The Festy

Once-in-a-lifetime show by Cabinet Thursday at 9pm. Never seen them before, pumped for this!

So Cabinet played Shady Grove>Another Brick In The Wall>Shady Grove...worth the price of admission and that was just warm up.

If you're going -- and I'm not, but this is a sort of related- yet off-topic question: how well does the reusable-beverage-cup thing work at events like Festy and Floydfest? I have only been to Lockn 2013 and am interested in going to Festy sometime, and Lockn 2016 for sure. The concept seems ideal to cut down on litter. Would something like buying a cup to re-use, I forget what they're made of, work at Lockn? Are there drawbacks? Other than wondering how long til you lose/ misplace yours, and have to shell out another $5...

I did have the pleasure of meeting musicphan at Festy, that was cool. I will be checking archive to see if any of these shows pop up there.

A true pleasure to see you again and meet the Mrs. Had an amazing time, hope you did as well, and certainly will be on the lookout for as many of those sets as possible.

As much as I love the Stringdusters, I'm of the mind that telling anyone to like them is moot until they can see them live first. 

And that Sam Bush set....jeebers.....Sailing Shoes>Crossroads>Sailing Shoes blew my mind. 

It's official, Festy is moving to... somewhere.

2015 Last Year for Festy at Devils Backbone


Roseland

Nelson County, Virginia



Steve Crandall, owner and founder of Devils Backbone Brewing in Roseland says 2015 was the last year for The Festy Experience at the original location. “The Festy was started by four partners. Devils Backbone had a 25% stake in ownership. Micheal Allenby of The Artist Farm owned 25% as did Justin Billcheck Productions, and The Stringdusters owned 25%. We all brought different skill sets to the table. After two years we gave up our ownership. We had a five year contract to have the event hosted on our site. This was the last year for that contract,” Steve told us by phone while away in North Carolina.



BRL reached out to the founder of DB after rumors about the change swirled around as a backdrop to this year’s festival.

Crandall told us he will begin another festival next fall in 2016 that’s more in tune with the local community.



“Allenby bought the remainder of The Festy out earlier this year from other partners. It’s too much stress on our infrastructure. Michael’s idea is to do a large event. It will go on, in another location. But we want to do something that’s more about our local community.”



Rumors have been flying for weeks that The Festy will relocate to Oak Ridge Estate where Lockn’ is held annually, but Crandall says he’s not sure where the event will eventually land since he hasn’t had ownership in it for a number of years.



When we talked to Michael Allenby by phone on Wednesday afternoon, he echoed what Crandall said. “No decision has been made on where The Festy will go. We are very interested in Nelson County and we know there is a lot of interest from the South Rockfish Valley area in having us stay nearby. While Dave Frey (Lockn’) has the cool infrastructure in place, we want to look at that, no decision has been made about where we will go.” Allenby said he wants a place where he can put down roots and have a permanent infrastructure where bringing in so much gear isn’t a necessity. “It’s an extremely risky venture, but with a good venue we can do it. We want people in the area to tell us what they want,” Allenby added.



Crandall says he wants an event that is more in line with what they do, “We want an event that’s about our brand and what Backbone is about. And, something we can take on the road to other areas where we sell craft beer. Nashville, Chattanooga, North Carolina, etc,”



BRLM will share more as we know, but it sounds like exciting changes in the wind!

Also McJeff!! How ya doing buddy? It's same mattchu from the Jambase forums. Didn't make it to Lockn the last year, and I didn't see ya at Wanee. How are you and the mrs. doing?? You still pokin around the new Jambase forum on free forums? I'm not- lurk a few times but haven't started chatting. Also, do you ever rock that Lockn Stealie with the artists in the bubbles shirt i gave ya Sunday night after that fateful Allman Brothers show?

Aw that's awesome! Paris right?? That sounds great- was just there in September on the tail end of family wedding trip and ahhh such a beautiful city. It was my first time there in some years. Anyway hey! I'm gunna be in Raleigh today/night. I'll be doing some (shameless!) street team promo with the gals. We're gunna go from Friday's at the lawn to delta Rae (Lincoln theater) to umphreyes (the ritz) not sure if we will go into either (really UM is kinda my least favorite Jamband that's definitely good) and the delta Rae sounds intriguing but the show is sold out.

Anyway are you gunna be out and about tonight?

The Festy


October 7-9th, 2016. Lineup announced sometime this month. 

I'd buy my pass now if they'd let me.

Hope we get to go this year.

Always a real good time