Swooning Over the Orange Blossom Jamboree Schedule
Orange Blossom Jamboree 10 is just one week away, and every time we look at the schedule we get wildly excited. Once again, Russ and Toby Bowers have curated an incredible collection of music from the Sunshine State to put on displace May 15-19 at Sertoma Youth Ranch in Brooksville, Florida.
With three stages again ready for your listening enjoyment, be sure you bring your running/hiking shoes, stay hydrated, and remember to check out some of the bands you don’t know — YET.
WEDNESDAY
For Wednesday, only the Citrus Stage (adjacent to the main Cypress Stage) is needed. Honey What have the honor of opening OBJ 10. They are followed by Este’s Church of Love and then Antelope: A Tribute to the Band Phish. That is a remarkable opening day. You do NOT need to go to work Thursday OR Friday!
THURSDAY
Now all three stages are in play: Cypress and Citrus and the always-entertaining Zombie Stage. DO NOT ignore the amazing bands and performers on the Zombie.
Thursday headliners include dynamic The Grass is Dead, powerhouse funksters Holey Miss Moley, and great rockers Bonnie Blue. But that only scratches the surface of the day, with more brilliance from High Test, Guavatron, and Wild Root also on tap.
The day starts on a beautiful note — a bunch of them, actually — with the Fil Pate Trio and Sweet As Folk (the only time you won’t see Arielle D’Ornellas without her camera!). The Zombie stage will shut down with a set from Dizzlephunk and then another set, this time silent disco.
Follow the Monarchs will twist you up with great improv, and Deja Voodoo, Pock It, Syzygy, Flint Blade Trio, Oddyssey, and The Good Wood Band make this first full day very full indeed.
FRIDAY
The Friday schedule is simply slammed, jammed with magical performances. Consider: Come Back Alice, Uncle John’s Band, The Legendary JCs, Shak Nasti, and Leisure Chief. How about shoeless soul and Ella Jet and Future Soul? Even more: The Conglomerate and Imagene.
The Zombie stage is overloaded as well, with Future Vintage, Side Hustle, and Guavatron doing the silent disco thing. Also Franscene, Phunk It and The Grindstone Sinners.
SATURDAY
If you were anticipating a slight letup, you would be very wrong; there is no letup at all. Remember, you can sleep Sunday night. Or Monday. Or something.
The music on the main stages bounce back and forth, from Daniel Heintz Band, Legacy Orchestra Collective, S.P.O.R.E., Tand, The Applebutter Express, The Groove Orient, the Melody Trucks Band, and finally The Heavy Pets. DAMN!
There is so much fun on the Zombie stage, closing with the first-ever OBJ appearance of Vlad the Inhaler (plus a silent disco set), Jon Ditty, Spiral Light, the Stephanie D’Angelo Trio, and Headstash.
And, of special note, the return of the man from Maine, Troy Youngblood. That early time slot on the Citrus, immediately before the Group Photo, will include two of the bands he played in as a Floridian: Skull and Bone Band and Troy Youngblood and Soulfish.
SUNDAY
Finally, you can relax — a little — as music ends (officially, anyway) at 7:30, when Roosevelt Collier and trio put OBJ to bed. The day includes Shaw Davis and the Black Ties, Electric Kif, Firewater Tent Revival, Row Jomah, Mind Medicine, Tropico Boulevard, Souljam, and Victoria Cardona.
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!
Did we mention Artists at Large? No? Well, check out this great list: vocalist and hip hop artist Brian B True; Juanjamon, vocalist and keyboard, tenor sax and bass star; George Pennington III, singer, guitarist, and BFF of Mountain Mike Schuman; trombone queen Sara ‘Mama Bone’ Phillips; Chris Sgammato, vocals, keyboards, alto sax, and guitar; and Jim Wuest of The Heavy Pets, keyboard wizard and vocalist extraordinaire.
And two more immigrants from beyond the Florida-Georgia line: Hoosier Joe Marcinek, who might as well become a Floridian, guitar and vocals; and a new guest, violinist Carl Schmid from Austin, Texas.
Look: you already know you’re going to OBJ 10. Time to convince your friends sitting on the fence. Give ’em a push!
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