Benmont Performing At Telluride Bluegrass Festival This Sunday
Benmont Tench will be performing with W.P.A at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival this Sunday afternoon, June 21st.
Check out the festival’s website for complete information. Amazing performers in an amazing setting for summer solstice 2009.
About Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Formerly known under the working title The Scrolls, WPA is an American eight-piece supergroup consisting of Glenn Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket), Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek), Luke Bulla (Jerry Douglas Band), Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers), Greg Leisz (Lucinda Williams, Bill Frisell, and many others), Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello & The Imposters), and Davey Faragher (Cracker, The Imposters). Says Sean Watkins: "We just meet as friends in the studio with everybody having fun and just sort of experimenting with music." After meeting in fall 2007, the band completed work on its debut album which is expected sometime this spring.
CHECK OUT THEIR WEBSITE - WPAMUSIC.COM
Affable, Athens-based rockers Drive-By Truckers reprised their role as the show opener, dropping a nifty hour-long set that featured several songs from their new album, The Big To-Do.
25,000 feet above Buffalo and more than an hour after the last notes rang out at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, and Tom Petty is still buzzing about the show.
Nearly half a century ago, Duane La Fleche proposed in his weekly column in the Albany Times Union that the New York Philharmonic eschew an offer to make its summer residence in Stowe, Vermont and instead set up shop in Saratoga Springs. “It seems very wrong,” La Fleche wrote, “that a New York orchestra should have to look outside the State for a summer residence. Wouldn’t the State Reservation at Saratoga Springs make a nice location?”