Beloved jam band Goose hits the stage this weekend, June 14-15, at Merriweather Submit Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead and the String Cheese Incident for All Good Now, the thirtieth anniversary of Baltimore promoter Tim Walther’s 1995 outing with Gov’t Mule and John Scofield at Wilmers Park, Maryland.
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“Again then it was simply me, some bands, a fax machine and a bunch of fliers,” Walthers tells Billboard of that first-year effort. Since then, he’s grown his small promotion firm into one of the crucial influential indie promoters within the mid-Atlantic area with over 2 million tickets offered throughout 3,000 membership reveals and 68 festivals, staging occasions at venues throughout the area, from the famed 9:30 Membership in Washington D.C. to the bustling mountaintops of West Virginia.
“We’ve at all times stayed true to our roots whereas additionally having our eye on one thing larger for followers of jam bands and improvisational music,” Walthers says. This weekend’s festival additionally contains units from Lawrence, Molly Tuttle, the Disco Biscuits, Pigeons Taking part in Ping Pong and extra. The competition is split by two levels, a symphony woods part and a Shakedown Avenue the place followers can store and socialize.
Walther notes “there was no promoter playbook” when he first began the All Good Music Competition & Campout in 1997 with landowner Arthur Wilmer to launch “a brand new sort of music competition—one pushed by spirit, spontaneity, and shared values. We had been simply making an attempt to determine it out and make sufficient to make it to the following competition.”
Over time, the crowds swelled from 940 individuals to 23,000 followers, with 1,200 individuals employed yearly to work on the occasion, which has change into a ceremony of passage for jam band followers from all over the world. The competition “by no means misplaced its soul,” Walther tells Billboard. “There’s no overlapping units and each time attainable, fireworks.”
To view set instances and purchase tickets, go to allgoodpresentslivemusic.com.