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The Northwest’s premier acoustic music festival returns for its fifth year to beautiful Horning’s Hideout in North Plains, Oregon, on August 25-27. The event boasts three days of nearly all-acoustic music, culminating each night with main stage performances from musical hosts Yonder Mountain String Band, this year joined by special guest fiddler Darol Anger (David Grisman Quintet, Psychograss).

Also on the bill are acoustic Son Volt, Todd Sniderand a special electric set by Danny Barnes. In addition, Umphrey’s McGee’s Brendan Bayliss will team up with YMBS’s Jeff Austin for the first ever public performance of these longtime friends and musical colleagues. Meanwhile, Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile will be on site for all three days of the festival for several surprise sit-ins, and will host the famed String Summit Super Jam. Always a String Summit highlight, past year’s Super Jam performers have included David Grisman, Vasser Clements, Hot Rize, Jerry Douglas and Tim O’Brien.

On Friday evening (August 25), String Summit presents the fourth annual Band Contest, where four competition finalists will compete for the opportunity to perform on the main stage the following year.

The tree-lined landscape of Horning’s Hideout is the perfect serene setting for an intimate weekend of all acoustic music. Located just 20 minutes west of Portland and nestled in a hidden canyon of the rolling hills, dense trees and peacocks, Horning’s Hideout is truly one of Oregon’s best kept secrets. All ages are welcome and children under 10 years old are free with a paying adult. Three-day festival passes include music, crafts and vending, and plenty of on-site camping and parking. A family/disabled camping area is available. Tickets are $115 – $135.00 and are on sale now

Club d’Elf, The ever-rotating cast that revolves around bassist Mike Rivard, will include keyboardist John Medeski this Wednesday when the band plays two shows in one night in New York City. To say every show is different with this band is quite the understatement since the players vary each night themselves. Joining Rivard and Medeski will be Brahim Fribgane (oud, perc & voice), Mat Maneri (elec viola), Mister Rourke (turntables), Dean Johnston (drums) & Oren Bloedow (guitar – midnight show ).

show details: wed june 14, 2006.
tonic, 107 norfolk st, ny, ny. 10002. 212-358-7501. www.tonicnyc.com.
2 shows : 10 pm & 12 am. $12 advance/$15 DOS.

Los Angeles-based quintet Particle are gearing up to storm the U.S. with newly announced tour dates and the joint release of the Transformations Live DVD and double live CD Transformations Live: For The People due in stores from Shout! Factory/Sony on July 18.

The tour is highlighted by performances at Milwaukee’s Summerfest in July, Lollapalooza in Chicago and San Diego’s Street Scene in August and Seattle’s annual Bumbershoot in September. Particle will team up with the UK’s jam pioneers Ozric Tentacles in July for a handful of shows including a CD/DVD release party at The Fillmore in San Francisco on July 15. Particle also plans to reunite with Mickey Hart at this year’s Summerfest for a special set of music billed as Mickey Hart and Friends on July 5.

Bob Dylan’s new album, Modern Times, is due out on August 29th. Times, which Dylan produced himself, mixes elements of 2001

With one album and EP under their belt Detroit natives the Dirty Americans, are back, independent and working on a new album produced by guitar god Kenny Olson and Shannon Boone, (a.k.a. The Scorpio Brothers).

Lead by frontman Myron, guitarist Jeff Piper, bassist Pete Bever and drummer Jeremiah Pilbeam, they live for the tour and all the madness that goes with it. Dirty Americans have appeared on some of the most prestigious music festivals around the world with some of the hottest bands including; The Donnington Festival with Metallica, Korn & Slipknot; the Festimad Festival with Jet and Ben Harper; the IGGY AND THE STOOGES REUNION; the Summer Sonic Festival with Green Day, Beatie Boys, the Go-Go’s, MC5 & Silvertide; the Rock Am Ring & Rock Im Park with Korn, Yellowcard, & the Black Eyed Peas; the Detroit Harley festival with Trapt, Clutch & Tantric; the Alice Cooper tour in the mid-west and so much more to list.

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Bonnaroo has once again sold out in advance, with 80,000 tickets sold entirely through the festival’s Web site. Set to take place this weekend, the three-day camping and music festival will once again be held on the same 700-plus-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn., 60 miles southeast of Nashville.

Along with headliners Radiohead, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Phil Lesh and Friends, Bonnaroo will present well over 100 acts on its nine stages. In addition to its music lineup, non-music attractions like a cinema, a comedy tent and an onsite beer festival will be available 24 hours a day.

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On June 20th, Rhino Records will release a Willie Nelson 3-CD boxed set, The Complete Atlantic Sessions.

This 3-CD boxed set is the first to spotlight Willie’s historic Atlantic output in its entirety. Disc one presents 1973’s David Briggs/Arif Mardin-produced debut Shotgun Willie, remastered and expanded with 12 bonus tracks. Disc two presents Willie’s first concept album, 1974’s Jerry Wexler-produced Phases And Stages, remastered and expanded with ten bonus tracks. Disc three presents the Wexler-produced in-concert classic Live At The Texas Opry House, expanded with five bonus tracks.

The legendary career of Texas-born music icon Willie Nelson has spanned six decades. He first rose to fame as a Nashville-based songwriter, penning many now-timeless standards, including “Crazy,” a smash hit for Patsy Cline. Feeling constrained by the Nashville establishment, Willie relocated to Austin, Texas, in the early 1970s, where the merging of rock and country audiences made a huge impression on him. He began fusing folk and roots-rock with a rebellious “outlaw” country flavor, inventing an authentic, stripped-down sound that remains vastly influential. At this pivotal point in his evolution, Willie signed to Atlantic Records, delivering two signature studio albums revered as all-time masterpieces: Shotgun Willie and Phases And Stages. This boxed set presents Live At The Texas Opry House, recorded during the same period, as a stand-alone disc for the first time ever.

Snow Patrol has postponed all of its planned US summer tour dates due to frontman Gary Lightbody’s ongoing throat problems. According to a press release, a doctor has instructed Lightbody not to sing again until mid-July.

The band is currently rescheduling all of its dates for September. A firm itinerary is expected by next week.

Bunny Wailer, the reggae legend who was one of the original Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, will tour for the first time with a new generation of Marleys.
Wailer will play alongside Marley’s sons, Stephen and Ziggy, on the Roots, Rock, Reggae Festival, a month-long tour that opens Aug. 6 in Redway, Calif., after a year hiatus.

Stephen Marley, 34, will headline the tour, which will make stops including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston and Philadelphia. Ziggy Marley, 37, will also perform, as will the group Ozomatli.
Wailer, who last released the album Communication in 2000, is the lone surviving member of the Wailers. Marley died of cancer in 1981; Tosh was murdered in 1987.

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Two decades after helping define the sound of alternative-rock with Husker Du, Bob Mould could help redefine the sound of pop itself as part of an unusual partnership with progressive house wizard and Deep Dish-collaborator Richard Morel. Named after an ultimate fight in pro-wrestling and drawing from Mould

Indie rock acts Wolf Parade and Frog Eyes will team for a host of North American tour dates later this summer, beginning Aug. 4 in Ottawa, Ontario. Wolf Parade vocalist/keyboardist Spencer Krug will be pulling double duty at the shows, having rejoined Frog Eyes earlier this year after an extended break from the group.

Here are Wolf Parade/Frog Eyes

Los Angeles band Particle will give North American audiences a taste of its new sound this summer, with tour dates booked into early October.
The concerts include June and July dates in the Western U.S., with Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland on the map for August. A cross-country run is booked for September, followed by dates in Ohio and North Carolina the following month.
The group will be joined by the U.K.’s Ozric Tentacles for a handful of shows in mid-July. The itinerary also includes gigs with Soulive and Blues Traveler.
The band will be playing Street Scene in San Diego on July 4, and the very next day they’re at Lollapalooza in Chicago. Two more prestigious festival stops – Bumbershoot in Seattle and Summerfest in Milwaukee – are also on the schedule.
Particle – which fuses rock, funk and electronic elements into a jammy style it calls “funktronic” – added vocals for the first time last year with the addition of new members Ben Combe and Scott Metzger, who both play guitar and sing.
Combe and Metzger replaced former guitarist Charlie Hitchcock, who either left or was kicked out in early 2005, depending who you ask.
In July, the band will release a double-disc concert CD and full-length DVD titled Transformations Live, which documents its first shows as a five-piece earlier this year.

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As noted on the John Brown’s Body official website, bassist Scott Palmer has lost his battle to cancer, and passed away Wednesday afternoon.

“Our bass player Scott Palmer passed away today at 12noon. As you may know, Scott was diagnosed with cancer in January of this year. As the bass player for JBB since 2002, Scott was immediately a family member within JBB, blessing us with his great warmth, humor, charm, and of course monstrous bass playing. We are sad beyond words to have lost him today. Condolensces can be sent to Scott’s family:

Mr. and Mrs. Vince Palmer PO Box 148 Pultneyville N.Y. 14538

R.I.P. Scottie – we love you.”

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Vegoose.com has announced the dates of this year’s event. Moving to a weeklong festival, this year shows will take place starting October 27th and running straight through Halloween.

Details on headliners and a full artist line-up have not yet been revealed.

The debut event last year held at Sam Boyd Stadium included Dave Matthews and Friends, Widespread Panic, Jack Johnson, Beck, Phil Lesh and many others.

Stay tuned to vegoose.com for more info

The Village Voice, the nation’s largest alternative weekly newspaper, is excited to announce the addition of Scissor Sisters, Serena Maneesh, Man Man, The Rogers Sisters and Deadboy & The Elephantmen to the line-up for the 6th Annual Village Voice SIREN MUSIC FESTIVAL

The AT&T blue room will be bringing you hours of free uninterrupted live streaming coverage from Bonnaroo starting on June 16th. This year

Jeremy Enigk, Badly Drawn Boy, Zero 7, Lady Sovereign, Alejandro Escovedo, Jose Gonzalez, the Veronicas, Particle, Great Big Sea, Sonya Kitchell and Rogue Wave are among the acts that have joined the lineup for Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival.

As previously reported, the event will take place Sept. 2-4 at the Seattle Center. Among the earlier confirmed acts are Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, AFI, Hawthorne Heights and Yellowcard. More artists will be announced next month; tickets go on sale July 15 via Bumbershoot.org and Ticketmaster.

The great singer-songwriter and performer Billy Preston, the real “Fifth Beatle,” has died after a long illness as a result of malignant hypertension that resulted in kidney failure and other complications.

As a result of a medical insult, he’d been in a deep coma since last November 21, but was still struggling to recover. He died at Shea Scottsdale Hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he’d lived for the last couple of years.

Billy was called the Fifth Beatle because he played keyboards on “Let It Be,” “The White Album” and “Abbey Road.” He also played on the Rolling Stones’ hit song “Miss You,” and often played with Eric Clapton. He also did the organ work on Sly & the Family Stone’s greatest hits.

Preston’s own hits include “Nothing From Nothing,” “Will It Go Round in Circles” and “You Are So Beautiful,” which Joe Cocker turned into an international hit.

Source: foxnews.com