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Friday and Saturday, October 30 and October 31, 2009

Steal The Breeze at Spring Mountain’s “Scream Mountain”
Friday at 7:00PM
Haunted adventures to the music of a great live band.
www.screammountain.com

Pete Kranz & The WEMB this Friday @ Cedars Pub, Skippack PA and Saturday @ Pickering Creek Inn, Phoenixville, PA – Come out and get spooky with yer bad selves! — Jayar Bass

Psychedelphia
John and Peter’s, New Hope, Friday
North Star Bar, Philly, Saturday, Spookadelphic…..mwuuhahahahaha

Dirk Quinn
http://www.dirkquinn.com
Friday, October 30th
Zeno’s
9pm
100 W College Ave
State College, PA 16801

World famous beers. World famous bar. Rated as one of the Top 50 places to have a beer in America, Zeno’s sits directly above the center of the ear…th on the corner of College Avenue and Allen Street in downtown State College, PA.

Saturday, November 7th
Steel City
8-11pm

203 Bridge Street
Phoenixville, PA 19460
Price: $10 advance/$12 DOS
ALL AGES!!

Steel City is a beautiful European-style coffee house and premiere music venue located in Phoenixville, PA (just west of Philadelphia). The FULL BAND will be headlining the night with a full set of original jazz/funk. Our good friends in Fusionhouse will be kicking off the night with some fantastic music! Come early… you don’t want to miss them.

Get your tix early and save money: http://www.steelcitycoffeehouse.com/

Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA — The Philadelphia Folk Festival is an interesting experience. You never know what you will see… or hear. This works both ways — from the audience looking toward the stage or from the stage looking at the audience. It probably has the largest ratio of musicians that are in the audience than any other concert venue.

Thus, my surprise to see Get The Led Out scheduled for the special Thursday evening “Exclusive Camp Concert” that is put on for the overnight campers. What the heck was a band that bills themselves as the American Led Zeppelin doing at the Folk Fest? The must have been intimidating for the band:
1) They play songs that people know, so they have to play flawlessly.
2) They are to perform heavy rock music to a folk crowd.
3) Many in the audience are talented musicians.
4) They followed two talented folk bands, Jill Sobule and Deer Tick.

You would think that they would go over like a lead balloon? No. Le contraire. As soon as they started playing, people began flocking to the stage. Before long, there was standing room only. The crowd joined in and sang every song. Looking at the people standing next to you would cause you to pause. A mother dancing next to her daughter. People of all ages having the time of their life. In fact, it’s the only Folk Fest performance that I can remember hurting my ears.

As the show progressed, it felt like the audience and performers were feeding off each other. The crowd’s energy feeding the band, and in return the band’s energy feeding the audience. Only at the Folk Fest could such a miracle take place.

Get The Led Out Concert Photo Gallery

Philadelphia, PA — Jason Marz played an upbeat and energy filled show to a sold-out crowd at Festival Pier in Penn’s Landing. It turned out to be a beautiful evening with the sun setting behind the stage. At any given moment, you could look to the audience and see everyone dancing and swaying to the music.

Setlist
The Sunshine Song
Traveler
Make It Mine
Coyotes
Anything You Want
Curbside
Man Gave Names To Animals
Live High
Reggaedy / The Remedy
The Dynamo Of Volition
Beautiful Mess
I’m Yours

Encore Part I
Audible Band
Lucky with Alysse Fisher
Audible Duo / Geek In The Pink

Encore Part II
Cop Chase
Fall Through Glass with Bushwalla
Butterfly

The crowd seemed pleased with the song selection knowing all the lyrics and singing with great volume. “The Remedy” was a highlight of the show as it was transformed into a reggae dancefest (retitled Reggaedy); however, the best part was the first encore. Since it was a general admission show, the massive crowd was pushed up against the stage. After the last song of the set, Jason and three other members of his band came out to the sound mixing tent and set-up facing the rear of the audience. There they played three real groove based songs — percussion, a bass box, bass and Jason on guitar. The vocals and backing vocals were wonderful and clear. For the song “Lucky”, they brought out Alysse Fisher to sing the duet. “Geek In The Pink” left Jason alone on stage with Noel “Toca” Rivera on percussion.

You could not ask for anything more pleasing than to be able to fill your senses with this intimate climax.

Jason Mraz Photo Gallery

G. Love Photo Gallery

Philadelphia, PA — G. Love, on tour with Jason Mraz, played to his hometown crowd at Penn’s Landing’s Festival Pier. A severe thunderstorm delayed the start of his show but clear skies soon gave way to a beautiful evening.

During the storm, the crowd was advised to go into the enclosed area for their own safety. All of a sudden, Bushwalla got up on a chair and started playing. Bushwalla is a good friend of Jason Mraz. For quite some time, they were roommates. Besides MC’ing the show, Bushwalla is an accomplished singer and songwriter. It was nice to see his enthusiasm and spunk up-close and in-your-face. By the end of his impromptu set, the whole crowd was singing along to “Ghetto Blaster”.

After the storm passed, the crowd went back outside. It was not long before G. Love to the stage. G. Love (Garrett Dutton III) has a contemporary Bob Dylan sort-of presence on stage wearing a harmonica on a wire rack and playing the guitar while he sings. Originally from Society Hill in Philly, the local crowd sang along knowing every word to every song. Not only were they great songs to sing to, but the audience couldn’t help but to dance and move about.

The jam-packed jam set included: “Can’t Go Back To Jersey”, “Crumble”, “Peace, Love and Happiness”, “Hot Cookin’”, “Booty Call”, “Baby’s Got Sauce”, “Cold Beverage” and “I-76″.

“I-76″ was a real crowd pleaser and featured Katman on vocals.

But if you gotta get down real quick
The only way to go is I-76

Unless of course you wanna take the scenic view
Then East or West River Drive is right for you
But if you ain’t got time to lose
Put the pedal to the metal for the that voyage cruise
So get on down to I-76
Because in 1996 there ain’t no
Tricks in the mix

Get along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bird
Get along 76ers
Dr. J! Moses Malone
Get along 76ers
Jerry Stackhouse and Iverson

After the show, G. Love held a meet-and-greet for autographs. There I met Katman who indulged me with an autograph. Now a teacher for special needs children, Katman still continues to perform with The Burned Out Allstars. Back in the day, he co-wrote and performed I-76. These days he is pursuing a post-grad degree at Temple.

I asked:
How were the XPN concerts? Did you get to see They Might Be Giants? I always wanted to see them live.

Rick Replied:
I like the XPN Festival….new mixed with old…..Steve Forbert was great. They Might Be Giants were funny and quirky…..not sure I’d buy their records but they sure could play. Aimee Mann was very subtle. Dug Louden Wainright III. Only band I didn’t get to see that I wanted to was Guster…..big storm was blowing in and we were really tired after 3 full days. We caught it on the radio. Pete Yorn was great.