Nateva Adds More Than 30 Bands
Nateva Adds More Than 30 Bands
Filed in FESTIVALS, PRESS RELEASES on April 27, 2010 with View Comments
Music & Camping Festival in Oxford, Maine
New Bands include She & Him, Passion Pit, Grizzly Bear, Crash Kings,
Ghostland Observatory, and Drive-By Truckers
OXFORD, MAINE (DRAFT) – Adding to the already stacked jam-band line-up slated to hit Maine this summer will be electric guitars and hard-hitting percussions as an eclectic collection of Indie/Alternative Rock, Bluegrass, Electronica, and local New England musicians join the line-up at the Nateva Music & Camping Festival.
The three-day event, slated for 4th of July weekend, will now be even more exciting and musically diverse with the addition of over 30 new bands and artists including:
She & Him; Passion Pit; Grizzly Bear; Drive-By Truckers; Ghostland Observatory; Jackie Greene; Jakob Dylan & Three Legs; Crash Kings; Mark Karan’s Jemimah Puddleduck; Rustic Overtones; Lettuce; Gypsy Tailwind; EOTO; Big Gigantic; The Brew; The Constellations; Toubab Krewe; The Indobox; Roots of Creation; Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck; Nate Wilson Group; The Alchemystics; The Kind Buds; Adam Ezra Group; The McLovins; The Heavy Pets; Nephrok! Allstars; You Can Be a Wesley; Billy Keane and the Misdemeanor Outlaws; Brenda; The Mallet Brothers; Grand Hotel; and Magic Magic.
The bands will join an all-star roster of artists previously announced, including:
July 4 Festival headliner Furthur, founded by the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh and Bob Weir; July 3 headliner The Flaming Lips; July 2 headliner moe.; and Lotus, who will close out the special Thursday night festivities on July 1.
Also scheduled to perform at the three-day festival are:
The Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band, Zappa Plays Zappa, Keller Williams, Moonalice, STS9, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Umphrey’s McGee, Max Creek, John Brown’s Body, The Felice Brothers, Ryan Montbleau Band, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, and Greensky Bluegrass.
The inaugural festival is set to take place at the Oxford Fairgrounds in Oxford, Maine on July 2, 3 and 4.
Weekend passes to this musical oasis in Maine with camping are $249 and without camping $229 but, will remain on-sale through Friday, May 7th for $219 and $199 at NatevaFestival.com. A limited number of VIP packages ($425), featuring special viewing platforms, preferred parking, camping, dining, a full-service bar, and more amenities are also available.
“When we conceived Nateva, we had the Northeast music fan in mind and set out to create a festival that appeals to that market,” said Frank Chandler, the promoter of the Nateva Music & Camping Festival. “With the addition of She & Him, Passion Pit, Crash Kings, Drive-By Truckers and the other indie and alternative acts announced today, we have continued the mission of the festival, to bring awesome world-class bands to Northern New England. One of the things I’m most proud of is that nine of our latest band additions come from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, including the Portland, Maine-based band, Gypsy Tailwind, who will kick off our early-bird festivities on Thursday night July 1, as the first band ever to play at Nateva.”
Fifteen thousand music-loving campers are expected to flock to the scenic site to take in incredible world-class bands and special entertainment, including stilt-walkers, magicians, jugglers, and art installations. To further set Nateva apart, the festival will offer a family camping area featuring a quieter location on the property, a shaded kids area on the concert grounds, arts & crafts, children’s entertainment including a kids magic show and bands, carnival rides and a lost child registration system with wristbands. Children under 10 are free with a paid adult.She & Him make music for an eternal springtime, when the temperature is warm enough to go riding with the top (or at least the windows) rolled down and the radio turned up. What began as a fascinating, no-strings attached collaboration on 2008’s Volume One has evolved into a bona fide, touring band, and She & Him are here to stay. Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward are as comfortable and complementary a musical pair as Les Paul and Mary Ford; hearing them again on Volume Two feels like getting together with two old friends. This time, the harmonies have grown more angelically layered, the string arrangements more dramatic, the songwriting even sharper and more confident. But, as with Volume One, the prevailing mood is bittersweet, dreamy, and romantic.
The Crash Kings are comprised of brothers Antonio (Tony) Beliveau on keyboards and Michael (Mike) Beliveau on bass. Of their vision, Tony is quick to point out, “We wanted to create a band that once and for all could be ‘The Big Rock Sound’ without guitar.” One might wonder…rock without guitar, how is that possible? Well, the Crash Kings have gotten a bit innovative in their quest to create rock with just keys, bass, and drums. With tube overdrive and multiple amps, Mike’s bass brings heaviness to the band’s sound. On top of that Tony plays a clavinet (a keyboard with guitar strings), which has been customized with a large whammy bar allowing him to bend notes like a guitar producing an entirely new sound. Having these two very unique elements makes the Crash Kings’ music feel raw and full at the same time.
Boston’s Passion Pit is the brainchild of Michael Angelakos with live band consisting of Ian Hultquist (synths), Ayad al Adhamy (synths, samplers), Jeff Apruzzese (bass, synths), and Nate Donmoyer (drums). Michael is a songwriter’s songwriter drawing from a variety of influences, from the classic pop of Randy Newman to the synth work of Giorgio Moroder. Playing as a five piece live band, Passion Pit has already blown away audiences opening up for Death Cab For Cutie, Girl Talk, These New Puritans and more.
Grizzly Bear began as a home recording project for Boston-bred experimentalist Edward Droste, who laid the groundwork for the band’s otherworldly debut album on a small hand-held tape recorder while holed up for 15 months in his Brooklyn, apartment. His homespun D.I.Y. effort took on new life with the help of multi-instrumentalist Christopher Bear, who added additional instrumentation and vocals to Droste’s stripped-down sonic blueprints. The resulting album, “Horn of Plenty” – a pet project originally meant only for Droste’s friends — eventually circulated through New York’s underground music scene, with its unique blend of acoustic instruments, layered vocals, and found sounds earning comparisons to alt-rock heavy-hitters such as Sigur Rós, Sufjan Stevens, and Animal Collective. Originally released to little fanfare in 2004, the album gained momentum thanks to copious touring. It was reissued in 2005 as a two-CD set featuring remixes by Dntel (of the Postal Service), Final Fantasy, Solex, and the Soft Pink Truth (a.k.a. Drew Daniel of Matmos). An album of Droste’s early demo recordings, “Sorry for the Delay,” was released in 2006 as the band finished up recording “Yellow House,” their second proper full-length album released that fall.
Ghostland Observatory is not a band, but an agreement between two friends to create something that not only heals their beat-driven hearts, but pleases their rock ‘n roll souls. Taking the working man’s approach,
Ghostland Observatory spends countless hours in their south Austin studio. They have released two albums in less than a year, and have moved audiences from coast to coast with their live performances and unique style. Ghostland Observatory is the duo of front man Aaron Behrens and producer/drummer Thomas Turner. Behrens’ vocal style and stage performances are unique and uncompromising, and he has drawn early comparisons to Freddie Mercury and Prince. Turner is heavily influenced by electronic artists such as Daft Punk, Laurent Garnier and Green Velvet, as well as rockers such as The Animals, David Bowie, and The Clash. With their spectral blend of electronics, drums, guitar and vocals, they have emerged with a sound that is the culmination of past influence and present inspiration, and can only be described as BALLSY.
Flaunting a mix of Southern pride, erudite lyrics, and a muscled three-guitar attack, Drive-By Truckersbecame one of the most well-respected alternative country-rock acts of the 2000s. Led by frontman Patterson Hood and comprising a rotating cast of Georgia and Alabama natives, the band celebrated the South while refusing to paint over its spotty past. History, folklore, politics, and character studies all shared
equal space in the Truckers catalog, which offered up its first blast of gutsy, twangy rock with 1998’s Gangstabilly. However, it was the band’s ambitious double-disc concept album, The Southern Rock Opera, that became their unlikely magnum opus. A two-act affair, the album explored Patterson Hood’s fascination with 1970s Southern rock (specifically Lynyrd Skynyrd) while tackling the cultural contradictions of the region. Although the band remained on tour well into 2009, the Truckers also found time to release their second concert album, Live from Austin TX, as well as a collection of unreleased material entitled The Fine Print: A Collection of Oddities and Rarities.
Jackie Greene – singer and songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player, acoustic solo artist and electrifying band leader – hesitates to spell things out too much. Many people have already made up their minds about Jackie Greene, the Americana phenom from Sacramento who made his first album only six years ago and has steadily built up a passionate following among both rank-and-file fans and some of the biggest names in music. Tours with a who’s-who of American roots music – Buddy Guy, Elvis Costello, Susan Tedeschi, Willie Nelson, B.B. King and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott among them – and performances everywhere from the Newport Folk Festival and the Monterey Jazz Festival to Bonnaroo, have meant that Greene was recognized quickly by those who know talent, and who saw something rare and promising in him.
Jakob Dylan, the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter and frontman of The Wallflowers, released his second solo album, “Women and Country,” on Apr. 6. The album was produced by T Bone Burnett, who’s helmed acclaimed albums by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Tony Bennett & k.d. lang, Brandi Carlile and The Wallflowers, as well as the mega-successful soundtrack albums for “Crazy Heart,” “Walk The Line” and ” O Brother Where Art Thou?”.
Lettuce, the seven-person all-star collective originally formed in 1992, returns to the funk jazz forefront with its third album, RAGE!, a hyper-charged outing of tunes that are equal parts artsy and party. All the members bring to the group different funk-styled influences.
Gypsy Tailwind is a soulful Americana act even more mobile than their name might imply. Gypsy Tailwind, led by Daniel Connor (vocals, guitar) and Amanda Gervasi (vocals, guitar, ukelele), has taken the Northeast by storm. In a matter of only three years, Gypsy Tailwind has gained a strong local and regional following, and are talented and wise enough artists to reach out to their niche fans in markets across the country.
Mark Karan tours with an array of amazing musicians in Jemimah Puddleduck, where his soulful blues-based vocal stylings and inspired guitar work meld with the remarkably creative and responsive playing of his friends in a passionate delivery of the psychedelicized sounds of Americana.
Rustic Overtones formed in Portland, ME; hometown to each of them. Members of this seven-piece outfit are guitarist and lead vocalist Dave Gutter, drummer Tony McNaboe, trombonist Dave Noyes, baritone saxophonist Jason Ward, bassist Jon Roods, alto saxophonist Ryan Zoidis, and Spencer Albee on keyboards and piano. Roods and Gutter began performing together first, in a family basement.
What sets EOTO apart from other artists in this emerging genre is how the music is created. While some artists may spend hours pre-mixing samples and elements of music for their live show, EOTO uses nothing pre-recorded, giving them the ability to approach each song with on-the-spot spontaneity and 100% live improvisation.
Over the past year, Colorado’s Big Gigantic have become more than your average electronic act. With over 50,000 downloads within the first four weeks of their latest release on 1320 Records and selling out 75% of the venues on their first headlining tour, Big Gigantic is truly creating a name for themselves.
Massachusetts-based quartet The Brew cook up a musical melting pot on their brand-new, self-released
album, Back to the Woods, that combines their roots in classic rock, adding ingredients of prog, jazz, reggae, world beat, indie, funk and orchestral pop, sometimes in the course of a single song.
The Constellations could have called their debut album After Hours. Sure, Martin Scorsese already used that name for his 1985 black comedy, but the two works share much in common. Both are wide screen spectacles rife with seedy scenes and eccentric personalities, propelled by a manic energy that hustles the audience deeper into the unexpected.
Blending American and West African influences into a sound all its own, Toubab Krewe has set “a new standard for fusions of rock ‘n’ roll and West African music” (Afropop Worldwide). Since forming in 2005, the magnetic instrumental quintet has won a diverse and devoted following at performances everywhere from Bonnaroo to the legendary Festival of the Desert in Essakane, Mali, the most remote festival in the world.
From Boston, MA, and roots in Northeast Pennsylvania, The Indobox is starting parties everywhere they go, bringing something they call Dance-Rock… Guitarists Mike Carter and Joe Zarick fuse psychedelic rock guitars with dirty dance beats from Steve Learson’s synths and Quinn Ferree’s drums, all with catchy hooks to sing along to. Every Indobox show inevitably turns into a wild dance party so get ready!
Roots of Creation (RoC), the Southern New Hampshire based Reggae/Rock/Dubtronica quartet, is being spotted on many people’s radars as they continue to draw overwhelming numbers of fans and followers to their live performances and parties in New England and coast to coast. People desire and keep coming back for more unique and memorable RoC concert experiences to enjoy the bountiful blend of reggae music and positive energy.
Bow Thayer and Perfect Trainwreck are a prolific band of country-side distinction with several CDs and not one bad review. Bow has been cited as “one of the bright new lights on the Americana music scene.” Perfect Trainwreck is the perfect accompaniment to Bow. They have played together for years and have not only forged an enviable chemistry, but have also managed to add richness to Bow’s song-craft.
Nate Wilson’s first true effort as a bandleader represents a new point of arrival and re-invention for the New Hampshire based singer-songwriter/keyboardist. Gathering much of their inspiration from the riff-heavy psychedelic hard-rock of the 60’s and 70’s, the Nate Wilson Group has drawn comparisons to 1st generation luminaries Led Zeppelin and Cream, as well as neo-classic and stoner rock contemporaries Wolfmother, The Black Keys, Dead Meadow and The Raconteurs.
Positive lyrics and intricate wordplay, memorable hooks, soulful roots, old-school vocal harmonies, and intense passion are but a few of the elements which combine to form the powerful and unique sound of theAlchemystics. The Alchemsytics sound flows and grows from a blending of individuals, styles, experiences and customs into a “new roots” style of high-energy, captivating music that gets crowds jumping.
The Kind Buds take their audiences on a roller coaster of tension and release, trading fiery-sweet guitar licks with raucous, wide-open acoustic jams and stunning guitar interplay. Tight vocal harmonies compliment and complete their polished sound.
Adam Ezra Group is a dynamic roots/rock band that has risen to the top of the Boston music scene. Their unique blend of roots, pop and rock sounds, perfectly combines Ezra’s passion for smart well written lyrics and the band’s tight musicianship; bringing their sound together with rich, complex, and hook-laden melodies.
Meet The McLovins, the jam-rock band from Connecticut that Rolling Stone called “a trio of Connecticut kids who have managed to harness the musical ferocity of Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool and Stewart Copeland before being able to legally drive a car.”
The Heavy Pets are an American rock and roll band whose contagious vibe blends rhythm and blues, jazz-funk and reggae fusion with homegrown rock and roll. The Heavy Pets are known for powerhouse performances spiked with hot electric licks and multi-climactic instrumental solos, as well as for their masterful acoustic acumen.
Tickets are on-sale now and available at NatevaFestival.com.
Located just two hours and 25 minutes from Boston and only 45 minutes from Portland, Maine, the Oxford Fairgrounds feature electricity, water, bathrooms, 150 RV hook-ups, shower trucks, free WiFi, flat land, plenty of shade, and easy access to Route 26. Family and VIP camping areas will also be available.
ABOUT NATEVA MUSIC & CAMPING FESTIVAL
The Nateva Music & Camping Festival is a three-day, multistage outdoor camping event held July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th at the beautiful Oxford Fairgrounds, located 2 hours and 25 minutes from Boston and 45 minutes from Portland, Maine. As Northern New England’s premier music festival, Nateva brings together artists in the true jam-band tradition — as well as an eclectic mix of performers spanning the country, folk, reggae, classic rock, bluegrass, and indie genres.
For more information on the Nateva Music & Camping Festival, visit NatevaFestival.com.
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