When you’re onsite at a festival as delectably lively as the Gathering of the Vibes, inevitably a few cool trees get lost in the broad expanse of the forest. With that in mind, a few extra dollops of Gathering of the Vibes coolness that, going over my posts again, I forgot to mention:
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Ryan Montbleau @ The Kids Tent – Franklin’s Tower
- The good Scott Murawski already corrected me in the comments for my earlier post, but that wasn’t Jen Durkin sitting in with Murawski, Burbridge and Kreutzmann during Rhymes—it was the most excellent Boston-area songstress Emily Grogan. Em, if you’re reading, my bad! I rarely get to see you outside of the Plough & Stars and all those cavernous Boston clubs—a paltry excuse, I know. You rocked it.
- Speaking of sit-ins, I completely forgot to mention two of the coolest—and underheralded—of the entire weekend. During Deep Banana Blackout’s Friday earthshaker of a set, Santana percussionist Karl Perazzo slid in to add even more texture to the funky, funky proceedings (as did members of the Organically Grown Gospel Choir, with whom Durkin reciprocated on Sunday morning). And later on Sunday, Sam Bush welcomed no less than Bill Evans—his foil in the mellifluous Soulgrass project—to blow sax on a few tasty breakdowns.
- Durkin was everywhere, but Donna Jean was really everywhere—that sit-ins MVP is undoubtedly hers and shame on me for suggesting otherwise. In addition to the previous sit-ins I’ve mentioned, I was also advised she sat in with Assembly of Dust on Friday, too—I missed a large portion of that set dealing with a few business matters, and dangit, something extra cool happened.
- Last, Yuto Miyazawa—the Japanese guitar prodigy last seen being exhibited around New York during the Jammys—jammed on both Sabbath’s Crazy Train and solo Ozzy’s Mr. Crowley during that Deep Banana set. Yuto’s already fallen in with that Guinness Book of World Records crowd—much like Grandpa Simpson’s old flame—but it’s safe to call him a “known quantity” at this point. Shred on, grasshopper, shred on.
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Glad Donna Jean has a new life staining other bands.
“business matters”
You shoulda headed on over to the softball field next to the Solar Stage and hit a few wiffleballs with us.