First published in  The Goatee E-Mail

June 2000 Goat Notes

6.28.00
Get on the bus! I have some exciting news to share. Lonely Goat is pleased to announce that we have arranged for a chartered bus trip from North Carolina to Hookahville Fall 2000<http://www.hookahville.com>. Dam Good Tours <http://rkemble1.bizland.com/index1.chtml> based in New Jersey and St. Louis will be making the arrangements. Hookahville Fall 2000 is scheduled for September 1-3 at Buckeye Lake Music Center in Ohio. The lineup includes ekoostik hookah both nights, Jorma Kaukonen Band, Alvin Youngblood Hart Band, CPR featuring David Crosby, Toni Brown Band, and more. The tentative price for the trip is $140 which includes your ticket to the festival, but this may increase slightly. A deposit of $70 is due by the end of July. We only have fifty seats available so I recommend acting quickly. Watch the Lonely Goat website for more details and please feel free to contact me for more information.

I've added more information to the dates this week. Since the email does not seem to get out until Wednesday, I'm now listing dates through next Thursday.

BANDS
The Southern Lights <http://www.southernlights.cjb.net/> in Boone will be playing a side stage at the Jethro Tull concert on July 2 at Blockbuster Pavillion in Charlotte. Be sure to catch them if you can. These guys are making a good name for themselves.

I was contacted this week by 'The McKees' in Chapel Hill. Check them out at http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/117/the_mckees.html.

6.26.00
Charlie Hunter contest posted in the Deadheads Festival Calendar.

6.21.00
I'm going to take some space this week to highlight a couple of festivals:

The Jameokee Jamboree is scheduled for August 4-6 right here in NC! The folks at Ziggy's in Winston Salem, NC are throwing the event which includes Widespread Panic, The String Cheese Incident, Donna the Buffalo, and The Original 'P'. I know I mentioned this last week, but the weblink was wrong. Try http://www.ziggyrock.com. Sorry for the error. I have more news too. The Boone, NC publication 'THE PAPER' has a new website and you can register to win a pair of tickets to the Jameokee Jamboree when you visit http://www.thepaperrocks.com.

A lot has been happening in West Virginia this Spring and lots more is on the way for the summer. A new venue, Sunshine Daydream Music Festival
Campground <http://www.sunshinedaydreams.com>, has been hosting some great events almost two or three weekends a month it seems. Some of the events are put on by Sunshine Daydreams and some are presented by Productions Plus <http://baysoft.net/prod+/>, a WV/ VA promoter. The most recent addition to the schedule is of particular interest to the Smilefest folks. The Mountaintop Newgrass & Bluegrass Festival is scheduled for June 30 - July 1 at Sunshine Daydreams. Presented by Sunshine Daydream, bands include The Larry Keel Experience & Curtis Burch, Davisson Brothers, Snake Oil Medicine Show, and seven more TBA. I've heard some good reports about the campground and the dedicated effort everyone involved with these past few events has put forth. If you don't make this festival, there are more on the way so check out their websites.

Those who saw Max Creek at Smilefest earlier this month might be interested in the Wormtown Music Festival August 25-26 at Stepping Stone Ranch in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. The lineup includes Max Creek, Slipknot, Foxtrot Zulu, Jiggle the Handle, The Dude of Life, Another Planet, Moon Boot Lover, The Toni Brown Band, Michigan Black Snake, Loose Change, The Bruce Mandaro Band and recently added...Ancient Harmony from our neck of the woods. The folks at wormtown are offering a special discount on tickets for us southerners who got turned on to Max Creek at Smilefest and want to make the trip up north. Send me a note if you are interested.

Finally, a quick note to the bands out there: Our friend David Regan, who manages The Low Country Boil Bluegrass Band and now Perpetual Groove also, is now Music Director for College of Charleston radio in Charleston, SC. He is looking for bluegrass/jam/improv material to feature on-air. Send him an email at dalyplnet@aol.com.

BAND NEWS
The Home Grown Music Network announced last week the release of a new CD from Jon Shain called 'Brand New Lifetime'. Shain is known in NC for his former stints with Wake and Flyin, Mice and people have been asking for more news about him. I hope that helps. HGMN also announced that the debut CD from Wake was back in stock. Check out http://www.homegrownmusic.net.

Greensboro's Life Trip is traveling all the way to Spain via the airwaves. 'The Head Song' from thier new CD 'Tranquility' is #7 on the top ten played
list for the show 'The Gates of Delerium' on the station RLF - Kadena Joven in Zaragoza, Spain.

I was contacted this week by Bolweevil, a jam funk band from Chapel Hill. I've added their dates to the Jambase and I hope you'll check them out at http://www.bolweevil.com.

6.13.00
The big news is that I've posted the revised website. Please stop by and check out the new and improved Lonely Goat. Two new articles from J.D. Edwards were posted with the revision. Check out his views on Suwannee SpringFest and Gov't Mule @ Ziggy's. As an added bonus, I now have galleries of every Lonely Goat print cover and all editions of the Lonely Goat Comic. If you are not in the mood for the big downloads, be sure to peruse the new Features Archives with lots of articles about music events and musicians on the East Coast.

VENUE NEWS
Speaking of Ziggy's, if you haven't heard by now, let me be the first to lay his one on ya. What started out as an end-of-tour Widespread Panic show has become a full blown festival event. Added to the schedule so far are String Cheese Incident, Donna the Buffalo, and Original P. The festivities take place August 4 - 6. JAMEOKEE JAMBOREE.

BAND NEWS
Charlotte's Wavy Train has a Cd available through mp3.com for only $5.99 and they've been a popular item.

6.6.00
BAND NEWS
Greensboro's Folkswaggin' will present their newest ensemble this Saturday at the Blind Tiger in Greensboro. Hammond player David McCracken will be playing a double bill as he sits in with the opener also - The Allison King Band. Stop by for the latest sound from Folkswaggin'.

Megelen, also in Greensboro, has a new drummer. Ryan Wilke, formerly of Otis Reem and The Tred, will be making his debut June 16th at Fuzzy Duck's in Greensboro. Megelen plays straight up psychedelia a la Jimmi Hendrix. Megelen has also added a booking and promotion manager. Nancy Foster of Endora's Box will be putting together an extensive upcomming tour for the boys. Finally, you can hear their latest efforts at http://www.mp3.com/megelen.

Remember Chapel Hill's Grasshopper Highway? They kind of derailed after the departure of their drummer last fall. Rafael Goldberg on guitar and vocals and Jeremy Baggish on mandolin have joined Cameron Weeks on drums and Dave Alston on bass to form The Buttons. Check them out 6.18.00 at the Local 506 and 6.25.00 at The Cave. Both venues are in Chapel Hill.

VENUE NEWS
Rockit's in Wilmington has released their June schedule for their Jam Band Thursday series. Cold Mountain Rhythm Band plays this Thursday (6.8.00). Fresh from their Smilefest debut, Southern Groove Society, will be playing 6.15.00. Astroglide flys in 6.22.00. June 29 will feature some of our favorite folks from South Carolina, The Low County Boil Bluegrass Band. Every Thursday features free pizza from Pizza-2-U so come early for some grub.