The Garcia Project will perform a full, classic Jerry Garcia Band show setlist in Brattleboro, VT!

The Garcia Project is the only nationally touring Jerry Garcia Band tribute that performs full, classic Jerry Band set lists from 1976-1995. We have been called by many, “the DSO of JGB”. With proper, era-specific equipment and arrangements, The Garcia Project brings the fans back in time to relive the classic Jerry Garcia Band concerts in their entirety.

“I spent a lot of nights in a lot of places with the Jerry Garcia Band, and I’m here to say that I really enjoy what The Garcia Project does with those memories. Mik’s guitar and his and Kat’s vocals stir up some very sweet vibes…some times they almost make me feel like I’m back in, say, 1992 at the Warfield. Check ‘em out.”
— Dennis McNally, former publicist for the Jerry Garcia Band

“For those of us who crave late 70’s, and through the 80’s and 90’s Jerry Garcia Band, The Garcia Project scratches that itch for hearing live renditions of Jerry Garcia Band shows from that period.”
— Bob Minkin, legendary Grateful Dead and Jerry Band rock photographer

“If you close your eyes, you’ll swear you are at a Jerry Garcia Band show.”
– ecoLocal Magazine, Albany, NY

“…it was hard to tell that it wasn’t Jerry signing on “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down….The Garcia Project’s attention to detail on intonation and performance structure does set them apart as an authority on Jerry Garcia.”
– NYS Music

“In order for a tribute band to be successful, fans need to look at them as the authority on the artist they are emulating. The Garcia Project pulls it off effortlessly. Go see them live …The Garcia Project is the whole package.”
– Jim Gilbert, Upstate Live

“The Garcia Project was on point with the whole experience and it didn’t seem like a cover band more like a mirrored band…they are just as real as the Jerry Garcia Band. “
– Buffalo FM Review

“”Deadicated“ to carrying on the music and vibe of Jerry that so many still carry in their hearts.”
– Albany Times Union

Frogbelly and Symphony is an international band, splitting its time between Sheffield, UK, and Brooklyn, NY. Thomas Hanley, Liz Hanley, Ben Trott, and Ray Rizzo come from a wide variety of musical and cultural backgrounds, bringing in a world of influences. They reappropriate the heritage of Rock and Roll and also the folk traditions of Ireland, Britain and America.

Thank God For Science is a one of a kind musical medium that explores sonic and musical vocabulary searching for harmony, chaos, enlightenment and everything in between.

Omoo Omoo is an instrumental psych-prog-fusion rock band out of southern New Hampshire.

7pm doors / 8pm show / $15

The Furious Bongos are a Zappa project featuring musicians who have played alongside heavyweights like Yo Yo Ma, Mick Fleetwood, and Les Paul.

This isn’t strictly a “tribute” band – doing a note-for-note rendition of Song X from Album Y while staring at their shoes didn’t seem like the proper way to go about it. The result is a show that pays respect to Zappa’s legacy but is still new and different and dangerous, with lots of eyebrows.

Kinda like Frank.

Anyone familiar with the Americana music scene knows this Upstate, New York based band has cut their teeth on a killer live show. With a neverending tour schedule and a steady buzz, they have built a very solid underground fan base. “The game has been live shows and nose to the ground since the beginning,” says guitarist/songwriter Dan Forsyth.

As well as a devout following and a sizable discography, the band’s hard work has also been a
huge part of the inspiration for their music. The songs and arrangements have grown out of
time spent on the road, growing closer, learning with and from each other and weathering the
up’s and down’s of the journey together. “We have a truly special bond creatively and
personally. It’s the driving force behind the music,” violinist/songwriter Claire Byrne adds.

It is with this bond, patience, determination and undying mutual love and respect for music, the road, and their friendship, they have approached their latest offering, ‘Tree of Shade.’

“I’m struck by the gratitude that making music with my best friends/my other family brings,”
says guitarist/songwriter Joe Kollar. “Even our producer (Simone Felice) and the engineer (Pete Hanlon) became brothers in this process. Laying out some of your most intimat
e moments and showing the rawest version of yourself is both scary and exhilarating but more importantly, it reminds you why you chose music as the vehicle. It’s the ’66 Corvette that will always take me back to the beauty and power of a group of people setting out to make something together.”

Their first album with a major producer, ‘Tree of Shade’ is a testament to the essence of a song. Working alongside Felice, the band found themselves stripping things back way more than they normally would. “Simone was all about finding the essence of the song and doing our best to bring it out without distorting it or taking the arrangement too far.”

The first single off of the Spring 2019 release is ‘Lay Like You Do,’ a stripped down
heartbreaker. This was one of those songs that came out faster than I could write it down and seemed sort of like plucking an apple off a tree,” admits Forsyth. The melody and chorus came out of a dream and when I woke up, I wrote the rest real fast.”

With the addition of drummer Will Sigel in April 2018, Driftwood feels like a new band. “Will
has elevated our sound without changing the intimate dynamic that is Driftwood,” observes
bassist Joey Arcuri. With this added momentum and a new album, a nationwide tour is set in
support of ‘Tree of Shade.

Separately, fiddler and singer Lily Sexton tours with bluegrass band Mamma’s Marmalade and psychedelic folk band Sweet Lightning; Max Wareham joins legendary singer and guitarist Peter Rowan’s band on banjo, has toured nationally on bass with rock’n’roll outfit Sun Parade, and writes and produces independently. Together, they merge their original writing and multi-instrumental capabilities with elements of Old Time, country and folk; stirring the soul and inviting listeners to join them in a truly immersive experience of music.

Albert Cummings
https://albertcummings.com/
Dwight & Nicole
https://dwightandnicole.com/
11/8/19
Stone Church, Brattleboro, VT
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The blues is best served up live, with an enthusiastic audience and a killin band, and thats exactly what guitarist Albert Cummings does[]. Cummings effortlessly shifts from chimney subdued stylings to raucous roadhouse raunch to soaring yet stinging lead lines, driving his audience to frenzy in all the right places. Guitar Edge Magazine
Albert Cummings is a masterful guitar player who burst onto the blues rock scene in the early 2000s and almost immediately began gaining praise for his versatility as both a singer/songwriter and live performer. His muscular guitar work is simply outstanding. Hes a great blues singer as well with passion for the tunes inherent in his full throttle approach. – Rock and Blues Muse

Dwight & Nicole is an American indie-soul band fronted by Dwight Ritcher & Nicole Nelson. Ritcher and Nelson met in Boston when they were both just out of school and cutting their teeth on the local club scene. They discovered a shared love of classic blues greats like Albert King and Lighting Hopkins, covering songs by their heroes; Mavis Staples, Jimmy Witherspoon and Etta James. All the while obsessing over writing, and honing their own original music.

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
disarmers.com
11/15/2019
$12 adv $15 dos
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When Sidelong, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers debut album, was released in early 2017, it quickly earned kudos for its blast of fresh, fierce honesty and sly wit. It was a welcome new voice in a genre too often mired in the staid and conventional. And while that record may have come to many as a surprise, Years solidifies the point: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers have moved from getting peoples attention to commanding it. The albumwith its sharpened songwriting, unique perspective, deepened sound and roll-up-your-sleeves attitudewill grab you by the collar and put a defiant finger to your chest. It is resolute, blunt, and unflinching.

Inspired by artists such as the Sex Pistols, Elliott Smith and Hank Williams, Sarah sings with confidence, control, and, at times, a hint of menace. The Disarmers match her on every track, coloring the tales of resilience and empathy with as much urgency as ever as well as a broader sonic sweep. Its easy to hear Sarah as a close cousin to artists like Hurray for the Riff Raff and Margo Price on the title track, or in the country-60s mod vibe on Lesson. Good as Gold, sporting a kiss-off line for the ages, Youre as good as gold/ Im as good as gone, is both vulnerable and defiant, soaring with pop-inflected harmonies. And with an expansiveness evoking the wide-open West, What it Takes speaks to the truth of the record, to her life, and to the universe.

At its pounding heart, Years crackles with a pointedly contemporary and relevant take on the outlaw spirit. Built around the buoyant pedal steel of Phil Sullivan, and the post-punk rattle and Live at San Quentin hum of Eric Petersons guitar, there are echoes of Nikki Lane and Merle Haggard as much as Ty Segall. Its home is the ragged-but-real honky tonk, not the bro-country honky tonk. The barroom singalong New Ways to Fail is classic, smile-through-the-pain country. Damned If I Do could be the Drivin Nails in My Coffin of the 21st century, if we let it; a perfect song for rolling in the wry and sneaking in a quick two-step. The sinister The Bottle Never Lets Me Down will get anyone whos ever been wronged righteously flipping the bird as they knock back the next shot. Therapy in the face of personal devastation takes many forms, after all.

As Sarah herself tells it…

This record is about finding a way. A way through exhaustion, depression, betrayal, hangover after hangover, upper after downer after upper, fight after never-ending fight. Its about picking yourself up and dusting yourself off after years of being trampled and beaten down, jutting your chin out, head high, after theyve done their worst, and saying, Still here.

This record is shouting fk you, I do want I want from the rooftops to the mother**g cosmos.

Saints & Liars is a four piece Roadhouse String Band hailing from Vermont. Their raw speed and gruff howling resonates through the green mountains. Dance. Stomp. Drink whiskey. Sing along.

Matt Heckler is the fiddle player you want to believe still exists. Veering from Appalachia to Romania, Ireland to the Catskills, his music is definitively unsafe and entirely his own.

The Catskills, where he grew up and the Carolina Appalachians he calls home are old mountains, but the kids there are more likely to be raised on punk than old time string bands. Heckler took both with him when he left and sharpened a distinctive sound on banjo and fiddle the scientific way, as a street performer who could measure the days artistic growth in single dollar bills. Attracting the attention of musicians, as well as passers-by, he spent half a decade touring and releasing three albums with the band Deep Chatham. Since then his room silencing solo act has become an exciting yet poorly kept secret in DIY music scenes around the country. After The Flood will be his first full-length release showcasing a songwriting ability that audiences, distracted by his casually virtuosic musicianship, might have previously overlooked. Don’t wait for his next reinvention, find Matt Heckler now and remember what music should be.

Hailing from the hills of Southern Vermont, Moon Hollow, is an acoustic quartet that formed in the Winter of 2018. They specialize in both original music and unique covers in the styles of bluegrass, jamgrass, early jazz, blues and alt-country.

Kung Fu
kungfumusic.com
The New Motif
thenewmotif.com
11/29/19
$20 adv/ $25 dos
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Proud to be firmly installed in the new-funk movement, KUNG FU is quickly popularizing their unique sonic contribution, blurring the line between intense electro-fusion, and blistering dance arrangements. Making fusion music “cool” again, the band draws on influences such as early Headhunters and Weather Report, and merges those ideas with a contemporary EDM informed sensibility. Imagine 70’s funk-fusion meets a modern dance party!

Although the ensemble cast enjoys a seasoned pedigree that reads like a late-night summer festival all-star jam, this fledgling “nu-sion” project is growing a unique and rabid following by commanding audiences at theaters, clubs, and major national festivals since 2012.

The powerhouse quintet’s live show has been described by critics and fans alike as “lethal funk”, “explosive”, “jaw dropping”, and “musically mesmerizing”. For the uninitiated, the experience is typically shocking yet the focus is simple: just sit back and enjoy the ride!

Kung Fu Features:
Tim Palmieri (guitar & vocals)
Robert Somerville (tenor sax & vocals)
Beau Sasser (keyboards & vocals)
Chris DeAngelis (bass guitar & vocals)
Adrian Tramontano (drums/percussion)

Steal Your Funk returns to one of the most amazing venues for not only sound, but also vibe and coolness! Our last show here was indeed an epic night, and don’t expect anything less Thanksgiving Weekend. Tell all your friends, and yes, for all our Northern friends, we coming’ back. Please share with all!

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! BEFORE THEY SELL OUT! http://stonechurchvt.com/index.php/event/steal-your-funk-2/

8:30pm-KIND BUD

10pm-STEAL YOUR FUNK
Jen Durkin – Vocals
Zach Nugent – Guitar and Vocals
Doug Wimbish – Bass and Vocals
Jordan Giangreco – Keys and Vocals
Rob Glassman – Percussions and Vocals
Ryan Lunderville – Drums
Sam Kininger – Sax
(Lettuce,Dave Matthews, Soullive)

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