Well folks we’re heading to the mountains now, the weather is going to be amazing this weekend so come on up and enjoy in the music and outdoor lovin’ shenanigans! Music starts tonight at 9:30 PM with Sam French & Friends, tomorrow at 12:30PM with Hannah Zale! Please feel free to stay as long as you need to on Sunday!
We’re gonna miss our good buddy Ralph Roddenbery this time around, so here’s a gem from last year’s Fall Hoot on the Grateful Fred Stage. Pushin’ on a Pull Door!
My how time flies! Here we are the week of the 17th edition of TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny y’all! The temperature will be just right for a big ol’ bonfire, and the music will keep you moving all day and all night!
If you’ve not had a chance yet to catch Col. Bruce Hampton, mark my words you’re in for a special treat. His shows seem to always fit the moment, never a weak link. The Zambi master will bring it on Saturday evening, you know that for certain. Below is a fun clip from last year’s 3rd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny in December (mark your calendars for SUN DEC 21 and the 4th Annual Holiday Hoot!)
Freddy’s Finest has evolved into quite the funk/jazz ensemble that can really tear it up. A perfect for the 6:30pm set on the Grateful Fred Stage, and an ideal band to directly precede Col. Bruce! Check out their Lettuce jam from the Moonshadow Tavern not too long ago. Let’s just say it’s a very involved jam where each participating musician brings it!
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Cherokee Farms, 2035 Old Mineral Springs Rd., LaFayette, GA 30728
***ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE!
FRI-SAT Sept 19-20 (incl camping) ~ $50 ADV/$65 GATE
SAT Sept 20 ONLY (incl camping) ~ $45 ADV/$55 GATE
SAT DAY PASS (NO camping) ~ $40 GATE. Kids 12 & under are admitted FREE! Kids ages 13-16 $20 at gate. NO DOGS PLEASE! BYOB
Well folks we’re only 10 days out from what promises to be one of the finest Hootenannies yet September 19-20! You can get your advance tickets by visiting the official TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny page and clicking on either FRI-SAT or SAT only – both include camping!
Atlanta’s Rolling Nowhere just successfully completed their first tour out West, and let’s just say it rejuvenated and inspired the fellas, and they’re gonna bring it to you on Saturday afternoon September 20! Below is a live video from a performance in Nashville a few months back, showcasing their rockin’ and raucous sound – comin’ right atcha!
Chattanooga’s own Strung Like A Horse has been tearing it up for several years now, and TDawg Presents is excited to have them as a staple of TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny! Their unique brand of music, which they affectionately describe as Gypsy-Punk-Garage-Grass, will have you boogeyin’ late into the night! Check’em out below in a clip from Music City Roots.
Y’all this is going to be a BIG time! Don’t miss out on it – get your tickets now!
Doors 8pm, Showtime 9, PURCHASE TICKETS
Check out this dyamite, raw recording of a collaboration called The Pussywillows that features Hannah Zale and Carly Gibson. Catch Hannah opening the show for Folk Soul Revival on Saturday night, September 6, at the Red Light Cafe, 553 Amsterdam Ave. in Atlanta, GA, starting shortly after 9pm. You can also catch her at TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny on Saturday, September 20!
If you are open-minded and KNOW that Saturday night is going to be an incredible night of new music, you’ll be excited to join “The Congregation”, the rabid fan-base of Folk Soul Revival. They certainly know a good thing when it hits them! Enjoy this video of Folk Soul Revival tearing it up on the song “Jawbone Blues” off of their latest album Prompting the Dapperness.
Wow y’all! We sure have rounded that corner quickly, and the 17th installment of TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny is just about here! I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and that your team won! 😉
Now that we’re into September and just over two weeks out, you can clear your head for a moment and realize that you not only WANT to go to Hootenanny, but you also NEED to go! The amazing energy that is created at Cherokee Farms – the camaraderie of your friends, camping neighbors and musicians – the spontaneity of the jams – the amazing flow of this tightly wound small festie that releases a giant multi-layered musical explosion – the knowledge that you WILL hear something you’ve not heard before and it will make an impact on your already impeccable musical tastes. These are all great qualities of what a Hootenanny is at the core, a joyful healing and re-energizing experience for the mind, body and soul. TICKETS & LODGING INFO
Speaking of soul, check out this southern soulful groove laid down by Secondhand Swagger! These folks will be rockin’ the infamous “Happy Hour Set” from 5-6:30PM on SAT Sept 20! And folks, the musical mojo will kickin’ hard that day!
For those of you who are not familiar with Sam French, well that’s a great reason to show up on Friday night, September 19, at the Hootenanny! This man is drenched in southern, his style genuine, and his product real. Ted Norton, guitarist for The Grapes, will be joining Sam’s band that night and also be around all weekend long sitting in as an artist-at-large. Below is some fine video of Sam and his band performing an original, “Few Regrets”. Enjoy!
http://http://youtu.be/BH7vtnmsaqU
Spread the good word to your friends and family, y’all, as HOOT #17 promises to be as good as advertised! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTENANNY!!!
We are just ONE MONTH out from what promises to be one of the finest parties of the fall season in TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny! It’s not often that one of the musicians involved (Jared Womack) just won the dobro competition at the nationally renown RockyGrass Bluegrass Festival in Lyons, CO. It’s not often that the caliber of musicians present all weekend long are so stellar, full of amazing energy from various musical styles including blues, bluegrass, jazz, Americana, Southern rock, and singer-songwriter! The cross-pollination of musicians is going to be at an extremely high level, so be ready for the unexpected!
**Please consider purchasing your ADVANCE TICKETS NOW to help forward the cause, especially if you know you’re going. Don’t be bashful – share this event with your friends and family. They’ll have as much fun as YOU will!
If camping isn’t your thing necessarily, there are two hotels down the road about two miles that are easy to get to. Please go to the event page for that and other information including the schedule and links to each artist!
While I don’t anticipate the legendary Johnny Knapp making the journey to Cherokee Farms to play with Col. Bruce Hampton & The Madrid Express, I can’t resist putting this video on here from the Red Light Cafe in December the night before the Holiday Hootenanny. A nice Zambi moment for your afternoon. HOOOOOOOOOOTENANNY!!!
Doors @ 7PM, Showtime 8PM
Where: The Red Light Cafe
$15 adv/$18 door, advance tix available soon!
TDawg Presents is excited to announce the return of one of the most fantastic and dynamic bands out there nowadays, THE RAGBIRDS! They will be coming back to the intimate confines of The Red Light Cafe for what promises to be an amazing EARLY night of music!
The Ragbirds draw upon elements of Pop, Rock, Gypsy, Afro-Cuban, Celtic, Middle Eastern and African sounds, with a little Cajun spice in their music. Led by multi-instrumentalist Erin Zindle, this band can intertwine so many styles of music into a perfect flow that grabs and holds onto you. Also featuring her brother T. J. Zindle on the guitar and husband Randall Moore on percussion, one can truly feel that family connection. Below is a video of The Ragbirds performing on Music City Roots in Nashville back in 2012. Enjoy!
Y’all this really is a night not to be missed – grab a sitter for the kids and give yourselves a break if you need it!
We’re less than a week out from the first edition of TDawg’s Summer Hoot at Music On Main Street! Below are some videos to get you pumped for the jams you’ll see that afternoon by some incredible talent!
4:30PM – 5:30PM: The Jugtime Ragband (Ragtime 20’s/30’s style)
6:00PM – 7:30PM: Dyn-O-Mite feat. Kevin Thomas on keys (jazz/funk trio)
8:00PM – 9:30PM: Grant Green Jr. (jazz/funk master!)
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Grant Green Jr (from Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny 2012 w/ a who’s who lineup backing him up!)
Dyn-O-Mite
The Jugtime Ragband
Great times last night as we celebrated the life and music of Jerry Garcia! It was an amazing energy that flowed from the first note at 3PM all the way through non-stop until 12:15AM – it was fairly mind-blowing to tell you the truth, and as I like to put it (because it’s true!), the musicians brought their A Game to the forefront! As not one song was repeated all day long, each song was a gem. Highlights included slide master Benji Shanks joining Atlanta favorite Swami Gone Bananas, Deep Blue Sun’s entire set and David Gans’s set with 5 members of The Grapes joining the mix! Really though, the entire day was one long great highlight.
Congratulation to Lewis Newmark and Jim Roe, whose vision this has been since the get go, and special THANKS our sponsors – VIDA-FLO Hydration Station, Terrapin Beer Co. and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., to all the crew at Terminal West for their outstanding service and help, Paul Dunaway for the stellar sound on the Terrapin Stage, Wildman Steve & Spike for their (as always) amazing job at emcees, and Jessi Leigh Harris and Linda Brackner for coordinating the fine vending there. This journey turned a corner yesterday, and I know that TDawg Presents is looking forward to continuing the magic with all these kind folks NEXT year at Terminal West! Truly, what a long strange trip it’s been. Keep on truckin’ y’all!!!
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PLEASE come on out SAT AUG 9 to the first edition of TDAWG’s SUMMER HOOT at Music On Main Street. Tickets are $20 at the gate and $15 advance. Music starts at 4:30PM with The Jugtime Ragband followed by jazz/funk trio DynOMite at 6PM followed by jazz/funk master Grant Green Jr at 8PM to close out the evening! BYOB, bring a picnic if you’d like, Kids 12 & under are FREE, a pub is conveniently located next door 😉
Howdy y’all! Jason Kenney was invited to open for Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) on a series of five dates, of which one is Saturday, September 20. Congrats to Jason on this great opportunity – it’s always great to see folks from Hootenanny family do right!
Please welcome up and coming vocalist Hannah Zale into the Hootenanny mix! A bright rising star who resides in Athens, GA, Hannah will turn some heads!
Also, TDawg Presents is excited to have the superior guitar mastery of Ted Norton (The Grapes, Ralph Roddenbery Band) joining the Fall Hoot as an at-large artist! Ted will also be performing on Friday night as part of Sam French & Friends!
The Hootenanny movement doesn’t skip a beat, and you know it’s going to be off the chains this fall. Meanwhile, don’t forget to mark your calendar for Saturday, August 9, at Music On Main Street in Lilburn, GA for the first installment of TDawg’s Summer Hoot! The lineup features the legendary Grant Green Jr., jazz/funk trio DynOMite, and local rising band The Jugtime Ragband.
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