By Jim Stanford on February 17, 2011
Music on Main at Victor City Park. Click to enlarge.
Music on Main announced five of its headliners last night, and once again the free concert series will feature a heavy helping of New Orleans funk.
Anders Osborne
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk will perform in Victor on July 14, followed by fellow Big Easy stalwart Anders Osborne on July 21.
Also on the bill this summer are acclaimed guitarists Bruce Cockburn, who will open the series June 30, Alejandro Escovedo on July 28 and Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real on Aug. 4. The Teton Valley Foundation still is lining up artists for July 7 and Aug. 11.
Ivan Neville, along with his bandmate cousin Ian, are scions of New Orleans’ first family of funk, the Neville Brothers. Osborne is a renowned guitarist who leads his own band and plays with just about everybody in the Big Easy.
Dumpstaphunk’s performance on Thursday night will be a perfect segue into the seventh annual Targhee Fest (July 15-17), which traditionally has a New Orleans flavor. In addition, What’s Good Here? Productions of Jackson has entered into a deal with the Knotty Pine to host bands following the Music on Main concerts. Looks like it will be another busy season of music on the west side.
(Top photo via Teton Valley Foundation; Osborne via American Songwriter)
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Two places in the United States do not exist that could be more physically different yet so idealistically similar. This is a great union. whats next, a direct flight? zing.
oh, man… like i wasn’t already pining for summer.
alejandro escovedo?! yesssssss….
A bunch of elitist hippie fruitcakes on the band selection commitee. I mean they get some good musicians now and then like los lobos and James Mcmurtry a few years ago, but nobody that plays heavy music. The Meat Puppets were the closest thing to rock the valley last year but that was up and Targhee. When are these clowns ever going to get a hard, heavy band? Or even a good hip hop act? These fools thinks everyone likes their genre of music. They are wrong and they suck.
And I especially stand by “elitist.” The “other half” of Teton valley is not going to attend any of these shows. The events are supposed to be for all the community and family oriented. But the other half of the valley listens to country. (And we’re not talking bluegrass) The only radio station in the valley is country. Yet these elitist bastards couldn’t even have one token country band to the rest of the valley. Not that country is what I especially want to hear, but it’s only fair. It just goes to show how devisive these people are.
I don’t understand how people who put on FREE concerts that draw huge crowds, presumably good for business for the whole community, could even remotely be described as “elitist.” No one is forcing you to go to these shows, or even pay for them.
I’ve been to a number of Music on Main events over the years, from Blind Boys of Alabama (gospel) to Los Lobos (classic rock, Latino) to Trombone Shorty (jazz, funk) to Jerry Joseph (hard rock), and I’ve found the crowd to be incredibly diverse: hippies, farmers, tourists, businesspeople and, especially, families. Jackson and Teton Valley.
Experiencing new and different music helps bring people together, instead of catering a show to a particular audience. If you don’t like the free music the TVF is bringing to your community, perhaps you should start your own concerts of country and hard rock, and maybe we’ll come to those, too.
Yeah, But the bands don’t play for free. (I already said Los Lobos was good. But J Joseph blows big time.) The people who pay the bands are the elilists not the people in attendence.