MICHAEL LESTER: CONCERTS
1. Neil Young, Outlaw Festival, Montage Mountain, Moosic, Pa., 9/18/16 2. David Gilmour, Madison Square Garden, New York, 4/11/16 3. Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Binghamton University, Bin...
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‘OLD MAN’ NEIL YOUNG’S EPIC SET HIGHLIGHTS INAUGURAL OUTLAW FEST
Photos by Jim Gavenus MOOSIC, Pa. — After approaching a guitar tech and trading out his acoustic guitar for an electric one Sunday night, Neil Young tore up the script. Literally. Young gra...
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KID KOALA BRINGS ‘NUFONIA MUST FALL LIVE’ TO BLOOMSBURG: PUPPET PERFORMANCE HAS BROUGHT ‘ACTUAL ADULTS TO TEARS’
BLOOMSBURG — Canadian record-scratching deejay Eric San marvels whenever he looks out over the crowd attending his high-tech puppet show and spots adults reduced to tears at what they’re witnessing. ...
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NEAL CASAL ON CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD, PLAYING JERRY GARCIA’S ‘WOLF’ & BEING A GOOD LIEUTENANT
Guitarist-photographer Neal Casal is one of a handful of musicians who can lay a legitimate claim to having played one of the late Jerry Garcia’s treasured guitars in the decades since Garcia’s 1995 d...
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PEACH FESTIVAL 2016: TRIBUTES TO GREGG ALLMAN, PINK FLOYD, LED ZEPPELIN ENLIVEN SOGGY WEEKEND
Photos by Pati Bobeck SCRANTON, PA — Gregg Allman’s absence from last weekend’s Peach Festival on Montage Mountain figured to create a void that would leave festival organizers and headlining acts ...
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STRING CHEESE INCIDENT’S MICHAEL KANG ON PEACH FEST, CITIZENSHIP & BUSINESS PARTNER JOHN PERRY BARLOW
String Cheese Incident all-purpose string player-vocalist Michael Kang was sitting at home in Santa Cruz, California, Friday taking media calls amid prepping for his 2-year-old son’s birthday party la...
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ERIC KRASNO FINDS HIS VOICE ON SOLO DEBUT
Two-time Grammy winner Eric Krasno still considers himself fortunate for his ability to play guitar a quarter century after he shattered his left elbow in a fall during a basketball game his freshman ...
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SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN: CABINET FAMILY WEEKEND ON MONTAGE MOUNTAIN
Photos by Pati Bobeck SCRANTON, Pa. — At the conclusion of its Saturday afternoon acoustic set at their fourth annual Susquehanna Breakdown on Montage Mountain, members of Cabinet welcomed about 5...
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STEVE KIMOCK REFLECTS ON HIS LIFE-LONG MUSICAL JOURNEY IN ADVANCE OF ARDMORE PERFORMANCE
I’m standing outside the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, Pa., back on December 5, 2012, moments before Steve Kimock and his band were to take the stage. A man purporting to be homeless is pa...
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LARRY KEEL TALKS CABINET, KELLER AND FISHING LEADING UP TO SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN
While flat-picking his steel string guitar and performing “Culpepper Woodchuck” next to a campfire at The Festy music festival in his home state of Virginia a few years back, Larry Keel reached the po...
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