May Daze Music Festival - May 4-5, Muncine Indiana.

This lineup is shaping up to be a great party at a great price coming up early in the festival season. This summer seems to already be full of great options even while snow is still flying!

May Daze is hosted by Glostik Willy and Family along with Laughing Sam Productions in order to bring a proper rage and haze to your weekend. The festival grounds of The Water Bowl are located in the heart of Indiana in Muncie. These lively but flattened grassy fields have hosted everything from very few to very large scale gatherings with a natural amphitheater carved next to the the Water Bowl's swimming pond. The grounds have running restrooms, recreational parks, a large pavilion and plenty of open space to camp next to your vehicles for easy camping. A small portion of the grounds contain shaded forest and additional water units/ electricity for RV's and VIP guests. Fire pits and grilling units are permitted. Wood, Ice, and food service vendors will be available for the extent of the festival. Please join our family and yours alike to celebrate our amazing community of musicians, artists, and enthusiasts surrounding our Midwest community!


Band Line-up:

The Werks
Glostik Willy
Boogie Matrix
Skeetones
The Mantras
Eumatik
Digeometric
Elephant Quiz
Midwest Hype
Jahman Brahman
Magic Jackson
Aliver Hall
Tonal Caravan
Mikial Robertson
Subterranean House Band
Stuttering Ducks
Groovestone Fusion
Fletchers Grove
Kaleidoscope Jukebox

More added daily (TBA)


Date: May 4th and 5th (Early Bird May 3rd opens at NOON)
Location: The Water Bowl
Address: 6811 North Old State Road 3, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $35 presale; $45 at the Door (No additional cost for Early Bird)
Rv's and Buses: $15 additional pass charge
VIP: $80.00 (includes backstage passes, electricity, water hook-ups, and access to pavilion showers)

Facebook event page with more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/116671195125598/

Boogie Matrx at Mickey Finn's 3/3/2012

After playing a number of shows throughout the state and in Kentucky recently, Boogie Matrix will be playing their first hometown show in a while this coming weekend at Mickey Finns Pub on LaGrange street in downtown Toledo, Ohio. This show is 18+ and cover is $7 for 18-20 and $5 For 21+. Stop out for some good beers and good times.



Check out the facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/184766571630794/

More season openers next weekend!

Symbiotic Acres ( 63253 8th Ave. South Haven, MI) and Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Nelson Twp., OH will both be opening their doors next weekend for their first music festivals of the season. It's shaping up to be a good weekend no matter which choice you make with a lot of regional talent on the stages all weekend long. Weather forecasts are looking rain free, but dress warm. Highs are going to be in the mid 50's and possibly dipping into the 30's on Saturdaynight at both venues. 


Tickets for Cabin Pheeva at Symbiotic Acres are $45 in advance and $55 at the gate and lineup as is follows:


*Thursday Pre-party:
Me3Mind

*Good Friday & Earth Day:
Sean Shiel
Down Lo
Mark Tyler
Useful Jenkins
Ashley & Uncle Zesty's Oldtime Bootknockers
Ben Miller Band
Vinyl Soup
Covert
Down Lo w/Deploi
Barefoot Fred

*Saturday:
Blue Moon Soup
Chris Pabon
Ashley & Uncle Zesty's
Overserved Trio
Sean Shiel
Rainbow Vomit Family Band
Chris Grubner
Boogie Matrix Mechanism
Mark Tyler
Soap
Sean Shiel
Thinner Teed
Ben Miller Band
The Coop


*Easter Sunday:
Blue Moon Soup
Useful Jenkins
Chris Pabon
Ben Miller Band
Sean Shiel
Ifdakar
Overserved Trio
Covert

Tickets for Early Bird at The Ledges are $40 for Friday-Sunday and $30 for Saturday-Sunday with the following lineup:



Friday:
6-8:30 Sultans Of Bing
9:00-11:15 Jim Miller Band
Late night tba 


Saturday:
More TBA 
Jones For Revival 
Willy Mac Music
Sargent Katz-n-Crump
The Werks 
Waterband 
Late night- Flyin Jays 


Everyone is welcome to stay at the quarry until 8pm Sunday night


More information can be found at the following pages. 
Cabin Pheeva Facebook Event Page
Early Bird Event Page @ NLQP Website


Feel free to leave comments for any additional events going on for Easter weekend. Be safe and let's all have a great time!

4/20 Shows

It's that time of year again. Our yearly celebration of the twentieth of April. That means plenty of shows to go around. Here are a few shows around our area that will be going on. Feel free to add more shows that you know of in the comments, because I'm sure to be missing out on quite a few!

• The Werks Jackie O's
  24 W. Union St., Athens, OH 45701
  Tickets are $10 18+
• Papadosio Papa Pete's
  502 S Burdick St, Kalamazoo, MI 4900
  Tickets are $12 18+
• Boogie Matrix Mechanism @ Mickey Finn's w/ wsg Johnny Polansky on percussionLocation: Mickey Finn's in Toledo, OHAdmission is FREE

Wherever you are, there should be good music to catch.  This would be a good opportunity to take advantage of JamBase to find a show that suits you. 

OxFest: Music and Arts Festival also this weekend

JUST ANNOUNCED!!! $19 OXFEST TICKETS now available @ KEGFLY.COM. Get yours asap before you miss out on this great opportunity. 


Oxfest is the third installment of a music festival created by Stank Entertainment and OhioStandUp at Miami University. Last Spring, the event, offered a spring break atmosphere in a daylong music and arts festival. Due to the success and high demand for another fest, we are proud to announce the expansion of this series. Our goal is to continue to offer a fun and safe atmosphere through a unique college and festival experience. This community has already shown to be a strong one as the previous installments have been very successful. Because of this initial success, Stank Entertainment has high expectations this Spring.


OxFest is being held at Hannon's Camp America
Official page is at Miami OxFest Official page which also has a link to their facebook page

Many good bands there, and The Werks will be playing an early 3pm set!  It looks like southwest ohio has a couple great places to be this weekend. Much more coming up soon!

Megan and Eric Suttman's BarnJam this weekend!

"BarnJam is a bi-annual, rain or shine musical event/camp out if-you-want-to mini-fest. For the past 12 years Eric Suttman, Professor of Audio and Visual Production for the University of Dayton, has presented Barn Jam as a showcase for local and regional musical talent, making it an established and cherished event within the Dayton and Yellow Springs communities. It all goes down on his farm just outside Dayton, Ohio where two barns are transformed into unique music venues twice a year.
This year promises to begin a great new tradition as Eric has teamed up with Cinci/NKY based MoreThanOrganic Productions to bring you Barn Jam – Spring 2011 w/The Werks, The Prosperity, Blue Moon Soup, Incendium Arts, and more…..
Our goal is to promote the local and regional music scene and to raise funds for UDSAP, by providing a memorable experience that is focused around music, art, and the community.
**Barn Jam is proud to contribute a portion of all proceeds to the University of Dayton’s Summer Appalachia Program (UDSAP) which allows UD students to spend a summer improving the living conditions of Appalachian families."

Tickets are only 20 dollars at the gate. This looks like a great time this coming weekend. Lots of good music and special appearances!
See The official BarnJam website to order presale tickets or for more details

Tribez Vibez returns for 2011

After their first shot at doing a multi-cultural festival last year, the guys from Tribez Vibez have decided to have another go at it. Along with a change in venue has came a drastic change in the initial lineup.

I don't know what everyone elses thoughts are, but to me this initial flyer is looking pretty promising. A lot of solid acts on the bill this year, and more to come. It looks like after what could be described as lackluster for last year's show, that the Tribez Vibez team are going to put together something that could be pretty magical. There is already a facebook group for the event, although tribezvibes.com has still not been updated from last year's event.

2011 Tribez Vibez Facebook group

Thoughts?

Hash Bash 2011 in Ann Arbor

Hash Bash 2011 was a great success this year. One of the best turnouts I've seen in many years. Tons of great acts and the party didn't stop until the sun came up the next day. I will have some pics up tomorrow along with some more info about Hash Bash an the Spring Hookah in the Hills that went on this past weekend. Can you smell the spring air?!

Welcome!

The goal of this blog will be to keep everyone in the region up to date on all the big music happenings throughout the Midwest. We'll mostly be covering events in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, and parts of PA and West Virginia. We'll be covering mostly festivals that relate to the jam band and bluegrass style culture, but also diving into a lot of a lot of electronic events.  The season has already started and we are stoked!