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Happy Hump Day everyone! Thought you’d enjoy a couple of fun videos from The Ragbirds & Strung Like A Horse to help you through the day. I hope you can make it out to these shows! Both early, both manageable!
The first is “Lucky Rhythm” by The Ragbirds at the Summercamp Music Festival earlier this year w/ a quite a festive late night crowd. While our show will be the polar opposite time-wise, they’re gonna have quite a groove going in the cozy confines of the Red Light Cafe!
The second is “Horizontal” by Strung Like A Horse from Scenic City Roots this past summer. Y’all Music On Main Street is a BYOB venue, and you can bring your dinner picnic set up, and it’s a great venue for kids!
Come on out for a special early weeknight show at The Red Light Cafe on Thursday, October 3, with one of the most dynamic bands touring these days in The Ragbirds! Fresh off having a baby in August, Erin Zindle leads these road warriors back on the road for the first time since that time on the proudly proclaimed “Brave New Baby Tour”.
They will be traveling in their new bio-fuel vehicle tailor made for including a new little family member! I personally am looking forward to welcoming them with open arms and an amazing audience Thursday night! It’s also my wife’s birthday, and The Ragbirds is one of her favorite bands. So if you know her, come on out and celebrate with us. If you don’t know her, come on out and celebrate with us! Below is a great video of the band performing one of my favorite songs by them, “Brave New Beat”, from Music City Roots. Enjoy!
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On Saturday, October 5,Strung Like A Horse visits Music On Main Street for an evening under the large oaks in a beautiful backyard setting in historic downtown Lilburn, just 20 minutes east of the ATL. It’s an early show, starting at 7pm, and be ready for two sets of the some of the finest self-proclaimed “gypsy punk garage grass” you’re ever going to see! Cover is only $10! These kind folks are on a roll right now, doing good things, and are the top band out of Chattanooga right now. DO NOT MISS THEM! Music On Main Street is a very family friendly venue that is BYOB and you can bring your own dinner spread, too. Be sure to bring a blanket and/or chairs! Below is a video of their song titled “Gypsy Jane”, some of which was filmed at beautiful Cherokee Farms.
I figure that this repost is relevant today 😉 In this crazy world that we inhabit, surrounded by so much wrong, it’s nice to have “it” right. The Hootenannies are right! If you’ve never been, you need to give it a try. The testimonials below are from the last Hootenanny back in April of this year. They’re a fun read! Come on y’all!!
Howdy y’all! We’re just over three weeks away from an absolutely incredible weekend of music at the serene property in the NW Georgia mountains known as Cherokee Farms on the weekend of September 13-14, and I thought I’d get you all fired up with some observations from enthusiastic musicians and patrons from the April Hoot. Dave Jordan(Neighborhood Improvement Association) summed up nicely just yesterday the feeling one gets about coming to a camping TDawg event:
“Looking forward to playing another one of Thomas Helland‘s festivals. I was on his first one, 15 years ago and it’ll be nice to catch up with some old friends. Rumor has it, Duane Trucks will be joining Gregory Hodges and Will Repholz and I to rock Cherokee Farms. Yeah u rite!”
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Caroline Aiken – “A weekend full of family and friends, and the HOOTNENANNY was SO wonderful, the line…
Get your advance tickets NOW so you can be just as chillin’ as the mighty fine individual in this picture! Also, check out our own Ralph Roddenbery creating a “Hootenanny Song” 😉 And remember, you’ll receive a compilation CD from the 2nd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny on Dec 16, 2012 at the Variety Playhouse! Artists featured include Papa Mali, Larry Keel, Jimmy Hall, Grant Green Jr., Ike Stubblefield, Col. Bruce Hampton, Rev. Jeff Mosier, and many more!
FRI-SAT $50 ADV/$60 gate (includes camping)
SAT ONLY $40 ADV/$50 gate (includes camping)
SAT DAY passes are available at the gate for $40. Kids 13-16 are $20, Kids 12 & under are admitted FREE. NO DOGS PLEASE!!
Lodging
Key West Inn, 2221 N Main St LaFayette, GA 30728
PH: (706) 638-8200
Days Inn, 2209 N Main St LaFayette, GA 30728
PH: (706) 639-9362
Please welcome Vagabond Swing to the Hootenanny Family! I have not witnessed a Vagabond Swing concert, but by all accounts and from what I have found on YouTube, the 45-minute set from 4:15pm-5pm on Saturday afternoon under the Grateful Fred Tent is going to be bouncing all directions with creative musical anarchy – too much fun for your own good!
These fellas come from Lafayette, LA, and they are bringing their own unique sound to the table here. Instrumentation includes dual guitars, drums, mandolin, trumpet, and upright bass. I’m sure there are some surprises in there, too. With musical influences including gypsy/folk/bluegrass, punk/ska, avant garde/classical, and jazz, well, this is what you might get. They describe their music as “a surprisingly smooth mixture of progressive Gypsy/Experimental/Circus-vibe/Swing tunes.” That pretty much sums it up. The video below is a good indicator of the fun and intensity that is a performance by Vagabond Swing.
Vagabond Swing is going to stick around after their set, so expect them to pop up possibly on stage elsewhere! Y’all we’re going to have ourselves an incredible time this weekend, and you can purchase advance tickets until Thursday, Sept 12 @ 11pm EDT.
***All advance purchases will receive a copy of a compilation from TDawg Presents’ 2nd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny that occurred in December of 2012, featuring Papa Mali, Larry Keel, Oteil Burbridge, Jimmy Hall, Rev. Jeff Mosier, Col. Bruce Hampton, Ike Stubblefied, Grant Green Jr., Deep Blue Sun and more!
Dave Jordan has lived and breathed the life & blood of New Orleans music. From the funk days with Juice and many different collaborations all over the Big Easy including the legendary Maple Leaf Bar and Tipitina’s to his current project that embodies what he calls “NOLA roots rock”, Jordan delivers REAL music with a genuine feel of where he is from and what he has been through.
I met Dave back in 1998 prior to the 1st Annual HarvestFest, which really was a glorified Hootenanny in the end 😉 Live and learn I guess! Anyhoo, we share mutual close friends who introduced us, and I featured Juice as part of a 2-part New Orleans happy hour (x2!). The other part was All That. Led by Jordan and the husky voice of big man and harmonica monster, Jamie Galloway (he recently departed this world waaaaaaaaay too soon, miss him greatly), Juice rocked it that day and at the 2nd Annual HarvestFest. Relentless road warriors, they took their brand of NOLA funk around the country, developing a nationwide following. I, along with a few friends of mine, was fortunate to coordinate, produce, and shoot a live a performance of Juice in the confines of the legendary Tree Sound Studios at their pinnacle when we were trying to create a live music show for TV. Juice did a few more TDawg shows over the years but this will be the first time in a long time that I have seen Dave in person, and for him it’s a family reunion as well. The HarvestFest spirit is alive and well in the realm of TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny, and Dave embodies that energy. Below is great jam from the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco that brings out the NOLA funk of Juice on one of their originals, “Work to Do”!
Dave’s recent path hasn’t been quite as funky, but it has been equally satisfying and gratifying for him. To me, Dave is one of those persons in life that defines where his roots are as much as his roots define who he is. You’ll definitely feel that energy in his newest solo effort, “Bring Back Red Raspberry”, named after his favorite flavor at Hubig’s Pies, a New Orleans institution that burned down in July, 2012. Below is a clip of Dave Jordan & The Neighborhood Improvement Association performing at Louisiana Music Factory during JazzFest 2013.
Dave’s set will begin shortly after 5pm, the perfect cocktail hour music! Bringing together that NOLA vibe for happy hour sounds just right to me! Expect some pedal steel to ring through the air…HOOT HOOT!!!
Here it is folks – we’re gonna have a great time of it I tell ya! Can’t wait to be in the NW Georgia mountains celebrating spring and enjoying some fine music in a picturesque outdoor environment with a sky full of stars, a cabin style stage with more music mojo than we know what to do with, and musicians and patrons who are equally thrilled to be present for this fine weekend of music!
SCHEDULE – FRI APRIL 5
9:00PM – 10:30 PM / Nothing & The Nobodies
11:00 PM – 1:00 AM / Red Clay Revival
LATE NIGHT / Campfire Jams
SCHEDULE – SAT APRIL 6
NOON – 12:25 PM / Acoustic Warm-up feat. Rick Kline
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM / Scott Warren & The Booze Mountaineers
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM / Bibb City Ramblers
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM / Caroline Aiken
7:00 PM – 8:40 PM / Rev. Jeff Mosier & Jim Lauderdale (solo & together)
9:00 PM – 10: 30 PM / Strung Like A Horse
11:00 PM – 1:00 AM / The Ragbirds & Friends
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TICKETS: CASH & CREDIT CARD ACCEPTED! FRI-SAT $50 ADV/$55 door, SAT ONLY $40 ADV/$45 door, camping included in each price. SAT DAY PASSES ($35) available at gate. Kids 12 & under are admitted FREE. Ages 13-16 are $20. **NO DOGS PLEASE**
***ADV TIX ON SALE NOW at tdawgpresents.com ***When you purchase advance tickets (FRI-SAT or SAT ONLY) to the upcoming TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny on April 5-6, you will receive a FREE compilation CD from EITHER the Keel Family Function 2010 held at Cherokee Farms OR HarvestFest 2000 at the old Atlanta’s Back Porch! Your Pick! Get it when you arrive at the Hoot! Lemme tell ya – you can’t go wrong here! I still listen to the both of them frequently they’re so good! Vintage TDawg music that will set your spirit free, at least for an hour or so over and over 😉 We’ve had many great times over the years, and these two compilations are just a slice of the musical legacy we have created together as fans of the REAL music.
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