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Las Tortugas Dance Of The Dead V Lineup Is Here

The lineup for the fifth annual Las Tortugas Dance of the Dead festival has just been announced. Once again set to take place over Halloween weekend Oct 28-31 at the Evergreen Lodge in Yosemite, CA, this year's event features a whole bunch of familiar faces as ALO returns as headliners along with 7 Walkers feat Bill Kreutzman, Papa Mali and George Porter Jr. as well as The Mother Hips, and more. As per usual the Tea Leaf Green crew will make their mark with a Trevor Garrard solo show along with Josh Clark's Guitarmageddon doing the music of Prince in addition to a full band show. Partay.

The main jist of ticketing is that the festival will go on sale next Wednesday, but there are some more details worth mentioning that the official copy covers well so let's do some pasting!

Super early bird ticket sales--$175 for a festival pass until August 15-- will be available on Wednesday July 21 at 10am PST. Please call the Lodge at 209/379-2606, for on-site camping at 10am PST on July 21st.

Each year, the cabins at Evergreen Lodge sell out quickly. This year, in order to give everyone a chance to reserve a cabin, we are instituting a random cabin drawing. To enter the drawing you must email tortugascabin@gmail.com no later than Saturday, July 17, by 2pm PST. Please click here for additional instructions on the Tortugas V cabin drawing and what you need to include in that email.

For more information head on over to the official site.

  • ALO
  • 7 Walkers feat. Bill Kreutzmann, Papa Mali and George Porter Jr.
  • The Mother Hips
  • Tea Leaf Green
  • Hot Buttered Rum
  • New Monsoon
  • Cornmeal
  • Melvin Seals and JGB with Stu Allen
  • Pimps of Joytime
  • Poor Man's Whiskey, including a perfromance of Old and In the Way
  • Lebo
  • BLVD
  • Big Light
  • Guitarmageddon feat. the music of Prince
  • Montana Slim String Band
  • Dead Winter Carpenters
  • Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers
  • Tracorum
  • Trevor Garrod
  • Nat Keefe and Friends
  • Sean Leahy and Friends
  • Jack Grace Band
  • Moonalice
  • Antioquia
  • Kate Gaffney
  • The Hongs
  • Honeymoon
Event
Music
Tea Leaf Green
The Mother Hips
ALO
Cornmeal
7 Walkers
Big Light
Las Tortugas Dance Of The Dead

Jam Cruise 9 Lineup Is Here! Weir, Lotus, Garage A Trois, Mastersounds

The details for the ninth edition of the highly successful Jam Cruise have just been announced. The 2011 version will see the boats headed to Roatan, Honduras and Casa Maya, Mexico with the cruise taking place January 4th-9th. Joining in on the fun this year include SHA favorites Garage A Trois, Lotus, The New Mastersounds, Robert Randolph, as well as a strong Grateful Dead contingent in the form of both Bob Weir's Scaring The Children as well as the Rhythym Devils.

The full initial lineup is listed below. Any cabins leftover from the presale will go on sale to the general public June 2nd at 12pm EST. For more details head over to the official site.

  • Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman, & Jay Lane are Scaring the Children 
  • Rhythm Devils feat. Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart
  • Robert Randolph & The Family Band
  • Galactic
  • The Greyboy Allstars
  • God Street Wine
  • Stockholm Syndrome
  • Lotus
  • JoJo's Mardi Gras Band
  • ALO
  • Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
  • Easy Star All-Stars
  • Lettuce
  • Garage A Trois
  • The New Mastersounds
  • Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
  • Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
  • Anders Osborne Feat. sets with Stanton Moore & Robert Walter and with George Porter, Jr & Johnny Vidacovich
  • Big Sam's Funky Nation
  • Cornmeal
  • Some Cat From Japan feat. Ron Johnson, Will Bernard, Scott Metzger, Eric Bolivar & Nigel Hall performing a tribute to Jimi Hendrix
  • Greensky Bluegrass
  • Big Gigantic
  • Zach Deputy
  • The Pimps Of Joytime
  • Maceo Parker Super Jam

Special Guests:

  • Leo Nocentelli
  • Fred Wesley
  • Col. Bruce Hampton
  • Jennifer Hartswick
  • Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
Event
Music
Jam Cruise
Lotus
The New Mastersounds
Galactic
Garage A Trois
ALO
Scaring The Children