GrassRoots 2015 Program

july 16-19 2015

4 STAGES 4 DAYS

TRUMANSBURG, NY

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What‘s Inside THE FESTIVAL GUIDE

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This festival guide is brought to you by the effort of many. DESIGN: Brian Dudla at CObP Design, with Chelsea Cullen. EDITOR: Nana Monaco. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Megan Romer, Tommy Dunne.

SPECIAL THANKS to dedicated office staffers, including (but not limited to) Rosa Fox, Lissa Farrell, Nana Monaco, Michelle Wright, and Hilary Davis, PLUS other friends and family pressed into service as the occasion demanded. VERY SPECIAL THANKS to our sponsors, musicians, and volunteers for committing to the festival’s success.

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MUSIC LOVERS’ PARADISE Hot Rize featuring Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers•Donna the Buffalo•Danay Suarez red baraat•the Black Lillies•Preston Frank•The Old Ceremony & many more…

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Welcome!

25 Years If you talk to any high-minded types in the field of science or geology, twentyfive years is not a long time.

When a person has lived twenty-five years on this planet, you are considered young, “Ah, you’re young.” But when I was young (ten, in fact), a big deal was made about the bicentennial of the United States. The government of the United States is considered to be quite an organization, so much so that they blew up every firework shell they could find over New York City while Neil Diamond sang Coming to America. With the refrain “coming to America” relentlessly, repeatedly, repeated. GrassRoots is now one eighth as old as the United States were in 1976 and its current age-related comparison can be represented by the fraction 25/239 (you’ve got to love fractions).

So now we have some perspective on how old GrassRoots is, it is time to reflect on what GrassRoots is. Of course, GrassRoots is all things to all people.

And I am one of those people.

That reminds me of what I like about summer That reminds me of falling up through the sky That reminds me, that every beat. is the beginning of forever That reminds me of... The reason why I’d hate to put my finger too far on it I’d hate to not just let it be more than what one might imply I’d hate to have it run because I couldn’t help but try to grab it I’d hate to not recognize the reason why We can gather. Down by the water let the wave, wash over me as we get down. to the heart of the matter in beautiful moments. of simplicity We can hold on and make it fly in beautiful moments. of the reason why GrassRoots. Far more than just a party. A movement? Switched on. Yes! A prayer of many to the universe... Perhaps. It’s music, it’s beating, it’s rising and falling, it’s life... as we love it.

And please do not forget that GrassRoots is not owned. It is run, it is organized, it is shepherded, but it is not owned. Our collective pulse, sense of belonging, intention, working, dancing, singing, being. Our collective pulse, creativity and excitement is what truly makes it the ride of a lifetime.

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volunteering at grassroots

25 years

of teamwork Year after year we count on folks who have been there from the beginning (seriously, from year 1), as well as newcomers who lend a hand in contributing to the synergy of what is GrassRoots.

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To some, The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival just wouldn’t be the same without their annual volunteer contribution to making it all happen. The festival is reliant on those who give part of their time at the festival to help make it go. GrassRoots is volunteer run, and has been that way since the beginning. Over the past 25 years the volunteer program has developed into a system of more than 40 crews and upward of 1,300 people.

grassroots volunteer crews:

Some of our awesome volunteer crews (these are the folks who make this festival go!)

If you are reading this program prior to the festival, please consider serving on one of our 40-some volunteer crews that make the festival operations run smoothly. If you are reading this during or after the festival: Mark your calendars for 2016! Volunteer signups start in early June.

How to volunteer:

We are always looking for responsible festival-goers to contribute to the functioning of GrassRoots!

It’s a great opportunity for local folks, especially if you are available the week after the festival to help with the breakdown crew. It’s also ideal for those who have never been to the festival, as it’s the perfect way to get familiar with how it all works and to meet new people.

The seasonal volunteer office is always willing to answer questions about our volunteer opportunities. If you are considering volunteering but need more information, please visit our website: grassrootsfest.org and click on the “volunteer” page.

Email: volunteer@grassrootsfest.org Seasonal Volunteer Office Phone (June & July): 607-387-7764

2015 Updates

The volunteer system is dependent on a culture of improvement—we strive to update our system annually in order to meet the needs of the festival and volunteers.

If you think you have an idea to develop the system or a have volunteer experience which inspires an idea of improvement, please let us know! Send an e-mail to: volunteer@grassrootsfest.org

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• Art Barn • Happiness Parade • Back Gate • Big Kids Tent • Breakdown • CD Sales • Merchandise & T-shirt Booth

• EMS • Festival Kitchen/

Hospitality • Front Gate • Healing Arts • Kids Tent Performers • MCs • Music Workshop Instructors • Neighbor Tent Camping (Camp Rangers)

• Offsite Camping • Offsite Parking • Onsite Vehicle/ RV Camping (The Wolfpack)

• Performer Check-in • Recording &

Documentation • Security • Set up • Stage Sound and Hospitality • Street Team • Tent Camping • Trash & Recycling • Vehicle Camping Stickers (Rabbit Run crew) • Volunteer Tent Check-in

Thank you to all the 2015 festival volunteers!

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tickets & camping TICKETS

Camping and weekend admission are sold separately.

General Admission Tickets for all 4 days Advance Tickets: $125 available online and in outlets through July 15

At the gate: $150

Single-Day Tickets

available online through July 15

Thursday: $50 advance, $57 at the gate Friday: $50 advance, $57 at the gate Saturday: $57 advance, $65 at the gate Sunday: $38 advance, $45 at the gate

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Youth (ages 13-15): $65 for 4-day admission. All youth must be accompanied by a parent or guardian Children 12 & under: free

TICKET OUTLETS

Tickets may be purchased online at www.grassrootsfest.org, or at the following locations: TRUMANSBURG: Good to Go! Trumansburg Market 21 East Main Street, 607-387-8646 Sundrees 9 West Main Street 607-387-8811 I T H AC A : Ithaca Guitar Works 214 North Cayuga Street, 607-272-6241 Autumn Leaves Used Book Store 115 East State Street, The Commons, 607-273-8239 Ithaca Bakery 400 North Meadow Street 607-273-7110 Triphammer Marketplace 607-257-2255 Collegetown Bagels 415 College Avenue 607-273-0982 203 North Aurora Street 607-273-2848 329 Pine Tree Road 607-273-1036

CAMPING INFO

All Campsite passes are for a maximum of 4 people per site.

You must be 18 years old to purchase any camping option. Proof of age is required when you arrive at the festival.

Anyone under the age of 18 years old must be camping with a parent or guardian.

All tents must be 5 feet apart, due to Health Department requirements.

Camp sites are not reserved, but are first-come, first-served.

No open fires of any kind are permitted due to Health Code requirements.

This includes camp grills, camp stoves and tiki torches. Tiki torches may be confiscated if found at the festival.

Please, leave them at home.

Please visit GrassRootsFest.org to see available camping options.

Additional Camping Options All fill up very quickly. Do not wait to reserve a space!

Spruce Row Campground 607-387-9225, is nearby and recommended.

There are also several state parks in the area: Taughannock Falls State Park (607-387-6739) is the closest, but also check out...

Robert H Treman State Park (607-273-3440), and Buttermilk Falls State Park (607-273-5761) All three are extraordinarily beautiful places.

Also worth checking out is Sampson State Park (about 20 miles north of T-burg on Seneca Lake).

For general state park information and reservations, call 800-456-CAMP.

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Bringing music to our community is the GrassRoots way!

The Roots in the Schools program brings musicians and visual artists to schools and summer camps to perform, workshop, and inspire! The program runs in conjunction with each of our festivals, in New York, North Carolina, and Florida. We support the local music community by sponsoring this programming and bring visiting world-class artists to our communities’ children! This year the Wassa PanAfrika Dance Ensemble will perform at the Cayuga Nature Center’s summer program, members of Lanzallamas and The Nativos Jammin’ Orchestra will perform at the Community Unity Music Education program at the Southside Community Center in Ithaca, and Anna Coogan will workshop and perform at the Trumansburg Play School. If you are an educator or a parent and want to see Roots in the Schools come to your children’s classroom, contact us. We’d love to hear from you!

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Grassroots gives 25 Years of Giving

Your love of the GrassRoots experience not only creates a beautiful weekend but a reverberation of resources spread throughout your community and the world. In our 25th year, GrassRoots is proud to say we have given over $1 million ($875,000 in cash and over $500,000 in in-kind donations) to many worthy organizations and charities in our region and beyond. We have also offered our stages and tents to nonprofits around the region for use free of charge for their own fundraisers.

Here are some other ways we give back:

2014 Monetary and In-Kind Donations: Ithaca Health Alliance Gadabout Transportation Trumansburg Fire Department

Our outreach program Roots in the Schools (see opposite page) brings musical performances and workshops to schools and summer camps from Ithaca to Miami, providing a creative space for inspiring interaction between musicians and students.

Trumansburg Elementary School

GrassRoots volunteers and craftsmen/women build play structures, pavilions, and stages that are donated to our community. Three of them—a mini library, fire station, and house—now make up the Trumansburg Kids’ Village. A gazebo and two-level office and play structure found their home at the Trumansburg Farmers’ Market. In Miami, we have donated three tiny cabins to the Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, creating the only beachside camping/off-the-grid vacation spot in Miami-Dade County. A gazebo at Ithaca’s Thompson Park, a multi use pavilion at the Ithaca Children’s Garden and a mini-stage donated to a Habitat for Humanity fundraiser are other projects made possible by your support of the GrassRoots Festival organization!

Boy Scouts of America Troop 13

Trumansburg Fair

Catholic Worker Community of Ithaca Tompkins County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association Taughannock Soccer Club Hospicare and Palliative Care Services

BE PROUD With four 4-day festivals a year (one each in upstate New York and Florida and two in North Carolina), it is our mission to create dynamic environments where community flourishes and the arts serve to break boundaries of race, class, and nationality.

Bluegrass greats share billing with West African Kora masters. Children can learn origami and witness the magical contortions of Galumpha. You can take a yoga class and be educated about alternative energy in between your favorite steel guitar act and a zydeco spin on the Dance Tent floor. Music, the great unifier, draws us together to share our common human experience. Be proud of your local festival and help us to thrive!

Village of Trumansburg Sustainable Tompkins Lakeview Mental Health Services Franziska Racker Centers May Day 5K Trumansburg After Prom Party Trumansburg PTOs Taste of the Nation Akwesasne Freedom School Trumansburg WinterFest Ulysses Philomathic Library Trumansburg Music Boosters Trumansburg Robotics Club Trumansburg Sports Boosters Ithaca Festival Winter Village Bluegrass Festival

If you have ideas about organizations or causes that GrassRoots should support, let us know! info@grassrootsfest.org

Ithaca Community Childcare Center

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“GrassRoots is my job, my family, my shining moments and my tiredest hours. It’s where I learned that I’m not always right, that I have great ideas, and that I can do anything if I’m just willing to try hard enough. GrassRoots is a reunion. It’s the glue that has kept our teenage scene together. It’s why our children, and now our children’s children, are a family. It’s a tribe.” —Katie Walker

Some of the crew

The GrassRoots Crew is a diverse group of dedicated people who put their energy into everything from the communications of office work to pounding rebar at the Dance Tent, to hauling sound gear, building stages, creating this program, stringing the bulbs that light your nighttime dances, and so much more.

We are a family. There have been hundreds of these folks over the years, who see GrassRoots as a way to contribute to their community and find a like-minded group of individuals in the GrassRoots Crew. Thank you for joining us on the path to creating a celebration of music, arts, and the human spirit.

This is a moment to express gratitude to everyone who has spent time contributing to this massive undertaking. You are appreciated. You are seen. And we owe the meaningful success of this festival to the collective time and heart you have spent in its name.

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“GrassRoots is why I finally uprooted and moved to New York. My evolving career of working with volunteers began with GrassRoots. It‘s an experience and a way of thinking and doing that can transcend into every other aspect of our daily lives. It’s made me a better person, a better leader, and connected me to the LOVES in my life, in terms of music, culture, and people. GrassRoots organically forces us to keep our hearts, minds, and attitudes open to more than what we already know. Welcoming more people and performers to the fold via our Shakori Hills and Miami festivals as they have blossomed is such a blessing to witness.

GrassRoots encompasses more than just music... but it’s proof that music and people can improve our world.” —Laurie Johnston, Stage Manager

“All I can say is that this festival is an amazing thing, and I’m fortunate to be a part of it.” —Nana Monaco, Coordinator

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“Heartfelt appreciation is what I feel when I think of the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance. It means so much to me. An evolving family. A blank canvas each year. Many colors and vibrations. Fun. Transformation. Growth.

Making a difference by making it better.

Role-modeling possibility for our kids.

Practicing the fine art of living a dream for four days every year. 20 years of Healing Arts. Finding purpose through creative problem solving and genuine effort. Community and team-spirited sharing. Reaching out to new regions of the country. Expanding into what might be. Healing and growing together. Staying strong within our individual convictions and speaking from our hearts with clear voices. Listening. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Allowing Love.”

—JoAnn Kingsley, Healing Arts Coordinator for 20 years. Wow.

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“For me GrassRoots is moments in time which nurture and open life to its full richness of joy. Time shared with friends, family, and those who yet are to become friends. I cherish every moment spent within the limitless boundaries of this weekend. As I’m surrounded by music, love, peaceful vibrance, exciting encounters, and moments of tranquil quiet, I find my extended weekend always to be the highlight of my year. No matter how I enter the festival, I always leave wearing a joyful smile within my heart and upon my being.

It is in this sharing of time, space, and energy that one realizes what life in itself holds for all. I am grateful for this time I have with all of you.” —Enjoy Life, Lorraine Bard, Crew Chief

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“It’s like family reunion time. GrassRoots is so much more than a festival. It’s people.

We came together all those years ago and made magic happen. We’ve watched a tiny little gathering become an epic annual event.

We’ve watched our babies run in the Dance Tent, ride bikes on the track, and eventually join our ranks and dance with their own sweeties in the wee hours. GrassRoots is hard work, sweat, angst, joy… it pushes us to our limits of joy, frustration, sadness, and elation. We’ve cried, laughed, hugged, grieved, birthed, celebrated in this magical space.” —Suse Thomas, Infield Stage Mom

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“It is said that a measure of the success and vitality of any community is in direct proportion to the quality of its gatherings and celebrations, and to how well it establishes collective joy and creativity.

The whole GrassRoots phenomenon is an incredible example of how well we have learned to honor our Arts, to express ourselves, and to appreciate each other!

Within the Live Music experience the audience co-creates the actual event with the energy of their attention and dancing self-expression. The generation of this Energy heals and nourishes us. It serves to inspire us and to affirm Humanity at its best.

It has the power to expand our minds and to open our hearts. And we keep coming back for more! What we do here at this Festival is both a cause and an effect of our amazingly talented, creative and loving community.

Happy 25th to EVERYONE!” —With love and gratitude, Gwendelyn Daniels, Happiness Parade Director

“GrassRoots is so many things it’s hard to put into words. When I distill it down it’s an awesome community of people to work and grow with who share a passion for something... I think I’ll call it aliveness! It’s a celebration of being alive and the beautiful things about what it is to be a human on the earth at this time.” —Lissa Farrell, Coordinator

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celebrating 25 years 4 DAY S — S O M A N Y WAY S TO C E L E B R AT E !

Thursday

saturday

A True “Throw-Back-Thursday” Affair

25th Anniversary Celebration 10pm

GrassRoots Vintage T-Shirt Fashion Show

sunday

Join us as we kick-off the 25th annual Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival celebration with a display of GrassRoots T-shirts from year one through 25! Dive into your closets and dig out your OLDEST GrassRoots T-shirt and wear it on Thursday.

And, that’s not all...

The official GrassRoots 25th Anniversary Celebration arrives with a boom! Just look up in the sky from wherever you are at the festival to witness the display of fireworks.

9pm at the Infield Stage

Happiness Parade

Friday

Hooray for Happiness! Silver is the theme, representing 25 years. Silver has been said to symbolize harmony, the harmony that is needed to sustain a relationship for such a long period of time. And harmony is a perfect representation of what GrassRoots is, in all meanings of the word: tunefulness, melodiousness, balance, consonance, coordination, compatibility, peacefulness, amity, friendship, cooperation, and understanding. So find yourself some flashy sparkly silver garments and accessories to don at this year’s parade.

Line up around 1pm. All are welcome!

All are welcome to strut their stuff across the Infield Stage and help us proudly celebrate 25 years of GrassRoots! To participate, sign up in advance through our Facebook event page or at the fest by 7pm on Thursday in the Merch Barn. Fill out the simple registration form telling us what year you’ll be representing and a fun fact about your history with GrassRoots! You will receive further instruction upon sign-up.

GrassRoots Storytelling

starts at the Art Barn at 2pm

12-2pm in the Art Barn

Storytelling is one of the most ancient and powerful ways of communicating and connecting with people. From the earliest days, it has been considered an art, one of the primary ways that everyone received information. We see this celebratory year as a time to reflect. And what better way to do so than by listening to stories of the past. Stories, more than anything else, capture the essence of our lives and we invite you to join us in this experience. Special guests will be telling stories of some of their most memorable GrassRoots experiences.

GrassRoots crew kickin‘ off the 25th celebration in the Ithaca Festival parade.

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grassroots merch and cd barn Keep your GrassRoots memories alive with some fun and funky

keepsakes from our on-site boutique! Stop in at the Merchandise Barn to browse our wares.

Get yourself a comfy all-cotton tee, tank, or hoodie, or perhaps some sort of cool hat. Maybe a water bottle? A coozie? Or even earplugs?

We also have an enormous selection of music by GrassRoots bands and artists. 100% of CD sales go directly to the artists, so if you’re gonna buy ’em, this is a great time and place to go it!

raffle The only thing better than 25 is 50!

50/50 raffle tickets will be sold throughout the weekend at the Merch Barn. 50% of raffle sales is what you win. Yep, straightup cash money. The other 50% of funds raised will go to the Roots in the Schools program. Drawing to be held on Sunday at the Sim Redmond show at the Infield Stage. Need not be present to win... but it’d be really fun if you were!

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PROGRAM & T-SHIRT ART

For the first 23 years of the festival, local author and painter Annie Campbell (left) contributed to the GrassRoots vibe with her colorful and imaginative paintings. Until last year, her art graced the covers of the Finger Lakes GrassRoots programs as well as numerous festival shirts. Her most recent project is an illustrated memoir of her “wild years” called The Whore Next Door. It is available as an e-book on Amazon.com.

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A Call To Action In the year 1990, as we headed into the last decade of the 20th century, the world faced a new crisis: AIDS. Mysterious, unheard of, and deadly; people were scared and dying! Donna the Buffalo and friends, The Horse Flies and Neon Baptist, responded with a sold-out benefit show at the State Theatre raising over $10,000 for AIDS Work of Tompkins County.

I remember so clearly the feeling of peeking out from the door of the dressing rooms beneath the stage and seeing the packed house of heroic Ithacans, also responding to the call to be there and support a community that a Government was appearing blind to, a joyful mob! To create joy in the midst of crisis is a powerful thing and brings magic to the table.

The wonderful event and its success led to the creation of GrassRoots and 25 years of raising consciousness and funds for organizations that support arts, education and the fight against AIDS, both locally and globally. —Jordan Puryear

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GROUNDS f CELEBRATION

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on’t believe everything you see. When you read the words “Trumansburg Fair Est. 1850” painted on the side of the building just to the right of the main entrance to GrassRoots, you might think the Trumansburg fairgrounds have existed since then. But the first Union Agricultural and Horticultural Fairs took place up the road in Farmerville (before it changed its name to Interlaken), and then in Trumansburg near where the water tower sits today.

It wasn’t until 20 acres were donated by Fair Association president Warren Halsey—a horse lover and a huge fan of sulky racing who envisioned building the finest half-mile track in the state—that the fairgrounds opened at the current site in 1873.

(What’s a sulky, you ask? It’s a two-wheeled carriage used in harness racing, as in the photo at the top of the page. It got its name because there’s only room for one, so the rider must like to be alone.)

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much noise, as that was their first and last appearance). Doug’s Fish Fry shows up every once in a while for one local benefit or another, and the fair still comes to town every August. Though it doesn’t garner the huge crowds of yore, the grandstand fills with spectators eager to see displays of horsepower, whether it’s Standardbred racing or the demolition derby.

But these days the GrassRoots festival is the fairgrounds’ biggest draw, selling about 15,000 tickets each year. And since the first Grassroots in 1991, the organization has continued the spirit of stewardship, maintaining the grounds, upgrading various structures, building the roof to the Grandstand Stage in 2003, and last year installing the bathrooms by the Dance Tent. (Woo-hoo!) And, of course, Grassroots is continuing the tradition of bringing thousands of revelers to the Trumansburg fairgrounds for a four-day-long party.

Over the years, various benefactors contributed to improving the grounds. The original grandstand was built in 1900; the judges’ stand and bandstand were added in 1910. Trees were planted that still provide shade today.

The fair was a big deal through much of the 20th century, with at least four New York governors attending over the years, including Thomas Dewey in 1943, and crowds of 15,000 or more.

It was so popular that the Lehigh Valley Railroad added cars on its Geneva-to-Ithaca spur to handle the extra passengers heading to Trumansburg for the event.

Equestrian competitions still take place at the fairgrounds, and one year the American Pyrotechnics Association held a convention here, filling the night sky with spectacular fireworks (and perhaps, one local attendee speculated, too

A Fair to Remember From the 1908 program: “The Flying Banvards, five ladies and three men, the premier aerialists of the vaudeville stage, will delight those who enjoy something of a more sensational nature.”

Could this be them?

Special thanks to The Ulysses Historical Society for generously providing their time, information, and photos.

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The Art Barn

We at GrassRoots have never been much for pigeonholing our interests. As we see it, music is music is music. There’s no reason not to experience the whole spectrum over these four days. And, just as the music here can’t help overflowing from the stages to the campsites, so too is the ethos of the Art Barn. Not only can you catch some fantastic installation pieces in the barn itself, but we’ll be projecting videos around the festival all weekend, telling stories, and holding a seminar. Stop by the barn for more information and a full schedule of events.

The Happiness Parade

S I LV E R I S T H E T H E M E !

Marching its way through the GrassRoots Festival since 1995, The Happiness Parade features musicians, jugglers, stilt walkers, and other merry-makers.

Pre-parade hoopla begins an hour before takeoff (about 1pm on Sunday). Young paraders are welcome if accompanied by an adult parader. Wear something flashy or borrow something from Happiness Headquarters (at the Art Barn). This year folks are encouraged to bring and wear silverthemed costumes and accessories to the parade in honor of our Silver Anniversary. Woo-hoo, 25 years! Positive individual or group expressions are encouraged to be a part of this fantastic show of collective effervescence.

Join in! Starts from the Art Barn at about 2pm Sunday; line up at 1pm.

All welcome!

care. Stop by this place of quiet and positive relaxation to rest your dancing feet and gather strength! You will find an extensive schedule of hands-on healing arts demonstrations at the healing arts information station.

Morning Yoga

Start your GrassRoots day with a relaxing, rejuvenating, and energizing yoga session! Diane Fine, a Kripalu-trained and certified teacher, has been leading GrassRoots yoga since 1996 and will help guide you through a series of poses appropriate for any level, beginner to master. Bring a yoga mat (or a towel or blanket) and a friend, and get yourself ready for another day of dancing and fun!

Movement & Workshop Tent Be sure to check out the Movement & Workshop Tent! For more info go to page 34, or stop by the Healing Arts neighborhood.

for everyone

Feeling Better Exercises

Come heal yourself with Tasso Spanos, a certified myofascial trigger point therapist who directs The Center for Pain Treatment in Pittsburgh, PA. He successfully treats difficult pain and weakness problems by using trigger point pressure techniques and special stretches that he learned from his teacher, Dr. Janet Travell, physician in the White House. Tasso will teach his special exercise class of 100 different therapeutic stretches on Saturday only at 10am in the Cabaret Hall. So bring your headaches, back aches, tired feet, weak knees and stiff shoulders to get fixed up, while having lots of fun!

Enter the GrassRoots Band Contest!

Healing Arts

Healing Arts Area is celebrating 20 years at the festival! Free love and healing is what you’ll find tucked away there in the shady area behind the craft vendors, taking place in the form of hands-on bodywork, breath work, energy exchange and exploration, meridian alignment, esoteric spiritual practices, kindness and caring. Community organizations and individual practitioners offer informational sessions and personal healing arts demonstrations for those interested in exploring this powerful and progressive wave of health

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Compost Theatre

Compost... what? See, it’s got you thinking and laughing already! Compost Theatre will dazzle you with skits, songs, dance and puppet friends while you are inspired to become the best composter you can be! Definitely fun for all ages!

We dare anyone not to smirk, smile or giggle while you learn about nature’s favorite way of recycling. Saturday in the Kids Area.

It’s pretty easy. As soon as you arrive at the festival (Thursday or Friday, even), wander over to the Grandstand Stage. The fella who runs the band contest will have set up a clipboard or mailbox or some sort of other obvious contraption that allows you to get yourself on the list for the contest. Get on that list, let him know your basic tech requirements, and when your name is called, get ready to rock (or folk, as the case may be). Winner gets a set at next year’s festival; runners-up get stuff too. It’s pretty casual; we don‘t take it tremendously seriously, and we recommend that you don’t either. The list is first-come, first-served, and once it’s full, it’s full.

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Thursday 12:30-1:30 1-7 1:30-5:50 3-5 5-6 5-6 5:30-7 6-7

Free Facepainting with Ella Art House Play with Clay Make a Joyful Noise Art with Cathleen The Mike Stanley Magic Show Free Festive Face Painting with Cami Juggling Workshop with Ed Giant Checkers with Eli

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area & family fun

Between the Infield and Grandstand Stages.

All are welcome at both tents. Play, create and enjoy!

The GrassRoots Festival is proud to be an event that the whole family can enjoy. In fact, many of our volunteers, staff members, and musicians grew up coming to the festival and now happliy bring their children along, as do many other festival patrons. Children 12 and under are free with a parent or guardian, and tons of free and low-cost children’s activities are offered in the centralized Kids Areas, which you’ll find in the Infield, along the track.

Bring your children to the Kids Area (with separate zones for “big kids” and “little kids”) to make crafts, enjoy performances, play games, and just generally make merry with their fellow young’uns. Drop in early in the festival to see the updated schedule of children’s performances and activities taking place each day.

9-9:45 10-7 10-6 10:30-12:30 11-2 11:30-12 12-1 12-2 1-2 2:15-3 3-4 3-4 3-6 4-5 6-7

Family Yoga with Diane @ Healing Arts Art House Play with Clay Tie-Dye with Michael’s of Ithaca Art with Cathleen Primitive Pursuits Michael & Sue “All One Song” The Mike Stanley Magic Workshop Giant Checkers with Eli Learn to Play a Ukulele with Jason Little Buddhas Yoga Free Festive Face Painting with Cami Judy Stock Workshop Hula Hoop Workshop with Alotta Hoopla The Miss Angie Hour Turtle Dreams Didgeridoo Storytelling with Paul

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At the festival, you’ll also find face painting, an ice cream stand, foods and crafts for all ages and tastes, stilt walkers, jugglers, and of course our 80+ performers offering music from around the world, all in a family-welcoming atmosphere.

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9-9:45 10-6 10:30-4:30 11-1 11-2 11:30-12:30 12-6 1-2 1-2 1-7 1:30-3 2-4 2-4 3-3:45 4-5 4-6 6-7

Family Yoga with Diane @ Healing Arts Tye-Dye with Michael’s of Ithaca Make a Joyful Noise Learn to Juggle with Jon & Heather Primitive Pursuits Compost Theatre Make Your Own Hula Hoops/Stilts ($5 each) Free Festive Face Painting with Cami Learn to Play a Ukulele with Jason Art House Play with Clay Giant Checkers with Eli Fairy Hair with Leslie Make Your Own Didgeridoo Workshop with Paul Yoga/Little Buddhas Yoga Judy Stock Performs Hula Hoop Workshop with Alotta Hoopla Turtle Dreams Didgeridoo Storytelling with Paul

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Make a Joyful Noise Art House Play with Clay Learn to Play a Ukulele with Jason Art with Cathleen Make Your Own Didgeridoo Workshop with Paul Primitive Pursuits Passionate About Possums with Rodney Sutton Fairy Hair with Leslie Giant Checkers with Eli Make Your Own Hula Hoops/Stilts ($5 each) Judy Stock Workshop Free Festive Face Painting with Cami Hula Hoop Workshop with Alotta Hoopla Happiness Parade (walk up to Art Barn at 1:30) The Mike Stanley Magic Workshop The Miss Angie Hour

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what’s going on at the kids area Learn to play a ukulele with Jason: He brings many ukuleles for you to learn and strum on.

Come learn and strum or just sing along! Fun for all.

Compost Theatre: A singing theatrical experience for the whole family. Learn about compost as you laugh, sing along and interact with the antics of Compost Theater performers.

Free Festive Face Painting for the kids: Let Cami do some Festive Face Painting for free while you enjoy the Kids Area. Choose your design, some colors and she’ll bring it all to life.

Alotta Hoopla with Shenandoah & Tristan will get you swinging that hula hoop round and round. Never done it? Can’t quite make it work?

Accomplished hooper? Well, come on over and they’ll get you moving.

Judy Stock, Musician, Educator, Entertainer: Join in as she performs with her music or works with you in one of her workshops. It’s fun to sing along.

Try out Yoga as a Family with Diane Hamilton: At Healing Arts or just the kids on their own with Diane or Courtney of Little Buddhas Yoga at the kids area. Stretch, balance, focus, fun.

Take a moment and relax.

Crafts abound at both the Big and Little Kids Tents. From making rainsticks to drums, bean mosaics to sock puppets to shakers. Or be an artistic designer and come up with you own art project using our supplies. Come have fun with Art-Crafts-Projects.

The Kids Area play structures are always open to enjoy, 24/7!

Make and take home your very own hula hoop and/or set of stilts sized just for you. Open to all. Cost $5 each.

Sing and dance along with Miss Angie as she strums her guitar, sings, and encourages all to join in. Pick up a shaker or rhythmic instrument she has laid out and keep time. Dance, sing, and play as you join in with Miss Angie’s songs. She also may be seen playing with Make a Joyful Noise throughout the festival.

The Art House Play with Clay offers you clay for molding, rolling, sculpting, and just generally playing around with. Let your fingers experience clay however you wish. Open to all.

The mysteries of magic will amaze you as Mike Stanley the Magician entertains you with trick after trick. He even teaches you a trick or two to dazzle your family and friends with.

Primitive Pursuits: They support a culture where each child may grow up with the freedom to explore the natural world, instilling deep values for the environment, their own well-being, and the health of their community.

Workshops on survival skills, weaving, learning to make a fire (no fires will actually be started), making cordage and much, much more!

Paul of Turtle Dreams Didgeridoo Storytelling gives stories life: Calming yet intriguing entertaining stories evolve as all listeners wait for the next moment to be told. Paul also gives workshops on playing the didgeridoo and making them. Come to listen. Come to play.

Let’s do Art with Cathleen: There’s an artist in all of us. Let Cathleen help find or fine-tune the artist in you!

Ever wanted to juggle? Here’s your chance.

Ed Gottlieb & Jon Billings and Heather will be teaching, encouraging and letting you practice with their equipment. Give it a try!

Micheal and Sue have put together music and verse: An experiential presentation interconnecting people, creativity and nature.

Come listen to “All One Song.”

Like to make rhythmic music? Come join Sue with Make a Joyful Noise. She has everything but the kitchen sink to make rhythms with.

Come beat a pot, find something to rattle. Join in the beat and make some rhythmic music.

Where’s Waldo? Be on the look out as you wander about the festival for Waldo. Try to get a picture with him.

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Watch in the Infield for The Gamemaker.

He gathers players together and plays group games. (for teens and adults).

Be on the lookout throughout the festival for the stilt-walking Dancing Wishing Fairy and Jester!

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Get your teams together for a Life-Sized Checkers Game: Checkers is a fun board game, but in 2013 a 12‘x12‘ checker board was made.

Some games were played with human checker pieces. Games can be played with large checker pieces also. It’s for 2 people to play or teams to rival each other. Games will be played with quick decisions, time limits and are fast-paced.

Rodney Sutton performs “Passionate about Possums” with songs, stories, and props, and animal dances about his favorite marsupial, calling attention to why Possums should be left alone to play their role in our environment as our natural garbage disposals!

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9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00

1:00 Bubba George Stringband

elekinetic Walrus

Big Mean Sound Machine

The Falconers

Locust Honey

2:00

9:00

Nery Arevalo

10:00 11:00

Calico Moon

12:00 1:00

Toivo 2:00

Ralph Roddenbery Gabriel Tavares & Sisu PTM

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The The Ralph 3:00 3:00 3:00 Speckers Speckers Roddenbery Walter Walter Mouton & Mouton & Thunder Thunder The Scott 4:00 Body The Scott 4:00 4:00 Body Playboys Playboys The Fly Park Doing Park Doing Preston Frank Preston Frank Rods 5:00 & His Zydeco 5:00 5:00 & His Zydeco First North First North Family Band Family Band American American Jim Lunar Lunar Driftwood Driftwood Sihasin Sihasin Lauderdale 6:00 6:00 6:00 Mary Keith Secola Keith Secola Lorson Grey & His & His Grey 7:00 Wild Band Gary 7:00 7:00 Gary Wild Band The Flying The Flying of Indians of Indians Cabinet Cabinet Clouds Clouds The Blind The Blind Spots Kenny T 8:00 8:00SpotsDonna Kenny T 8:00 8:00 8:00 the & Wildfire & Wildfire Ruddy Ruddy Buffalo The Well Tamikrest Tamikrest Well Djangoners Band Band 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 Steve Steve Lanzallamas Lanzallamas GrassRoots Earle Earle The The Fashion Show Bronwen Bronwen Gunpoets 10:00 10:00 Gunpoets 10:00 Exter Exter Christopher 10:00 Christopher 10:00 Trombone Gerard A Tribe A Tribe GerardLuke G Luke G Shorty & Telekinetic Band Band Called Called & The 11:00 Sim & The11:00 Walrus 11:00 Orleans 11:00 11:00 Sim Red Red Candyhearts Redmond Avenue Storyboard Storyboard Candyhearts Redmond The The Band Band Notorious Notorious 12:00 12:00 12:00 Second 12:00 Second 12:00 StringStringDam Dam busters busters John Brown’s John Brown’s Big Mean Jimkata Jimkata Keith Cedric 1:00 Cedric1:00 Body Body 1:00 1:00 1:00 Sound Frank & Watson Watson The Sutras The Sutras Machine DJ Cappel& DJ Cappel Soileau & Zydeco Bijou Creole Bijou Creole HectorWorks HectorWorks

3:00 3:00 Mac Mac Gabriel Benford & Benford & Tavares & Up South 4:00 Up South 4:00 Kevin Sisu PTM Kinsella The Fly Rods ockwood 5:00 Rockwood 5:00 Ferry Ferry Jim Lauderdale 6:00 Morikeba 6:00 Mary Kouyate Lorson Locust Locust 7:00 7:00 Honey Honey

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9:00 Yoga w/ GrassRoots Diane Fine GrassRoots Fiddle Fiddle 10:00Banjo 10:00 Banjo Nery Tensegrity Tensegrity Arevalo Guitar Guitar Practice Practice Mandolin Mandolin 11:00 11:00 Competition Competition Dead Sea Dead Sea The Calico Squirrels Squirrels Falconers Moon 12:00 Contra 12:00 Contra Dance Dance Alter Alter Koker Koker 1:00 1:00 Locust Honey Toivo Moontee Moontee Morikeba 2:00 Morikeba Sinquah 2:00 Sinquah Kouyate Kouyate

Yoga w/ Diane Fine

Soundsystem

9:00

Yoga w/ Diane Fine

10:00

Tensegrity Practice

11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00

The Flying Clouds

Big Mean Sound Machine

Nativos Jammin Orchestra

4:00 5:00

Dead Sea Squirrels Square Dance

6:00 Nag 7:00 Champayons

The Buvas

Bobby Henrie & The Goners

Thousands of One

Richie & Rosie

8:00 9:00

The Family Stone

Jones Benally

9:00

Healing w/ Tassos Spanos

Jeb & Friends

The Brothers Comatose

Walter Mouton & The Scott Playboys

Mac Benford & Up South

2:00 3:00

The Horse Flies

Lo’Jo

Blind Boy Paxton & Cedric Watson

GoGone

Laila Belle

GrassRoots Chamber Orchestra Read-Along Songs w/ John & Cal

11:00 12:00

Sihasin

The Grady Girls

Black Castle

Bubba George Stringband

Sim Redmond Band

Giant 5:00 Panda Guerilla Dub Squad 6:00

Uniit

Nativos Jammin’ Orchestra

8:00 John Specker

Jennie Stearns

9:00

Donna the 10:00 GrassRoots 25th Anniversary Celebration! 10:00 Buffalo & Friends All-Star Revue Donna Marco Johnny 11:00 11:00 the Benevento Dowd Samite Buffalo 12:00 1:00

Galumpha

12:00 Sophistafunk

Keith Frank 1:00 & The Telekinetic Soileau Lanzallamas Walrus Zydeco Band

10:00 11:00

GrassRoots Songwriters Circle

Hank Roberts

Anna Coogan

Zydeco Dance Workshop

Preston Frank & His Zydeco Family Band

Moontee Sinquah

12:00 1:00

The Nepotist

GrassRoots Happiness Carnival Parade

4:00

7:00

9:00

Yoga w/ Diane Fine

10:00

1:00

Ben Cohen Stampede Driftwood

GrassRoots Band Contest Old Time Bluegrass & more..

2:00

Ralph Roddenbery 3:00 & Jeb Puryear 4:00

Nag Champayons Kelly Britton 5:00

Atsiaktonkie

Plastic Nebraska

Big Mean Sound Machine

Keith Secola & His Wild Band of Indians

6:00 Red Dog Run

The Tin Teardrops

7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00

This schedule is subject to change.

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Please check the Children’s Area, Healing Arts Area, and Workshop Tent for schedules of activities in those areas.

12:00

The Annual GrassRoots Happiness Parade begins Sunday at 2pm at the Art Barn.

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Open Meditation and Movement

Friday’s early morning time in the Healing Arts Area will be set aside for anyone interested in creating the intention and space to meditate through sitting or movement in the Workshop Tent. This self-guided time will be enhanced by the first one to arrive. Please set an intention and create an opening for others to join you.

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Work shops Workshops are held in the Workshop Tent, unless otherwise specified

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GrassRoots Healing Arts 20th Birthday Party—Express Your Talents!

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GrassRoots Healing Arts will celebrate 20 years with a Birthday Bash in the Workshop Tent.

Please join our many talented healing arts practitioners who have much love to express, as always. Listen, hum, dance, sing, and play along… “Express Your Talents” sign-ups will begin at 5:00. JoAnn Kingsley, Healing Arts Coordinator and co-founder of Harmonance Wellness in Watkins Glen will facilitate this Conscious Evolution Creative Revolution. Please join us.

sample the many elements of the practice for first-hand experience of what makes AcroYoga so uniquely engaging and fun! No yoga experience required, no partner needed. All are welcome. Come support and be supported.

1-2pm

Clogging with Rodney Sutton

Learn traditional dance with this master of the art from South Carolina. Rodney makes rhythmic step accessible to all and will leave you with the skills to take the Bluegrass dance floor with confidence!

Family Yoga with Diane Hamilton and Courtney Schroeder

2:30-3:45pm

10am-12pm

4-5:30 pm

Diane and Courtney of Little Buddhas Yoga lead a playful session of movement and mindfulness activities for all ages and levels, using songs, stories, games, and partner play to help you wake up gently while the kids expend early morning energy! Tween group will split from the little ones.

Five Element Qi Gong with Walter Hartman Healing Arts Area—Green Space

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there is no separation between mental, physical, and spiritual health. They all affect each other.

In Qi Gong we balance the emotions by expressing simple ancient movement aligned with elements of nature, employ the right side of our brains by slowing way down and learning paradoxically simple yet confounding movements, and connecting to the cosmos. In this way our energy and emotions are “evenedout” and joy, peace, calm, and happiness can ensue.

10am-12pm

Reiki I Attunement and Practicum with Heather Buck and Friends Healing Arts Tent

The word “Reiki” is made of two Japanese words: Rei which means “God’s Wisdom or the Higher Power” and Ki which is “life force energy”. This workshop is open to anyone who would like to experience themselves as a channel for Reiki healing energy. Attunements will occur during the first half of the workshop with the last half devoted to hands-on experience and practice. Level I and II Reiki practitioners are encouraged to join us.

10am-12:30pm

AcroYoga with Gina Newlin and Friends

All levels, all ages, all people are welcome to join this AcroYoga workshop. This workshop provides a safe environment to explore trust, connection, and playfulness. We will combine elements from yoga, acrobatics and Thai massage. Sessions may include: asana sequences, partner yoga, assisted inversions, partner acrobatics and conditioning, therapeutic flying, and Thai massage. Come P r i n t e d on rec yc led pa per us in g s o y-ba s ed in k s

African Influence in Modern Rhythms Learn traditional dance steps and percussive rhythms with musicians from Big Mean Sound Machine and Lanzallamas, who have collaborated in Miami and New York since meeting on the GrassRoots circuit. See what happens when Latin sounds, funk, jazz, and African beats collide at this rhythm master class.

Gong Meditation Sound Bath Yoga with Caryn Sheckler

The ethereal gong bath will carry the listeners away on an incredible personal inner journey.

Caryn Sheckler will lead a gentle yoga class, good for all levels of participants. After the yoga there will be a short guided relaxation which will be followed by gong immersion featuring two Paiste gongs. There will be time to reintegrate before heading back to the earthly realm. It is not necessary to attend the yoga class to benefit from the healing vibrations of the gongs. Please join us.

5:45-6:45pm

Unwinding with Kristy Akdemir

Take a moment to come and learn how to activate and release fascial restriction through a process called “unwinding” in John Barnes’ Myofascial training. Kristy will start with a brief introduction to the concept of unwinding and the fascial system followed by musically led and therapist-supported unwindings of our own. Dawn Tiphereth will offer musical support devoted to freeing our hearts and connecting with the Divine, encouraging the listener to go inward, allow and release in a safe environment.

7-8:30pm

Kirtan with Damodar Das

Damodar Das and friends sing traditional and nontraditional-style Sanskrit chants as part of a complete bhakti (devotional) yoga experience. Drawing on his 11 years as a fulltime professional guitarist as well as his studies with a certified instructor at the American Sanskrit Institute, Damodar Das delicately balances a spiritual engagement that is deep and heart-opening as well as rhythmically and harmonically fun to sing.

6-8pm

Movement to Align Chakras with Music with Daniel Kaiya Shedd

Kaiya from Wildflowerfire will lead this moving meditation class to align the participants’ chakras with music. This workshop will weave drumming, breath work, visualization and dance into an energetic cleansing and awakening.

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personal healing paths. Please join us for this powerful experiential healing arts activity and discover where your journey might lead.

9-9:45am

Family Yoga with Diane Hamilton and Courtney Schroeder

11:30am-12:45pm

Diane & Courtney of Little Buddhas Yoga lead a playful session of movement & mindfulness activities for all ages and levels, using songs, stories, games, and partner play to help you wake up gently while the kids expend early morning energy! Tween group will split from the little ones.

10-11:15am

Banjo with Cedric Watson and Blind Boy Paxton

This class warms up with the mighty Siva Namaskara Vinyasa as taught by Sri Dharma Mittra and flows into the main poses followed

by Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation) and Pranayama (breathing). This class will be led by Hawk of Ahimsa Yoga, Ithaca and have live music performed by Lobo Marino (drone, chant, earth folk).

11:30am-1pm

Engage with the history of traditional ballads and their modern context with these two virtuoso players.

10am-12pm

Five Element Qi Gong with Walter Hartman Healing Arts Area—Green Space

Songwriting with Anna Coogan

Develop your budding songwriting skills or tap into those you don’t even know you have! Anna will guide you through exercises to explore the structure and creative improvisation of song.

2:15-3:45pm

The harmonious balance of ‘the five elements’– Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—are key components of a healthy life. Explore your relationship to these elements through Qi Gong exercise. No experience necessary.

10am-12pm

Acutonics Tuning Fork Sound Healing Sessions with Will Fudeman Healing Arts Area

Tuning Forks are subtle and powerful tools for awakening our mind, body, and spirit. Will Fudeman will provide individualized sound healing and bodywork sessions alongside the Vibrational Sound Chamber of the Healing Arts Tent. Get yourself tuned in for the start of a great day ahead.

10am-12:30pm

Vibrational Healing Chamber with Lou Vogel and friends Healing Arts Tent

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Hawk

By wrapping the Healing Arts Tent with fabric, we will create a sound and healing chamber and explore musical vibrations and our own

The Joy of Singing with Elisa Sciscioli and Kristin Sharkey Connect more deeply with yourself and others as we sing easy-to-learn chants and soulful songs from a variety of cultures!

3-4:15pm

Native Hoop Dance In front of the Infield Stage

Get a lesson in the art of the hoop dance from veteran dancer and teacher Moontee Sinquah.

Join him in the grassy field in front of the Infield to try your hand at this spiritual movement.

4:30-5:45pm

Wassa Pan Afrika Dance Ensemble

Nana Anim and his dance group will teach a dance called Wali. Wali is taken from a dance by the Landouma community of central Guinea. Performed to celebrate a bountiful rice harvest, the dance expresses the joy, happiness, and appreciation of the community at this important time of the year. It also gives honor and respect to Gaia, our Mother Earth.

Hawk from Ahimsa Yoga will warm up this class with Surya Namaskara (sun salutes) and partners will take turns learning how to support each other in the poses. Come on your own­—a partner will emerge. “I just wanna fly!” This class will have live music performed by Lobo Marino (drone, chant, earth folk).

10am-12pm

Qi Gong with Will Fudeman Healing Arts Area—Green Space

Will plans to guide people in enjoying embodied aliveness by teaching several forms of Qi Gong, including Zhi Neng Qi Gong.

11:30am-1pm

Mandala Song Circle with Yael Saar

Chanting and Mandala drawing are two forms of creative expression that go round and round in circles. Both have been shown to have profound healing effects. Yael Saar of Mama’s Comfort Camp will lead chants and simple songs in English and other languages and teach how to draw a simple mandala. All levels of experience are welcome!

1:15-2:30pm

Reiki-Infused Yoga with Sean Jacobs

Enjoy a series of yin and restorative style Yoga poses complete with the gentle support of Reiki treatment with Sean Jacobs. Take plenty of time to meditate on each breath and each grounding Yoga pose. The group setting allows for an enhanced healing-focused practice.

2:45-3:45pm

Easy, Light and Fun Yoga with Christopher Grant

This group class led by Christopher Grant from the Yoga Farm is perfect for newcomers, older, overweight or out-of-shape adults. Each class includes mindful movements, beneficial breathing, simple stretching, and deep rest. This low-impact yoga improves health, circulation, flexibility, and physical well-being. No prior experience necessary.

4:00pm

Sunday Evening Wind-down

This is an opportunity for anyone who is interested in using the Workshop/Movement Tent for grounding through spontaneous expressive movement as the festival wraps up and winds down. Self-guided. Bring a friend.

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Records (with a too-long list of credits including sound design, recording, and mixing of The Last Waltz film and soundtrack, and co-production of the album, as well as remastering the entire Bob Marley catalog). He will give a talk and interactive seminar on the metaphysics of analog sound. Can you hear the difference between analog and digital sound? Can you feel the difference? Does your subconscious know?

Many stories to be told as well as a presentation on “Real Feel,” a proprietary technology of his own invention to help combat the deficiencies of digital sound.

COME JOIN THE CONVERSATION AT THE ART BARN SEMINAR ROOM AT 2:00 PM SATURDAY.

The Stampede

is tens of thousands of Americans legally stamping messages on our nation’s currency to #GetMoneyOut of politics. As the amount of stamped money grows, so does the movement to amend the Constitution.

Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, will lead a discussion on getting money out of politics, including a clever audiovisual demonstration of this serious problem affecting our current USA-style democracy.

Stamps will be available for those wanting to participate in Ben’s ingenious movement!

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2015 Performers

Anna Coogan A Tribe Called Red

Ottawa’s A Tribe Called Red blasts out First Nations consciousness through the lens of inyour-face hip-hop and dance music for a hottempered fusion that’s been called powwowstep. It’s a rare thing to be able to truly place ancestral music into a modern context, but these brilliant fellas bring it all together in a way that inspires both mindfulness and dance.

FRI 10:00pm INFIELD

A former opera singer and field biologist, this singer-songwriter takes her audience on a poignant and often emotional journey. From conquistadores haunting the ocean floor and ghost riders on the desert plains, to a frank look at the tragic consequences of abuse, to straight-up love-’em-and-leave-’em high-heels adventures, her songs and expressive voice have earned her a legion of fans across the world. SUN 11:00am CABARET

Finely tuned soul-funk-dub-Afrobeatroots-clash mayhem. It’s artfully conceived postmodern dance music, a complex sonic force that bursts with lyrical clarity. And oh yes, it will get you up and moving. THURS 12:00am DANCE; SAT 12:45pm INFIELD; SUN 7:45pm DANCE

Black Castle

Black Castle is an I-Town all-star reggae riot, led by ebullient John Brown’s Body vocalist Elliot Martin. With deep dub grooves and righteous lyrics, Black Castle pushes reggae forward without forsaking the roots.

SUN 12:45pm INFIELD

Alter Koker

It ain’t all just banjos around here, you know.

Sometimes we like it a little harder. Plug that guitar in and crank up the reverb, son. Yeah, just like that. Bass? Thrum it. Drums? Pound ’em.

Voice? Growl for me, baby. We think this might just work out. FRI 12:00pm GRANDSTAND

Blind Boy Paxton and Cedric Watson Atsiaktonkie

Constantly bridging borders, both physical and spiritual, Atsiaktonkie is a master of translation. He translates the traditional stories of his Akwesasne ancestors into modern-day parables, applying ancient wisdom to modern problems. He translates rock and roll into a Native genre, applying modern melodies to ancient rhythms. He translates his own spiritual journey into music, allowing us a glimpse of a different world with each song. SUN 6:00pm DANCE

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Big Mean Sound Machine

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You ready to get your deep roots on? We are.

We’ve got Blind Boy Paxton, who grew up in Los Angeles, learning folk blues and Cajun ballads from his grandparents, who relocated during the Second Great Migration out of the Delta region. He’s joined by Cedric Watson, a TexasLouisiana Creole with an equal rooting in these old tunes that formed the basis for everything from rock to hip-hop. Young and handsome and full of old tunes and grit, these fellas bring the 1920s and 1930s alive and gleefully show you how relevant these old songs can be.

SAT 7:00pm GRANDSTAND

The Blind Spots

It’s easy to fall in love with the Blind Spots, and we’re thinking it’s more than just a summer fling. This five-piece female-fronted moxy rock band has been making its presence increasingly known out there on the wide open American road. Their sound just keeps growing, as does our love for them… THURS 7:00pm GRANDSTAND

Cedric Watson and Bijou Creole

Bubba George stringband

It’s not often that people stay friends from the earliest days of youth on through to their years of full-grown-ness, and it’s even more remarkable when they play together in a band for that long. It leads to music that runs deeper than water. It’s old-time, for old times’ sake, and it’s wondrous to behold.

THURS 1:30pm INFIELD; SUN 12:30pm DANCE

The Buvas

Bobby Henrie & the Goners

Bobby Henrie’s old-school rockabilly will transport you to a different time: one of tailfinned Cadillacs, unfiltered cigarettes tucked into rolled-up shirt sleeves, and really, really red lipstick. You don’t have to be an excellent dancer to enjoy the Goners, but if you are an excellent dancer and you’ve never heard of them, you’ll surely wonder where they’ve been all your life. SAT 2:45pm DANCE

A couple of brothers and a couple of guys who may as well be, the Buvas—Pennsylvania Dutch for “little boys”—have busked on street corners from Vestal to Copenhagen, incited more than a few dance riots beside backwoods campfires, and jammed with Gypsy Princesses and Rastafarian preachers. The Buvas represent the very best that old-time music has to offer— inclusiveness, expansiveness, and respect for tradition. SAT 1:00pm DANCE

Anthropologists and historians of several stripes are known to call Louisiana “the northernmost point in the Caribbean,” given that the cultural and trade history, language, and arts of the southern part of the state are much more historically linked (and have more in common in the present time, too) with the Caribbean than the United States South. Cedric Watson is a fiddler and accordion player from the Louisiana Creole tradition who explores old trade routes and their contemporary expressions through music. Expect lots of Cajun and zydeco, but don’t be surprised to hear splashes of merengue or konpa or calypso, either. Dance-ready, every note.

FRI 12:00am DANCE

Christopher Gerard Band

The best country-folk ballads are the ones that register a deep feeling of place. When your town is the same town as the songwriter, this feeling of place becomes all the clearer. Not only are these guys some great musicians, but the songs they’re writin’ and pickin’ and singin’ highlight the blissful mystery of the familiar.

FRI 9:45pm CABARET

Dead Sea Squirrels

Bronwen Exter

It’s those guys. You know the ones. They’ll pull out their fiddles and banjos and guitars and maybe a bass or a mandolin or two, and in a matter of moments, they’ll have you shimmying and jumping like the floor was on fire. Don’t try to fight it, ’cuz eventually they’ll get to you, too.

FRI 11:00am DANCE; SAT 11:00am DANCE

Come all ye cowgirls and barflies, tragic comedians, and lazy poets, all ye disciples, degenerates, and dowagers. If Bronwen Exter hasn’t written a song that speaks right to you yet, it’s time you live a little, darlin’.

THURS 9:15pm CABARET

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The Brothers Comatose

These five fine San Francisco-based fellas are Americana road warriors, traveling to points north, south, east, and west fueled on bluegrass and brio. We fell hard in love with them when we discovered that they’ve got themselves a song called “Pie for Breakfast.” Given that pie for breakfast might be the one thing we like more than high-energy bluegrass, we’re basically sure we’d found our soulmates.

SAT 8:15pm DANCE

Cabinet sifts through roots, country, and bluegrass influence to form a deeply American sound. Their rich vocals ride sometimes complex string arrangements and they sure know how to bring a message home. They are a band not to be missed live, as the spirit of their music shines best when they are together onstage communicating through the language of melody. FRI 6:45pm GRANDSTAND

Calico Moon

“Rockin’ folks who play folk and rock.” That’s a pretty apt description for this stalwart set of musicians, who play a slew of styles that are at once dance-worthy and thought-worthy.

Exquisite harmonies and songs of home… there’s beauty here. FRI 11:00am CABARET

Hometown hero DJ Cappel makes his triumphant return to GrassRoots to fill our ears and the dance floor with his signature electro-’80s-hip-pop and funk sounds. Obscure selections. Dance party favorites. Hot remixes.

No matter what, you’re gonna wanna dance.

FRI 1:00am CABARET

The Djangoners

From the serpentine manouche jazz of Django Reinhardt and his cohorts right on through to the late rockabilly era of Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran, the Djangoners are a swing dancer’s dream. The band features members of Bobby Henrie and the Goners and Djug Django, you’ll recognize lots of these faces… if you can stop dancing and stand still long enough to look, that is. THURS 8:00pm DANCE

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Gabriel Tavares & Sisu Powder the Moon

Donna the Buffalo

Defying definitions for as long as we’ve known them (which is basically forever, since our fates are inextricably intertwined), Donna the Buffalo crafts pure joy into melodic form, building cultural and musical bridges wherever they go. If you add zydeco to reggae to roots rock to bluegrass, plus a hefty dose of the magical x-factor, you’ll have something far greater than the sum of its parts, because it seems to be that music is just the beautiful foundation, and there’s more here than meets the eyes and ears.

THURS 7:30pm INFIELD; SAT 10:15pm INFIELD; SUN 9:00pm INFIELD

The Family Stone

Trance-folkist Gabe Tavares limns that part of the mind veiled beyond the grasp of pure reason where shadowy memories and painterly images circle, endlessly informing every tic and gesture of what we are. Alongside Lora Pendleton, he weaves tales of curiosity and the humbling discovery of a shifting nether world, alternately imbued with eerie grace and awesome surges of the mindless and the faux.

THURS 3:15pm GRANDSTAND

“Everyday People.” “I Want to Take You Higher.”

“Hot Fun in the Summertime.” “Family Affair.”

“Dance to the Music.” These songs are the soundtrack of how many dance parties? The Family Stone changed American music forever with their gritty blend of funk, soul, R&B, and psychedelia, and we’re honored that they’re going to get on our stage and get us shakin’ our moneymakers. SAT 8:15pm INFIELD

First North American Lunar

Meteoric rock with an extraterrestrial lyrical aesthetic, First North American Lunar is a look into the musical brain of our old friend Tom Gilbert. Out of this world, we say.

FRI 5:00pm CABARET

Galumpha Driftwood

Driftwood is a serious force on the Upstate NY music scene. Wrapping together all manner of musics that fall under the “Americana” blanket, combining “holy smokes, didja see that?” instrumentalism with “holy smokes, didja hear that?” lyrics, they’re making big waves.

FRI 5:00pm DANCE; SAT 4:30pm INFIELD

The Fly Rods

Picture for a moment what would happen if you were out on a creek fishin’ and drinkin’ beer on a hot, breezy day, and out of nowhere, someone just out of sight started playing some old-school punk. Mellowed by the summer wind and the sound of water crashing over rocks and the few beers you’ve had by now, but still powerful and raw... you feelin’ it? We’re feelin’ it.

THURS 4:00pm CABARET

Gravity-defying human sculptures are Galumpha’s oeuvre. Though physical strength and graceful motion are essential elements of any dance, there’s even more here: humor, thought, and a near-impossible emulsion of humanity and motion. Beauty, strength, and sheer hilarity are not, as it turns out, mutually exclusive, and Galumpha’s got the proof.

SAT 8:45pm GRANDSTAND

The Flying Clouds of South Carolina

The Falconers

An uplifting, heavy-hitting indie-rock group from Binghamton, NY, the Falconers were born out of textured harmonies, a driving rhythm, and passionate swells that unearth resilience.

They’ll lift your soul, move your feet, and remind you that we are all survivors, fighting to hold onto our hearts. FRI 11:00am INFIELD

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What is it about Black Southern Gospel music that just makes you feel so good? We don’t know for sure (although we can make some guesses), but we do know that Lloyd Canady and the Flying Clouds are the real deal. Straight out of Plum Branch, South Carolina, they play with every bit of foot-stomping hand-clapping praise-giving goodness that you’d hope for, and more.

FRI 6:45pm DANCE; SAT 11:00am INFIELD

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad

Raw and raging reggae and death-defying dub at their very best, GPGDS combine the hypnotic sounds of Jamaican music with their own conscious vibrations and eternal truths. Live in the moment, let it happen. You’ll be healed and uplifted, and that’s a guarantee.

SUN 4:30pm INFIELD

GoGone

Feisty and hook-laden rock and roll songs are the name of the game when GoGone is in charge.

With the deep soul of classic rock advising their sassy songwriting, these Ithaca music veterans keep things real. SAT 3:15pm CABARET

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The Grady Girls

Proudly carrying on the musical traditions of their Emerald Isle forefathers and foremothers, the lovely young Gradys will sing, fiddle, and stepdance their way into your hearts, much as they entered ours from the first time we met them.

SUN 11:00am DANCE

messages to a downtrodden populace. The Gunpoets are hip-hop at its finest, and their biting lyrics and stirring messages of truth and justice, alongside some well-timed secular rhymes, will move you, in all ways possible.

THURS 9:00pm GRANDSTAND

Jennie Stearns

Jennie Lowe Stearns infuses indie rock with back-road ballads and wistful waltzes. Her songs are wise little stories, tales of times and places where she was, and sometimes we were, too, but she’s remembered and retold the stories in ways that never occurred to us the first time around. SAT 8:30pm CABARET

The GrassRoots Chamber Orchestra

Sometimes experiments go so right, they necessarily become traditions. Such is the case with our GrassRoots Chamber Orchestra, a group of the region’s finest classical and classically trained musicians under the direction of visionary Cayenna Ponchione, who’ve taken to bringing us into a whole new musical dimension on an annual basis. With a program including pieces from both classical composers and modern maestros, we look forward to a Sunday morning filled with the soothing, inspiring, and vibrant sounds of beautiful orchestral music. SUN 9:00am GRANDSTAND

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Hank Roberts

Even in a parallel universe where jazz cellists are as common as tenor madmen and trumpetblowing boppers, Hank Roberts would be utterly unique. Over his nearly four-decade career, Roberts has forged a compelling original voice on the cello, encompassing abstract improvisation and soulful folk melodies, intricate new-music compositions and vigorous rock songs. SUN 1:00pm GRANDSTAND

They call him “alt.country,” “Americana,” and even “Y’all-ternative.” We don’t know exactly what any of that stuff means, so we mostly just call him “Jim.” (It’s shorter, and he said we could.) In a world where modern country music is about as exciting as a warm, flat can of Bud Light, our buddy Jim stands out like a shot of White Lightning. THURS 5:00pm GRANDSTAND

HectorWorks SoundSystem

Grey Gary

These phenomenal deejays play their turntables like instruments: combining, reducing, adding, subtracting, blending, fusing, and holding the dancers on musical strings, connected straight to the sound system. It’s a multi-sensory dance experience catered to the most discerning tastes. FRI 2:00am CABARET

Jimkata

The Horse Flies

John Brown’s Body

The latest incarnation from the fellas who brought us Ayurveda, Grey Gary is a two-piece cosmic rock playground. Instrument swaps, looping machines, and an overflow of talent make it seem like there’s far more going on onstage than you can see with your bare eyes.

It’s cool, trust us on this one. FRI 6:15pm CABARET

the Gunpoets

Hip-hop is, at its roots, a powerful vehicle with which to express pain through poetry, to provide social commentary and inspirational

Psychedelic contras and preternatural stringband dance numbers collide with haunting original tunes and unearthly reconstructions of ancient ones. In this alternate musical universe, minor is major, bugs are kings, and equines soar. The Horse Flies hold a special place in our hearts and minds. Have a listen and a dance and you’ll know why. SAT 3:15pm GRANDSTAND

Jimkata rocks. No, but seriously. Combining grungy synthesizers with raunchy guitar lines, and smoothing the whole thing over with luscious four-part vocal harmonies, they’re the vanguard for a new modern rock music movement in this area, and we’re proud to have them back at GrassRoots.

THURS 12:00am GRANDSTAND

The roots and the outer leaves of reggae are both present in John Brown’s Body’s music. The lyrics are wise and mystical, an homage to the original consciousness of the style. The sound, though, is a step beyond, entering the realms of sonic edginess—future reggae, if you will. It’s the sound that keeps us moving and the lyrics that keep us mindful, and the tree still grows.

FRI 12:00am INFIELD

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Johnny Dowd Band

A dark horse riding high, Johnny Dowd is a little bit dangerous, crossing every line he approaches. His eerie, incandescent rock songs rattle your nerves just a touch, and it feels great. SAT 10:15pm CABARET

Laila Belle Keith Secola & His Wild Band of Indians

One late GrassRoots evening, Native Americana trailblazer Keith Secola told me about a shared belief among almost every earth-based religion: There are “thin spots” in this world; places where the membrane between the physical world and the spiritual one are so thin that you can hear and feel the pulses from the other side. Keith said that GrassRoots was a thin spot, and he could feel the spirits playing along onstage. We’ve seen it, and we believe it, and we’re always ready to feel the magic.

FRI 6:15pm INFIELD; SUN 7:30pm GRANDSTAND

All original songs of love and love lost, the road and coming back home, these fine folks will find their way into your heart and leave you humming their beautiful tunes long after the last note has been sung. With the voice of a true country darling, Laila Belle rocks as much as it rolls. SAT 5:00pm CABARET

Kelly Britton Jones Benally Family Dance Troupe

The Jones Benally Family are an internationally acclaimed Navajo (Diné) dance troupe from Big Mesa, Arizona. Jones Benally is an elder, wise in a way that most of us will never be, and he does the traditional hoop dances for both ancient reasons (to heal the ill) and modern reasons (to teach the old ways to a waning population and to respectful outsiders who could use a little truth). The magic of the hoop dance is real. Be ready for healing. SAT 11:30am GRANDSTAND

Keith Frank & Soileau Zydeco

We’re not just making this up: Keith Frank is the reigning king of zydeco in Southwest Louisiana. He’s a household name in the Creole community, and his brand of progressive soul zydeco permeates every aspect of the contemporary Creole culture. He fills every dance club he plays, every time he plays them.

A GrassRoots staple, we know that when Keith starts rocking the dance, we’re officially at home.

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This yummy strummy mummy comes straight outta Brooklyn with a powerful voice and poetic, world-rocking songs. She’s got a life you couldn’t make up, a history she’s proudly grown from, and stories for days, and you can bet she’s going to sing us more than a few of them.

SUN 4:15pm CABARET

Kenny T & Wildfire

If you don’t like Kenny T and Wildfire’s wholly entertaining blend of rock, blues, and country, I’m just going to have to assume that you don’t like fun, and that’s really your own problem, pal.

THURS 7:30pm CABARET

Lanzallamas

Layering fiery pan-global dancehall melodies over pulsing, dance-ready Latin rhythms, Lanzallamas truly is the sound of Miami, and by extension, the sound of the world.

FRI 8:30pm DANCE; SAT 12:30am GRANDSTAND

Locust Honey

Chloe, Hilary, Grace and Meredith bring their experience in old-time, bluegrass, and pre-war blues to both their original material and the traditional songs and tunes of the American Southeast. Three-part harmonies nestle snugly in a bed of stringed-up magic, and there never was a lovelier sound.

THURS 6:15pm DANCE; FRI 12:45pm INFIELD

Kevin Kinsella

With purposeful rhymes and one-drop rhythms, Kevin Kinsella fights oppression and begets love; every note, every song. Much beloved in the Ithaca roots reggae scene, Kinsella takes his cues from the Caribbean and Africa, combining these sounds into something new and vivid, with a positive deference to those greats who came before him. THURS 3:30pm INFIELD

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Lo’jo

What kind of music does Lo’Jo perform? Save yourself the trouble, pal, and just ask what kind of music they don’t. Coming out of the live music hotbed of Angers, France, but drawing influences as diverse as Tuareg psychedelic blues, North African trance, and French film music, they weave a truly global soundscape. SAT 5:15pm GRANDSTAND

Mary Lorson

A vintage pop-noir songstress who skirts the melodramatic and the tragic, eventually landing somewhere a bit dreamier, Mary Brett Lorson knows how to keep us all listening. Backed by her own lush piano or sultry guitar and rich female vocal harmonies, this is a dream to behold. THURS 5:45pm CABARET

Nag Champayons

Born out of an improvisational collective in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Nag Champayons plumbs the depths of FrancoCaribbean tradition and modern funk-rock and hip-hop for a wild and overwhelmingly groovy sound. It’s Afrogalactic tropidelic mayhem and it’d be tragic to miss it.

SAT 6:15pm INFIELD; SUN 4:00pm GRANDSTAND

Luke G & the Candyhearts

That’s our buddy Luke Gustafson heading up this li’l group of sock-hoppers and doowoppers, footloose and retro-raving, with just an ever-so-slight edge of punk rock, y’know. To keep the kiddies bopping. FRI 10:15pm DANCE

Moontee Sinquah

Moontee Sinquah is more than just a drum master; he’s a rock and roller, a bluesman, a faithful interpreter of old traditions, and a sage innovator of more modern ones. He’s also a teacher, evidenced by the brilliant hoopdancing and drumming of his young sons, Scott and Samson. We can all learn something from Moontee.

FRI 1:15pm DANCE; SUN 2:30pm GRANDSTAND

Nativos Jammin’ Orchestra

Mac Benford & Up South

Salsa, soca, merengue, reggae, son, and anything else that strikes their Caribbean dance-driven fancy, this orchestra is a collaborative effort of many of Miami’s finest musicians. It’s the new sound of Miami and it’ll get us up and shaking, no doubt.

SAT 2:30pm INFIELD; SUN 6:15pm INFIELD

Mac is a beloved friend and one of our all-time favorite musicians (and people). Pretty much anyone who is playing old-time music in the United States today has been influenced by Uncle Mac in one way or another, and we’re so lucky to have him as part of our community and our festival. When we say it’s always a pleasure to hear Mac pick, we really mean it.

THURS 3:00pm DANCE; SAT 1:30pm CABARET

The Nepotist Morikeba Kouyate

Morikeba Kouyate is a master of the West African kora who now makes his home in New Orleans. It’s in that glorious city, at the legendary Congo Square, that African culture maintained a fiercely proud foothold in the New World, so it’s fitting that one of the finest griots living in North America makes his home — and his music — there.

THURS 5:30pm INFIELD; FRI 1:30pm GRANDSTAND

Leaning deep into a brotherly backbeat, the grungy alterna-soul stylings of The Nepotist are making quiet but profound waves among wellrespected tastemakers from New York City to points far beyond. As for us? Let’s just say we’re smitten. SUN 12:45pm CABARET

Marco Benevento

Marco Benevento has perhaps the most impressive resume of any jazz-rock pianist in the world. As a sideman, he made a name for himself as a musician’s musician of the very finest quality, but as a frontman, he’s even more powerful. His compositions lace together the driving rhythms of rock with the sweeping melodies of jazz. The resulting sound resembles nothing so much as a kinetic sculpture: flawlessly cantilevered, but with a sense of fun.

SAT 10:15pm DANCE

Nery Arevalo

A master of the drums, Nery finds the beat not only in music, but in life. Sometimes he plays the rhythm of butterfly wings, other times the almost-silent rhythm that Earth makes as it turns. There’s more to drums than sticks and skins. Let Nery show you. FRI 9:45am CABARET

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The Notorious Stringbusters

Ralph Roddenbery

Park Doing

Read-along Songs with John and Cal

For those of you who attend GrassRoots from out of town and wonder what we Trumansburgers do on the other 51 weekends of the year, we mostly drink beers and watch these guys play. Their old-time/bluegrass/ string-folk is a staple of our local scene, and if we’re not careful, the cat’s gonna get out of the bag and we’re gonna lose them to the big time.

THURS 11:00pm CABARET

An exuberant supporter of music for music’s sake, Park is a well-known face around town and a helluva songwriter. He’s on the rock edge, but not without a zillion other influences (that’s how we do things ‘round these parts, after all). FRI 4:15pm CABARET

We’ve crossed paths with this outstanding songwriter and his rocking band too many times to count on our many Southern road trips. We thought it was high time we brought their twangy harmonies and clear-cut Americana rhythms to T-burg — we think they’ll fit right in. FRI 2:30pm INFIELD; SUN 2:30pm CABARET

A project of the Family Reading Partnership, an outstanding local literacy charity, Read-Along Songs features Cal Walker and John Simon reading and singing some favorite songs that became books and books that became songs.

Old friends (Miss Mary Mack and the Itsy Bitsy Spider, for starters) will meet up with new ones in this performance that’s geared to the younger set but lively enough for everyone to enjoy. SUN 10:00am DANCE

Red Dog Run

Plastic Nebraska

It’s swampacana… blues, rock, country, folk…

It’s prodigiously groovy, with warm echoes of reason and heartache, love and thought. Plastic Nebraska’s music lends itself comfortably to hyphens (neo-funk, avant-groove), but even more comfortably to dancing and thinking and all those other wonderful things that great music makes you want to do.

SUN 5:45pm GRANDSTAND

That’d be Jed and Jim, Richie and Rosie, old friends and unabashed lovers of great American music all. Between them, they’ve played with a Who’s-who of Americana legends, but there’s something precious that takes place when they’re just together among friends, picking and grinning and enjoying each other’s company and the music of the group. Oh, it is lovely. SUN 6:00pm CABARET

Rodney Sutton

Rodney Sutton is a master of Appalachian flatfoot clogging, balladry, and storytelling, and he also happens to be one of the funniest, friendliest guys we’ve ever had the pleasure to know. “Let’s learn a little something about a folkloric tradition” isn’t always a party-starting sentence, but when Rodney’s involved, we promise it is.

FRI 1pm WORKSHOP TENT; SUN 11:30am KIDS AREA

The Ruddy Well Band

The annual GrassRoots band contest is a hot competition that gets hotter every year. Last year’s winner was this foot-stomping acoustic Americana outfit out of Syracuse, New York.

They’re back to claim their prize this year (a slot on the GrassRoots schedule), and wow their audience as much as they wowed the judges.

FRI 8:00pm CABARET

Richie and Rosie

Richie Stearns on banjo, Rosie Newton on fiddle. If we didn’t know better, we’d think this duo had been playing together since, I dunno, sometime in the ’30s at the latest, probably on some mountain somewhere. But nope, they’re of this time and this place, and for that, we’re nothing short of grateful. SAT 6:30pm DANCE

Preston Frank & His Zydeco Family Band

Preston Frank is a standing bastion of a time when zydeco included fiddles in the band, when it was still a rural dancehall music and not yet an urban nightclub sort of deal. Preston plays old songs, many in the almost-forgotten Black Creole dialect of French that only exists in a few small enclaves in Louisiana. They’re old songs with a new freshness, though, brought to life by a man who clearly takes the accordion quite seriously, but who also has more fun playing than just about anyone we’ve ever seen.

FRI 4:15pm INFIELD; SUN 3:15pm DANCE

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Samite of Uganda

Rockwood Ferry

Songwriter Tenzin Chopak leads this Ithacabased group with roots in old-time and traditional folk with a twist of acoustic progressive rock, sometimes both at the same time. To say that we’re enamored would be an understatement, surely. THURS 4:30pm DANCE P r i n t e d on rec yc led pa per us in g s o y-ba s ed in k s

No one can know the pain and difficulty of a refugee except refugees themselves, forced to flee their homes over politics, war, famine, disease, or destruction. But Samite has translated those feelings into music, a language we all speak and understand. He reminds us every time we hear him that music heals, it bridges gaps, and it inspires us and everyone toward positive change. SAT 10:30pm GRANDSTAND

Second Dam

Second Dam has an origin story that’s been told over and over in Ithaca bands (and Ithaca marriages and businesses and any manner of other cohabitations): A few people from all over met in college, and then one of ’em brought a friend and someone else met a great guitar player at an open mic and another person just sort of showed up out of nowhere and boom, there you have it. We like that this town does that, making odd little families out of folks who, in a bigger city, never would’ve seen each other. And this particular grouping, with their electro-indie rock, is a singularly delightful one.

FRI 11:30pm CABARET

Sihasin

Brother and sister Jeneda and Clayson Benally, originally from Black Mesa on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, were born into the heart of a political land dispute separating them by a fence from traditional homeland and family.

They grew up protesting the environmental degradation and inhumane acts of cultural genocide against their traditional way of life.

“Sihasin” means “hope and assurance” in the Navajo language, and it’s this powerful concept that roots their message, which resonates fully through their punk-rock-as-protest-music aesthetic.

FRI 5:00pm GRANDSTAND; SUN 11:00am INFIELD

The Speckers

GrassRoots loves fiddles, and we love ’em extra when they’re in the hands of the Speckers, two generations of ferocious fiddlers who never cease to amaze us with their fingers and their feet and the fact that somehow their fiddles never seem to literally catch on fire when they’re doing that thing they do. How does that happen, anyway? FRI 2:30pm CABARET

The Sutras

“Sutra,” in Sanskrit, means a rope or thread that holds things together, either in the literal or figurative sense. “Sutra,” in Ithacan, means a dude with a really nice tie who plays extragroovy and edgy rock music. Put four Sanskrit Sutras together and you get a wicked knot. Put four Ithacan Sutras together and you get one of the coolest bands we know.

FRI 12:30am GRANDSTAND

Steve Earle

He’s an actor (The Wire, Tremé), a novelist (Never Get Out of This World Alive), but above all, he’s a songwriter. Steve Earle has been blazing trails and taking names in the Americana music scene since well before any of us even called it Americana. He’s a masterful storyteller, layering tales of love, heartache, and redemption over rich harmonies and twangy hooks, and his sound couldn’t be more perfect for the GrassRoots stage. FRI 8:30pm GRANDSTAND

Sim Redmond Band

Rock music is the spectacular result of many centuries of musical evolution, and the Sim Redmond Band is not afraid to breach the surface and dig up the roots. Drawing traditional African and Caribbean sounds back into the forefront, SRB rocks in a new way, with a freshness that you just don’t get to hear very often, and a musicality that is nothing short of addictive.

FRI 10:30pm GRANDSTAND; SUN 2:30pm INFIELD

Tamikrest

The nomadic Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) people of the Sahara desert have exported some of the most thrilling music to hit the world scene in the past few decades: the sinuous, sensual, bluesy rock exemplified by artists like GrassRoots veterans Tinariwen. At the same time, the Tuareg have found themselves in the midst of yet another war, as Islamic militants have overthrown northern Mali. There’s a fight to keep culture and music alive, and Tamikrest (Tamasheq for “union” or “gathering”) are at the heart of it, keeping the flame burning with guitars, drums, and voices. FRI 8:00pm INFIELD

Sophistafunk

This analog soul trio has traveled from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, bringing their unstoppable combination of vintage-keyboard savagery, thick, syncopated rhythms, and socially conscious lyrical flow to audiences spanning the nation in between. Known for their massive sound, the band wins over crowds one energetic and electrifying show at a time, thanks to their captivating stage presence and dance-ready grooves. SAT 12:30am INFIELD

Storyboard

Storyboard, a street dancer from New York City, calls himself a mutant. “As a mutant,” says he, “my power is to project a sequence of images through my body that tells an elaborate story to music. The power to storyboard / ballet / jazz / African / contemporary / bruk up / flex / boogaloo.” Get ready. THURS 11:00pm GRANDSTAND

Telekinetic Walrus

Telekinetic Walrus is a distinct fusion of Atlanta hip-hop, booty-bouncing Miami bass, and futuristic shamanic funk. Good luck trying to resist the urge to dance when this crew takes the stage.

THURS 10:00pm DANCE; SAT 12:15am CABARET

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Thousands of One

Community-based, politically driven, but still funky as all get-out, Thousands of One knows how to drive home a point. Their lyrics are spiritual and positive, and their Afropop-hiphop-funk-soul-groove is highly addictive and inarguably danceable. SAT 5:00pm DANCE

Thunder Body

From the Flower City of Rochester, New York, Thunder Body is a timeless exercise in the possibilities of tight, analog, electric roots music. The sonic potion they call “senzae” combines elements of soul, blues, rock, noise, dub, and jazz. It honors the healing power of music. There’s no sign of letting up. The past is the story and the future is a mystery.

FRI 3:15pm GRANDSTAND

The Tin Teardrops

Three stalwarts of Ithaca’s music underground, the ’Drops are dislocated Southerner Mike Cook, needs-no-intro Okie native Johnny Dowd, and rock-solid drummer Alan Pauling, grinding out soulful, dark original numbers with a vintage sensibility. SUN 7:45pm CABARET

Toivo

Accordion, bass, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and drum. Rocks the huapango, twists the polka, and warms the music of the long-wintered north with hot Tex-Mex sunshine. They find their music in the villages and taiga of Finland, where the mosquitoes dominate local politics; they find it in the hills of Spencer and Van Etten, where memories are still strong; they find it in the street accordion sounds of southeast L.A. and in the dances of Huasteca; they find it in Podunk. Toivo is down-home music at heart.

Good for dancing, good for listening, good for love. FRI 12:45pm CABARET

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews is a scion of a legendary New Orleans jazz family and the leader of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, a hard-edged funk band that employs hip-hop beats, rock dynamics, and improvisation within the context of a New Orleans jazz and brass band tradition.

At home in Louisiana, they’re deeply beloved and play to sold-out crowds every night. On the road, they ignite rapidly growing audiences everywhere they go. It’s a relative certainty that they’re going to rock your world. THURS 10:00pm INFIELD

Uniit

Uniit is one of those rare treasures that keeps you marveling at the capabilities of the human voice and the creativity of the human spirit, and the way those things can combine in a gorgeous person who just seems to bring joy everywhere she goes. With a Latin spin and a country twist, her music always leaves us wanting more. SAT 6:45pm CABARET

Walter Mouton & The Scott Playboys

Cajun country likes to consider Walter Mouton to be one of their best-kept secrets, but a long time ago, someone let the cat out of the bag, and we were lucky enough to find out about him for ourselves. Mr. Walter retired from his standing Saturday night gig at La Poussière, a traditional Cajun dancehall, a couple of years back after playing for over 40 years, so they don’t see much of him down there any longer, either. We feel pretty darn lucky that he’s still willing to make the pilgrimage here to share his classic Cajun sound with us each year. Save me a dance... FRI 3:00pm DANCE; SAT 1:15pm GRANDSTAND

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beers and wines for your drinking pleasure. The Grandstand and Infield Beer Gardens are joined this year by the World Café Beer Garden near the GrassRoots World Café. Grab dinner and a drink while tunes from the dance tent croon across the fairgrounds to this new addition of the festival! Must be 21+ to drink.

Cider Saturday

Love hard cider? Cider curious? GrassRoots is nestled right in the heart of the craft hard cider boom, and you can taste the best of what our community has to offer right here at the festival! From noon til 8pm on Saturday, join producers from six Finger Lakes farm cideries in the World Café Beer Garden to try their small-batch artisanal ciders.

If you like what you taste, you can head on north for two Cidery Tasting Rooms- Bellwether Hard Cider and Finger Lakes Cider House (featuring Good Life Cider, Black Diamond Cider, Eve’s Cidery, Redbyrd Orchard Cider, and South Hill Cider)—to see the complete lineup from all six of these folks—right on through the Monday following GrassRoots!

No glass bottles are allowed inside the fairgrounds.

Coolers are inspected at the gate.

Naked feet are often the victims of cuts from broken glass, so let’s all try to keep the festival clean and safe for everyone.

Please, put all beverages in a cup, or wrap ’em in a coozie. Last year was the first year this rule was enforced, and we must say that the response to this effort by all of you was phenomenal!

Not only did the “cut foot” report reduce by a third, the whole festival vibe increased to be even more pleasant than it already was. It was a beautiful thing. So THANK YOU—and don’t forget to recycle!

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GrassRoots supports our neighborhood restaurants, organic farmers, and all things yummy to keep festival-goers fueled for the next dance!

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grass (roots) is greener GrassRoots wants to make as low-waste a festival as possible and YOU are the key! We have always recycled and are in our 16th year composting, for which we have to thank our amazing Compost, Recycling, and Trash volunteers. At every waste station there are three bins: Compost, Recycling and Trash. If you have any confusion about what goes where, ask a volunteer!

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wants all your organic items such as food scraps, paper, napkins, and any other materials that will decompose (including meat and dairy). Last year we were able to divert over 8 tons of waste!

The RECYCLING BIN

takes all cans, bottles, most plastic containers and water bottles. BONUS: The return deposits from the recycling collected at the festival are donated to the Tompkins County Cops, Kids and Toys program, which purchases holiday gifts for lower-income families. It’s definitely worth the small effort to sort your throw-aways!

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will likely fill slowly as they only take errant bits of styrofoam (blech!) that traveled with you from home, dirty diapers and things like cigarette butts. We understand that trash happens but help us keep compost and recycling moving in the direction of reuse!

You can learn more about composting at home at the Compost Booth (check out the “Compost Area” on the map on page 2). They’ve got all sorts of information for the beginning and intermediate composter. Also, check out the Compost Theatre performance on Saturday in the Kids Area. It’s entertainment all ages will enjoy!

Please also sort Compost, Recycling and Trash at your CAMPSITES! This is an important piece in the low-waste puzzle. If you need bags don’t hesitate to ask the volunteers as they do their pickups.

Let’s work together on this to make trash the last resort and GrassRoots as green as its namesake!

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Best Music Camp Ever

by Laura Reid

oving to Trumansburg was inevitable. But If you asked me how my family ended up here, I couldn’t explain it in a logical way. We didn’t move here for a job, or any kind of practical reason. In short, it made little sense. My husband, Blake, was working at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., a dream job. He had the coolest office ever, designed like an airport control tower overlooking the exhibit he curated. And I too had a swanky D.C. office, with a fireplace and a window that actually opened. But our lives were hectic, the morning drone of the Metro train a reliable reminder that time was swift and rumbling away from us.

and Riley had eaten pie on a neighbor’s front porch, and that “it was awesome.” But then in mid-July the updates suddenly got more interesting. “They’ve started blocking off all the parking on the streets, it’s crazy.” He explained that there was some kind of music festival coming to town. How quaint, I thought.

Then a few days later Blake’s voice sounded a little crazed. I assumed full-time parenting was beginning to take its toll.

“Listen to this!” he shouted. “I’ll hold the phone to our window!”

That’s when I first heard the music. “That’s coming all the way from the fairgrounds. You won’t believe all the people here, it’s thousands, and the music goes on all night!”

After the “miracle” birth of our son, Riley, we began to think more seriously about moving. I say miracle because that’s what it felt like, but really he was the product of a successful combination of modern science, fierce determination, and maybe some more mysterious forces too. I had promised whomever might listen—the universe, any available God, my ancestors—that if I could become a mother I’d be the best mother I could possibly be, that I would raise our child with an overabundance of love, surrounded by beauty, joy, and peace.

That our child would have a happy life.

By the next July we had our four-day passes in hand and what had been a curiosity became a new family tradition. We coined it Riley’s “music camp.” That first GrassRoots I pushed him all the way in a little umbrella stroller from our house on Cayuga Street to the bustling GrassRoots entrance. Riley grasped a bongo drum in his lap and occasionally patted it with his tiny hand. I had never been surrounded by the positive energy of so many people and so much incredible live music. And as a fan of people-watching, I was awestruck. It was almost like a lucid dream, complete with a grown woman on stilts dressed as a fairy, hula-hooping grandmas, and, for some reason, a man walking around in a giant mushroom costume. And on the last night, as evening fell and the moon rose and smiled, I hoisted Riley up onto my hip, swaying and singing along to Donna the Buffalo, somehow already knowing all the words. I was home.

Riley was born on a rainy October night, and suddenly, as if even the laws of nature had shifted, so too did our way of life.

Gravity no longer could be counted on to hold us down. Logic no longer dictated our agendas. I had grown up near Ithaca and remembered the bewildering beauty of Cayuga Lake and the many gorges and waterfalls. The way time was suspended while hiking up a creek in the summer.

The fireflies, like sparks igniting across dark fields. And in winter, sledding down slopes glazed with snow, the smell of pine and woodburning stoves. Riley would also grow up closer to his grandfather, whom I counted on to take him fishing. Those were reasons enough to move back. So, when Riley was two, we sold our lovely home in Alexandria, Virginia, officially quit our fabulous jobs, and moved to Trumansburg in late June.

We did at least have a plan, kind of. Blake would became a full-time dad and I would begin Montessori teacher training in Massachusetts, which I left for just five days after moving into our new home. It was hard to leave the tranquility of Trumansburg so soon, but Blake would call me every night with updates.

“There sure are a lot of deer,” he’d inform me, or “The frogs are really loud at night.”

Once he called to excitedly tell me that he

This last summer, Riley, now nine, pulled our heavy Red Rider wagon loaded with lawn chairs and a cooler the entire way. He couldn’t wait to get there— “walk faster!” was his persistent mantra. We now have traditions within our tradition, like filling up our beloved GrassRoots mugs with half iced tea and half lemonade and then getting in line for a Stonecat catfish sandwich first thing, and every year new traditions are made.

We don’t go long without running into people we know, many of whom are now close friends. This year we fell in love with the local band The Gunpoets. During both their shows Riley danced his way right up front and did not stop dancing until they had finished their entire set. Another night he stayed out until well past two grooving to Sophistafunk. We played ping-pong while immersed in clouds of bubbles, partied with friends old and new, and napped during the day so we had energy to dance into the night again. “Best music camp ever,” Riley declared on the fourth day. I looked at our son stretched out across our blanket smiling, as exhausted as he was content, and remembered my deepest promise. My son is having a happy life.

Laura Reid is a teacher, writer, competitive storyteller, and photographer. She is also the owner of Trumansburg Montessori School, an environmentally friendly, one-room schoolhouse. Laura lives in Trumansburg with her family and enjoys swimming in lakes, hiking up creeks, watching fireflies, and attending GrassRoots “music camp” with her son every summer. You can contact Laura at tburgmontessori.com.

So you’re a writer! Or maybe not! But if you’ve got a great GrassRoots story to share, why not give it a go? We’d love to hear it.

Send it to us at stories@grassrootsfest.org. Long, short, whatever length you want. Your story could end up on the website or even on this page in a future program.

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frequently asked questions WHAT TIME DO THE GATES OPEN?

The Front Gate (main gate) opens at noon on Thursday. The Back Gate (performer & vehicle camper gate) on Rabbit Run Road opens at noon to vehicles only. Pedestrians may not enter the Back Gate until after 3:00pm on Thursday.

Pedestrians must use the Front Gate. Staff will be stickering and wristbanding the vehicle camping line starting at 8:00am.

WHERE DO I PARK?

Take advantage of our free offsite parking area on Agard Road with the 24-hour, airconditioned shuttle bus service. Some parking is available on the road but we do NOT encourage it, as there are many restrictions and many people get towed. There is also a parking lot across the street from the festival that is operated by the 8th grade class at Trumansburg Middle School and benefits their annual class trip to Washington, D.C.

HOW OFTEN DOES THE SHUTTLE BUS RUN?

There are multiple buses that run from the Agard Road parking/camping site to the Front Gate. The shuttle bus is free and runs continuously (roughly every 15 minutes) during peak hours and more infrequently in the middle of the night. It is a 24-hour service and the bus is air-conditioned! There is room in the bays of the bus for all of your festival equipment: coolers, chairs, tents, strollers, etc.

WHAT IS “WILL CALL” AND WHERE DO I FIND IT?

“Will Call” is an old theater (and general mercantile) term for picking up tickets or merchandise at the door. Since we love good old-fashioned theater slang around here, that’s

what we call our ticket pick-up window. You can find it in the little white building that’s to the right-hand side of the Front Gate. That’s also where we’ll send you if you have any sort of problem with your tickets, if you forgot them at home, etc.

Please put all beverages in a cup or wrap ’em in a coozie, and don’t forget to recycle!!

WHAT SORT OF FACILITIES DOES THE FESTIVAL HAVE?

IS THERE MEDICAL PERSONNEL AT THE FESTIVAL?

All camping is primitive, there are no electric or water hookups. There are rustic showers both on- and offsite. There are portable toilets both on- and offsite. There are several drinking water spigots throughout the onsite area (see map).

WILL CAMPING SELL OUT?

All onsite camping is sold in advance of the festival and sells out. Purchasing offsite camping in advance is strongly recommended as it does sell out. Offsite camping opens Thursday morning. Check the tickets page on our website (GrassRootsFest.org) to see the status of available camping.

WHAT ABOUT DOGS? CAN THEY BE AT OFF-SITE CAMPING?

No dogs allowed anywhere on or offsite... as much for the dogs’ sake as the people’s. Size of the dog doesn’t matter. No dogs are allowed without legal documentation of it being a service dog.

CAN I HAVE GLASS BOTTLES AT THE FESTIVAL?

No glass bottles are allowed anywhere inside the fairgrounds and coolers will be searched at the gate. Barefoot children are often the victims of broken glass cuts, so let’s all try to keep the festival clean and safe for everyone.

IS THERE AN ATM AT THE FESTIVAL? There is, indeed! It is located under the GrassRoots concession stand tent (see map).

There are ambulances and a full time, professional staff of trained medical personnel at the Emergency Medical Services tent onsite.

There is also an Emergency Medical Services tent at the Offsite Area and an ambulance on call to this area. The EMS staff does NOT dispense medication of any kind or sunblock, so please be sure to bring those items with you. If you have insulin or any other medication that needs refrigeration or storage, bring it to them as soon as you arrive, and they will happily store it for you. They can also provide power for things like nebulizer treatments; again, check in with them on arrival and introduce yourself.

WHAT IF I LOSE SOMETHING?

Go to security headquarters at the side of the large blue barn near the food vendors for lost and found items. On Sunday, all lost and found items are taken to the Trumansburg Police Station. If you are missing anything from the festival, visit their website at TrumansburgPolice.com. On the menu bar at the top of the page, you’ll see a link that says “GrassRoots Lost Property.” Click it and follow the directions. With all luck, they’ll link you to your missing item quickly and easily. As always, thanks so much to the TPD for doing such a great job with this.

The information in this program is accurate to the best of our knowledge at the time of printing.

Schedules and events are subject to change. We apologize for any omissions or mistakes.

PHOTO CREDIT KEY:

DB: Dave Burbank • J. Foote: Jeffrey Foote • GS: Greg Spewak • TH: Thomas Hoebbel • BB: Brendan Burns • CL: Chris Long NG: Nancy Grossman • JM: Julie Magura • JG: Jen Graley • JF: Jeff Folkins • JK: Jason Koski • BT: Brian Tappen MGM: Michael Grace-Martin • MP: Michelle Perkins • DY: Doug Yeater • GD: Gus Dusenberry

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