What Happened at the

Second annual On the Way to the Farm Festival

Almost Heaven Campgrounds lived up to their name this weekend as we presented another weekend of awesome music. As usual people began rolling in on Thursday, I played greeter until well into the am and then settled in with the sound company for a couple hours of pre-show partying.

Friday at 7 pm Barby Holder opened the show with her folksy and celtic covers. Around 9 pm the Funky Niblets took the stage and ran away with it. Everybody was buzzing about the funky jam band from Hawley Pa. definitely the show stealers of the evening!!!
At Midnight Jazz band RaisinHill showed everybody that a three piece band can fill the mountains with music as well as any.
About 2:30 am we shut the stage down for the night. Around 3am I was extremely disappointed to find a campsite burning their picnic table for firewood (As was the venue owners who made the guilty parties pay for the table)

Saturday, we fired up the stage at noon, because Nathyn Knott stopped in with his girlfriend and well they just had to play!!!
At 2pm Dynamic Stew, a relatively new band surprised the assembled with some straight up rock and roll jams. From 4 pm - 6 pm Jim wowed the stage with a mixed format that included Rock country hip-hop jazz and every other genre of music imaginable doing some covers and originals such as "Jesus won't you buy me a beer".
Around 6:30 pm Tycoon Dog took over with their brand of NYCity Rock and Roll. After Tycoon Dog we presented a double headliner evening with Colonel Mustard from Boston. These guys are the tightest jam band on the east coast, but we got them a little high and they chilled out and had some fun. I gave out goodies from stage courtesy of the vendors, bands and Almost Heaven, then at midnight Rainbow Trout took over. Jordan and the guys said they never had a better jam than at the Beach Party here at Almost Heaven last year, well they picked up right where they left off and everybody danced into the early morning. Afterwards I was talked into a new tradition and again ended the show with my version of mercedes benz.

Sunday we left the sound system up and played CD's for awhile while enjoying the lukewarm waters of the Loyalsock River conveniently only feet away from the campground. Sunday afternoon I helped tear down the sound system and then Monday morning we cleaned up the campground, tore down the stage and took another dip in the river and reluctantly returned to the real world until the next show...