BIG Summer Classic (Aug 3, 4, 5) Camp Zoe

[Tim Fusion]

Don't miss out on the experience of the summer. Madison House Productions and Peak Experience present the biggest over-the-top celebration of all that is summer with the extravaganza known as BIG Summer Classic.

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The String Cheese Incident
Big Summer Classic Headliners The String Cheese Incident have emerged as one of today's most significant independent bands.

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The Roots
Innovative Philly hip hop crew The Roots bring their high energy, in-the-pocket live show to Big Summer Classic! Originally composed of Black Thought (MC vocals) and ?uestlove (drums), The Roots soon added Malik B. (MC vocals), Kamal (keyboard), Hub (bass guitar) and Rahzel (beatboxing) and earned themselves a devoted and respectable fanbase in Philadelphia – and for good reason.

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Los Lobos
After 34 years of making music, Los Lobos is still churning out inventive and inspiring music, as evidenced on their most recent studio album, The Town and the City.

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Yonder Mountain String Band
With little radio support, Yonder Mountain has become one of the fastest rising touring bands in the country. Its fanbase has ballooned over the past five years through steady gigging and high-profile festival sets, all of which are full of improv and none of which feature the same set list.

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The Greyboy Allstars
The Greyboy Allstars first formed almost 15 years ago to realize the vision of rare groove luminary DJ Greyboy: an original sound reminiscent of `70s soundtrack music.

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The Wailers
The Wailers remain the world’s ultimate roots rock reggae outfit. Aston “familyman” Barrett rose to world reggae prominence when he teamed up with Bob Marley as the groups bassist and musical director, helping to craft such hits as “Exodus,” “One Love,” “Soul Shakedown Party,” and many more.

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Infected Mushroom
Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani (aka Duvdev)—has been the leading group within the global psy-trance scene for nearly a decade. Incorporating pumping, bad-ass grooves and infectious melodies and live instruments and vocals into their songs, they’ve performed live—a feat that many of their DJ peers aspire to accomplish—for well over a million people around the globe. The band’s energetic live show has triumphed at some of the world’s biggest and most important music and their success as an electronic music band on the global concert circuit has translated into record sales in excess of 150,000 albums. Not bad for two guys from Haifa who started producing music mostly to escape boredom.

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The Del McCoury Band
Regularly drawing crowds which run the gamut from tie-dyed’n’patchouli neo-hippie jammers to button-down Yuppies to suspendered good ol’ boys, The Del McCoury Band may well boast the broadest, most inclusive fan base this side of the Grateful Dead.

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JJ Grey & MOFRO
On February 20, JJ Grey & MOFRO celebrated the release of their long-awaited third album, Country Ghetto, on Alligator Records. JJ Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern storytellers, and his songs oftentimes use the loss of his natural surroundings and the marginalization of the Southern culture he grew up in as a metaphor for universal truths. The band delivers his material with brilliant musicianship, resulting in music that is thought provoking, rhythmically dynamic and texturally mesmerizing.

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Founded in 1961 by Alan & Sandra Jaffe, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band has survived the ups and downs of contemporary music and the waters of Hurricane Katrina. Its enduring existence is due to its musical virtuosity and the jazz tradition which passes from elder musician to student.

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Vusi Mahlasela
Growing up in Mamelodi, young Vusi Mahlasela began to teach himself to play on a homemade guitar, a remarkable instrument made of tin cans and fishing line. From the outset, Vusi’s songs addressed themes of political and social significance, and so he found himself in demand at political rallies and cultural events. An accomplished guitarist, percussionist, arranger, band leader and performer, Vusi now enjoys an ever-growing following that spans worldwide.

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Bassnectar
Voted “Best DJ” by Nitevibe.com and SF Bay Guardian, Bassnectar’s music is forging new paths in the electronic music world, the Burning Man scene, underground hip hop circles, and beyond. The brainchild of Lorin Ashton, Bassnectar is an experimentally collaborative music project, but it’s also a platform for social change and political awareness. It’s stylistically specific, yet it’s an eclectic, full spectrum adventure. For Bassnectar’s new release, Underground Communication (Om Records/May 8, 2007), Bassnectar takes another step forward in his genre-bending blend of musical styles and emotions, combining the visceral melodic presence of modern listening music, with the force and volume of sound system dancefloor devastation.

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David Lindley
Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley performs music that redefines the word "eclectic." Lindley, well known for his many years as the featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of his own band El Rayo-X, has long championed the concept of world music. The David Lindley electro-acoustic performance effortlessly combines American folk, blues, and bluegrass traditions with elements from African, Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy, and Turkish musical sources. Lindley incorporates an incredible array of stringed instruments including but not limited to Kona and Weissenborn Hawaiian lap steel guitar, Turkish saz and chumbus, Middle Eastern oud, and Irish bouzouki.

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Drew Emmitt Band
Drew Emmitt, the dynamic lead singer and mandolin player with the popular jamband Leftover Salmon, is a musical renaissance man. If it has strings, Emmitt can probably play it. He performs and records on mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and acoustic and electric guitars; as well as harmonica and flute. Emmitt's signature, however, is his energetic, original approach to mandolin, a style that reflects his pantheon of musical heroes: Lowell George, Steve Morse, Duane Allman, John Cowan, Bill Monroe, Sam Bush, Hot Rize and New Grass Revival. Picking up where New Grass Revival left off, Emmitt takes the contemporary approach to bluegrass tradition one step further, making the music feel effortless even as he adds new dimensions.

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Buckwheat Zydeco
Buckwheat Zydeco’s trailblazing sound incorporates soul, blues and southwestern Louisiana’s Creole French zydeco music. The band comes from a land of rich cultures and heady influences, and they’ve taken their music to an unprecedented and ever-expanding number of international venues. Zydeco maestro Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. released Jackpot!(2005) to stellar reviews. The album combines soulful original tunes, inspired playing and singing, and the trademark exuberance that’s made Dural the world’s best-loved zydeco artist, and has earned Buckwheat Zydeco fame as “the world’s greatest party band.”

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Chris Berry & Panjea
Chris Berry’s story “sounds like it was written by a Hollywood script writer” (Steve Leggett, All Music Guide). Maybe that is because it is hard to believe that a California White boy moved to Africa, became a spirit caller, and went on to sell over a million records in Southern Africa, where he still sells out stadiums. After over a decade living in Africa, Berry has now settled back in America following the edict given to him by African ancestor spirits to make a difference here, launching a slew of new activities to convey his message of justice and peace.

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EOTO
EOTO features Michael Travis (guitar, bass, keyboards, hand-percussion, live mix manipulation) who has spent over a decade as the driving percussive force in the nationally popular band, The String Cheese Incident. Travis continues to be an innovator of improvisational drumming, managing to play hand percussion and/or melodies while simultaneously keeping incredible time with the kit. In EOTO, Travis plays mostly guitar and bass.

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Jonah Smith
Tasteful, rootsy and endlessly soulful, Jonah Smith’s self titled debut ranges from vintage, pedal steel-laced Americana to classic, Rhodes-drenched, blue-eyed soul. His voice ardent and magnetic and his songs awash in the warm, distinctive tones of his Fender Rhodes, Smith writes songs that sound brand new. It’s what’s earned him rave reviews in New York and throughout East Coast: “The music industry meets its future,” wrote The New York Post.

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The Schwag
Dedicated to carrying on the music and the vibe of the legendary Grateful Dead, The Schwag was founded in 1991 as a local St. Louis-based Dead tribute. After the 1995 death of Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, the band began touring and has played more than 2,000 shows in 18 states, averaging 150 shows a year with a working repertoire of more than 200 songs. In 1997, The Schwag began producing and headlining their own festival, Schwagstock, at Camp Zoe.