It’s Hot. It’s August. Must Be Time for Hot August Music Festival!
Oregon Ridge Park and Stages Music Arts invite you to join them on the gentle slopes for Hot August Music Festival on Saturday, August 18th. This 26th edition of the summer classic is once again slammed with an outstanding lineup at the Cockeysville MD ski slopes.
New Orleans’ outstanding funksters The Revivalists top the bill, led by powerful frontman David Shaw with bandmates Ed Williams, pedal steel guitar, guitar; Zack Feinberg, guitar; Rob Ingraham, saxophone; George Gekas, bass guitar; Andrew Campanelli, drums, percussion; Michael Girardot, keyboards, trumpet; and PJ Howard, drums, percussion. This band formed in 2007, and the name clearly invokes the recovery of the Crescent City post-Katrina. They rock and funk and honor their NOLA home while selling out shows across the country.
Also featured are Trampled by Turtles, the bluegrass/folk/rock sextet from Duluth. Their first album came out in 2004, and just this May the band released their ninth, Life is Good on the Open Road. Trampled by Turtles are: Dave Simonett, guitar, lead vocals, harmonica; Tim Saxhaug, bass, backing vocals; Dave Carroll, banjo, backing vocals; Erik Berry, mandolin, backing vocals; and Ryan Young, fiddle, backing vocals.
Next are several jam greats, spanning the “old” and the new. Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe is an amazing funk collective, DJ Williams and Seth Freeman, guitars; Chris Littlefield, trumpet, DJ Williams and Seth Freeman, guitars; Zak Najor, drums; Chris Stillwell, bass; and David Veith, keyboards. Leader Denson sings and plays alto and tenor saxes and flute, a perpetual-motion machine.
Joining the “old” man in the lineup is heir apparent to jam legacy in the form of 22-year-old Marcus King and his band. King and band solidified their status with two stunning sets on Jam Cruise, and his sit-in with Denson during their Allman Brothers tribute was mind-blowing. King’s grasp of music history and a wide swath of genres makes him a true superstar in the making. King, from Greenville SC, is joined by Jack Ryan, drums; Stephen Campbell, bass; Justin Johnson, trumpet, trombone, background vocals, tambourine; Dean Mitchell, saxophones; and Deshawn Alexander, organ, keyboards.
Cris Jacobs is a fine Americana soul rocker from Baltimore. The dedicated Talking Heads tribute band Psycho Killers are also from Charm City. Austin TX is sending trashgrass quintet Whiskey Shivers, and to match that Baltimore’s own The Dirty Grass Players won last year’s Charm City Bluegrass Festival band competition.
Nikki Hall is a “rocker, roller, right out of controller.” The Hall Williams Band plays “sparkly” rock and much more, and Selwyn Birchwood, a fine blues guitarist from Tampa, and Omari Banks round out the lineup.
Let’s review. It’s HOT. It’s AUGUST. You know what to do.
HOT AUGUST MF
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