Teton County isnât quite out of the coronavirus woods, but it looks like there may be a clearing up ahead, and it could be just the right place to hold a music festival.
Summer 2020, aka the Summer That Wasnât, was a bust for nearly all of the regionâs arts and entertainment events. Last April and May, as the seriousness of the pandemic began to become apparent, festivals that had for years, even decades, seemed as constant as the Teton Range went into COVID-induced isolation. Even the outdoors wasnât considered safe. From the Music on Main series to the Grand Teton Music Festival, the coronavirus felled them all.
th season of live performance radio on
Sunday, June 13, with guest host Kathy Mattea at the Culture Center Theater and, for the first time since February 2020, a limited in-person audience will be allowed.
Guest artists scheduled to appear are Mississippi songwriting great
Paul Thorn, emerging folk singer and songwriter Amythyst Kiah, and West Virginia Music Hall of Fame inductee and “Some Kind Of Wonderful” songwriter,
John Ellison. More artists will be announced as they are confirmed.
Mountain Stage will record the show for national distribution later this Fall to more than 280 NPR stations.
Attendance will be limited to 25 percent capacity, or 115 tickets. Current
City Winery Hudson Valley Announces Amazing Concert Series Lineup
Live music back in the Hudson Valley. One of the things a lot of people learned during the pandemic is that live music is a big deal. I know people who, in a normal year, attend just about every show at Bethel Woods and other venues. That’s how they love to spend the summer. Needless to say, they are rejoicing that live music is back.
One of the coolest things this summer, at one of the coolest places, is the concert series called Concerts in the Vineyard at City Winery, 23 Factory Street in Montgomery. They’ve just announced the lineup, and I have to tell you, I’m impressed.
Neil and Pegi co-founded northern California’s Bridge School for severely disabled children in 1986. The couple was motivated to improve the life of their son Ben who was born with cerebral palsy. Bridge School Benefit Concerts were held annually from 1986 through 2016 (despite Neil and Pegi’s divorce in 2014 after 36 years of marriage). Phish, like the scores of all-star acts that played the Bridge School School Benefits, performed acoustically at Shoreline and thus “Sleep” was introduced during an “unplugged” set.
Full band acoustic renditions of “Sleep” followed when Phish taped an episode of PBS’
Sessions At West 54th on October 20, 1998, and when the band opened their Fall Tour 1998 a show on October 29 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. “Sleep” went electric during the show on November 11, 1998, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Guitarist