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Well folks, the lineup as we know it for the 5th Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny is complete, and TDawg Presents is excited to add jazz favorite Joe Gransden, singer-songwriter extraordinaire Michael Tolcher, and Hammond maestro Kevin Thomas to the bill! Quite a lineup y’all – an amazing amount of talent!
PLEASE spread the good word, share this post, share the event on your social networking sites of choice – the concert is not only a great cause for a great organization in Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, but it’s also going to be pretty much over the top musically. YOU WILL NOT SEE ANOTHER CONCERT LIKE THIS ONE ALL YEAR!
The final lineup of listed musicians is as follows:
We will have four sets of music beginning at 6:30pm and ending at midnight, and the silent auction begins at 5:30pm when doors open! Stay tuned for additions to the silent auction!
We’re only FOUR DAYS out from what promises to be quite an enjoyable journey through some of your favorite Grateful Dead songs as well as some rarely heard gems! Remember that no song is repeated, so come early and enjoy the air conditioned environment for the music and dining at Stationside Restaurant! Click Here for Advance Tix! Advance tickets are $30, door price is $40. Save yourself a few bucks and get your tickets NOW, as we anticipate a strong turnout!
Below is the schedule of bands. Please note as always schedule is subject to change.
3:00 PM Escape Vehicle 4:00 PM Honeywood 5:00 PM Electric Codpiece 6:00 PM gr8FLdude & frenz 7:00 PM Lefty Williams Band 8:00 PM Charlie Fog Band 9:00 PM Deep Blue Sun 10:00 PM Moontower 11:00 PM Rumpke Mountain Boys
CLICK HEREto get your tickets NOW! $30 ADV/$40 Door, Showtime 3pm-Midnight, TWO Stages! Below are two videos, the first one from the Rumpke Mountain Boys at their NYE 2014 performance, and the second being Deep Blue Sun’s set from last year’s edition that included a version of Morning Dew that melted me. Enjoy!
Come on out TOMORROW NIGHT, JULY 2, for an absolutely amazing night of music. Larry Keel Experience & Dangermuffin have mixed it up a few times before, and when you throw in the ragtime jazz sounds of The Jugtime Ragband, you have the perfect formula for a can’t miss show! Hope to see ya there – special early start time, show will be over by midnight! It’s the perfect start to our annual celebration of independence! This show certainly has the feel of a HOOOOOOTENANNY!!!
Terminal West and TDawg Presents are excited to bring you a hot, hot show to kick off your July 4 weekend featuring The Larry Keel Experience, Dangermuffin, and The Jugtime Ragband! THURSDAY, JULY 2 promises to be a smokin’ night of absolutely stellar acoustic music, exploratory and traditional simultaneously while taking you on a journey from 20’s ragtime jazz to progressive acoustic music that embodies elements of old-school bluegrass, new grass, and folk-rock. Personally, I am thrilled to have long-time bluegrass buddies and shenanigan cohorts The Larry Keel Experience performing on the Terminal West stage. This is a great room for them, and to add the skills and sounds of Dangermuffin to the night just makes this a rock solid night. The addition of Atlanta’s own The Jugtime Ragband seals the deal for one helluva show!
Keel is regarded by many as one of the most powerful, innovative and all-out exhilarating acoustic flatpicking guitarists performing today. I tend to agree! LKE was part of every HarvestFest I did and was the first non-festival venue show I ever produced. It’s a joy and a pleasure to continue working with him, his lovely wife and extraordinary bassist Jenny, and the highly esteemed banjoist Will Lee any chance I can. LKE has been tearing it up across the country, and Larry has had the opportunity to participate in several special lineups recently. Rest assured you will walk away mesmerized by what transpires on the stage that night. Below is a video of an entrire long set following Dangermuffin and shot on 2/26/15 in Asheville, NC at the Asheville Music Hall courtesy of Independent Arts & Music of Asheville.
For those of you who have not been turned on Dangermuffin yet, well, you’re in for a treat. Their Friday night showcase performance at TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny back in April was off the charts musically, a defining two-set gem. This incredibly dynamic trio brings out a sound that captures you in their groove almost instantly. It will be a pleasure to witness a jam with The Larry Keel Experience, as these buddies know how to throw down when together! Below is a video of Dangermuffin from The Pour House in Charleston that you will enjoy.
The Jugtime Ragband is homegrown out of the Atlanta music scene and one of my favorite finds of the last couple of years. Their infectious 20’s style ragtime jazz sound with a modern twist will have you moving from the get go, and I certainly wouldn’t be surprised in the end to see them on stage in some form or fashion late in the night for a jam.
WHERE: Red Light Cafe, with special guests Bottom Dollar String Band
TIME: Doors @ 7pm, Showtime 8pm, Duhks @ 9pm
ADMISSION: $18 adv/$22 door ADVANCE TICKETS HERE TDawg Presents is excited to bring internationally acclaimed performing artists The Duhks back to Atlanta!
“Canada’s premier neo-tradsters romp from world-beat to blues, urban-pop to old-timey, with wild-eyed invention, haunting traditionalism, and spine-rattling groove.” (Scott Alarik, The Boston Globe)
No band epitomizes the polyethnic strands of modern folk music better than The Duhks. Since forming in Winnipeg in 2001 The Duhks have created a dynamic blend of old-timey, French Canadian and Celtic music punched up with shades of blues, soul and driving Afro Cuban rhythms that leaves festival crowds on their feet. Click Here to read more and click below to view a video of the title track from their latest recording, “Beyond the Blue.”
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Bottom Dollar String Band plays bluegrass from the hills of Central Texas. With the release of their debut album, Appalachian Stars on Raw Copper Records, Austin, TX based Bottom Dollar String Band is cutting a new path in contemporary bluegrass music. Entertaining audiences of all ages since 2011 they are earning a reputation for fusing old time instrumentals with contemporary bluegrass and beyond!
What a time we had at the 18th edition of TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny, a bi-annual tradition (at least!) since 2006! A big shout out to the crew – Tree Sound & Power, Tamara, Linda, Ben, Drew, Amanda, my darlin’ wife Stephanie, Starbridge owners Donna and Logan, Wildman Steve, and the volunteers who helped make this year’s spring event one for the books! As usual, the musicians brought their A+ game to the festie, and despite the move from longtime home Cherokee Farms we had ourselves an amazing experience and THANK YOU to everyone who made it out for our first time at Starbridge! We’ll be back at Cherokee Farms for the fall edition, #19, the weekend of September 18-19!
TDawg Presents is excited to bring this last minute show your way with good friends THE RAGBIRDS! Returning to the intimate confines of The Red Light Cafe, The Ragbirds bring their mesmerizing hypnotic world folk rock w/ a twist of gypsy sound straight to YOU! Click Hereto view a little more reading and an amazing video of their performance of my favorite Ragbirds song, “Brave New Beat.” Rising star Carly Gibson opens the evening – it’s simply a great night of music!
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WHERE: Red Light Cafe, with special guests Bottom Dollar String Band
TIME: Doors @ 7pm, Showtime 8pm, Duhks @ 9pm
ADMISSION: $18 adv/$22 door ADVANCE TICKETS HERE TDawg Presents is excited to bring internationally acclaimed performing artists The Duhks back to Atlanta!
“Canada’s premier neo-tradsters romp from world-beat to blues, urban-pop to old-timey, with wild-eyed invention, haunting traditionalism, and spine-rattling groove.” (Scott Alarik, The Boston Globe)
No band epitomizes the polyethnic strands of modern folk music better than The Duhks. Since forming in Winnipeg in 2001 The Duhks have created a dynamic blend of old-timey, French Canadian and Celtic music punched up with shades of blues, soul and driving Afro Cuban rhythms that leaves festival crowds on their feet. Click Here to read more and view a video of the title track from their latest recording, “Beyond the Blue.”
We have a mostly awesome weekend weatherwise – Mother Nature is being kind to us with the bulk of the rain heading out by the early evening on Friday, just in time for a beautiful performance by Dangermuffin that will kick off the Hootenanny weekend! Now’s your chance to save a few bucks and go ahead and purchase your two-night advance tickets (your name will be at will call). At this price you’re even saving on the walk-up Saturday price! ADVANCE SALES END AT 11:30PM, THU APRIL 9!
FRI-SAT (April 10-11) $60ADV/$75 Gate, SAT ONLY (April 11) $55 ADV/$65 Gate
SAT DAY PASS (NO camping) ~ $50 GATE. Kids 12 & under are admitted FREE! Kids ages 13-16 $20 at gate. NO DOGS PLEASE!
Folks are chompin’ at the bits to get up to the North Georgia mountains and a big ol’ burst of that spring mountain air! Flowers and trees are blooming, the woods are calling our names! Come on out for about as relaxing a time as you’re gonna have – it’s a BYOB event so we won’t have any alcohol for sale, and please feel free to bring your own meals as well! We will have a food vendor on site, and the craft vendors represent a very dynamic and creative group of folks. There will be Hootenanny tshirts for sale on site, tailor made to your liking while you’re there! Please find below the schedule:
FRI APRIL 10
Tree Stage
Dangermuffin (Two Sets)
8:30PM
11:30PM
SAT APRIL 11
Tree Stage
Blackberry Possum
12:00PM
1:00PM
The Higher Choir
1:45PM
3:15PM
Hair of the Dog
4:00PM
5:30PM
Jason Kenney
6:15PM
7:45PM
Packway Handle Band
8:30PM
10:00PM
Strung Like A Horse
10:30PM
12:00AM
MOMS Cabin Stage
MOMS Showcase
1:00PM
1:45PM
Gibson Wilbanks Band
3:15PM
4:00PM
Gibson Wilbanks Band
5:30PM
6:15PM
Mikhail Peterson & Friends
7:45PM
8:30PM
Here’s a fine clip of Packway Handle Band from Music City Roots for your viewing pleasure…See you this weekend!!! Hooootenanny!!!!
Folks we’re LESS THAN TWO WEEKS out from the finest lil’ spring fling – better known as TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny – that you’ve been waiting for after this last little cold front. Make your plans to join in the fun with your family, friends, and new friends you haven’t met yet! This is a wonderfully relaxing piece of property with beautiful woods all around, providing a great environment for some R’n’R and might fine jams! Everyone involved – performing artists, staff & volunteers – is super excited about the 18th edition of TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny.
CONGRATULATIONS to PACKWAY HANDLE BAND as they embark on a journey this summer, performing in major venues around the country and opening for KID ROCK & FOREIGNER! What an amazing opportunity for these hardworking musicians – be sure to catch them SAT APRIL 11 at the Hootenanny, taking the stage at 8:30PM for what promises to be one helluva rocking set and to be followed by STRUNG LIKE A HORSE! For the rest of the SCHEDULE CLICK HERE.
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TDawg Presents is excited to bring you THE LARRY KEEL EXPERIENCE & DANGERMUFFINto Terminal West on Thursday, July 2, co-producing with the kind folks at Terminal West! Advance tickets go ($14 adv/$17 door) go on sale April 3! We are very excited to bring this wonderful combo to you, stay tuned for more details soon!!! Yeah u right!!!
So many amazing performers have graced the stage at TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny, and this year is certainly no exception to what we take for granted at these events! The Friday night showcase with Dangermuffin commences festivities, and Saturday will leave you dizzy with musical interludes spinning around your head all day long, while enjoying the intimate confines of Starbridge Event Center. Please read on to view some videos of the bands!
Strung Like A Horse(10:30-midnight) is going to take the 18th edition of the Hootenanny out with a bang! Check out this great video shot at Cherokee Farms in LaFayette, GA, of the song “Gypsy Jane”.
TDawg Presents welcomes back Packway Handle Band(8:30PM-10PM) to the Hootenanny stage for the second time! This Athens, GA-based quintet really grips you as they make their way through their set with genuine songwriting and tight instrumentation, single-mic or all-electric. You don’t know what you’ll get sometimes!! Check out this clip from Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, Packway Handle Band performing “I Wish I hadn’t Done It”.
Please welcome Jason Kenney (6:15PM-7:45PM) to the Hootenanny stage for the first time! This incredible singer/songwriter comes from just down the road in Dahlonega, and you feel the local roots in his music. Pure and true is his music, and you’ll see for yourself in the video for “Turn This Sorrow Into Joy”, title track from his latest album.
Atlanta’s own Cajun masters Hair of the Dog bring their rockin’ sound to the Tree Stage at the Hootenanny for the first time! Trust me, they’re the real deal. Been around a long time playing what they love, and pedal steel maestro Bill Fleming will keep his rig up there for the rest of the evening so you never know what will happen with all those great musicians gathered all night long! Check out this raw yet rockin’ clip from a neighborhood party (I was there!) featuring HoD performing “Leona Had A Party”. Your whole family will be kickin it during this set!
The Higher Choir (1:45PM-3:15PM) has been climbing the ladder for several years now, and folks, they very well might be reaching a moment of reckoning, in a state of mind where their Southern rock sound touches your bones and your soul! They wowed the crowd on the Lynyrd Skynyrd Cruise, have been packing venues around the Southeast, and as you see from this video, “The Working Title” from their CD Release party in 2013, it’s a kickin’ sound that has you boogey’in! I first saw these folks at the Wheelbarrow Fest in Reynoldstown a few years back, and they blew me away!
Performing on the Music On Main Street (MOMS) stage, Gibson Wilbanks Band is going to bring two sets (3:15PM-4PM, 5:30PM-6:15PM) , one after The Higher Choir and the second after Hair of the Dog, that are gonna have you groovin’ even more so. The interlay of slide and rhythm by both Carly Gibson and BJ Wilbanks, along with at-large artist Richie Jones on drums and the insane harmonica of Brad Bauman, will make these two sets ones you don’t want to miss! The soulfulness comes through loud and clear on this video, enjoy!
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