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July 30th: Packway Handle Band and Krist Krueger at the Back Porch
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from Athens, GA with indie-rocker at The Back Porch |
Hey Everyone! Agent Cooper concepts and Keefe Green would like to
thank everyone who came out and supported an amazing weekend at the
Buffalo Chip Campground for the Second Annual Solstice Shakedown.
Special thanks to all our sponsors: The Back Porch,the Knuckle Saloon,
Rushmore Mountain Sports, Crow Peak Brewing Company, Horses to
Harleys, Breadroot Food Co-Op, Back to Nature, High Plains Wind
Energy, Dr Bronner’s Magic Soaps and thanks to our ticket outlets:
Ernie November’s, Global Market and Common Grounds. Extra special
thanks to the artists who made this an exceptional and diverse lineup
of music, with dynamic and captivating performances………
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Wednesday, 6/25 and Thursday, 6/26 “Grass On the Porch” Mini-Fest
| Wednesday, June 25th | Thursday, June 26th |
From Minneapolis, Progressive Roughgrassers
Pert Near Sandstonew/ special guest |
From Vancouver, BC, Celtic Bluegrassers
Clumsy Loversw/ special guest |
The highly anticipated Solstice Shakedown goes off this weekend at the world-famous Buffalo Chip Campground outside of Sturgis, featuring two days of amazing national, regional, and local music and green-thinking awareness. Progressive bluegrass from the likes of Fargo’s Johnson Family Band, Wyoming’s Jalan Crossland Band, stomp-grass blues from Ben Suchy, zydeco swamp-funk from New Orleans, the mythical legend, Papa Mali, fusion showcases from Solution and Gypsyfoot, the one-man looping vocal oddity, Heatbox, Duluth indie-rockers, Batteries, and Alive Records blues-punks, Black Diamond Heavies. All music located at the Emerald Pond Stage and Black Parrot Beach Area. Gates open at 3pm this Friday June 20th. Gates re-open 10am on Saturday June 21st. Gates close at 2:30am on both nights. Free camping with your tickets. For for more info, visit solsticeshakedown.com.
Also…“Grass On the Porch” Mini-Fest Wednesday and Thursday June 25th and 26th with Pert Near Sandstone and Clumsy Lovers at The Back Porch with special guests. Two nights of old-timey roughgrass and blue-celt fusion. Both of these shows are five bucks! Check the events page for more details, pard.
pertnearsandstone.com
clumsylovers.com
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June 11th: Radio Moscow at The Back Porch and Solstice Shakedown Ticket Giveaway!
Agent Cooper
presents
Radio Moscow
The Back Porch
703 Main, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783
doors @ 9pm, show @ 10pm, $5 at the door
BE PRESENT to WIN TICKETS to
THE SOLSTICE SHAKEDOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL
JUNE 20th and 21st
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Papa Mali at The Knuckle Saloon, Sunday May 18th Bella Sol and Solstice Shakedown Pre-Party Concert and Ticket Giveaway!
Currently on tour doing shows with Gov’t Mule and a string of openers for B.B. King, this New Orleans roots artist springboards through the Black Hills on his Bella Sol pre-party tour, for a double pre-festival show at the Knuckle Saloon in Sturgis on Sunday May 18th, also celebrating the 2nd annual Solstice Shakedown. Ticket giveaways for both festivals will happen on-site, and you must be there to win. An opportunity to score tickets to the Bella Sol festival in Geneva, MN May 23, 24, and 25; and the Solstice Shakedown June 20th and 21st. This is a free show and a chance to preview the Shakedown’s headliner for Friday, June 20th in the Knuckle’s Outdoor Pavilion! This national New Orleans heavy hitter is not to be missed. Join us for a summer kickoff zydeco-funk style!
From papamali.com:
MALCOLM WELBOURNE’s personification “PAPA MALI” is a salute to his home territory of north Louisiana. Malcolm was raised in Shreveport, where absorbing the blues along Bayou Pierre was just as much a matter of course as chasing the mosquito fogging truck with friends — and equally intoxicating. He spent his summers with grandparents in New Orleans digging that city’s rhythm (and blues) and after hearing the Wild Tchoupitoulas and the Meters on the streets of New Orleans at age eleven, he developed an early and ongoing attachment to Crescent City funk.
Papa Mali’s long-awaited second album, Do Your Thing, drops in January 2007. More than a follow-up to his legendary debut Thunder Chicken (which Zigaboo Modeliste claims to have listened to over and over on one particular Christmas day), the latest record marks a Louisiana native’s long overdue homecoming. Although he himself has been playing the clubs of New Orleans for over 20 years, this recording makes the connection to his musical roots more obvious. Featured guests for the journey are representatives from three of the Crescent City’s deepest traditions — Big Chief Monk Boudreaux of the Golden Eagles, Henry Butler, and Kirk Joseph — as well as Victoria Williams (also a Shreveport native) and Chuck Prophet.
Although Papa Mali is a solo artist (performing on stages as diverse as Tipitina’s and Bonnaroo), slide guitarist, singer/songwriter and acclaimed producer (Lavelle White, Ruthie Foster, and Omar & The Howlers), he can also be seen regularly collaborating with some of the most respected musicians on the scene today, including his longtime drummer extraordinaire Robb Kidd, Cyril Neville, Galactic, MOFRO, Robert Walter, Otis Taylor, George Porter Jr, Johnny Vidacovich, Anders Osborne, Jesse Mae Hemphill, Kevin Russell, and Double Trouble.
Agent Cooper presents
Modern Country-Fried Bluegrass
from Upstate New York
Sugar Hill national recording artists
Sunday, April 27th
Dublin Square
Mt Rushmore Rd & Main, Rapid City, SD
doors @ 8pm, showtime @ 9pm, $7 at the door
Agent Cooper Presents
From Nashville, TN
Gospel Blues Punks
BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES
and
from San Francisco, CA
The Electro-Rock of special guests
MASTERSLASHSLAVE
Monday, April 7th @ The Back Porch, 703 Main St., Spearfish SD
doors @ 9pm, showtime @ 10pm, $7 at the door
Alive Records new signing Black Diamond Heavies come to The Porch for one night to showcase their demon-possessed gospel punk blues. Their sophomore record, A Touch of Someone Else’s Class, due for release in May 2008, was produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, and promises to be an amazing follow-up to their debut album, Every Damn Time. Come and see them showcase their new tunes live before you get the new record. If you like The Killers and Modest Mouse, you’ll dig the west-coast electro mod-rock sound of our good friends, MasterSlashSlave. Out on their third major national tour, they return to the Black Hills riding on the release of their first full-length LP, Scandal. A collection of new works and previously released singles and B-sides. Their Expensive Tastes EP will also be available at the show.
Violent Hippie @ the Back Porch
with special guest
March 17th
703 main, Spearfish, 57783
Cost : free!
Special sets of irish rock and dirty celt will be showcased from the area’s favorite soulpunks, Violent Hippie, with special guest, Corduroy Vinyl.
This show will be free and ages 21+
showtime 9:30p
