The influential NYC-Freaks e-mail list – which has helped launch the careers of Robert Randolph, The Duo and the American Babies, among others – will celebrate 11 years of connecting
All Photos by Dave Vann
Outside of the music, do you know what the best part of Jam Cruise 9 was? The people. Imagine a boat filled to the brim with cruisers who have similar interests to you. Each day, I would strike up a conversation with someone I never met before in the elevator, at the cafeteria or in the halls and minutes later we would depart as friends after having talked about the New Year’s Eve Phish show or after finding out that we shared some friends.
[All Photos by Dave Vann]
There were plenty of people I met last year that I kept in touch with all year long via email or Facebook and it was such a thrill to reconnect with some of these folks on Jam Cruise 9. Not to mention, I met dozens of people this time around that I know I’ll be friends with forever. Hell, I even met three or four potential new Hidden Track contributors during my time on the Poesia.
With that said, I want to share a photo gallery featuring the true stars of Jam Cruise 9 – the people. Photographer Dave Vann has graciously allowed us to run some of his photos from the five-day adventure. Head down to the bottom of this post if you want to shuffle through a slide show of pics as I’ll be offering some commentary on indiviual photos before finishing with a complete gallery.
Just before we left the Jam Cruise staff met to make sure all ran smoothly…
READ ON for more of Dave’s spectacular Jam Cruisers shots…
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[Photo by Michael Weiss (Nice Shirt, Tomo!)]
If you missed my reviews of God Street Wine’s guest-laden performances on Jam Cruise 9, be sure to check out A Letter to 16-Year-Old ScottyB about the Pool Deck show and Day Four, Pt. 1, which includes my thoughts on the theater set. Plenty of videos have emerged on YouTube from each of the sets and we can look forward to watching the pro-shot footage filmed by the iClips crew in the future.
Here’s some of the best clips we’ve come across…
God Street Wine w/ Anders Osborne – Goodnight Gretchen
READ ON for more GSW videos from Jam Cruise 9…
