Today marks what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 75th birthday. Theaters across the country will celebrate by showing a previously unreleased Grateful Dead show from Washington, DC’s RFK Stadium on July 12, 1989, as part of this year’s Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies, and the Dead are also planning to release that show […]
Photo credit: Dean Budnick Rick Massimo’s I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival (Wesleyan University Press) is the first book-length treatment of Newport, R.I.’s iconic event. Massimo’s narrative begins as producer George Wein launches the festival in 1959 and tracks Newport Folk’s highlights and struggles over the years to follow. Massimo, […]
Tedeschi Trucks Band, the Wood Brothers and Hot Tuna visited the Providence Performing Arts Center this past Friday. Here’s a look at the night with photos by Caroline Budnick and Dean Budnick.
Photo credit: Dean Budnick Bassist Dave Schools dives into his band’s new touring approach, studying Stravinsky and why it’s time to tend to the home front. FESTIVALS WE DIG, RUNS WE LOVE We’ve been a band for 30 years, and people keep reminding us of that. To me, it seems like we just started, but […]
Working on Which Photo by Matt Inman “At long last we have a beach,” Ashley Capps says with a wink as his production crew finishes transforming what was once winemaker Sam McAlister’s farmland into Bonnaroo’s Great Stage Park for the sixteenth time. Capps, whose company AC Entertainment co-founded Bonnaroo with Superfly in 2002, is referring […]
all photos by Marc Millman Yesterday, Brooklyn Bowl hosted the first Relix Live Music Conference, a full day of panels, presentations and discussion with some of the top names in the music industry, including managers, promoters, agents, publicists, festival planners, venue proprietors, journalists and more.The day kicked off in the morning with some opening remarks […]
