EO will debut its improvisational bliss in Maine this summer at the UpNorth Music and Art Festival.
Jon Fishman anchors this line up and will be joined by good friends Jamie Masefield (Jazz Mandolin Project) and Dan Archer (engineered Lawn Boy, produced and performed in Pork Tornado) as well as some new friends such as Mike Rivard, Mr.Rourke and Geoff Scott of Club d'Elf, vocalist/beat boxer Taylor McFerrin, Ryan Montbleau and more.

The EO set kicks off the festival so be there on time!

For tickets and info: www.upnorthfestival.com

4 Peaks Music Festival returns bigger and better this year, with 20 bands and 80 acres of music, food, beverages, crafts, kids fun and camping. Including EO the festival line up includes Tea Leaf Green, Hot Buttered Rum, Zilla and more.

Discount on festival tickets ends this week, on Thursday, May 15. Festival-goers can save by purchasing specially priced Early Bird tickets now.

For tickets and info: www.4peaksmusic.com

Everyone Orchestra will be back at 10klf for the fourth year in a row with another surprise cast of in-the-moment, turn-on-a-dime musicians. Following the success and fun of last year's Rex Foundation jam as part of the set, EO will once again be collecting contributions from the audience to help support the musical instruments program at a local school. Last year, during the 20 minute jam,more than $1600 was collected by school board members and students in the audience. Now the kids can rock as hard as EO does! Line up TBA.

As part of the Leave a Positive Legacy program of the greening team onboard Jam Cruise 6 Matt Butler and a crew of musicians serenaded the children at an orphanage on Roatan, Honduras. The players, including Jon Fishman, Jeff Coffin, Jans Ingber and Dominic Lalli from The Motet, Tanya Shylock, Dan Lebowitz (ALO) and Bo, Jeff and Sean from New Monsoon all agreed it was an incredibly moving experience and the house mother at the orphanage said it was the best day the children had had in a very long time. Kudos to the Jam Cruise passengers who donated pallets full of well needed and appreciated school supplies for the island children and to Conscious Alliance who organized a donation of 1000 pounds of soap from Pangea Organics.

During the last performance onboard, Scooter and Todd Ketchum were the lucky winners of the guest conductor raffle which raised close to $1000 to purchase carbon offsets on Jam Cruise. Go team green.

The first in a series of downloads and CDs from the archive of Everyone Orchestra performances featuring selections from Everyone Orchestra's 7/14/06 performance at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz. Cast of players: Julian Fritz, Asher Fulero, Chris Haugen, Jamie Janover, Steve Kimock, Dale L'argent, Mojow & the Vibration Army, Enion Pelta, Samantha Stollenwerck, Mike Sugar, and David Tiller. Conducted by Matt Butler.

Click here to check it out!

Photo by Sue Weiand

"Water"

A conducted improvisation performed by Jamie Janover, Steve Kimock, Chris Haugen, Asher Fulero, Mike Sugar, Samantha Stollenwerck, David Tiller, Enion Pelta, John and Moriah-Melin Whoolilurie, Julian Fritz and Dale Largent with conductor Matt Butler.

Recorded by Charlie Miller. Live mix by Michael Wilson.

Photo by Sue Weiand