The iClips folks will  start in Rothbury, MI this weekend with their FREE live Couch Tour of Music Festivals, which also includes Mile High in Denver in a couple of weeks,  All Points West at the end of the month, Lollapalooza the following weekend and ending at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Oct 2nd - 4th.   Very Nice……

I plan on spending a bit of time on my rear end this long July 4th weekend, so this fits right in with my plan to watch a couple of Cubs games, eat well and drink a bit of Wild Turkey.  A couple of hours of SCI goes right along with that…. as well as Brett Dennen , Grace Potter, Toots and Umphrey’s McGee.  Hmmm,  might need more Wild Turkey.

So if you don’t have an iClips account, go here and sign up.  Doesn’t cost anything and you get to see great music for the rest of the summer and into the fall.

All times are Eastern , and of course are subject to change.  All updated info is here.

Friday, July 3

• 1:45pm · King Sunny Ade
• 2:45pm · Brett Dennen
• 3:30pm · G. Love and Special Sauce
• 4:15pm · Keller Williams
• 6:30pm · Damian Marley and NAS
• 8:00pm · Toubab Krewe
• 8:45pm · The String Cheese Incident
• 12:30am · The Disco Biscuits

Saturday, July 4

• 1:30pm · Ralph Stanley
• 2:15pm · Martin Sexton
• 3:30pm · Jackie Greene
• 4:45pm · Son Volt
• 5:30pm · The Black Crowes
• 7:00pm · Railroad Earth
• 8:30pm · John Butler
• 10:00pm · Lotus
• 11:30pm · STS9

Sunday, July 5

• 1:45pm · Toots and the Maytals
• 3:00pm · Four Finger Five
• 3:45pm · Yonder Mountain String Band
• 5:15pm · The Hard Lessons
• 6:00pm · Willie Nelson
• 7:30pm · Grace Potter
• 8:45pm · Flogging Molly
• 10:00pm · Ani DiFranco
• 11:45pm · Matisyahu
• 1:00am · Umphrey’s McGee

Here is hoping that everyone is enjoying their first day of 2009 without too much of a throbbing head….

I have been on the sidelines in regards to this website since I got back from Telluride as I finished up my contracting job, otherwise known as the “Cubicle from Hell”.  My last day was Dec. 30th and now my plan for the next few months is to take some time off, do a bit of traveling and do some cosmetic work to this website as well as probably start a couple others.  More on that in the future….

Festival plans for 2009 to this point only include JazzFest back in New Orleans and probably back to Telluride for Blues and Brews Festival but Wakarusa moving to Mulberry Mountain in Arkansas sounds intriguing also.

Speaking of the “Big Easy”, if you are interested in the supporting the work of some fantastic musicians from New Orleans, head on over to Threadhead Records.   This non-profit organization was started by some great people that reside on the forum for the JazzFest website and so far have raised over $70,000 for helping artists with getting their CD’s recorded.  The goal is for the musicians to pay the organization back with a bit of a premium going to the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, another worthy endeavor.

Enjoy your New Year’s Day and  I will be back with a vengeance here in the next couple of weeks as I do my best to inform you of what is going on in the music festival world.