Located in the heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, the Bay Area Women’s & Children’s Center is a unique presence. In the multi-ethnic Tenderloin, BAWCC works with more than 700 families and individuals every month at the Tenderloin Community School & Family Center and at their Center on Leavenworth Street. All of BAWCC’s services and programs are provided at no cost to the participants. BAWCC is able to accomplish this work with a very small but experienced core staff, and a great many volunteers who help a many areas of BAWCC programs. BAWCC has never sought government funding, and is 100% privately funded.
Philharmonia
December 12, 2010
Phil Lesh | Bob Weir | Jeff Pehrson | Jackie Greene | Grahame Lesh | Sunshine Becker
Not Fade Away
China Cat Sunflower>
I Know You Rider
Cassidy
Cumberland Blues
The Weight
Gone Wanderin’
The Wheel
Box of Rain
Sugar Magnolia
Ripple
Sweet Somewhere Bound
Attics of My Life
Feliz Navidad (Los Lonely Boys)
ALL WE KNOW… so far… got this from Furthur’s Facebook page, their website was down most of the morning.
On Sale Dates have NOT been announced yet. Check back here on Deadheadland, and on Furthur.net/tour for more news.
See you on tour!
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Fri, Mar 4th 6:00 pm Orpheum Theatre Boston, MA
Sat, Mar 5th 6:00 pm Orpheum Theatre Boston, MA
Sun, Mar 6th 7:30 pm Orpheum Theatre Boston, MA
Tue, Mar 8th 6:00 pm Oakdale Theatre Wallingford, CT
Thu, Mar 10th 6:00 pm Best Buy Theater New York…, NY
Fri, Mar 11th 6:00 pm Best Buy Theater New York, NY
Sat, Mar 12th 6:00 pm Best Buy Theater New York, NY
Sun, Mar 13th 6:00 pm Best Buy Theater New York, NY
Tue, Mar 15th 6:00 pm Best Buy Theater New York, NY
Thu, Mar 17th 6:00 pm Patriot Center Fairfax, VA
Fri, Mar 18th 6:00 pm Tower Theater Upper Darby, PA
Sat, Mar 19th 6:00 pm Tower Theater Upper Darby, PA
Sun, Mar 20th 6:00 pm Tower Theater Upper Darby, PA
Tue, Mar 22nd 6:00 pm Tower Theater Upper Darby, PA
Wed, Mar 23rd 6:00 pm Tower Theater Upper Darby, PA
Fri, Mar 25th 6:00 pm Radio City Music Hall New York, NY
Sat, Mar 26th 6:00 pm Radio City Music Hall New York, NY
Sun, Mar 27th 6:00 pm Radio City Music Hall New York, NY
Tue, Mar 29th 6:00 pm Broome County Civic Binghamton, NY
Wed, Mar 30th 6:00 pm Petersen Events Center Pittsburgh, PA
Fri, Apr 1st 6:00 pm Hampton Coliseum Hampton, VA
Sat, Apr 2nd 6:00 pm North Charleston Coliseum Charleston, SC
Sun, Apr 3rd 6:00 pm Fox Theatre Atlanta, GA
Tue, Apr 5th 6:00 pm UCF Arena Orlando, FL
Wed, Apr 6th 6:00 pm Mizner Park Amphitheatre, , Boca Raton, FL
Featuring The Avett Brothers, David Grisman Sextet, Emmitt-Nershi Band & More
March 24-27, 2011
Legendary Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL
Advance Discount Tickets Available Now!
Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival and Purple Hatter’s Ball Dates Announced
Big IV Productions is proud to announce details for the 15th annual Suwannee Springfest. The perfect way to kick-off festival season, the event will take place March 24-27, 2011 at Live Oak, Florida’s Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. Voted “Florida’s Best Live Music Venue” in 2009 by readers of Florida Monthly Magazine, the park resides next to the historic Suwannee River and boasts over 800 acres of perfect campsites with Spanish moss covered oak and pine trees providing shade and mood. Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park is also a full service campground offering cabin rentals, RV hookups, and a wide range of amenities including a restaurant, general store, showers and bathrooms.
The critically acclaimed Suwannee Springfest will once again feature the best and brightest Americana and grassroots artists performing new and traditional folk, rock & roll, bluegrass and newgrass, alt-country and more.
Confirmed talent for the 2011 fest includes: The Avett Brothers, David Grisman Sextet, Jesse McReynolds, Donna The Buffalo, Emmitt-Nershi Band, Travelin’ McCourys with The Lee Boys, Jim Lauderdale, Mosier Brothers, Acoustic Syndicate, Danny Barnes, Scythian, Trampled By Turtles, Steep Canyon Rangers, Joe Craven, Pangea with Michael Kang, Larry Keel and Natural Bridge, Surprise Me Mr. Davis, The Motet, Dread Clampitt, Rowan Cunningham, Tornado Rider, Ralph Roddenbery, Greensky Bluegrass, Galen Kipar Project, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Larkin Poe, Two Foot Level, Sloppy Joe, New 76ers, Saltwater Grass, Amy Hendrickson & the Prime Directive, Grandpa’s Cough Medicine, The Whetherman and more.
2011 Suwannee Springfest Ticket Info: Early bird tickets are on sale now until January 31 for $125. From February 1–March 15 tickets will be priced at $150. From March 16-March 23 tickets will be $165. From that point on, including at the festival gates, all weekend tickets will be $180. Saturday/Sunday two-day passes (with camping) will be $145 and available only at the gate. Single day tickets will be priced as follows: Thursday: $50, Friday: $65, Saturday: $75, Sunday: $50 (single day tickets do not include camping). All weekend tickets include music, camping Thursday-Sunday nights, and all fees and taxes.
For more information on Suwannee Springfest, including up-to-date lineup and ticket details, go to: http://suwanneespringfest.com/
Robert Fripp
December 4, 2010
World Financial Center – Winter Garden
New York
The Final Soundscapes
When I found out Robert Fripp was playing a free show at the World Financial Center, performing his trademark Frippertronics soundscapes, my response was brief and immediate. “I am so there.”
Being a guitar player who embraces improvisational music, and the use of technology to enhance and extend the creative vision, it’s no surprise Robert Fripp would be an idol of mine. Fripp takes this to another level entirely, using science and sound to create layered musical landscapes that build upon and cascade over one another. His style is unique, his technique an art and his audiences a witness to one of a kind, instantaneous creations. What’s truly amazing is he was doing it in 1979 using reel to reel tapes to record the loops.
Thirty years later, Fripp took the stage in the Winter Garden at WFC on Saturday evening, slightly older and grayer, and with the technology just a bit updated. His personality and wardrobe somewhat subdued, Fripp strode quietly across the stage, making three simple bows before lifting his guitar from its stand, kissing it gently and slinging it over his shoulder.
Then he meditated. For what seemed like minutes, he sat in silence, as if entering a trance. In the distance, children could be heard laughing. Then more silence. Then a loud shriek.
And then sound from the guitar. Beautiful sound. Like a violin. Then a cello. Fripp creates layer upon layer, until the sound is a wall. Then he draws upon it. The feeling is dark, somber. But airy.
Beside him sits a tower of gear. Throughout his creation, Fripp presses buttons repeatedly like some automaton. With the atrium decorated around him in glowing holiday lights, he is reminiscent of a Christmas window, leaning in, turning a knob, sitting back, playing a riff. Repeat. The sound fills the hall like snow in a globe.
The variety of tones Fripp elicits from his instrument is amazing. He takes the listener through movements, distinguished not always by melody or chord changes in so much as tonal shifts. The compositions build until reaching a peak then all of a sudden, silence. Everything fades away, and the piece changes. As if he is telling a story.
At one point, the notes ring like bells. At another pure distortion rings from his guitar. Then he’s playing licks in a vintage jazz tone (the tonalities he achieves are in part, imho, a testament to the Gibson Les Paul he’s playing). And while he’s getting these fantastic tones out of his instrument, he’s also busy staring intently at the control panel of his rig, punching the controls as if piloting a space craft. On cue, epic tones from outer space emerge. The man is a scientist of sound.
If I had to make one criticism of Fripp’s performance, it might be that the pieces, while certainly compelling, never really seem to resolve. They build to peaks, but remain continually flowing, until they either fade away or simply cease. This could cause some listeners to lose interest after the initial wow of the technique and craftsmanship has subsided.
For me, it was an incredibly powerful show. When the last note faded away, Fripp slid his guitar pick under the strings, stood up, removed the guitar, gave three more bows and was gone. Not a word spoken. Not a word needed. Fripp has been quoted as saying this may be the final time he performs his soundscapes. I sincerely hope that is not the case.
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The Dedicated Maniacs return to the Brookdale Lodge on Friday, December 10th for a holiday show- featuring special guest DAVID GANS!
Come groove to the very best of psychedelic rock and roll and cosmic cowboy tunes with San Francisco’s Dedicated Maniacs! Featuring rollicking original tunes as well as the very best covers (Grateful Dead, Willie Nelson, Dylan, etc)- this band will have you dancing all night. http://www.thededicatedmaniacs.com
Opening the show and sitting in with the Dedicated Maniacs is special guest David Gans! You have probably heard David on the airwaves, as host of the popular shows The Grateful Dead Hour and Dead to the World. David Gans is also an incredible musical force, playing at the world’s greatest festivals like Bonnaroo and Jamcruise, and both solo and with the world’s greatest musicians. http://www.dgans.com
You don’t want to miss this first-time-ever pairing at the historic Brookdale Lodge!!!
Phil Lesh and Friends were cooking! The line up known as the PLQ or the “Q” – the Phil Lesh Quintet – were ripping our minds open for a couple years, with great new songs and a tight sound. The Q was comprised of Phil Lesh (bass/vocals), Jimmy Herring (guitar), Warren Haynes (guitar/vocals), John Molo (drums), and Rob Barracco (keyboards/vocals). Their CD There and Back Again came out in Spring 2002, and features “Celebration” and “No More Do I”, two songs Furthur has performed in 2010.
And Ratdog was smoking as well! 2001 was a very busy year, they had many newish songs too, from 2000’s Evening Moods (including “Ashes and Glass” and “Two Djinn”, also in Furthur’s current song list).
Mickey Hart was busy as ever, with a ton of projects! He had done Supralingua in 1998, and then in 2000 the book and CD set Spirit Into Sound.
Bill Kreutzmann had released Backbone in 1998 and was playing with the Trichromes who would put out an album in 2002.
My point is, individually, these guys were busy making music in their own ways, doing their own things!
Plus, they all four had not played together officially since 1995.
Take another step back…
Yes, Mickey, Phil and Bob did tour in 1998 as The Other Ones, with both Mark Karan and Steve Kimock on guitar, and John Molo on drums (Only The Strange Remain), and at the final tour stop, 7/25/1998 Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View California (the place built for The Grateful Dead to play), Billy the K did sit in with his grateful bandmates.
After that tour, there was a semi-public disagreement between Phil and Bob on internet distribution of the Grateful Dead Vault recordings (Bob wanted to make a deal that Phil didn’t, is the gist). Anyway, word on the Shakedown street was they were not really friendly for a couple of years there.
Then, one night in June 2001, as they tend to do, Phil and Bob made up. They played a gig as Crusader Rabbit Stealth Band, at The Sweetwater in Mill Valley, California, and the rest of the band was Phil’s friends: Molo, Herring, Barraco (Haynes joined in on the last song). The Sweetwater, sadly no more, was a bar, so this was a small show, 100 or so people.
Crusader Rabit Stealth Band
Sweetwater, Mill Valley, California
June 10, 2001
Set 1: Jam > Truckin > Smokestack Lightning > Friend of the Devil > China Cat Sunflower > The Eleven > Brown-Eyed Women
Set 2: The Music Never Stopped > Jam > Get Together > Cassidy, Mason’s Children > Viola Lee Blues > Maggie’s Farm >
Viola Lee Blues
Encore: Promised Land > I Know You Rider
(Warren Haynes sat in for the encore)
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Then, came New Years eve… Exciting enough to hear that Phil and Friends and Ratdog were sharing the bill… CRSB is listed on the line up! And rumors were rampant that Bill and Mickey would be there…
The New Years float featured four Wizards, and behind glimmering robes and fake beards, we slowly realized it was the boys themselves. As they landed on the stage, they were fleshed out by Jimmy and Rob, and played for us all a real sweet set. It was a pretty awesome night, really felt like a healing, all four guys coming together after so long.
12/31/2001
Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium
Oakland, California
Ratdog (listen to the RDog set here)
Jam > Feels Like A Stranger > Easy Answers > Youngblood, Odessa, Bury Me Standing, Scarlet Begonias > Aiko Aiko > Dear Prudence > Stuff (drums, bass, dj) > jam > Two Djinn > Touch of Grey
Phil and Friends (1st set)
Midnight Hour (w/Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks) > Hard To Handle > Viola Lee Blues > Tons of Steel > Viola Lee Blues > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Viola Lee Blues > Cosmic Charlie
Crusader Rabit Stealth Band – New Years Set featuring Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Rob Baraco, Jimmy Herring (and possibly others… did Jeff Chimenti sit in at all?)
Intro – Happy New Year, Not Fade Away > Truckin’ > Playin’ in the Band > Space > Playin’ in the Band > The Wheel > Uncle John’s Tease > Sugar Magnolia (Warren joins at middle of song)
Phil and Friends (2nd set)
tuning > Help On The Way > Skipknot! > Dark Star > Terrapin Station* > No More Do I* > Uncle John’s Band*
Donor Rap – “Unity is Possible”
E: Celebration > Franklin’s Tower
Being a guitar player who embraces improvisational music, and the use of technology to enhance and extend the creative vision, it’s no surprise Robert Fripp would be an idol of mine. Fripp takes this to another level entirely, using science and sound to create layered musical landscapes that build upon and cascade over one another. His style is unique, his technique an art and his audiences a witness to one of a kind, instantaneous creations. What’s truly amazing is he was doing it in 1979 using reel to reel tapes to record the loops.
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