Summerfest Reveals Massive 2019 Lineup
“the world’s largest music festival”
Summerfest bills itself as being “the world’s largest music festival,” with upwards of 850,000 people expected to descend on Milwaukee’s Henry Maier Festival Park to watch 800 acts perform across 12 stages over the course of the festival’s 11-day run (June 26th-30th and July 2nd-7th).
Each night, the American Family Insurance Amphitheater will serve as the festival’s main stage, featuring headlining performances from Wisconsin’s own Bon Iver, Billie Eilish, The Killers, Lionel Richie, Death Cab For Cutie, Jennifer Lopez, and Michael McDonald. Plus, Willie Nelson will present his Outlaw Music Festival with a lineup featuring Phil Lesh, The Avett Brothers, Alison Krauss, Counting Crows, and Dawes. To close the festival, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, and ScHoolboy Q will team up for a special one-off performance.
Meanwhile, the festival’s ground stage lineup promises Brandi Carlile, The National, The Lonely Island, Lizzo, CHVRCHES, Courtney Barnett, Chaka Khan, Jimmy Eat World, Third Eye Blind, Taking Back Sunday, The Roots, Ludacris, Vic Mensa, First Aid Kit, Dashboard Confessional, X, Guided By Voices, Andrew W.K., Sego, and The Beths.
Also playing are Foreigner, Jason Mraz, Young the Giant, Walk the Moon, The Head and the Heart, Sublime with Rome, Big Gigantic, Atmosphere, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Catfish and the Bottlemen, The Allman Betts Band, Dispatch, Neon Trees, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Reverend Horton Heart, Elle King, Daya, Matisyahu, Dumpstaphunk, Brother Ali, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Hanson, Chelsea Cutler, Dark Star Orchestra, Ozomatli, and Royal Tusk, among many others.
Tickets to Summerfest are now on sale through the festival’s website (note: tickets to the amphitheater shows are sold separately) - visit https://summerfest.com
- BY Alex Young - Consequence of Sound.net
Trey Anastasio Band Confirms 2019 Brooklyn Bowl Shows
The Trey Anastasio Band featuring Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio will play Brooklyn Bowl in New York City on April 28 and 29. Anastasio brings TAB back to the Bowl after shows at NYC’s Beacon Theatre on April 26 and in New Haven on April 27.
The latest lineup of the Trey Anastasio Band found Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio joined by drummer Russ Lawton, bassist Tony Markellis, keyboardist Ray Paczkowski, percussionist Cyro Baptista and a horn section of Jennifer Hartswick, Natalie Cressman and James Casey. TAB’s performance at the Beacon Theatre in NYC on April 26 following the premiere of the ‘Between Me & My Mind’ documentary about Trey will be the group’s first show since late 2017. Anastasio’s troupe made their Brooklyn Bowl debut on August 16, 2014 for a show that was filmed for a PBS special.
Tickets for TAB at Brooklyn Bowl go on sale this Friday, April 19 at 10 a.m. ET via Ticketfly (April 28 / April 29). – Jambase / Scott Bernstein
Rory Gallagher ‘Blues’ Collection Due
Rory Gallagher ‘Blues’ Collection Due In what would have been the 50th year of Rory Gallagher’s recording career, Chess/UMe will release a new career-spanning collection, Blues, on May 31. Drawn from the vaults of the Gallagher estate’s tape archive, the collection presents rare and unreleased recordings of Gallagher playing his favorite blues material. Ranging from previously unreleased tracks to special guest sessions and lost radio sessions, Blues uncovers Gallagher’s love of the blues throughout his solo career, from 1971 through 1994.
Blues’ formats include a 16-track 1-CD and digital edition; 2-LP vinyl and limited-edition 2-LP blue vinyl editions; and a deluxe 36-track 3-CD and digital edition. The Deluxe Edition is composed of 90 percent unreleased material and features performances with Muddy Waters, Albert King, Jack Bruce, Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber. The 3-CD Deluxe Edition also includes an extensive booklet with previously unseen pictures of Gallagher, plus a new essay by blues-rock writer Jas Obrecht.
Says a press release announcing Blues, “Rory Gallagher was a self-taught virtuoso who forged a musical revolution in his native land, shunned the trappings of fame and stardom yet became a universally acclaimed international folk hero. In the years that have passed since his death, aged 47 on June 14, 1995, his true stature has become ever clearer. This soft-spoken Irishman, characterized by his flowing locks and trademark working man stage clothes, was far from ordinary.
“Rory’s rock-solid devotion to his calling never wavered and the respect of his musical peers was universal. Eric Clapton credited Gallagher with ‘getting me back into the blues,’ and the Rolling Stones tried to get him to replace Mick Taylor. Rory’s influence spread through the generations—from Slash to Johnny Marr, from U2’s The Edge to Queen’s Brian May and on to The Manics’ James Dean Bradfield—any aspiring player who encountered him was bound to be energized or transformed.”
Rory Gallagher is commemorated throughout Ireland—a bronze statue in Ballyshannon, a sculpture in Cork where the local theatre is named after him, a mounted guitar in Dublin, a plaque in Belfast. His famously battered paint-stripped Sunburst Strat has been marketed by Fender in a tribute model. There’s a Rue Rory Gallagher in Paris, an annual festival in Ireland, and tribute concerts held each year in his honor around the world. - by Best Classic Bands
Fender Announces Elaborate ‘Game of Thrones’-Inspired Guitars
Fender Announces Elaborate ‘Game of Thrones’-Inspired GuitarsThe Tele, Strat and Jaguar models boast dragon-scale carvings, gold-plated pickguards and other ornate features. If you’re psyched about the final season of Game of Thrones (and have a cool 25 grand or so laying around), you can keep your love of Westeros going with one of Fender’s new masterbuilt guitars from the company’s Game of Thrones Sigil collection. Produced in conjunction with HBO Licensing & Retail, the trio of deluxe, one-of-a-kind models represent three fan-favorite houses—the Game of Thrones House Stark Telecaster, the Games of Thrones House Lannister Jaguar and the Game of Thrones House Targaryen Stratocaster—and are built to order via the Fender Custom Shop.
All three models were handcrafted by Principal Master Builder Ron Thorn, and according to Fender, each guitar’s design drew inspiration from the house’s family sigil, costume designs, armor and weaponry, as well as each of their locations in Westeros.
The House Stark Telecaster guitar features a lightweight swamp ash body, weathered with inlaid sterling silver purfling that reflects the broodiness of Winterfell’s landscape. The guitar features a maple neck with an ebony fingerboard, a hand-cut and engraved sterling silver Dire Wolf sigil inlay on the first fret and an embossed nickel silver version on the pickguard. The Tele also features hand-engraved knobs, an etched neck plate and is finished with thin lacquer over custom paints, including “Raven Black” and “Gray Wolf.”
The House Lannister Jaguar features a lightweight alder body with a 24k Gold leaf with heraldry design on both the front and back, paying homage to the opulent Red Keep in King’s Landing. The guitar has a maple neck with an ebony fingerboard, a hand-cut and engraved brass Lion sigil inlay on the first fret, a 24k leaf heraldry design-carved headstock face, gold hardware and a gold-plated pickguard engraved with the Lannister’s sigil. The Jaguar also includes an etched neck plate, hand-engraved knobs and is finished with a thin lacquer over custom paints including “Burnt Crimson” and “Lannister Gold.”
For the House Targaryen Stratocaster guitar, Thorn drew significant inspiration from the family’s sigil, a three-headed dragon, as this Strat features carved dragon scales across the front and back of the guitar. The lightweight alder body is adorned with black hardware, a maple neck with ebony fretboard, a hand-cut and engraved sterling silver three-headed dragon sigil inlay on the first fret, as well as a hand-tooled and stained leather pickguard that also features the Targaryen sigil. The Strat also boasts an etched neck plate and is finished with thin lacquer over custom “Dragonglass Black” paint.
Each model also comes with a bespoke guitar case that reflects the ethos of the instrument with ornate attention to detail, as well as an El Dorado strap. Details include:
Game of Thrones House Stark Telecaster: guitar case features a faux wolf fur lining and a black suede exterior as an homage to the direwolf sigil of the Stark House.
Game of Thrones House Lannister Jaguar: guitar case features gold accents including a crushed gold velvet interior and all gold hardware.
Game of Thrones House Targaryen Stratocaster: guitar case boasts an all-black reptile design on its exterior with red stitching accents both inside and out.
For more information, head over to Fender.com. Guitar World Magazine / By Richard Bienstock
