Ben Harper, Robert Randolph added to Village music fest
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As first reported here back in April, a new music festival will be making its debut at Teton Village this summer.
The Jackson Hole Music Festival has added soul guitarists Ben Harper and Robert Randolph to a lineup that already features Wilco, the Black Crowes and Son Volt. The two-day event will be held at the base of the Eagle’s Rest slope on Aug. 16 and 17.
Harper and his band, the Innocent Criminals, have performed several times in Jackson Hole, as have Randolph and his Family Band. Both are fan favorites.
So far, the lineup looks like this: Saturday, Aug. 16 — Wilco, Kaki King, Medeski Martin & Wood, Backdoor Slam; Sunday, Aug. 17 — Black Crowes, Ben Harper, Robert Randolph, Son Volt, the Avett Brothers.
The music will run from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. both days. Single-day tickets are $72.50, while a two-day pass costs $130. For a limited time, you can purchase a discounted “early bird” pass for $110 (plus $13 service charge) by clicking here.
Randolph, the stomping pedal steel guitarist, played the Snow King Center ice rink with the Black Crowes in 2006 and just about stole the show in his Fennis Dembo University of Wyoming basketball jersey. He and the Family Band also gave an exuberant performance in 2002 in the courtyard of the Knotty Pine.
Harper and the Innocent Criminals dropped jaws at the sold-out Snow King Grand Room in 1998 and returned to rock the ice rink three years later. He had a good time, as this review from the Jackson Hole News attests:
Harper showed up in town a day early and made the most of his stay, mingling with fans and taking ladies on a Town Square shopping spree that netted him a new cowboy hat. Members of his backing band, the Innocent Criminals, as well as opening act Jack Johnson and some of the road crew even went rafting on the Snake with Jackson Hole Whitewater.
By the time they took the stage, Harper and mates had enjoyed a mini-vacation, and they seemed eager to repay the hospitality.
The event at Teton Village is being produced by the Festival Network, which puts on the JVC Jazz fests in New York, Chicago and elsewhere. The promoters are promising that more artists will be added soon; don’t be surprised to see another heavyweight name on Saturday’s slate.
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