Down East Country Fest 2011

Caleb Paul has announced the Headliner for this years that Andy Griggs will headline this years Down East Country Fest with a full band! Sat. July 23rd at the Down East Fairgrounds in Whitneyville! Look for further info to follow. Great time last year, looking fwd to this year’s event!

Thanks Bangor

· My ipod is loaded with all genres of music, from Anthrax to Big and Rich, over the past 50 years I have seen Aerosmith, Boston, ZZ Top, J. Geils, to Brooks and Dunn, Sugarland, Alan Jackson. I have sat in local bars listening to homegrown rock and country. Been to Nashville 3 times to haunt the bars on Braodway, from Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge to Roberts Western World listening to the likes of the Don Kelly Band with J.D. Simo (check YouTube for this phenom!!) ripping the crap out of a Telecaster during their nightly 25-minute version of Ghost Riders. I have sat in awe inside the Ryman Auditorium with the spirits of all the old great country acts that performed there surrounding me. What does all this rambling mean; the Waterfront series is an amazing thing to happen to eastern Maine and I hope the acts keep pouring in! My personal thanks go out to all that make this happen!!

Winter Ramblings

OK, it’s been awhile since I have posted here on this blog, but as we all know winter time in Maine is not what you would call a banner time for national acts to come to the Pine Tree State! Crikey’s mate, we are in survival mode as I write this! Snow, rates right up there in my book with the seven words you can’t say on TV according to George Carlin.

I digress. Dotty and I ended our music following tasks last year with the Alan Jackson concert in Bangor. Remember decades ago when the likes of Aerosmith and ZZ Top played the auditorium in Bangor and you were stuck right up there in the nosebleed seats…just about 1,500 feet above sea level? Well the seats we had at the Alan Jackson concert I called the Hamden Seats…waaaaay back there. Never even saw Alan Jackson except a glimpse of the jumbotron thru the throngs of fans. BUT, he was a great performer, not a truer singer have I heard. I think he was up on stage; my eyesight isn’t that good trying to focus over a quarter mile away.

I hear Godsmack and Five Finger Death Punch put on one heck of a show, some day I will take a couple of extra vitamins and attend one of these all day events…..before my days with a walker arrive, hehe.

The Waterfront Concert Series just announced a day long event with The Avalanche Tour confirmed for Saturday April 30. Performers are Stone Sour | Theory Of A Deadman | Skillet | Halestorm |Art Of Dying , this is a “All Ages Event”. Should be a great time…hope they get the area plowed before the crowd shows up!

Lately we had Sara Evans at the Bangor Aud with a Chrstmas concert and we have Dierks Bently coming to L/A also, could be interesting, not my cup ‘o’ tea though.

Hopefully we will be getting some kick butt performers coming to the area and pray that the plans for the no Performance Center to be built in Bangor soon. Bangor Aud is a lousy venue, with half seating to allow for newer stage setups, its literally a pain in the ass! My 55 year old butt won’t take it anymore!

Come on spring