StrangeCreek Campout Returns to Greenfield, MA for 16th Year The family-friendly event, hailed as the kickoff to to festival season in the Northeast, will once again take place over Memorial Day weekend at Camp Kee-Wanee in Greenfield, MA from Friday, May 25th till Monday, May 28th. To submit a review or story for consideration hit us at [email protected] Check out the Live Music News and Review.com Facebook page for updates and announcements. The 16th Annual StrangeCreek Campout makes its return to Camp Kee-Wanee in Greenfield, Massachusetts over Memorial Day Weekend beginning at 9 AM Friday May 25th and concluding on Monday, May 28th, 2018. Widely regarded as the kickoff of festival season in the Northeast, StrangeCreek will feature Max Creek, Melvin Seals and JGB, Pink Floyd tribute The Machine, Zach Deputy, and Ryan Montbleau Band as headliners this year. Tickets are $140 for a weekend pass (free for attendees 15 and under!) until May 13th at midnight and can be purchased at this link. Now in its 16th year, StrangeCreek campout features three nights of wooded camping and music. Music takes place on three stages and two cabins continuously throughout the weekend. Always a family-friendly event, family camping is an option with kids-centric entertainment as well as a “Teen Scene.” Other points of interest are the community bonfire, the Fire Wormz Fire Show, the Holistic Village, group yoga, and the Strangers Helping Strangers Food Drive. Early birds can purchase a pass for Thursday night and catch cabin sets from “jamericana” rice: an American Band, blues-roots outfit August First (their debut at StrangeCreek), Gratefully Yours (an all-star tribute to the Grateful Dead), and Allman Brothers/Dead hybrid Steal Your Peach. In addition to the aforementioned headliners, StrangeCreek welcomes two sets of Pink Talking Fish (seamlessly performing the music of Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, and Phish), roots-fusion mainstays Donna The Buffalo, jambands Particle and Consider the Source, a collaboration between hip-hop dup Zion I & “future groove” group Lespecial, Toubab Krewe, Hayley Jane and the Primates, Shakedown, Passafire, Jon Stickley Trio, Wild Adriatic, Bumpin Uglies, Creamery Station (2 sets), Llama Lasagne, Big Mean Sound Machine, The Alchemystics, Banooba, Backup Planet, Outer Stylie, Rev Tor Band, Bella’s Bartok (2 sets), Black Masala (2 sets), Danny Pease and the Regulators, Balkun Brothers, Kwame Binea, Taj Weekes and Adowa, Swift Technique, Duppy Conquerors, Jocelyn & Chris Arndt, Flux Capacitor, Town Meeting, Jeremiah Hazed, Secret Sage, Woody & the Rebel Alliance, William Thompson Funk Experiment, The Kings, Auguste & Alden, A-Bombs, Analog Heart, Born IV Blues, Christopher Jacques Trio, Desert Rain, Dr Rick, EZOTMY, Gary Backstrom Band, Jabawaukee, John Spignesi Band, Keepers of the Vibe, Legion of Jerry, Leon Trout, Long Arm Rex, The Marks Brothers, Melting Nomads, Mundo’s Crazy Circus, Northeast Traffic, Rebelle, Rhythmic Circus, rice: An American Band (2 sets- including a cabin debut on Thursday night), Shantyman & the Speakeasies, The Stupid Robots, Swimmer, Tales of Joy, Terrafunk, and The Trichomes. Whew! Have you got all that?! If that lineup alone hasn’t convinced you to buy your presale tickets, let’s take a little time to talk about the headliners. . . audio from Max Creek’s 2017 StrangeCreek set (use arrows to toggle back and forth between songs): Now in their 47th year, venerable jamband icons Max Creek have been small, big, regionally-huge, medium, and any other size one can think of; they’ve never graced the cover of Rolling Stone, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a music fan in the Northeast that hadn’t heard of them. Max Creek are true pioneers of the electric rock jam, with four decades of experience launching musical adventures with a rich repertoire of originals and uniquely interpreted gems. Each set is a journey for audience and band alike, chasing muses without a net and bringing it all back home to the roots again. They’ll be performing on the main stage on Saturday night beginning at 8 PM. From the YouTube channel of gerryjdvideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsIC07nIepY Melvin Seals has been a powerful presence in the music industry for over 30 years with a long-established reputation as a performer, recording artist and producer. Melvin is most revered for his powerful, high-spirited, Hammond B-3 organ, and keyboards in the Jerry Garcia Band. Melvin spun his B-3 magic with the Jerry Garcia Band for 18 years and in doing so helped pioneer and define what has now become “Jam Band Music”. From blues to funk to rock to jazz, Melvin Seals serves up a tasty mix with a little R&B and gospel thrown in to spice things up. In addition to the often-played staples, the band has recently been exploring the back catalog and performing a ton of super rare tunes, some of which The Jerry Garcia Band played only a few times over all those years. They’ll dazzle Worms on the main stage on Friday at 9:30 PM.
A big part of StrangeCreek is the Strangers Helping Strangers charity drive. SHS is a non-profit organization of music fans dedicated to holding food drives at concerts throughout the nation, benefiting those in need in each community an event is held. The origins of Strangers Helping Strangers (SHS) dates back to late 1997, when two fans of the Burlington, Vermont-based band Strangefolk, Kat Harless and Tina Campbell, saw an opportunity to help those less fortunate by collecting non-perishable food at various Strangefolk concerts throughout the Northeast and donating it to food banks and charities in the cities and towns Strangefolk played. The first official food drive was held in 1998, and since then SHS has collected items for charities all over the country. EVENT INFO 16th Annual StrangeCreek Campout May 25-28th, 2018 Camp Kee-Wanee, Greenfield MA StrangeCreekCampout.com Gates open 9am Friday, May 25th Ticket link Tickets are $140 until May 13th at midnight Rules: No glass No dogs (Service dogs must be registered) River access in designated areas only! Shade tents on the main field must be put away by sundown To submit a review or story for consideration hit us at [email protected] Check out the Live Music News and Review.com Facebook page for updates and announcements.
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StrangeCreek Campout-May 25th-28th, 2018
