As most of you probably know, there’s a big, outdoor music festival taking place here in Ypsi this weekend. It’s being called the Jamboree, and, as luck would have it, I had an opportunity to sit down with festival director Don Sicheneder and ask him a few questions this evening. Here’s our interview: MARK: So, […]
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Jamboree update
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Ypsilanti Also tagged Arbor Brewing Company, Back 40, beer, Better Made Chips, Black Jake and the Carnies, bluegrass, Community Records, Corner brewery, Daisy May, Dick Siegal, Don Sicheneder, Dragon Wagon, Erik Dotzauer, Fago, first aid tent, Frog Island Brewery, Hullabaloo, kids tent, Koegle hot dogs, Laith Al-Saadi, Las Vegas, magic pipe, Matt Jones, May Erlewine, Music Event, October Babies, one man band, Orpheum Bell, Rave Distributors, Riverside Park, roots music, Seth Bernard, That 1 Guy, The Afternoon Round, The Bearded Ladies, The Macpodz, The Ragbirds, Tokyo Sexwhale, Wayward Roots, Ypsilanti, Ypsitucky, Ypsitucky Bluegrass Festival 22 Comments
Was Ypsi City Council right to take the parks away from the DTCDC?
A reader of this site calling himself Andy Ypsilanti recently left the following letter to the Mayor and City Council in the comments section and I thought that I’d move it up here, as we’ve yet to really discuss whether or not the recent move by City Council to strip control of Riverside and Frog […]
“The Jamboree”
Remember how, a week or so ago, I told you that the Depot Town CDC, having been told by a few people in the community that the name “Ypsitucky Jamboree” was horribly offensive, were charged with coming up with a new name for their summer music festival? Well, they came up with one. After soliciting […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti Also tagged Blandsilanti Jamboree, Depot Town CDC, Erik Dotzauer, Music Event, rustbelt, Rustbelt Roots Revival, The Jamboree, thin skin 80 Comments