WELCOME! Festivarians, music lovers, friends old and new... WELCOME to the 27th version of our annual get-together! This year, we can’t help but look back 50 years to the Summer of Love, the summer of 1967, a year that brought us the Monterey Pop Festival (with such performers as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead) which became an inspiration and template for future music festivals like the one you find yourself at right now. But the hippies of that era would likely refer to what’s going on in the political climate of these United States now as a “bad trip” with the old adage “the more things change, the more they stay the same” coming back into play. Here we are in 2017 with so many of the rights and freedoms that were fought long and hard for over the past 50 years being challenged, reinterpreted or revoked seemingly at warp speed. It’s high time to embrace the two basic tenets of the counterculture movement. First is PEACE. PEACE for your fellow human, PEACE within and PEACE for our planet. The second tenet brings a song to mind - and while the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band gets all the attention on its 50th anniversary, it’s the final track on their Magical Mystery Tour album (which came out later the same year) that contains the most apropos song for these times. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE. LOVE more, fear less. LOVE is always our answer. Come back to LOVE. Have a beautiful High Sierra. With LOVE and appreciation, The High Sierra Festival Family 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome ~ 1 Parades ~ 23 Mobile Program ~ 2 The Family Village ~ 26-29 In Memoriam ~ 3 Rockin’ Nannies ~ 29 Thursday Schedule ~ 5 Pioneer Pool & Showers ~ 30 Friday Schedule ~ 6 Quincy Shuttle ~ 30 Saturday Schedule ~ 9 RV Service ~ 30 Sunday Schedule ~ 10 Merchandise Tent ~ 30 Grizzly Radio ~ 12 Art & Craft Fair ~ 32-35 Late Night Box Office ~ 12 Taste of FestivALL ~ 35 Costumes/Themes ~ 12 Non-Profits ~ 36-37 Late Night Schedule ~ 13 Festival Map ~ 38-39 Artist Playshops ~ 15-18 Clean Vibes ~ 41 Jam In The Van ~ 18 Magic Foam Tub ~ 41 Fire Performances ~ 19 High Sierra Libations ~ 42-43 ZEROdB Silient Disco ~ 19 Festival Cuisine ~ 44 Body & Spirit Playshops ~ 22-23 Artist Bios ~ 47-69 Festivate Safely ~ 72-73 Medical ~ 73 #HSMF/Social Links ~ 74 With Gratitude ~ 75 Partners ~ 75-76 COVER ILLUSTRATED BY KATIE KINCADE DESIGNS / PROGRAM LAYOUT & DESIGN BY STEVE ADAMS & PAIGE CLEM MOBILE PROGRAM & SCHEDULES Download a PDF of this entire program to your phone at highsierramusic. com/program. You can also view our daily schedule and artist bios on your mobile device by visiting 2017highsierramusicfestival.sched.org. Log in and create your own custom schedule! IN MEMORIAM Levi Felix, High Sierra community veteran Doris Livingston, beloved local friend James “Stormin Norman” Watt, shuttle crew Bill Scharton, security THURSDAY GRANDSTAND BIG MEADOW VAUDEVILLE PLAYSHOPS (MH) 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM Tank & The Bangas Sweet Crude 12:00 - 1:15pm 12:10 - 1:25pm HIGH SIERRA 1:00 PM ARTIST PLAYSHOPS 2:00 PM I Draw Slow Friday-Sunday Hamish Anderson 1:45 - 3:00pm in the Music Hall 2:05 - 3:20pm 3:00 PM Jeff Austin Band Full Descriptions 2:45 - 4:00pm Pages 15-18 4:00 PM Afrolicious River Whyless 3:45 - 5:00pm 4:00 - 5:15pm 5:00 PM White Denim 4:45 - 6:15pm 6:00 PM The Nth Power BIG Something 5:45 - 7:00pm 6:00 - 7:30pm 7:00 PM Galactic 7:00 - 8:45pm 8:00 PM Phutureprimitive Billy Strings 7:45 - 9:00pm 8:00 - 9:15pm 9:00 PM 10:00 PM STS9 Fruition 9:30 - 11:30pm Con Brio 9:45 - 11:15pm 10:00 - 11:30pm 11:00 PM TROUBADOUR 12:00 AM SESSIONS The Record Mineral Building Company Doors 11:30pm 1:00 AM 12:00 - 1:30am (Line-up page 13) 5. FRIDAY GRANDSTAND BIG MEADOW VAUDEVILLE PLAYSHOPS (MH) 10:00 AM Butcher Brown Blues Jam (BB) 10:15 - 11:15am 11:00 AM 10:15 - 11:30am Sweet Crude 11:15am - 12:30pm Stanton Moore 12:00 PM Drum Master Class I Draw Slow 11:45am - 12:45pm 12:00 - 1:15pm 1:00 PM Fruition 12:30 - 2:00pm Doc Watson Tribute Con Brio w/ Billy Strings 1:15 - 2:30pm 1:15 - 2:15pm 2:00 PM Tank & The Bangas 1:50 - 3:05pm Heavy Metal Hoedown 3:00 PM The Travelin’ w/ Lebo, McFadden+ McCourys 2:45 - 3:45pm 2:45 - 4:15pm The Werks 4:00 PM White Denim 3:15 - 4:30pm 3:45 - 5:00pm Sharon Jones Tribute w/ Con Brio+ 5:00 PM 4:15 - 5:15pm Hard Working Americans BIG Something Anatomy of a Band 5:00 - 6:30pm 6:00 PM Billy Strings 5:15 - 6:45pm w/ Tank & The Bangas 5:40 - 6:55pm 5:45 - 6:45pm 7:00 PM Mike Gordon The Record 8:00 PM 7:15 - 8:45pm River Whyless Company 7:30 - 8:45pm 7:35 - 8:50pm 9:00 PM 10:00 PM Dopapod Ween The Nth Power/ 9:30 - 10:45pm 9:30 - 11:30pm Earth, Wind & Power 9:30 - 11:30pm 11:00 PM TROUBADOUR 12:00 AM Deer Tick SESSIONS 11:30pm - 1:30am Mineral Building Doors 11:30pm 1:00 AM (Line-up page 13) 6. SATURDAY GRANDSTAND BIG MEADOW VAUDEVILLE PLAYSHOPS (MH) 10:00 AM Grateful Dead Jam (BB) 11:00 AM Kat Myers Butcher Brown & The Buzzards 10:30 - 11:45am 10:30 - 11:30am 10:40 - 11:50am 12:00 PM PUNK VS. FUNK w/ Eric McFadden+ Achilles Wheel The Lil Smokies 12:00 - 1:00pm 12:20 - 1:35pm 12:15 - 1:30pm 1:00 PM The Brothers Comatose 12:45 - 2:15pm Terrapin Station 2:00 PM Tribute w/ Lebo+ Gene Evaro Jr 1:30 - 2:45pm The Suffers 2:00 - 3:15pm 3:00 PM 2:15 - 3:30pm The Greyboy Gregg Allman Allstars Tribute feat. 4:00 PM Aoife O'Donovan 3:00 - 5:00pm Carolyn Wonderalnd+ 3:45 - 4:45pm Keller Williams 3:30 - 4:45pm 5:00 PM 4:10 - 5:25pm HS Bluegrass Pick Polyrhythmics w/ The Lil’ Smokies+ 6:00 PM Andrew Bird 5:30 - 6:45pm 5:15 - 6:30pm 5:45 - 7:15pm El Ten Eleven 6:05 - 7:25pm 7:00 PM Manic Focus 8:00 PM 7:30 - 8:45pm Trey Anastasio Band Carolyn Wonderland (Set 1) 8:05 - 9:20pm 9:00 PM 8:00 - 9:30pm Ott & 10:00 PM The All-Seeing I Trey Anastasio Band Deer Tick 9:30 - 10:45pm (Set 2) (Acoustic) 11:00 PM 10:00 - 11:30pm 10:00 - 11:30pm TROUBADOUR 12:00 AM Cory Henry & SESSIONS The Funk Apostles Mineral Building 11:30pm - 1:30am Doors 11:30pm 1:00 AM (Line-up page 13) 9. SUNDAY GRANDSTAND BIG MEADOW VAUDEVILLE PLAYSHOPS (MH) 10:00 AM Midtown Social 10:15 - 11:00am Funk Jam (BB) 11:00 AM 10:30 - 11:30am Kat Myers 12:00 PM & The Buzzards Bloody Mary Ball Carolyn Wonderland 11:30am - 12:45pm w/ Gene Evaro Jr 11:45am - 1:15pm 12:00 - 1:00pm 1:00 PM The Lil Smokies 12:30 - 1:45pm Skerik's Improv Lab David Lindley 2:00 PM w/ a slew of guests! Cory Henry & 1:30 - 2:45pm 1:30 - 2:30pm The Funk Apostles Grupo Fantasma 2:00 - 3:15pm 3:00 PM 2:15 - 3:45pm Deep Funk Revival w/ Polyrhythmics+ 4:00 PM The Suffers 3:30 - 4:45pm 3:15 - 4:30pm Bokanté 4:00 - 5:15pm 5:00 PM Keller Williams’ Grateful Gospel feat. Stu Allen Guitarmageddon: 4:30 - 6:30pm SunSquabi Summer of Love 6:00 PM Achilles Wheel 5:30 - 6:45pm 5:15 - 6:30pm 5:50 - 7:05pm 7:00 PM Snarky Puppy Jerry Joseph & Lebo & Friends 8:00 PM 7:15 - 8:45pm The Jackmormons (w/ Melvin, Bobby, 7:30 - 8:45pm Jay & Lesley) 7:50 - 9:20pm 9:00 PM 10:00 PM Gene Evaro Jr Gov't Mule 9:30 - 11:00pm 9:30 - 11:30pm BoomBox 10:00 - 11:30pm 11:00 PM TROUBADOUR 12:00 AM SESSIONS Mineral Building Doors 11:30pm 1:00 AM (Line-up page 13) 10. GRIZZLY RADIO Live Broadcast All Weekend Once again, Grizzly Radio will be providing a live and direct broadcast of the festival via low-power FM throughout the Plumas County Fairgrounds. This year, those broadcasts are available on some Android-enabled smartphones via the NextRadio app, downloadable from the Google Play store. Tune in to these frequencies 24 hours a day to hear live music from the stages, festival info and epic archival recordings! 89.9 ~ Grandstand / 91.5 ~ Big Meadow & Music Hall Late Night / 103.7 ~ Playshops Open Mic Sing for your breakfast! Show off your radio-ready talent at Morning Sushi and get a free breakfast, 7:30am-10:30am in the Mineral Building. Not just for musicians - comics and other performers are all welcome to perform up to 15 minutes each. Sign up at the Grizzly Radio tent near the Grandstand stage Thursday through Saturday at 2pm to perform live, on-air the following morning! LATE NIGHT BOX OFFICE You can purchase tickets for shows at one of two Late Night Box Offices. You can also buy tickets via your mobile device anytime - even while you’re at the festival - at latenight17.eventbrite.com.