Posts by Bill Clifford

  Home again! Snow Ridge Ski Resort in Turin, N.Y. has been the site of the moe.down festival, hosted by improv rockers moe. for 12 years. Since it was first held over the Labor Day weekend in 2000 the event moved to nearby Mohawk N.Y for two years from 2010-11, before returning to the original […]

Sunday at GOTV turned out to be the warmest day at the festival, just a bit more humid than the previous days, and with lots of gorgeous sunshine that poked through sparse cloud cover throughout the day. And whether it was local youthful jammers The McLovins or reggae/punk pioneers Fishbone on the Green Vibes stage, […]

Saturday at the Vibes turned out to be another fantastic day at the festival as Bill Evans continued to make himself present as Artist in Large on each of the stages, sitting in with fellow jazz legend John Scofield at the Green Vibes Stage. The New Orleans music scene was well represented at the fest […]

Friday morning the VibeTribe awoke to the same overcast skies lingering from Thursday. By early afternoon however, the sun finally burned though it all, presenting campers and revelers with the most perfect of festival days – a slight wind blowing in off the Long Island Sound, plenty of sunshine to go around yet temps that […]

18 years. Has it really been 18 years of the Gathering of The Vibes Festival? When Jerry Garcia, aka Captain Trips, singer and guitarist of The Grateful Dead, died in the summer of 1995, his passing left quite a void in the psychedelic rock scene. What began a year later as a celebration of his […]

The 1995 passing of musician and counter culture icon, Jerry Garcia, aka Captain Trips, left a void for fans of the Grateful Dead, the popular psychedelic rock band he fronted. San Francisco, the band’s home base, held a wonderful tribute for him at Golden Gate Park. But the then mayor of New York City declined […]

Hoge signed a contract with Atlantic records early in the new century, only to have the subsequent major label debut ignored by the label brass and forgotten about. Now unencumbered of the restraints such corporations can tie on an artist, he

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To the delight of her fans in Atlanta, Melissa let her emotions (and a little luck) get the best of her on this Thursday night performance. Her three-hour set rocked, and shook the small theater all night long, proving once again, that she is one of today