Make a Big Splash at Summer 72 Music Festival on Crystal-Clear Santa Fe River!
Say, here’s an idea. Let’s go to a music festival — in Florida — in July — on the crystal-clear Santa Fe River — with a bunch of like-minded music lovers. Well, that’s what First Magnitude Brewing Company, Rum 138, Locochino, and Lively Up Entertainment all thought. They have teamed up to bring you two great days of music, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, dancing and camping at Rum 138 in Fort White on Friday and Saturday, July 20th and 21st. They call it Summer 72 Music Festival.
The music schedule is killer. There are great bands who frequent the festival and club circuit and a lot of excellent music from the Sunshine State as well. Here is a quick run-down.
FRIDAY
If you’ve never experienced the locomotive power of Consider the Source, the New York City trio who play “progressive sci-fi Middle Eastern Fusion,” then all we can say is FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS. Gabriel Marin, John Ferrara and Jeff Mann will blow your minds. Count on a melted face as well.
Hannah Harber & The Lionhearts come to the party from Central Florida with their raucous take on Americana and alt-country. Harber and her husband, Thomas Wynn (of The Believers fame), lead this quintet through a range of styles that rock. And, for Harber, who grew up in High Springs, this is a great homecoming show!
Locochino, one of the festival sponsors, offer up a delicious blend of “progadelic jamfunk,” which comes out exactly like it sounds — only better. And it’s the birthday weekend for the manager for the Gainesville jamsters, Dave Johnson, so really this is all just a ploy to throw him a big party!
If you’ve been anywhere in the Florida/Georgia, then you’ve run across Custard Pie, the little trio with a huge heart from Valdosta. Whether playing officially or jamming late into the night at after-parties, these boys will move you. The Funky Miracle is a Gainesville band steeped in the New Orleans/Meters tradition, and Locochino drummer Benny Cannon & Friends will also entertain.
And, speaking of Gainesville, Headstash is a jam band cover collective with Brian Johnson (Locochino), Russ Tyndall (Vowls), Benjamin Markus, Caitlyn Vinci (Vowls), Amelia Cecilia (Vowls), and Tristan Harvey, who just joined as their new drummer (Vowls, Harvey & Whistle). Matthew Fowler is a fine Americana artists, and there will also be acoustic country music from Noah Mac out of Inverness.
SATURDAY
Savannah’s one-man wrecking crew, Zach Deputy, headlines the second night with his genre-bending sounds, blending island grooves, reggae, rock, soul, and so much more.
South Florida is a hotbed of fusion music, and one of its finest proponents, Electric Kif, will be on hand with their “post nuclear” take on jazz, rock and jamtronica.
Confession: after listening to a video from a band we weren’t familiar with, we are over-the-moon excited to see Trail Diver, a Jacksonville Beach group offering up “acid funk and mushroom jazz.”
https://www.facebook.com/traildiver/videos/1385207081558701/
Gainesville is well represented this day, with “math rock” from Just Neighbors, eclectic folk courtesy of (V)OWLS, and Aquanova’s prog psychedelic rock. Tristan Harvey is on the bill, and we will NOT miss Flint Blade and his Chapman stick this time!
Now, as to the matter of Kittens IN Spaceships, birthday boy Johnson will only concede that it’s “members of Locochino playing music that is not quite Locochino.” Uh-huh.
SILENT DISCO
Well, of COURSE there is! On the menu: DJ Dillon Rose (aka DJR aka Dillon Beach), DJ Robzilla, Jason Matthews, SIDE TRAKD, Missin Dread, DJ Lonny G, and, well, naturally, Locochino (The Paws of Silence).
Cool water, hot music, great family. What are you waiting for? Jump on tickets — and camping spots — NOW! Premium campsites are already sold out, but there are others still available.
See you at Rum 138 in Fort White in four weeks!!!
Why Summer 72? 72 is the pale ale brewed by First Magnitude, not coincidentally the temperature of the beautiful spring water bubbling up all around north Florida! Oh, and it’s summer!
