be here on Circle with Kris Delmhorst, John Gorka, Lynn Miles, Sunday, presumably to bolster attendance for David Massengill, and Jack Williams this typically sparse day. So plan accordingly. Roots Stage: Maybe Baby, Alastair Moock, Kris This year the Friday Night Summer’s Eve Song Delmhorst, The Resophonics, Deb Talan ... a song from the graceful pen of Nerissa Nields (photos by Barry Tenin) Swap features Greg Brown, Lucy Kaplansky, Family Stage: Billy Jonas, David Massengill, Nini Camps Chris Smither, and Erin McKeown, who has & Mondo Sweetie, David Coffin, Norah Dooley, author $140 Advance/$180 Gate (w/ camping) August 8 - 10 Fairport Convention’s Annual Festival come a long way in just two years. Also this year, It’s been 37 years since Bob Dylan “plugged in” All Weekend: Barebones & Wildflowers, Einstein's Cropredy, England “Live From New York,” a musical “support and played an electrifying set backed by The Little Homunculus, The Hickory Project, Jeff Lang, www.folkcorp.co.uk/woodworm/ group” featuring Edie Carey, Teddy Goldstein, Butterfield Blues Band at Newport, changing The McKrells, Jo Miller & her Burley Roughnecks, crop2002.htm Anne Heaton, Andrew Kerr and Sam Shaber. forever the course of popular music. He’s finally Beth Molaro, Gordon Stone Band, Kathryn Thursday: E2K, The Dubliners, Joyce Gang, Remember to show up early (noon on Friday) coming back, so whatever had to be done to Wedderburn, Paul Rosenberg, Reel Hoss, The Freeway Jam for the Emerging Artist Showcase so you can make that happen has been done. This should Winterhawk House Band (Mark Dann, Radoslav Friday: Fairport Convention - The Early Years vote for your favorites to return next year. Some be quite an occasion, not only for the historical Lorkovic, Susan Cunningham) (Richard Thompson, Iain Matthews, Ashley of the hopefuls are Cadence Carroll, Rachael significance but also because he hardly ever Fri/Sat: Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, Tarbox Ramblers Hutchings, Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, Vikki Davis, Allette Brooks, Walter Parks (formerly half plays any festivals. Also new this year is the family Sat/Sun: Airdance, The Biscuit Boys, Ruthie Foster & Clayton, Gerry Conway), Richard Thompson of The Nudes), and Lisa Bastoni, who won the stage for younger folkies (and their parents). Cyd Cassone, Tom Hanford & Love at Work, & Danny Thompson, Broderick, Oysterband, Bob Dylan Karaoke contest at Newport 2000. Silk City with Dede Wyland, The Storycrafters, Tony Magna Carta, Sarah Jory, Mundy-Turner August 2 - 4 - Champlain Valley Folk Festival Trischka Band Saturday: Fairport Convention (guests include: July 26 - 28 - RockyGrass Bluegrass Festival Kingsland Bay State Park, Ferrisburg, VT Fri only: Charivari, Fred Eaglesmith Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson, Martin Lyons, CO www.bluegrass.com/ www.cvfest.org Sat only: Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Allcock, Vikki Clayton, Jerry Donahue, Ralph P.O. Box 769, Lyons, CO 80540, 800-624-2422 or 202 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Mary Gauthier, Chris Hillman, Brian Melick, Buddy Miller McTell), Alison Brown Quartet, Deborah Bonham, 303-823-0848 [email protected] 800-769-9176, [email protected] Band, Northern Lights w/ Vassar Clements Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine and Colin Reid, Friday: Steep Canyon Rangers, Mike Marshall & Weekend: $65; Friday Evening Only: $25;Saturday: Sun only: The Grapes of Vaudevillian Fantasy, Richard Digance, Little Johnny England, Darol Anger, Open Road, Tim & Mollie O’Brien, $35; Saturday Evening Only: $25; Sunday: $25 Eileen Ivers Band, David Jacobs-Strain, Weekend: £55 Advance/£58 Gate; Friday & Kane’s River, Psychograss, Peter Rowan with Tony Friday: The Gypsy Wranglers, Montcorbier, Meg Griffin's Trainwreck featuring Buddy Cage Saturday: £45/£48; Saturday only: £29/£31 Rice, Hot Rize Providence, Bill Staines, Ulali This may be incentive for a European vacation. Saturday:Contest Finals, Phillips, Grier & Flinner, Saturday: Artisan, Atwater/Donelly, The Mountain Heart, Bluegrass, Etc. Featuring Byron Greenbriar Boys, The Short Sisters, April Verch Berline, Bela Fleck & Chris Thile, Tim O’Brien Band, Sunday: Margaret MacArthur, Andre Marchand, Doc Watson, The Sam Bush Bluegrass Band Nowrouz, Lisa Ornstein & Norman Miron Sunday: Band Contest, Mountain Heart, Nick Forster & Michael Doucet, Bela Fleck & Tony Trischka, Lilly August 2 - 4 - 10th Annual Willamette Valley Brothers and the Lilly Mountaineers featuring Pete Autoharp Gathering O & L Gardens, Albany, OR Wernick, Doc Watson & Sam Bush, Peter Rowan & members.aol.com/autoharps//wvag.html Don Edwards, RockyGrass House Band John Arthur, 6596 NW Niagara Drive, Corvallis, OR Some interesting matchups and a Hot Rize 97330, 541-745-7568, email: [email protected] reunion make this a must for bluegrass fans. Participant registration: Weekend, $40; $20 per day Note that the members of Hot Rize are also Concert tickets for guests: $8; Camping: $5 per night performing separately. Bryan Bowers, Ivan Stiles, Julie Davis, Bob Lewis, Les Gustafson-Zook July 27 Great Waters Folk Festival Probably everything you ever (and never) Wolfeboro, NH www.greatwaters.org wanted to know about autoharps. 56 North Main Street, P.O. Box 488, Wolfeboro, NH 03894, 603-569-7710, [email protected] August 3 - 5 25th Annual Canmore Folk Music Festival Tickets, by seating: $42, $35, $25, $15 Canmore, AB, Canada Mainstage Evening Concert, 7:30 PM www.canmorefolkfestival.com Lori McKenna, Garnet Rogers, Geoff Muldaur, P.O. Box 8098, Canmore, AB T1W 2T8, Canada Bill Morrissey, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Richie 403-777-0000, 780-451-8000 Havens (in order of appearance) [email protected] There are also workshops in the afternoon Weekend: $53 Advance/$60 Gate; which include Lui Collins, Dana Robinson, Don Saturday: $20/$18; Sunday or Monday: $23/$20 Osburn, and Jeff Davis as well as the above. Saturday: Vinok Worldance, Co-Dependents, This is more like a concert than a festival, but it Janis Ian, Fred Eaglesmith has a strong lineup Sunday: Holly Arntzen, The Waifs, Colin Linden with Richard Bell, Christine Lavin, James Keelaghan, July 28 - August 3 The Swannanoa Gathering The Waybacks, Greg Brown Contemporary Folk Week Monday: The Limeliters, Kanenhi:io Singers, The Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC Bill Hilly Band, Karen Savoca with Pete Heitzman, The Swannanoa Gathering, Warren Wilson College, Connie Kaldor, The Arrogant Worms, Linda Tillery P.O. Box 9000, Asheville, NC 28815, 828-298-3434 and The Cultural Heritage Choir www.swangathering.org Yes, that’s Saturday to Monday. Don’t ask me instructors include: Eric Garrison, Steve Seskin, to explain, just go. But no on-site camping. Johnsmith, Sloan Wainwright, Kim & Reggie Harris, Penny Nichols, Ray Chesna, Mae Robertson August 2 - 4 Winterhawk Festival Long Hill Farm, Hillsdale, NY July 28 - August 3 The Swannanoa Gathering 74 Modley Road, Sharon, CT 06069 Guitar Week 888-308-5646 or 860-364-9396 Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC email: [email protected] The Swannanoa Gathering, Warren Wilson College, Weekend: $75 Advance/$90 Gate ($20 less w/o P.O. Box 9000, Asheville, NC 28815, 828-298-3434 camping; single day: $30; dogs: $25, and must www.swangathering.org stay in campgrounds Stacey Earle singin’, Mark Stuart pickin’, good times a-happenin’ at Green River instructors include: Al Petteway, Robin Bullock, Marcy Combo package (Falcon Ridge and Winterhawk): (photo by Barry Tenin) Continued on Page 8 InterMixx Webzine 7

movie, it is written from a rough or early draft of I grew up. Both of these deal directly with Spidey when he lost a leg fighting the Green Goblin). the final screenplay. While it tends to hit all of as I recall, except in a more personalized Peter is married to Mary Jane (who has long the high points of the film, it misses out on all of fashion. Still, they seem to deal with the straight- since given up modeling for homemaker), and the expository material that builds up and ahead superhero adventures of Spider-Man, their teenaged daughter May “Mayday” Parker, supports the film. Thus, you should go see the much in the same fashion as the books did when who has taken up the mantle of her father. movie, but skip the comicbook adaptation. I last I was reading them. I’m still trying to get Unlike previous “future” incarnations of the dislike Quality of Life because of the 3-D caught up on what is going on Spidey’s life (Mary Marvel Universe (Marvel 2020, The Guardians Of computer rendering that was utilized to produce Jane seems to be either dead, or simply missing The Galaxy as envisioned by Mark Silvestri, and the book. It was simply too jarring for me to after a plane accident, if I’m reading the books the like), this one is firmly grounded in the follow the story. Again, I recommend a pass. correctly), Aunt May is still dead, and so, too Marvel Universe that we “older” fans grew up (apparently), is Ben Parker, Peter’s erstwhile clone, reading. Many of the offspring of long-established and the onetime Scarlet Spider - whose characters populate this world (the FF is now reintroduction is where I stopped reading). Five rather than Four as young Franklin Richards All of which eadsl us to the pair of Spider-books has joined his parents and uncles on the roster, I term the “new” Spidey books, Ultimate and there is a Daredevil wandering around who is This one is for me. Spider-GirlSpider-Girl. The first is the updated retelling of presumably somehow related to the original Some 40 years ago (yes, I really am that old), the original legend (moved to the present era Daredevil, plus somewhere walk the Avengers I discovered my first Spider-Man comicbook. and sensibilities), while the second tells the story and other heroes). Truth to tell, it wasn’t really a Spider-Man of the teenaged daughter of the original From the Spider-Man cast, there are a comicbook at all, it was his first adventure, which Spider-Man, as if all the time that passed from number of second-generation players popping appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15. the origin of the Marvel Universe until now had up as well: Harry Osborne’s son Norman is a pal I immediately fell in love with the character. passed in something closer to “real time”. to young May, as is Phil Urich (son of Ben), who Nerdy bookworm Peter Parker was bitten on the is the new (superhero) Green Goblin and hand by a radioactive spider and, amazingly, “uncle” to May. Also appearing are Richie gained the proportionate strength of a spider and Robertson (Joe’s grandson), Jack Jameson - after a stillborn attempt at a media career - (JJJ’s grandson), Gerry Drew (son of the original turned to the life of the wisecracking superhero. Spider-Woman - who has now donned the garb He was among the first of a new generation of of his hero, the original Spider-Man to become superheroes as envisioned by Stan Lee, Jack “King” the new Spidey - and who was obviously named Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita (Sr.), Bill Everet, Don after his mom’s creator, Gerry Conway), Felicity Heck, Joe Sinnot, George Tuska, and the other guys Thompson (daughter of Flash and - get this - who helped found the Marvel Universe. Felicia (the Black Cat) Hardy!). Plus there are some original players still knocking around, including Flash Thompson (now coach of Midtown High and going by his given name of Eugene (no wonder why he preferred “Flash”), his ex-wife, Felicia Hardy, Jessica Drew (the original Spider-Woman), Julia Carpenter Made Men came out in 1998 and details a (Spider-Woman #2 - apparently there have been gang war waged in NYC between The Kingpin a total of four women who have taken up that and several other crime lords who would name), Kingpin, and I’m sure others as well. attempt to dispose him. It is told from the I’ve only read a half dozen issues and am still perspective of Daily Bugle reporter Ben Urich, sorting characters out (there are some whose and written very much akin to a pulpy noir crime origins I can only guess at, including Davida Kirby novel, making it a doozy of a tale, well worth (named for - one can only assume - former the investment. Get Kraven is a current book Spider Scribes Peter David and Jack KirbyKirby), Buzz that deals with Kraven’s son Al, and his attempts (who seems related to the Wasp and to deal with the legacy of his father, quite Yellowjacket), sisters Raptor and Ladyhawk (the entertaining. Lifeline is a sequel to the 10-part Falcon’s kids?). I could go on, but half the fun of 1969 Tablet story line that ran in Amazing from this book comes from having been an old fan issues #68-77. This one is full of references to that Ultimate, now into year two of the title, has of the original series, and seeing how this one all event and makes for good reading extended out the origin and altered it to some shakes out. Oh yeah, I have to say that the story (although if you are not familiar with that story degree (MJ is Pete’s neighbor, and best friend is in the very capable hands of one Tom you might feel a bit left out). while he is in high school, and knows that he is DeFalcoDeFalco, a former Spider-scribe himself, and Spidey). Pete has already met the Green Goblin, former Marvel editor-in-chief, so you can safely Doc Ock, Electra, Daredevil, the FF, and some assume that he knows what he is doing. others. Interestingly enough, this version not only reads well on its own, but it offers up a knowing wink to those of us (like myself) who have been around for a while, and know of the “real” While I always loved Spidey, and attempted history of the amazing arachnid. (As an to follow his adventures as best I could, I didn’t unavoidable aside, several years back Marvel truly start to actively collect comics until high issued an X-Men comic based on the animated school (around issue #100 of The Amazing adventures of the mutant heroes. I personally Spider-Man, but I was able eventually to found it unreadable as it mixed stories originally backtrack and completely fill in my collection told in the first X-Men comic (circa 1960s), with of the various Spider-Man titles. I continued to characters created later for their reincarnation collect comics over the years (through college, (circa 1980s). I found this type of storytelling so marriage and kids), right up until about five years jarring I didn’t continue reading the title. Ultimate ago. This included a stint of actually working in Spider-Man avoids that pitfall by reweaving an the comicbook industry for quite a few years. original take on the classic tale of Spidey.) I fell away from the industry that I love for a number of reasons, which are no longer of value. Suffice it to say that with the release of the recent blockbuster movie Spider-Man this past May (see my movie review column elsewhere for my take on that magnum opus), has brought me back full circle, and I finally made the pilgrimage back to my local comic- book store (Flamingo St. Comics in Norwalk, CT - you can find them on the web at www.flamingostreet.com - and purchased a Tangled Web and Webspinners offer two very copy of virtually every Spider-Man comic I could unique looks into the life of Spider-Man. The first find. My new goal is to - once again - go back offers various glimpses into the life of Spider-Man and fill in my entire collection with every single from the perspective of those around him: the Before I sign off this time around, I would be issue, so as to keep at least this title complete cop whose son was rescued by Spidey; the remiss if I didn’t mention one of the best Spidey from the beginning. kids who lived in the apartment that books out there, Spider-Man Blue. A four-issue Having said all that, I now have reached the accidentally became a battleground between series, told by Jeph Loeb and Tim SaleSale, this book point of this column. Yes boys and girls, this is the Spidey and Electro, the wrestler whose recounts the story of Peter and Gwen Stacy, but all-Spider edition of FunnyBook City. gimmick to fill the seats in his manager’s arena this is not a retelling of their lives (and her What I did was score some 12 different became the location of Peter’s debut to the untimely death at the hands of the original Spider-titles, including some current ongoing world as Spider-Man. Still the most chilling tale in Green Goblin), but Peter looking back on how titles, some one-shots and limited series, and this series that I’ve read thus far was the one they met, and how their lives unfolded. It is what appear to be some recently-produced where three crooks (the original Vulture, Kraven’s poignant, sad, and ultimately riveting. I loved (within the last year or two) but in all probability son, and an unnamed individual were swapping Gwen, and was literally heartbroken when she no longer current comics. tales of their most recent encounters with Spidey. died in Spider-Man #121. This book brings back Let’s start off with the ones I didn’t like (yes, What made this story chillingly memorable came so many fond memories while adding to the there are Spider-comics that I don’t like), at the end when the third character was re- cannon of their lives. I highly recommend it to Spider-Man the Movie: The Official Movie vealed. Webspinners appears to be an earlier Still, perhaps the most innovative new title is not only those of us who remember Gwen, but Adaptation, and Spider-Man Lifeline. The first series that was similar in nature, with a more Spider-Girl. Here we are treated to a potential to those of you who never met her. one I didn’t like because - generally speaking - hit-or-miss approach to its storytelling. version of the Marvel Universe if it had been Yes, I am a card-carrying Spider-geek, and I never like adaptations of movies that I’ve seen. This leaves volumes #2 of Amazing and allowed to age at a more natural progress. Here this is where I came in… As is usually the case, to get the book Peter Parker as the last of the current crops of we find a (semi-) retired Spider-Man, who is now “With great power comes great responsibility.” produced in time to be released alongside the books that deal with the Spider-Man with whom a college professor (he gave up being Spidey Stan Lee, Amazing Fantasy #15 InterMixx Webzine 8

Robert J., Dylan J., & Kayla Rose Sodaro mixxmixxmixxby Robert J. Sodaro, Dylan J. Sodaro, andflixxflixxflixx Kayla Rose Sodaro

Hello to you all. This time out we have a the beginnings of the decline of an older, couple of big blockbusters to get to, so we’ll but still not much wiser Anakin Skywalker as do that straight away. First of all, you should he comes to grips with his feelings for know that contributions from my daughter, Amadala, and the death of his mother, and Kayla Rose (KRS), run first, followed by those his own coming of age, and dealing with the of my son Dylan (DJS), with my own Force. I found the film very enjoyable, and comments (RJS) running last. Following our the big fight sequence between the Jedis, the “family” sections, with contributions from Battle droids, and the clones was far superior Dylan and Kayla, there is - as always - a to the pod race sequence from the last film section of “grown-up” films that are written (which never really got me going). (RJS) by just me. Okay, let’s get to it. Movie List w/Dylan Movie List w/Kayla Rose & Dylan a crime in a land where it is either day (for six months), or night (for six months), and no twilight ever exists. Williams is Walter Finch, a writer of cheap, detective fiction who has, unintentionally, crossed over the line into the real world of violent crime, and now he is playing Dormer while attempting to exonerate himself. An excellent cat-and-mouse tale that is bound to haunt you with its chilling sincerity, told by the director who brought us Memento. [Ed. Note: In a subtle, ironic touch, the cop’s name, Dormer, is spelled like the French verb for “to sleep.”

Scooby Doo—Rated “PG”: The commercial for this film fools you into Spider-Man the Movie—Rated “PG-13”: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron - Rated “G”: thinking that it is about them trying to capture a I like Spider-Man because he’s a superhero This is an animated movie, and I liked this ghost, but all of that takes place in the first 20 and he saves people. In Spider-Man it was movie a lot. Spirit is a horse living in the Old minutes of the film. The film takes place on scary because of the Green Goblin; I didn’t West, and one night when Spirit went to look Spooky Island, where they are looking for not cafecorner of Crown & State in thenine Ninth Square, New Haven like the Green Goblin. In the beginning Peter at something that he saw, he got captured another fake ghost, but real demons for once. I 789-8281 "the musician's living room" by some soldiers. They wanted to ride him, but like Scooby Doo the cartoon, but if you’ve seen Parker he got bitten by a genetically AUGUST 2002 enhanced spider (that means that scientists he didn’t want to be ridden, so he escaped the cartoon enough, you can predict some of 1 ...... Lounge Night (The Love Squad) with the help of an Indian, who was captured the things that happen in the movie. (DJS) 2 ...... Jr. Krause and the Shakes made the spider better using science) and 3 ...... Jazz Jam with Dana, Aldrich, & Bass 4 ...... Blues Jam with Tony Lee that’s how he turned into Spider-Man. I liked it by the soldiers as well. Then Spirit became I was never much of a Scooby Doo fan, 5 ...... Beatnik 2000 with host Ed Leonard 6 ...... Uninvited Guests (original rock) when Spider-Man saved Mary Jane and the friends with the Indian’s horse. (KRS) but from what I recall of the series, this movie 7 ...... Open Mike/Jam 8 ...... The George Baker Experience (jazz/blues) little kids. I liked the part where he would shoot This was an animated movie that is about is true to the spirit of the cartoon. Still, it is quite 9 ...... Rear View (R&B/funk) 10 ...... Afternoon Jazz Jam hosted by Mike Coppola his webs out and said “Go, webs, go!” (KRS) a stallion that lived in the old West and he entertaining, and fans of the cartoon will love 11 ...... Blues Jam with Peter Blossom 12 ...... Beatnik 2000 with host Ed Leonard 13 ...... Battle Cats, Bender, Driver X (original rock) I really liked Spider-Man. It had good gets captured by soldiers who try to break watching it. Heck, even if you’ve never seen 14 ...... Open Mike/Jam 15 ...... New Haven R&B Jam hosted by the Langley Bros. graphics. A genetically enhanced spider bites his spirit, but he was too strong for them to a Scooby Doo cartoon, you’ll still be 16 ...... I.N.I.T.Y. Band (reggae) 17 ...... Afternoon Jazz Jam with Dana, Aldrich, & Bass Peter Parker and it gives him the powers and break, and how he regained his freedom. I entertained by this flick. It is well written, witty, 18 ...... Blues Jam with Ken Melillo 19 ...... Beatnik 2000 with host Ed Leonard abilities of a spider. It was very exciting. The liked it so much it felt like a half hour, but it and doesn’t ever take itself seriously. (RJS) 20 ...... The Danglers 21 ...... Open Mike/Jam 22 ...... The Moody/Blossom Band (blues/rock) part I liked the best was at the Unity Festival was really an hour-and-a-half. (DJS) 23 ...... Steel Rodeo, Mad Halleen (country/rock) 24 ...... Afternoon Jazz Jam hosted by George Baker when the Green Goblin attacked and he and Here is another fine animated film that Bob’s Movie List 25 ...... Blues Jam with Rocky Lawrence 26 ...... Beatnik 2000 with host Ed Leonard Spider-Man fought each other. I liked bucks the Disney tradition of cute Insomnia - Rated “R”: 27 ...... Singer Songwriter Series featuring Mike Lasala 28 ...... Open Mike/Jam Spider-Man better than Star Wars II, because I anthropomorphic creatures singing songs be- Al Pacino as good as we expect him, Robin 29 ...... The Honey Dews (country/swing) 30 ...... The George Baker Experience (jazz/blues) liked the graphics in Star Wars II, but I liked the cause that is what children want in animated Williams presenting yet another side of his always 31 ...... Afternoon Jazz Jam hosted by Laco Deczi Every Saturday Afternoon: Jazz Jam story in Spider-Man better. (DJS) cartoons (Shrek being the other). Matt Damon entertaining and versatile self - what is not to like Every Sunday Night: Blues Jam Every Monday Night: Beatnik 2000 OK, boys and girls, full disclosure time here. I’m turns in fine voice-over narration for this most here? Pacino is Detective Will Dormer, a world- a huge Spider-fan. My first couple of professional excellent tale of a free-spirited stallion living weary cop at the twilight of his career who has articles were about the Spider-guy, and I have a in the old West. Spirit is the leader of his pack flown out to the edge of the world to help solve collection of Spider-comics that begins at of horses, and when he is captured by a group Amazing Fantasy #15 (Spidey’s first of U.S. Cavalrymen who attempt to tame him, appearance in 1962), to nearly the present day. shows them that it is his indomitable spirit Having said all of that, I wanted to state which keeps him free. (RJS) right here and now that Spider-Man the movie is the truest adaptation of a comic- book into a film that has ever been made. Yes, yes, there were changes to some of the core parts of the legend (organic rather than mechanical webs; Mary Jane growing up next door and going to high school with Peter; and a genetically- enhanced rather than radioactive spider), REAL TIME RECORDS but these points are all minor as the ______producers of this film got more right than they got wrong (Hell, after some 40+ years even Coming soon Marvel has gotten it occasionally wrong). True to the basic origins of this character, Peter Parker was a loser science whiz and www.Rockhousemethod.com social outcast amongst his contemporaries. He Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones - Rated “PG” gets bitten by a “super” spider and gains the Star Wars was cool. All of the light sabers The ULTIMATE in music instruction! Featuring DVD, proportionate strength of a spider. In an looked pretty when they hit each other. The sad CDR and VHS tutorials, plus live web interaction. attempt to capitalize on this new-found part was when Anakin found his mommy and empowerment, he tries his hand at wrestling, she died. It was also cool when the Jedis were Let us help you make things happen with your music! only to get screwed. Then he lets a fleeing thug beating up on all the big bugs and monsters. escape only to have it come back on him and I also liked that the girl (Senator Amadala), was 24 tracks of DIGITAL recording $30 per hour! 24 bit bite him in the ass. The thug kills his beloved tough. I liked it when they were riding on the Uncle Ben, thus setting up the dichotomy that buffalo thing (Reek). This movie wasn’t scary at PC/CD Mastering, media conversion, consultations will last the rest of his life; “With great power, all, but it was very exciting. I’m glad that my and much more... comes great responsibility.” dad took me to see this movie. (KRS) ______Peter becomes Spider-Man for real and This is the story of a grown-up Anakin as he goes on to battle crime in the form of the comes to grips with the power of the force. My villainous Green Goblin. The fight scenes are favorite part is Star Wars was when all of the contact: (203)931-0459 www.RealTimeRecords.com excellent, the web-swinging CGI effects are Jedis came out and were battling the Battle c/o NYC, CT / Rep. Bobby Torres top flight, and the story line is done without Droids and when Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Yoda any campyness. This is the best comicbook were battling Count Dooku in the hanger. I 100 Richards Street, West Haven, CT 06516 movie ever made, and that it reached can’t wait for Episode III to come out. (DJS) record-breaking blockbuster proportions in its This film was far superior to Episode I, and - email: [email protected] opening weekend only bears that out. I highly I feel - helps reestablish the preeminence of recommend this flick. (RJS) Star Wars as watchable fare. Here we see InterMixx Webzine 9 FESTIVAL GUIDE 2002 “Festival Guide” Cont’d from Page 5 Worth noting for the reunion lineups, and also the Saturday, Fort Adams State Park P.O. Box 21, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4N2, Canada, Stephens, Bill Stunt, Paul Symes, Dean Verger Thompson & Thompson show and Eddi Reader. Main stage, 11:30 am - 6:30 pm: Tony Bennett, 250-833-4096, email: [email protected] A really strong and diverse lineup and very August 8 - 11 6th Annual Avalon Folk Music and Cos of Good Music (conducted by Bill Cosby, Weekend: $85 Advance/$100 Gate; reasonable ticket price make this a viable Crafts Fair Avalon, Paw Paw, WV with Don Elias, Dwayne Burno, Ndugu Chancler, Friday: $25/$30; Saturday/Sunday: $35/$40 alternative to Philly. Also, Thursday, Friday, and www.avalon-resort.com/folkfest.html Robin Eubanks, Craig Handy, Jamaaladeen C. J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band, Saturday nights several of the performers play 304-947-5600 Tacuma, Carlos Ward, & James Williams), Danú, Carlos Del Junco, Alpha Yaya Diallo, at nearby D'arcy McGee's Irish Pub. Weekend: $62 Advance/ $75 Gate; day tick- Dave Holland Quintet featuring Robin Eubanks, Fathead, Sue Foley, Billy Joe Green, Jeff Healey's But it looks like there’s no camping. ets also available Billy Kilson, Steve Nelson, & Chris Potter, Jazz Wizards, Holmes Brothers, Craig Horton, Hot Bill Morrissey, Mack Bailey, Bill Danoff, Hot Soup, Oleta Adams, Preservation Hall Jazz Band Toddy, David Jacobs-Strain, Big Jack Johnson August 24 - 25 9th Annual Drums Around the World Side by Side, Amilia Spicer, Wild Carrot, Mack Pavilion, noon: Greg Osby Quartet featuring Jason and The Oilers, Kanenhi:io, Ashley MacIsaac, Kate Amherst Common, Amherst, MA Bailey, Darcy Nair, The Pyrates Royale Moran, Yerba Buena, Ballin' The Jack, Preservation & Anna McGarrigle, Dave Moore, Reggae Global Alliance for Intelligent Arts, 140 Pine Street This is a nude resort, though I imagine the Hall Jazz Band, Sex Mob Cowboys, Saffire the Uppity Blues Women, Sandy #13, Northampton, MA 01062, 413-584-3022 clothing restriction does not apply to performers. 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As always you find out about PO Box 535 Utica, NY 13503 and the Guilty Men, Amadou Et Mariam Blue House, Chris Smither, Darrell Scott, Sam Lay, that when you get there. Weekend: $95 advance; Weekend, without Afternoon: Danú and Sharon Shannon Andrew McKnight, Tim Bays, John Smith, Friday Afternoon: Blue House, DaVinci’s Notebook, camping: $70 advance; Friday only: $15; Also appearing in workshops on Friday before the Barbara Martin, Joshua Rich, Patrick Davis Tommy Emmanuel, David Jacobs-Strain, John Lilly, Saturday or Sunday only: $30 main show: Greg Brown, Karen Savoca, Lynn This is the first year for this festival and Alice Peacock, Eric Schwartz, Railroad Earth All Weekend: Balfa Toujours, Slippery Sneakers, Miles, Chuck Brodsky, Todd Snider, Bowser & Blue, songwriting competion produced by the Friday Evening: Bruce Cockburn, Donna the Jo Miller & the Burly Roughnecks Harry Manx, Tim Williams, Michael Jerome people who bring you the radio show, “Live Buffalo, Finest Kind, Huun Huur Tu, Shooglenifty Fri/Sat: Sean Ardoin & Zydekool, Tarbox Ramblers Browne, Steve Dawson, Corb Lund Band, Old From Mountain Stage.” There are six cash Saturday Showcases, Camp Stage Sat/Sun: Magnolia Reliable, Terry Morrison, Ron Hynes Joe Hall, prizes, and the winner of first prize also gets to Tommy Emmanuel, Jay Ansill’s String Section Friday only: Candye Kane and the Swingin' Entourloupe, Jerry Holland, The Laws, Bruce perform on the broadcast. Saturday Afternoon: Sharon Katz & the Peace Armadillos, Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic Guthro, Kevin Cook, Martyn Joseph, Celso Train, Mahotella Queens Saturday only: Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet, The Machado, Qiu Xia He August 11 14th Annual Intermountain Acoustic Music Saturday Evening:Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Radiators, The Derailers, Acoustic Americana Association Founders Title Folk & Bluegrass Festival Shemeka Copeland, Greenbriar Boys, Lunasa, Roger (with David Bromberg, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, August 9-11 Berkshire Mountain Music Festival Snow Park Lodge, Deer Valley Resort, Park City, UT McGuinn, Alice Gerrard/Brad Leftwich/Tom Sauber Peter Davis, Harry Aceto & Peter Ecklund), Aztex Butternut Basin Ski Area, Great Barrington, MA www.iamaweb.org Sunday Showcases, Camp Stage: The Philly Sunday Only: Delbert McClinton, Steve Riley and the www.berkfest.com/rightSide.html 801-532-5218, 801-339-7664 Scene, Music from the Mountains Mamou Playboys, The Dudes,The Iguanas, Nathan 866-BMM-FEST (266-3378) [email protected] Sunday Afternoon: Kevin Ceballo, Celia Cruz & the Zydeco Cha Chas, The Red Stick Ramblers Medeski Martin & Wood, Soulive - Next 2002: $22 Advance/ $27 Gate Sunday Evening: Fruit, Nashville Bluegrass Band, One of the happier pieces of news on the circuit 21st Century Soul Revue, Karl Denson’s Tiny Uni- Phillips, Grier & Flinner, Darol Anger & Herb Providence, Robin & Linda Williams & Their Fine this summer is the reconstituted SubDudes as The verse, John Scofield, Steve Kimock Band, Sound Pedersen, Sara Hickman, Bluegrass Etc., Ellis Paul, Group, Richard Thompson, Susan Werner Dudes. (In retrospect, the original band should Tribe Sector 9, Michael Franti & Spearhead, The The Chapmans, Colcannon, Gift Horse, Jenn Also appearing at workshops or campfires: have been named “The PreDudes.”) Also I am New Deal, Ozomatli, Project Logic featuring DJ Adams, Larry Pattis Mike Agranoff, Jim Albertson, Jan Alter, Bob psyched to finally see Candye Kane in the flesh. Logic, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Slip, Beach, Blue House, Kris Delmhorst, Fortissimo, Antibalas, Afrobeat Orchestra, Bullfrog August 12 - 15 The Song School Full Frontal Folk, Give & Take Jugglers, Lucas August 29 - September 1 25th Anniversary featuring Kid Koala, The Abyssinians, Al & The Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, CO Rivera & Grupo Huracon, Mahotella Queens, Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival Brunswick, ME Transamericans (Al Schnier of moe., Gordon P.O. Box 769, Lyons, CO 80540 Frank Malley, Vince Masciarelli, Mike Miller, www.thomaspointbeach.com/bluegrass.html Stone & Erik Glockler of Strangefolk), Railroad www.bluegrass.com David Perry, Philadelphia Jug Band, Sandy 29 Meadow Road, Brunswick, ME 04011 Earth, Dean Bowman of Screaming Headless 800-624-2422, 303-823-0848 Pomerantz, Diane Ponzio, Providence, Stretch 207-725-6009 or 877-TPB-4321 Torsos, Addison Groove Project, Angelique [email protected] Pyott, Raise the Roof, Silk City with Dede 3-Day Ticket (F,S,S): $75 advance/$85 gate Kidjo, Aaron Katz Band, Garaj Mahal, Reid instructors include: Paul Reisler, Steve Seskin, Wyland, Ed Stivender, Tuckers’ Tales Puppet 4-Day Ticket: $85 advance/$95 gate Genauer Band, Particle, al.one, Lake Trout, The Wendy Waldman, Ellis Paul, Dave Carter, Beth Theatre, Zima 2-Day, gate only: $65 Motet, DJ Logic, Moonraker, Mountain of Venus, Neilson Chapman, Harvey Reid, Vance Gilbert, Thursday: $20/ Evening: $15; Friday, Saturday Stephane Wrembel, Hockra Reunion, Tea Leaf Maggie Simpson, Julie Portman, Freyda Epstein, August 22 - 25 19th Annual Blistered Fingers Family or Sunday: $35/ Evening:$25 Green, Larry, Spookie Daly Pride, Global Funk Rebecca Folsom, Don Conoscenti, Mike Green Bluegrass Music Festival Camping Included with 3 or 4-Day Ticket ONLY Council, Fuzz & Stephen Kellogg: All Stripped Followed by one of the strongest lineups this season: Silver Spur Riding Club, Sidney, ME Otherwise $20 Per Night Down, Luke Patchen of Strangefolk, Reed Blistered Finters Production, Greg & Sandy Thursday: The Lewis Family, Larry Stephenson Band Foehl, Karsh Kale, Sultan32, DJ Motion Potion, August 16 - 18 2002 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Cormier, RFD #1 Box 7560, Waterville, ME 04901, Thursday/Friday: Grass Roots, The Larkin Family Tony Vacca - Rhythm Mission, Voodoo Groove, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, Co 207-873-6539 [email protected] Friday: Doc Watson, Open Road, Bob & Grace Psychedelic Breakfast, Particle P.O. Box 769, Lyons, CO 80540, 800-624-2422 or Weekend: $40 advance/$45 gate, includes camp- French And The Rainbow Valley Folks, The 303-823-0848, fax 303-823-0849, email: ing; Thursday: $10; Friday: $15; Saturday: $20.00; Prindall Family Band, August 9 - 11 Dead on the Creek Willits, CA [email protected] Friday or Saturday Evenings: $10; Sunday: $10 Friday/Saturday: Bill Harrell, The Karl Shiflett & Big 26000 String Creek Road, Willits, CA 95490 Weekend: $90; Friday: $35; Saturday/Sunday: $40 Blistered Fingers, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Country Show, Jerry Williamson And Redwing, www.deadonthecreek.com Friday: Michelle Shocked, Greg Brown, Sarah Mountain Heart, The Lynn Morris Band, Charlie Saturday: Rick Lang And Friends, Mountain 707-459-3015 [email protected] Harmer, Harvey Reid, Deb Talan, Folks Showcase Waller & the Country Gentlemen, Gilbert Heart, The Schankman Twins, The Seldom Scene Weekend: with food, $185/ without food, $155 Saturday: John Prine, Iris Dement, The Waifs, Hancock & Friends, Back to Basics, Bluegrass Saturday And Sunday: Jim & Jesse And The Daily: with food, $85/ without food, $65 Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, Beth Nielson Diamonds, North Star, Rustic Harmony, The Virginia Boys,Valerie Smith And Liberty Pike, All prices include beverages - yes, including Chapman, Ellis Paul, The Be Good Tanyas, Don Foster Sisters, Smokey Greene, Fiddlin’ Tim Farrell, Canadian Grass Unit, White Mountain Bluegrass ale and wine Conoscenti The Salt & the Light, Downhome Bluegrass Sunday: Doyle Lawson And Quicksilver, The Gibson Friday: 2 PM, Hillbillies from Mars; 5 PM, Wake the Sunday: Randy Newman, Shawn Colvin, Keller Brothers, The Del McCoury Band, Country Ham, Dead; 10 PM, DeadBeats Williams, Catie Curtis, Dave Carter & Tracy August 23 - 25 9th Annual Ottawa Folk Festival The Seth Sawyer Band, Gopher Broke Saturday: Noon, Missy Raines & Jim Hurst; 4 PM, Grammer, Eliza Gilkyson, Peter Mayer Britannia Park, Ottawa, ON, Canada Thursday/Saturday: Back To Basics The Crooked Jades; 9 PM, DeadBeats 858 Bank Street, Suite 107A, Ottawa, ON K1S 3W3, Friday/Sunday: Jerks Of Grass Sunday: Noon, Bluegrass Intentions; 4 PM, The August 16 - 18 27th Annual Summerfolk Music & Canada, 613-230-8234 One of these years I am going to go up the David Nelson Trio, 7:30 PM, Lorin Rowan & Friends Crafts Festival [email protected] coast for this one. Sounds like a beautiful place, Jam band jams are growing more popular and Kelso Beach Park, Owen Sound, ON, Canada Weekend: $39 advance/$45 gate; Friday or and, like every year, there’s a good lineup. numerous.. But I daresay few will match this www.summerfolk.org/ Sunday: $17/$20; Saturday: $21/$25 It’s always a tough decision, but this year there charming offering. Bluegrassedelic bands Georgian Bay Folk Society, Box 512, 1235 3rd Ave. Main Stage Performers: are some never-seen must-sees elsewhere. exploring acoustic inner and outer space at E., Suite 112, Owen Sound, ON N4K 5R1, Canada Friday: The Eileen Ivers Band, Colin Linden, Harry Uncle John’s camp in the Sierras - sounds fine to 519-371-2995, [email protected] Manx, Khac Chi Ensemble, Blacks Mountain, August 30 - September 1 Johnstown Folkfest me. With attendance limited to 200 and food Weekend: $60 Advance/$80 Gate; Friday: $25; Arthur McGregor, Les Batinses, Samba Ottawa, Johnstown, PA www.jaha.org/folkfest and drink (and sauna) included, this sounds Saturday or Sunday: $40 Advance/Gate $45 The Wailin' Jennys Johnstown Area Heritage Association, P.O. Box more like a weekend getaway for well-off Albert & Gage, Les Barker, Barnard & Brohm, Saturday: Richard Thompson, Greg Brown, 1889, Johnstown, PA 15907, 888-222-1889 hippies than a real festival, but it sounds like a Isabel Bernhaus, Betty & The Bobs, The Bill Hilly Toronto Tabla Ensemble, Slàinte Mhath, Lorne Terrance Simien & the Mallet Playboys, Asylum Street real good time all the same. A real good time. Band, The Burns Sisters, Bruce Cockburn, Eddie Elliott, The Anne Lindsay Band, Mae Moore, Spankers, Campbell Brothers, Robbie Fulks, Michelle I included showtimes to illustrate the leisurely From Ohio, Steve Fox, David Francey, Fruit, Jian Nerissa & Katryna Nields, Les Muses, Willson & the Evil Gal Festival Orchestra, Bio Ritmo, pace here. It so happens that weekend is Ghomeshi, Kat Goldman, The Good Brothers, Bill Morrissey, Norouet, GrooveLily Dog Run Boys, Boilermaker Jazz Band, Tim Dabbs, open for me. Road trip, anyone? Bruce Guthro, Jordi & The Remnants, Michael Sunday: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Oscar Lopez, Hot Club Sandwich, Countdown Quartet, Greg Kaeshammer, Khac Chi Ensemble, Garnet Rogers, Melissa Ferrick, Guy Davis, Nancy Trooper, Ernie Hawkins, Jolly Joe & the Bavarians August 9 - 11 JVC Jazz Festival Newport, RI Kindermusic, Richard Knechtel, Christine Lavin, White, Karen Savoca, Terry Tufts, Châkidor, www.festivalproductions.net/jvc/ Anne Lindsay Band, Murray McLauchlan, Scott Calasaig, The Bill Hilly Band, Mad Violet August 30 - September 1 Tanglewood Jazz Festival jvcindex02.html Merritt, Slainte Mhath, Jonell Mosser, The Daytime Performers: Catherine Burns, James Cohen, Lenox, MA 617-266-1492 770 Aquidneck Avenue, Middletown, RI Paperboys, Serena Ryder, The Shards, Al Brian Crook, Catherine Crowe, Derek Debeer, Cliff Diana Krall, Arturo Sandoval & His Orchestra, 02842, 401-847-3700 866-468-7619 Simmons, sonIa, Stevens & McLain, Amanda Eberhardt, Flapjack, Galitcha, Ivonne Hernandez, Nestor Torres, Organ Summit (Jimmy McGriff Friday, The Newport Casino at the International Stott, Tara & Kiera, Willie & Lobo Ron Hynes, Inuit Cultural Performers, Kim Kilpatrick, Quartet, Joey DeFrancesco Trio, David Tennis Hall of Fame, 8 pm: Tony Bennett $65/$50/$30 Ed Lawrence, Mike MacDonald, Tara MacKenzie, “Fathead Newman), Marian McPartland w/ Saturday/Sunday: Gold Circle seating: $75; August 16 - 18 Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival Heather McLeod, Ron Moores, Mr. Magic, Patricia Sir Roland Hanna, Diana Krall, Roy Haynes Reserved Lawn Seating: $65; General Admission: $48 Salmon Arm, BC, Canada Murray, Off Beat, Serena Ryder, Rachael Sage, (w/Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride, Roy Advance/ $53 Gate www.rootsandblues.ca/html/index.htm Samba Ottawa, George Sapounidis Trio, Dave Hargrove, Dave Kikoski), Roy Hargrove Quintet, InterMixx Webzine 10 FESTIVAL GUIDE 2002 “Folk Beat” Cont’d from Page 2 ad lib lyrics. They held forth for nearly two hours, Roberta Gamborini, Dave Brubeck Quartet Blonde Redhead, Chico Hamilton & Euphoria, email: [email protected] past last call, and left the groove-hungry crowd, This is really more of a series of concerts than a El Vez, The Gourds, Los Mocosos, Otis Taylor, The Weekend with camping: $70 advance/$87 gate; well, regrooved. festival. Still, they have an impressive lineup. Mekons, The Derailers, The Saw Doctors, Toshi Weekend without camping: $60 advance/$75 gate Ani DiFranco has made a bigger splash in the Reagon, Dayton Contemporary Dance Saturday and Sunday with 1 night camping: folk scene than anyone else since, since - I’m August 30 - September 1 4th annual Santa Fe Thirsty Company, Electronica Showcase $55 advance/$65 gate; Friday only: $18/$22; not sure, but I’ll say since John PrinePrine, if not Dylan Ear Festival J.W. Eaves Ranch, Santa Fe, NM Then there’s this one. Something for just about Saturday only: $26/$30; Sunday only: $22/$25 himself. Unafraid to explore the possibilities of the www.thirstyearfestival.com/ 505-473-5723 everybody and some of the best talent available. Fred Eaglesmith & the Flying Squirrels, form, musically, lyrically, or stylistically, she has Thirsty Ear, PO Box 29600, Santa Fe, NM 87592 Any festival that sustains the likes of Dan Hicks, The Waybacks, The Burns Sisters, Flat Top, evolved over the past decade until she stands Weekend (all events except Joan Baez): Michelle Shocked, Richard Thompson, and Ani is Hindu Cowboys,The Asylum Street Spankers, Mark poised, ready to conquer the world. At least one $40 advance/$45 gate; Saturday or Sunday only: A-OK with me! And maybe the best way to Johnson and Emory Lester, The Grass Hoppers, part of it. She grew from a solo act with an $25 advance/$30 gate; camping: $25/$25 deal with this overabundance is to split the The Reel Time Travelers, Amy Carol Webb, Bayou amazing guitar attack to a duo (the unusual Friday, Hiland Theater, Albuquerque: Joan Baez, weekend between two fests that are close by, Teche Band, Tammerlin, Gypsy Wind, Ellen & Gary added instrument being drums, courtesy of Andy Richard Shindell opening tickets: $30, $35, $40 as Michelle Shocked and The Saw Doctors do. Bukstel, Skinny McGee & The Mayhem Makers, StochanskyStochansky), to a quartet with the addition of Saturday: Mason Brown & Chipper Thompson, Eric Marcille Wallis and Ceol Binn, Steve Blackwell & bass and keyboards, finally adding a two-man Bibb, Railroad Earth, Ann Rabson, (from Saffire, the September 13-15 Eli Whitney Folk Festival Friends, Chuckster Woodhead and the Crew horn section. All of this was intimated by just her Uppity Blueswomen), Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Pinetop Edgerton Park, New Haven, CT This interesting event mixes music and guitar, and the added instruments tended to Perkins with Bob Margolin, late-night saloon jam www.ctfolk.com/ewff/index.html airplanes, This year it’s moving to a different camouflage her remarkable skill on that instrument rather than augment it. So a solo tour hosted by the Backsliders Friday: Elm City Song Circle with: Greg location while their host, Fantasy of Flght, after all these transformations held a great deal Sunday: Dem Bones, Mary Gauthier, James Greenway, Trina Hamlin, Kate McDonnell, renovates. It’s now known as RiverHawk of anticipation. She also had skipped her annual "Superchikan" Johnson, Donna the Buffalo, Guy Jerree Small Music Festival, A Roots, Rhythm & River Roundup. show at New Haven’s Palace Theatre for a Davis, Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks, late-night blues Saturday: Free Afternoon Family Folk Concert couple of years, so this was even more eagerly jam hosted by Dem Bones (mostly local artists, T.B.A.) CONCERT SERIES OF NOTE awaited. And she did not disappoint. Living proof that you can’t be in two places at Saturday Evening: Tangled Up In Blue, Eddie Former opener Dan Bern joined her again this once. Sounds like a dandy time to me. From Ohio,Vance Gilbert, Tom Rush Gatehouse Cafe in Southbury CT time around. He had lost none of his edginess, And on Sunday, bring picnics and instruments www.dmr.state.ct.us/futevent.htm and keeping his set to a half hour forced him to August 30 - September 2 - The Janus Jazz Aspen for the second annual Hoot In The Park!! 203-586-2144 focus his presentation, which benefited from this Snowmass Labor Day Festival Located outside the Gatehouse Cafe at the dynamic. Ani kept the crowd waiting a little long, Snowmass & Aspen, CO www.jazzaspen.com/ September 27 - 29 1st Annual Floyd County World entrance to Southbury Training School, Rt. 172, but hit the stage in full stride, rocking the place as 970-920-4996 [email protected] Music Festival Floyd, VA 540-745-FEST Southbury, 3 miles north of I-84, exit #14. Bring lawn few solo artists can. It was vintage Ani: forgetting Weekend: $175; Friday: $40; Saturday or Weekend: $115 advance/$135 gate; Friday or chairs, blankets, etc. Rain location, STS Pavilion. a few lines, joking about herself, trying out new Sunday: $58; Monday: $43 Saturday only: $45/$60; Sunday only: $35/$50 ALL CONCERTS ARE FREE songs, reaching way back for a song (“You Had Friday: 5:00, Gov’t Mule; 7:00, Phil Lesh and Friends Wavy Gravy Emcee Time”), and most of the time barreling through Saturday: 12:00, Dirty Dozen Brass Band; 2:00, Friday: Nii Tettey Tetteh, Stacey Earle & Mark Sun. June 2, 3:00:John Whelan her set like the wunderkind she is and will always G-Love and Special Sauce; 4:15, Keb 'Mo Stuart, Garmarna, DJ Cheb i Sabbah, King Tues. June 11, 6:30: The Brubeck Brothers be, even when she reaches her dotage. Band; 6:30, Macy Gray Chango, The John Scofield Band Sun. June 16, 3:00: Cece Borjeson & Ruth George The next day brought Louise TaylorTaylor, just as Sunday: 12:00, Jose Conde Afro-Cuban Band; Saturday: Nii Tettey Tetteh, The African Showboys, Also: St. Luke’s Steel Band compelling though in a quieter way. This 2:00, Angelique Kidjo; 4:15, Karl Denson's Tiny Solazo, David Grisman Quintet, Sam Bush, Sun. July 7, 3:00: Hugh Blumenfeld big-boned Vermonter very seldom ventures into Universe; 6:30 PM, Bob Dylan Culture, Lucky Dube, Neville Brothers Sun. July 21, 3:00: Sirius Coyote these parts, and when she does it is usually to an Monday: 12:00, To Be Announced;2:00 PM, Sunday: Lonesome River Band, Doc Watson, Tues.July 23, 6:30: Paul Winter Consort offbeat venue. This was a Sunday afternoon gig Nickle Creek; 4:15 PM, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, Rhonda Vincent, Sun. Aug. 4, 3:00: Joseph Firecrow at The Cheshire Public LibraryLibrary. Backed by the 6:30 PM, Willie Nelson Acoustic Syndicate Tues. Aug. 13, 6:30: Eight to the Bar versatile Dean Sharp on drums and percussion, The prices may be steep, but the talent is Pretty impressive lineup for a first-time festival. Sun. Aug. 18, 3:00: Jerree Small / Kate Callahan she wove her image-laden spellbinding songs deep. And the sets are long, which is why I Artists are listed in performance order: with her world-weary voice. This evocative included the times. July 19 - 20 New Haven Blues and Roots Festival instrument is nearly mesmerizing in its soft 4th Annual HarvestFest 2002 The New Haven Green, New Haven, CT suggestiveness. Many of her songs depend on August 29 - September 2 Strawberry Fall Music September 27-29, 2002 International Arts Initiatives 203-483-6059 a simple guitar figure or progression, whose Festival Atlanta's Back Porch in Fairburn, GA www.mundomundo.com repetitive nature is hypnotic. Dean’s percussion helped brighten the mood, as he used a Yosemite, CA strawberrymusic.com/ www.tdawgsproductions.com July 19 Keb’ Mo’ and James Cotton Blues Band cornucopia of objects to elicit sounds. He P.O. Box 565, Sonora, CA 95370, 209-533-0191 404-284-3841 [email protected] 8:00 PM at the Shubert Theater 888-736-2663 struck or stroked his toys and tools with brushes, 4 Day: $140; 3 Day: $130; 1 day: $40 3-day pass: $85 advance/$95 gate July 20 3:30 Etta James, Nathan & The Zydeco mallets, rods, even his hands - everything Thursday Evening: 5:15, Banana Slug String Band; 2-day pass: $75 advance/$85 gate Cha Chas, The Fairfield Four, Cobalt Rhythm Kings except a regular pair of drumsticks. Louise kept 6:30, Forest Sun; 7:45, Ennis Sisters; 9:00, Marley's Ghost The David Grisman Quintet, Leftover Salmon, July 27 6:30 Ruben Blades, Editus Ensemble, a steady rhythm going with her guitar while Friday Afternoon:11:30, Yvonne Perea;12:30, Any Steve Kimock Band, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Hector Bonet Dean embellished percussively but not Old Time String Band;1:45, Lost Weekend Soulive, David Bromberg, Keller Williams, Aug 3 5:00 Wilson Pickett, WAR, Ricky Alan distractingly - a neat role reversal. A fine Friday Evening: 5:45, Avalon Blues featuring Peter Acoustic Syndicate, Psychograss (featuring Draughn songwriter and singer, Louise is making her Case, Dave Alvin, and Chris Smither;7:15, Blue Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, and Newport Folk Festival debut this year. Highway; 8:45, David Grisman Quintet David Grier), The Larry Keel Experience, ZooFolk Saturday Afternoon: 11:30, Kris Delmhorst;12:30, Umphrey's McGee, John Butler Trio, MoFro, Beardsley Zoo 203-394-6565 Red Wine; 1:45, Saw Doctors Emma Gibbs Band, Psychedelic Breakfast, Zony 1875 Noble Avenue, Bridgeport, CT The InterMixx Webzine Saturday Evening: 5:45, Linda Tillery & the Mash, Snake Oil Medicine Show, The Reeltime Pavilion and picnic grove (rain location is the Cultural Heritage Choir;7:15, Jimmy Lafave; Travelers, Biscuit Boys, The Dawn Patrol carousel).The series supports local artists with for August 2002 8:45, Michelle Shocked featuring Jeff Sipe, Brian Lopes, Rev. Jeff Mosier, a "CT Bonus Set," in which CT artists take the Offline Edition Sunday Morning/Afternoon: 9:00, Revival; 1:00, Ricky Keller, Count M'Butu and a covey of friends stage from 6:45-7:15 p.m. with the featured was brought to you by: Slaid Cleaves; 2:15, Keller Williams performers following immediately. 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By Christopher Marz

always the right ones! However, through my expert/ modern rock groups, are mostly following a timed beat. amateur investigative skills, I was able to determine that The guitar bangs out standard rhythms and true-to-hard- there was more going on. This is a diverse sonic soup rock lead licks. The mix of the music for the most part is mixing many different styles. The most commercial song clean. The vocals don’t seem to use any effects, and would most likely be “Love Is You”. One of my favorites, sometime seem to distort during the higher notes, though, is “Mother.” A lot of the songs are stylistically producing a very raw sound. The singer does have a similar, but then some songs incorporate rap, Middle great natural range. Also there’s some light use of keys Eastern, Brazilian, techno, noise, etc. This band creates in some songs, and rather than drown the music, they a lot of interesting little nuances and might be worth a give it an added charm. Overall the band has some listen to a lot of you. work ahead but the raw sound is the very character Ed Hale, vocals/guitar; Duane Allen, guitar; Stro, bass; that lets their talent shine through. Jon Rose, keyboards; Ricardo Mazzi, drums. Taber Licea, lead vocals/guitar; Carlo Bonavita, drums/ Contact: TMG Records, 1521 Alton Road #512, percussion; Eric Oberman, bass/backing vocals. Miami Beach, FL 33139 www.transcendence.com Contact: [email protected] www.tmgrecords.net www.smudge-nyc.com

Dexter’s Sandbox - True Love 12 song CD Wheat Penny horn swells gives this CD its uniqueness. With intelligent Wow -another funk band. Only this one incorporates lyrics and well-played acoustic and electric guitars, the the old Blondie vocal style - or is it Gwen Stefani? I could whole CD stands strong. Piano and strings flesh out the be mistaken of course. Out of DC (from where I seem mostly low-key breathy vocals. These folky songs are to be getting a lot of kits lately) this band I hear is blazing done in a witty poetic style more likened to poetry with down there. I know they do move the sound waves music added. The expertly played acoustic guitar and don’t leave a lot of room for boredom. seems finely and meticulously woven into the songs as Danceable? Yeah, it’s danceable. Funky? Yeah, it’s well as everything else. Most of the songs are pretty that, too. What else are they? They’re a package of good besides some verse or line exceptions. Some whoop! And they can mellow out, too. “Sara Stands,” songs I like in particular are “The Lean Season” and “I’d just listen to it and you’ll see. They can rock, like in Rather Be Cain.” The only other complaint I have about “Bittersweet,” they can roll like in “Feels So Right” - oh! I this CD is the melodies sometimes go out of key! On the mean “rap and roll.” They just plain get down! I think they upside, however, they seem to be masked well, almost also have some audience participation songs. Believe as though they’re part of the style. me, because I have to like the music to review it. Garrett Sawyer, 6 and 12 string guitars; Aaron Hallas, Helen Whitely, vocals; Bernie Stoltz, guitar/keyboard; electric guitar. Sugarcoat 10 song CD Evan Field, guitar; Jesse Chappell, bass; Rich Porter - Whiskey Hill 11 song CD Blue Monster Contact: Garrett Sawyer, P.O. Box 5075, Irvine, CA, I know that I’m not an expert onevery type of music, Hayden,drums. It’s immediately apparent when you hear Porter that 92616-5075 [email protected] but it is up to me to form an opinion. So, here goes! This Contact: Dexter’s Sandbox, 1605 N. Colonial this is more than your average group of enthusiasts. www.aimcmc.com/gs.html to me falls under jazzy funk mixed with a little big band. Terrace, Arlington, VA 22209 These guys (all music educated) are in it for the long In fact a lot of emphasis is given to the horns section. [email protected] haul. With a sound that’s hard to categorize, I would The bass, keys and drums, also quite pro are great but www.dexterssandbox.com say they’re somewhere between singer/songwriter (like the horns really stand out. The vocals sung by Kourtni they say) Paul Simon and Sting. Now don’t take that as Danner are good, but without the group would not scripture, it’s just a quick observation. A lot of different stand out as quite world class. She is very soulful and instruments go into making the sound, as they point out professional sounding - on pitch, in time, and all - but in their bio, including “many different African drums.” doesn’t seem to have a great range. She is pretty I also heard fiddle as well as other instruments. But to though, which has nothing to do with this review. The me the music’s character comes from the acoustic music itself does get the blood pumping which to me is guitar leads, played mostly muted, and the low-key what it’s all about for this type of music. As a whole the vocal style. Technically, the music is all it should be, but band would probably be a great live band to see since it is a little adult-oriented. With the exception of “If They a good horn section with great players backing them Don’t Wanna Listen,” most of it sounds a bit like dinner is enough to liven up any crowd. music. Whatever floats your boat! Very easy to listen to Kourtni Danner, vocals; Dave Ladone, drums; Colin and if you like easy listening, you’ll probably like this. Gentle, guitar; Tim Nickerson, bass; Steve Morell, tenor Peter Fand, vocals/bass/percussion; Robert Bonhomme, sax; Dave Cone-Gorham, keyboards; Ben Paille, drums; Tom Rossi, acoustic guitar/congas; Yaron Eilam, trumpet; Kevin Williams, trombone/flute. lead guitar; Stefan Mossen, djembe/congas/chimes Contact: [email protected] Contact: Blue Monster Records, 489 Pacific Street, Kate Schrock - Dames Rocket 11 song CD [email protected] www.sugarcoat.net Brooklyn, NY 11217 [email protected] Kakelane Music I know, I know, you’re gonna try to tell me this is rock! Right? Again and again, don’t you have to rock to be The Everyday Heroes - Different Like Everyone Else rock? The music is more like 30 flavors of shades of blue Immortal Productions 5 song EP with many references to spirituality, like in the song Look up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s, it’s - well, “St. Jude.” Simple, slow, introspective, sweet sounding, I don’t know what it really is! No, I’m kidding - why, it’s but never quite climaxing to rock. Not bad, though! The Everyday Heroes of course! You gotta hand it to But it’s more folk than rock, and never completely veers these guys, with a title like “Different, Like Everyone Else” from a somber moodiness. I’m sure this type of sound is - they’ve got some ideas. They also make the point that going to appeal to a lot of people, and in fact Kate pure enthusiasm can sometimes make you streak across has shared the stage with the likes of Stephen Stills and the sky. Now enough of all this #$%@. They’re a punk others. But for me it never quite got my pulse racing band. Their music is youthful, raw and innocent enough (although it was easy to listen to). A couple of tunes I not to be overanalyzed. For what it is, it’s pretty good! liked were “Anything In This World” and “The Edge.” What it is, are decent songs, decent writing, decent Kate Schrock, music and lyrics. musicianship, energy, and a solid five-song EP. So check Contact: Kakelane Music, P.O. Box 222, South Bristol, them out and maybe you’ll appreciate the punks! ME 84568 www.kateschrock.com [email protected] Kyle, vocals/bass; Mike, drums/percussion; Zac, vocals/guitar/keyboard/percussion. Sugar Jones - Bring Your Own Insanity 8 song CD Contact: The Everyday Heroes, 748 Cheshire Road, Sovereign Music Sunbury, Ohio 43074 www.theeverydayheroes.net www.bluemonsterrecords.com The influences were the first things I noticed when I Release - Release 12 song CD started to listen to Sugar Jones. Vaughn, Clapton - that’s Very poppy rock, with a prevalent blues overtone, what I heard! My second thought was, why are so many this is as radio-friendly as I’ve heard in a while. This great bands being overlooked? Another great indie release is full of acoustic and electric standard band, just as good as any of the modern rock radio classic-structured rock tunes backed by steady drum stuff. Oh well! Anyhow, this is a little bit American rock, beats. Great backing vocals, choruses and hooks, with southern, blues, funk and some ambitious very tight formatting - there is no wild flailing, and mixtures. I really like “A Chemical Dream” and the soul everything seems to be worked out tightly. I liked a lot sound of “You Must Be Heaven.” There are some rough of the tunes, which doesn’t happen often lately. If I were spots but overall it’s outweighed by what’s good about to pick one that really stands out to me, it would be the music. It’s just straightforward, honest writing with a “She’s The One.” It has everything a modern rock song little kick-ass, stylish lead guitar. In “Rabbits Are Trouble,” should. “The Fall” is another good one. In fact, this whole you hear the Clapton influence clearly. In “Too Many,” CD seems to be crafted from the book of modern rock. the funk kicks in. The keys, the horns, the percussion and One thing I didn’t like about this CD is that there are no everything else, it’s just an all-out attack on the senses. blatantly happy songs. What’s wrong with happiness? Smudge N.Y.C. 10 song CD Rebat Records ROCK ME BABY!!! Jason McBain, voice/guitar; Jeff Harris, guitar; Dan This band sounded pretty kool although a little rough. Chad Thevenot, vocals/guitar; Miles Sapp, lead and Milligan, drums/voice/programming; Matt Suberati, A three piece hard rock band mixing old and modern rhythm guitar; George Porter Jr., bass; Dave Ylvisaker, Ed Hale & The Transcendence - Rise And Shine 17 song bass; Eric Norman, guitar/voice. rock to create their brand. They’ve got some good keys; Wes Crawford, percussion Andy Hamburger, CD TMG Contact: LFC Entertainment, PO Box 62, Warrenville, Il tunes and a nice style though the lyrics need some drums; other special guests on backing vocals, etc. When I listened to “Better Luck Next Time,” the first 60555 www.releaseband.com [email protected] work. The vocals themselves are good along with the Contact: Sovereign Music, 1605 22nd Street, NW song on the disc, I thought I had this Miami-based band Garret Sawyer - Anthem self-released 12 song CD melody. The verses themselves at times just seem a little Washington, DC 20008 www.sovereignmusic.com pegged - Bowie meets INXS. But first impressions aren’t Forceful and punchy progressive peaks followed by too surface level for the style. The drums, as with a lot of [email protected] InterMixx Webzine 12

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