Bears Picnic finalizes schedule and gets ready for perfect weather with special guest stopping by through the weekend.
2015 schedule17356:

Thursday August 6th
8-9:30pm        Mystery Fyre
9:30-10:45      Backwoods Experiment
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“Summercamp is a marathon, not a sprint” my newly-met young neighbor assures me as I offer him some goldfish crackers.  It is 4:00pm on Thursday afternoon and he is trying to stave off “tipsyness” while his bratwurst are cooking.  We have been on the festival grounds ...view article

For any band touring over 120 shows a year, life on the road is tough. It’s a rare occasion when they get to put up residence for a week in one place. And, for anyone who knows how to let loose, there is no better town to do this in than the city that never sleeps, New York City. Umphrey’s ...view article

The story goes something like this' The [latter day] Band "officially" disbanded in 1998, following the death of bassist Rick Danko. At the time, legendary vocalist/drummer/mandolin player/actor Levon Helm was contending with a major crisis of his own; aggressive treatment for throat cancer ...view article

Legendary drummer and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, Bill Kreutzmann, together with funky bluesman and voodoo electronic pioneer Papa Mali, officially unveil 7 Walkers’ ...view article

Mark Karan & Jemimah Puddleduck are hitting both coasts in the next two months, as well as offering support to four worthy causes.  MK will be joined at all shows by Bob Gross on bass and Billy Lee Lewis on drums, and while JT Thomas is out touring with Bruce Hornsby during a few of these ...view article

The Dead have announced that they will indeed tour in the spring of 2009.  Here is a snippet from dead.net and tour dates:

Happy New Year, everybody!! Hope and change are in the air! So what better way to kick off 2009 than to confirm what’s ...view article

How is it that these tankers keep getting hit by other boats and spilling oil all into our oceans?  It seems like every couple of years we're hearing of yet another Exxon tanker spilling millions of gallons of oil into our oceans.  Could you imagine if cruise ships got hit by other boats ...view article