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Music will highlight the South Lake Tahoe Earth Day festival, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, Saturday, April 19, for the second year at MontBleu Resort Casino and Spa. Ride your bike to the event, and for a complete schedule of events, see the weekend edition of the Tahoe Daily Tribune. Here’s a roundup of the music:
<b>10-11 a.m. — Moonshine String Posse</b>
A Mammoth-based bluegrass band, Moonshine String Posse features bass player and lead singer Meghan Herring. The four-piece also includes fiddle, guitar and banjo.
Web sites: www.myspace.com/moonshinestringposse or www.MoonshineStringPosse.com
<b>11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.— Ten Cent Lure</b>
The funkin’ swanky-tonkers from South Lake Tahoe are taking a break from their day jobs and are touring in an RV this spring. They opened for the Jerry Miller Band twice last week and will be rocking the May 29 Tahoe Aqua Boogie II aboard the M.S. Dixie II. They are taking their music so seriously, they’ve elected to gig rather than attend the April 25 Black Crowes concert. Ten Cent Lure formed during Thanksgiving 2006 and released a debut album, “Trollin’, ” early this year. “Fuzzy” John Oxendine, who also plays with Miller and was in his Moby Grape in the early 1970s, is the drummer. Beware: Chad Oleson’s hybrid bass allows him to hit the brown note.
Web site: www.myspace.com/tencentlure
<b>1-2:15 p.m. — Absynth</b>
The SLT laptop rockers have just returned from a Southern California tour. Absynth will be playing its third straight Earth Day concert at South Shore. Keyboardist Jim Cooke, a dedicated environmental advocate, gets solid support from Dustin Johnson (guitar) and Adam Northway (drums). This electronica version of a jam band should offer an appropriate segue to the headliners.
Web sites: www.AbsynthMusic.com, www.myspace.com/absynthmusic
<b>3-4:30 p.m. — Jamie Janover and LYNX</b>
Anyone who has been to the High Sierra Music Festival over the past several years will know Janover: He’s the guy who rides around on the percussion-equipped tricycle he calls a Realmsmobile. Janover also plays with Michael Travers of the String Cheese Incident in a band called Zilla. The 2002 national hammered dulcimer champion will play a 30-minute set, before a 30-minute set by Colorado artist LYNX, who plays acoustic guitar with a looping device — call it folk-tronica. Janover and LYNX will perform together for a final set. The second stage will be closed when Janover hits the main stage at 3 p.m.
Web sites: myspace.com/JamieJanover; www.JamieJanover.com
<b>Second stage
10:15-11 a.m. — Trevor Green</b>
The solo multi-instrumentalist has played Tahoe on several occasions. He gets his limbs into his music. Green is self-taught on the guitar, didgeridoo, jaw harp, tongue drums and lap slides.
Web sites: www.TrevorGreen.org, www.myspace.com/trevorgreen
<b>10-11 a.m. — Moonshine String Posse</b>
A Mammoth-based bluegrass band, Moonshine String Posse features bass player and lead singer Meghan Herring. The four-piece also includes fiddle, guitar and banjo.
Web sites: www.myspace.com/moonshinestringposse or www.MoonshineStringPosse.com
<b>11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.— Ten Cent Lure</b>
The funkin’ swanky-tonkers from South Lake Tahoe are taking a break from their day jobs and are touring in an RV this spring. They opened for the Jerry Miller Band twice last week and will be rocking the May 29 Tahoe Aqua Boogie II aboard the M.S. Dixie II. They are taking their music so seriously, they’ve elected to gig rather than attend the April 25 Black Crowes concert. Ten Cent Lure formed during Thanksgiving 2006 and released a debut album, “Trollin’, ” early this year. “Fuzzy” John Oxendine, who also plays with Miller and was in his Moby Grape in the early 1970s, is the drummer. Beware: Chad Oleson’s hybrid bass allows him to hit the brown note.
Web site: www.myspace.com/tencentlure
<b>1-2:15 p.m. — Absynth</b>
The SLT laptop rockers have just returned from a Southern California tour. Absynth will be playing its third straight Earth Day concert at South Shore. Keyboardist Jim Cooke, a dedicated environmental advocate, gets solid support from Dustin Johnson (guitar) and Adam Northway (drums). This electronica version of a jam band should offer an appropriate segue to the headliners.
Web sites: www.AbsynthMusic.com, www.myspace.com/absynthmusic
<b>3-4:30 p.m. — Jamie Janover and LYNX</b>
Anyone who has been to the High Sierra Music Festival over the past several years will know Janover: He’s the guy who rides around on the percussion-equipped tricycle he calls a Realmsmobile. Janover also plays with Michael Travers of the String Cheese Incident in a band called Zilla. The 2002 national hammered dulcimer champion will play a 30-minute set, before a 30-minute set by Colorado artist LYNX, who plays acoustic guitar with a looping device — call it folk-tronica. Janover and LYNX will perform together for a final set. The second stage will be closed when Janover hits the main stage at 3 p.m.
Web sites: myspace.com/JamieJanover; www.JamieJanover.com
<b>Second stage
10:15-11 a.m. — Trevor Green</b>
The solo multi-instrumentalist has played Tahoe on several occasions. He gets his limbs into his music. Green is self-taught on the guitar, didgeridoo, jaw harp, tongue drums and lap slides.
Web sites: www.TrevorGreen.org, www.myspace.com/trevorgreen
<b>11:15-12:30 p.m. — Ladymoon</b>
When he was a kid, singer/guitarist Ryan Brown played in the Indiana band Silent Insanity with drummer Nick Catanella III, of concert promoter Paesano Productions. Bet you didn’t know that.
Web site: www.myspace.com/LadymoonMusic
<b>1-2:15 p.m. — Ancient I’s</b>
The Angora fire claimed Don Zay’s View Circle home and 6-month-old Gretsch five-piece drum set. But the Ancient I’s Tahoe representative received a donated drum kit and can continue on: The dub reggae band is the only one to play both the North and South Shore Earth Day concerts in a single year.
Web site: www.myspace.com/ancientteknowlogy
<b>2:45-3:30 p.m. — Moo-Got-2</b>
The Humboldt County band plays funk and R&B, and has drawn comparisons to Galactic, Ween and the Motet. It will also be aboard the MS Dixie II for the Tahoe Aqua Boogie II. Moo-Got-2 has just finished an East Coast tour.
Web sites: www.MooGot2.com, www.myspace.com/MooGot2
<b>Official 4:19 Late Night Party</b>
In the Opal Ultra Lounge inside MontBleu Resort Casino and Spa.
Doors open at 9 p.m., show starts at 10 p.m.
Openers: Janover and LYNX begin the evening with entirely different sets from the afternoon performances.
Next: Hawaii’s Ana Sia is a “beautiful rhyme goddess who blows everyone away,” Catanella said. Web site: www.myspace.com/anna_sia. Speaking of beauty, the Burning Man burlesque models, BohoCrush, will mingle with cameras. Watch for the images on the Internet and a follow-up BohoCrush appearance at Aqua Boogie 2.
Headliner: Mo2 is opening Earth Day’s Green Apple Festival Thursday in Chicago before traveling 2,000 miles to Tahoe to close out its Earth Day. On Sunday, MO2 will close out the Green Apple Festival in San Francisco. MO2 also will be aboard the Aqua Boogie II.
Web sites: www.MO2music.com, myspace.com/mindorchestra.com
When he was a kid, singer/guitarist Ryan Brown played in the Indiana band Silent Insanity with drummer Nick Catanella III, of concert promoter Paesano Productions. Bet you didn’t know that.
Web site: www.myspace.com/LadymoonMusic
<b>1-2:15 p.m. — Ancient I’s</b>
The Angora fire claimed Don Zay’s View Circle home and 6-month-old Gretsch five-piece drum set. But the Ancient I’s Tahoe representative received a donated drum kit and can continue on: The dub reggae band is the only one to play both the North and South Shore Earth Day concerts in a single year.
Web site: www.myspace.com/ancientteknowlogy
<b>2:45-3:30 p.m. — Moo-Got-2</b>
The Humboldt County band plays funk and R&B, and has drawn comparisons to Galactic, Ween and the Motet. It will also be aboard the MS Dixie II for the Tahoe Aqua Boogie II. Moo-Got-2 has just finished an East Coast tour.
Web sites: www.MooGot2.com, www.myspace.com/MooGot2
<b>Official 4:19 Late Night Party</b>
In the Opal Ultra Lounge inside MontBleu Resort Casino and Spa.
Doors open at 9 p.m., show starts at 10 p.m.
Openers: Janover and LYNX begin the evening with entirely different sets from the afternoon performances.
Next: Hawaii’s Ana Sia is a “beautiful rhyme goddess who blows everyone away,” Catanella said. Web site: www.myspace.com/anna_sia. Speaking of beauty, the Burning Man burlesque models, BohoCrush, will mingle with cameras. Watch for the images on the Internet and a follow-up BohoCrush appearance at Aqua Boogie 2.
Headliner: Mo2 is opening Earth Day’s Green Apple Festival Thursday in Chicago before traveling 2,000 miles to Tahoe to close out its Earth Day. On Sunday, MO2 will close out the Green Apple Festival in San Francisco. MO2 also will be aboard the Aqua Boogie II.
Web sites: www.MO2music.com, myspace.com/mindorchestra.com
