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In other outdoor-show news, this Saturday, August 16, two of Burlington’s most high-profile and dynamic rock bands, rouGh FrANciS and wAYloN SPEED, take to the high seas for Rock the Boat 2 aboard the M/V Champlain Ferry, presented by Waking Windows. [Full disclosure: Both of those bands are rad. Also, RF front man BoBBY hAckNEY Jr. works for Seven Days. Also, WS drummer JuStiN crowthEr is an occasional freelance music writer for Seven Days — see his latest review on page 63. Also, WS guitarist and vocalist kEllY rAViN got married last weekend to
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This is a rare week on the summer calendar, because, unlike virtually every other week from June to midSeptember, no huge music festivals are on the docket. But those of you experiencing withdrawal symptoms from last weekend’s monster Lake Champlain Maritime Festival need not fret. A bundle of smaller, down-home music festivals are scheduled for this weekend that should help ease your rock sweats. And if you’re feeling the effects of festival fatigue, maybe sit this column out and come back next weekend, when we discuss the Signal Kitchen-curated WYSIWYG Festival. (Actually, don’t do that. Keep reading, dammit.) Anyway, we begin this week’s musicfest roundup at Magic Mountain in Londonderry with the second annual Vermont Freedom & Unity Festival. The fest, which runs from Friday, August 15, through Sunday, August 17, is presented by Vermonters for Liberty and will feature a variety of workshops, speakers, activities and seminars, presumably touching on issues of, well, liberty, I suppose. Whatever. There’s also music, which is most germane to our purposes here. Among the acts slated to play are “liberty troubadour” JorDAN PAGE, folk singer Bill BriNk, funk-rock outfit EDucAtE thE ANtiDotE, songwriter rich ANGEll and a pair of local acts: conscious
hip-hop outfit BlESS thE chilD and rockers totAl DEmo. There’s also a guy named Bruce E. Levine who calls himself a “renegade psychologist,” which apparently is a thing. For more info, visit vermontersforliberty.org. Moving on, this Saturday, August 16, marks the third annual “O” Show Memorial Jam and Benefit Concert at the Abbey Pavilion in Sheldon. To refresh your memory, the concert was founded to honor the late BrookE oStrANDEr, a beloved music teacher at Mississquoi Valley Union High School who passed away from cancer in 2011. Here’s a nifty tidbit about Ostrander: Back in the 1970s, he was a member of a band called wickED lEStEr, which also included these dudes named GENE klEiN and StANlEY EiSEN, which may be the dorkiest names we’ve ever seen. That’s probably why Klein and Eisen changed their names to GENE SimmoNS and PAul StANlEY and started this little band called kiSS. In a related story, Brooke Ostrander was waaaaaay cooler than any high school music teacher you ever had — sorry, Mr. Recchia. For the third year in a row, Nashville recording artist and “The Voice” contestant JAY tAYlor headlines the concert. He’ll be joined by fellow
Music City denizens AYlA BrowN — an “American Idol” semifinalist — and guitarist ForrESt lEE Jr. Prior to the big show, a slew of locals, many of whom were Ostrander’s students, will take the stage. Proceeds from the “O” Show go to Donate Life Vermont, a nonprofit organization sponsored by the Center for Donation and Transplant, which aims to increase the number of registered organ and tissue donors in Vermont. For more on the concert and DLV, visit oshowvt.com. Our last stop on this week’s festival express is the annual Peacham Acoustic Music Festival, which runs this Friday and Saturday, August 15 and 16, at numerous locations in downtown Peacham. This year’s lineup of folk, oldtime and bluegrass music is, well, peachy. Highlights include renowned songwriter JoNAthAN EDwArDS, resonator guitar and uke ace DEl rEY, acclaimed old-time duo ErYNN mArShAll & cArl JoNES, and “pinch-picking” duo wAYNE hENDErSoN & hElEN whitE. On the local angle, check out BoB AmoS & cAtAmouNt croSSiNG, classical pianist ANNEmiEkE SPoElStrA mclANE, guitarist DouG PErkiNS, Latin-tinged folk rockers tritium wEll and the excellent bluegrass ensemble the BAYlEY hAzEN BoYS, among several others. For more info on the Peacham Acoustic Music Festival, visit pamfest. com.