Featured Band: Rick Redington & the Luv Featured Band: Bow Thayer and Perfect Trainwreck Featured Band: Holy Plow Featured Band: Jeh Kulu Featured Band: Josh Buckley Featured Band: Jim Gilmour Featured Band: Dub Apocalypse Tweed River Music Festival Food Drive Featured Band: Crunchy Western Boys Featured Band: The (Ever Expanding) Elastic Waste Band Featured Band: Andrea Gillis Featured Band: Roadsaw Featured Band: Peter Mulvey Featured Band: Beg, Scream & Shout! Featured Band: Roots Collider Featured Band: Jen Chapin Featured Band: Andy Friedman Featured Band: The Lisa Parade Featured Band: Tim Gearan Featured Band: Waylon Speed
Featured Band: Rick Redington & the Luv
Featured Band: Bow Thayer and Perfect Trainwreck
Featured Band: Holy Plow
Featured Band: Jeh Kulu
Featured Band: Josh Buckley
Featured Band: Jim Gilmour
Featured Band: Dub Apocalypse
Tweed River Music Festival Food Drive
Featured Band: Crunchy Western Boys
Featured Band: The (Ever Expanding) Elastic Waste Band
Featured Band: Andrea Gillis
Featured Band: Roadsaw
Featured Band: Peter Mulvey
Featured Band: Beg, Scream & Shout!
Featured Band: Roots Collider
Featured Band: Jen Chapin
Featured Band: Andy Friedman
Featured Band: The Lisa Parade
Featured Band: Tim Gearan
Featured Band: Waylon Speed
A giant of a performer, Rick Redington sings with nuance and passion. His powerful voice soars above the valleys of the Green Mountains, and his virtuoso guitar playing is as smooth and velvety as the hillsides themselves. Performing Sunday August 14 at Tweed River Music Festival
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“We’re a group of friends who’ve got a love for music that just won’t let us be. Our paths have crossed and re-crossed for years or only just recently. We have played with some of the finest musicians you’ve never heard of and even call some of them friends. We’ve been around enough to know [...]
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The Holy Plow combines the talents of three of Vermont’s most unique musical minds. In this acoustic trio, songwriter and rocker Bow Thayer has provided his provocative and dynamic original music for reinterpretation through the lens of guitarist/producer Kristina Stykos and the northeast kingdom’s own fiddler par excellence, Patrick Ross. Together they drive the “Holy [...]
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Jeh Kulu Dance and Drum Theater comprises master artists from Guinea and Senegal, West Africa, and 13 talented American artists, all of whom are passionate about the traditional rhythms and dances from throughout West Africa. Jeh Kulu Dance and Drum Theater invites you to join us in celebration through traditional West African music and dance. In [...]
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In a style reminiscent of Gram Parsons, Keith Richards and Buck Owens, Josh Buckley will be kicking off Tweed River Music Festival with a solo set that is sure to please. Best known for his work with Gilded Splinters, Buckley is shifting gears towards a solo career and redefining his abillty for melody within the [...]
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A Vermont resident, Jim began writing songs in earnest in 1998 after many years of music industry experience supporting other artists. His lyrics – sometimes veiled, sometimes chillingly frank – are composed from the everyday subjects of life: the temptations of addiction, love and love lost, and the power of connection. Jim has two solo [...]
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Led by drummer Tommy Benedetti (John Browns Body) and Johnny Trama (Nate Wilson Group) on guitar, Dub Apocalypse is an all-star combination of Boston’s best musicians. Playing an impressive array of original dub reggae instrumentals, with wild improvisation and Benedetti’s dirty break beats, this band never disappoints. Johnny Trama has been a staple in the areas [...]
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Tweed River Music Festival is hosting a food drive to support the Vermont FoodBank this year. Please bring a little extra and contribute what you can. We all gots to eat! The following items are excellent, non-perishable choices for food drives: Canned fish-tuna, salmon, sardines, etc. Peanut Butter Cereal-all varieties Canned fruits-all varieties Canned vegetables-all varieties [...]
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The forefathers of “crunchy western” music Jim McHugh, Morris Manning, Steve McBrian, and Jacob Stern deliver a homegrown, crunchy cookin’ performance with mando, bass, fiddle, guitar, dobro, and vocals. Their unique sounds are sure to tame the wildest beast or maybe even awaken the spirit within. The Crunchy Western Boys have sold well over 2000 [...]
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Honoring the Morphine legacy but not being restricted by it is a very tough challenge. A group going by the name The (Ever Expanding) Elastic Waste Band had been playing for a couple of years before even considering to cover Morphine tunes. The obvious difference between some random group playing Morphine songs and this one is that members Dana [...]
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Andrea Gillis has been a fixture on the Boston music scene for so long that she stands out in the mind like a statue of a former mayor. Gillis is gearing up for a CD Release Party at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts next weekend. on April 29th and April 30th. This marks the [...]
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As they ready for the release of their newly minted self titled record on the Small Stone label , ROADSAW make one thing perfectly clear. Their sound is as searing and sleazy today as it was when they rose from the blue blood streets of Boston 18 years ago. With every tour, every new record, [...]
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Night after night, whether performing solo, duo (with David “Goody” Goodrich), or sometimes even with a band, Mulvey attempts to be the sum of his parts, to draw on all the musical legacies he has studied, to make a fresh, vital moment out of everything he and the audience have brought to the table that [...]
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Beg, Scream & Shout is an authentic, gut-busting, sweat-drenching soul experience. “Soul music is like sex,” Rawding (lead singer) said. “You know all of the mechanics of it. You know what to do to make it work but, when you’re doing it, you’re not thinking about those things. You’re just (expletive) feeling it.” Performing Friday [...]
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RootsCollider has emerged onto the scene as the definitive analogue “21st Century Quartet of Dry & Heavy Livetronica” that continues to push the sonic envelope toward enlightenment. The act has quickly become regional favorites for so many and has gained wide recognition by sweeping upstate NY off of it’s feet as one of the fastest [...]
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Jen Chapin’s music is jazz-tinged urban folk – story songs that search for community and shared meaning, powered by the funk, soul and improvisation of the city. Critics have hailed her work on albums Linger (2004) and Ready (2006) as “thoughtful.. worth-savoring” (People), “smart, observant, lyrically deft, politically aware and emotionally intuitive” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), “addictive” [...]
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ANDY FRIEDMAN “writes achingly profound lyrics to brooding country-folk numbers that put him almost in the same league as Tom Waits, Lou Reed, or Bob Dylan,” says PopMatters.com. His latest album, LASERBEAMS AND DREAMS, “draws on the deepest traditions of American music and evokes an affecting sense of loss and longing.” (The New Yorker) Co-produced by [...]
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The amazing thing about the young Lisa Parade is that she packs an astounding amount of wallop for her years. Musically and lyrically she rises to the top, song after song, not once bowing to the cringe factor (that phrase so lame that you cannot help but cringe) and in fact bonding words and music [...]
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Tim’s wide range of writing styles is a reflection of the music he loves to listen to, with influences ranging from Randy Newman, and J. J. Cale to Ray Charles and The Band. Comparisons have also been made to Doug Sahm, Guy Clarke and Chris Smither. Call it American music, rich in the traditions that [...]
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  Waylon Speed is the convergence of four musicians from Burlington, Vermont, bringing their unstoppable no frills country-metal blend of rock to a rapidly growing horde of devoted fans nationwide. The formation of this band could not have come at a better time. Seemingly overnight, they have become a staple in the music community, equipped [...]
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2011 Tweed River Music Festival Bands Announced!
Featured Band: Tim Gearan
Featured Band: Mellow Bravo
Featured Band: Banditas
Featured Band: Josh Buckley
Featured Band: Beg, Scream & Shout!
Featured Band: Apollo Run
Featured Band: Jim Gilmour
Featured Band: Waylon Speed
Featured Band: The Lisa Parade
Featured Band: The (Ever Expanding) Elastic Waste Band
Featured Band: Roadsaw
Featured Band: Dub Apocalypse
Featured Band: Andy Friedman
Featured Band: Eric Royer and Guitar Machine
Featured Band: Holy Plow
Featured Band: Booker T. Jones
Featured Band: Andrea Gillis
Boston Band Crush on Tweed
Tweed River Music Festival Food Drive
Featured Band: Crunchy Western Boys
Featured Band: Roots Collider
Featured Band: Peter Mulvey
Featured Band: Bow Thayer and Perfect Trainwreck
Featured Band: Jeh Kulu
Featured Band: Jen Chapin
Featured Band: MMOSS
Featured Band: Township
Featured Band: Rick Redington & the Luv
Featured Band: Jeffery Foucault & Cold Satellite

2011 Tweed River Music Festival Bands Announced!

We are happy to announce the dates for the third annual Tweed River Music Festival will be August 12,13,14 2011. We are even happier to announce the bands this year! Check out this list of incredible music.

FRIDAY AUGUST 12

BEG, SCREAM AND SHOUT 10:40pm
ROADSAW 9:00pm
WAYLON SPEED 7:20pm
MELLOW BRAVO 6:00pm
ELASTIC WASTEBAND (FEATURING MEMBERS OF MORPHINE) 4:40pm
BANDITAS 3:20pm
JOSH BUCKLEY 2:00pm

SATURDAY AUGUST 13

BOW THAYER AND PERFECT TRAINWRECK 11:30pm
TIM GEARAN AND HIS BAND 9:45pm
ANDREA GILLIS BAND 8:25pm
JEH KULU 7:05pm
MMOSS 5:45pm
TOWNSHIP 4:25pm
APOLLO RUN 2:50pm
JEFFREY FOUCAULT AND COLD SATELLITE 1:30pm
DUB APOCALYPSE 12:10pm
JIM GILMOUR 11:05am
CRUNCHY WESTERN BOYS 10:00am

SUNDAY AUGUST 14

BOOKER T JONES 9:15pm
PETER MULVEY AND THE SKINNY MILLIONAIRES 7:35pm
ROOTS COLLIDER 6:15pm
SESSION AMERICANA 4:55pm
ANDY FRIEDMAN 3:35pm
HOLY PLOW 2:15pm
JEN CHAPIN 12:55pm
RICK REDINGTON AND THE LUV 11:50am
ERIC ROYER AND GUITAR MACHINE 10:45am
NO STRINGS MARIONETTE SHOW 10:am

 

 

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