Yarmony Grass- Rancho Del Rio

[El Ron]

Well, this festival (www.yarmonygrass.com) is coming up real soon. Just wanted to remind you all if you have not yet gotten your tickets or are on the fence for this one, the time is now to make up your mind. Railroad Earth for two nights and then Tim Carbone's side project, The Contribution (this will be their third live appearance since its incarnation) plus all our friends from Cheese, this really is going to be some fun. I see the potential for alot of cross pollination of musicians creating some beautiful music together along the riverside. River Run. See ya there.

P.S. If you are going, get involved in the kickball tourney, winner gets to play the allstar band for the championship.

[El Ron]

Looks like things are coming together. Got the team registered to go. Be on the lookout for Team—Stack It Mother F@#$’ing Up for the tourney.

[Missionman625]

OMG what the are we doing in Florida Crap My Cousin lives Dillion,Colorado El ron you you a funny guy. Well in any case Debbie & I heading towards Sante fe in winters then Colorado summers with a Airstream in tow ...

[El Ron]

Freaking great!

Yarmony Grass Festival or should I say YAAAHHHMONY!!!!!!

[ludlow66]

I am going to be there bright and early Friday Morning. I have been looking forward to this since it was announced !

[hoboholic]

Festival gates open at 10:00 A.M. Friday. When i asked when we could start camping I got "Festival Gates open at 10:00 A.M". Is that to say we are camping inside the festival gates? Or can we show up Thursday and camp and not have to move in the morning? I asked Yarmony Grass again and I got the reply again: "Festival Gates open at 10:00 A.M" which really doesn't help with the camping question, although I am positive I know when the festival gates open!

[ludlow66]

My impression was that they will not allow anyone to get in early but I will be parked outside the "gate" before 10am to try and get a great camping spot.

[PjBrown]

I wonder about people who are already there camping though? Or will it be closed for camping prior to the festival? Either way, I plan on being there when the gates open also.

[ludlow66]

I wonder about people who are already there camping though? Or will it be closed for camping prior to the festival? Either way, I plan on being there when the gates open also.

I would assume based on their normal business cycle that the majority of people who would be using their services would be camping Friday & Saturday night so there wouldn't be alot of people there on Thursday. I will see you in line to get in.

[PjBrown]

Then it's run to the box office to get the float ticket and a spot on a boat. To say I am getting excited would be a HUGE understatement at this point.

CAN
NOT
WAIT!!

[Sister Fennario]

This post is kind of related to a thread from the NYE 2010 discussion too:

So, I actually don't think it's just the money that makes them play so many colorado shows. this just came to me today, listening to a bunch of old timey music, noticing the specificity of certain regional sounds while driving through the mountains in wyoming. it's the mountains. they are alive. the earth is alive. the earth is trying to teach us about our relationship to it and in it and as a part of it. (I notice in the new album's cover EARTH is dominant, railroad just fits in above it, as they all emerge from the unconscious waters of the earth into consciousness, mountains in the background. so the earth is trying to instruct us through the music of railroad earth (not exclusively, of course, please no fundamentalism). this message is just easier to hear in the mountains. now i'm not really all that in the know about rre creation myths, but wasn't one of their first gigs telluride bluegrass festival? the mountain energy is part of their creation myth, it brought them into being. call me pie in the sky, but when you're up that high the energy is different. earth energy speaks more clearly. when you have big sky and trees and mountains all around you all the time and you're sharing this amazing music in communitas, it takes on a life of it's own. as it did. i identify strongly with the earthy part of railroad earth (can you tell?) it's the railroad that's part of our culture that's pushed it through up to this point and no one loves a warhead boogie more than me (like it's a vehicle by which we can process even surviving in this world so ravaged by pain and suffering) but it's the big sky and the big mountains that helped bring this band into being so that's where they play, and that's where folks drawn by that same earth energy of the mountains. Now why can't school start two weeks later!?!? Or Yarmony be two weeks earlier, I'd like to know!?!? Oh well... Park City is 7500 feet. We all do what we can. Have fun everyone!

[taylor.skiles]

I agree that it’s not all about the money but I think it does play a part. Also shows are usally more fun when the place is sold out and the crowd is wild. I was at last years NYE show and the crowd was pumped and you could tell that RRE was feeding off that energy.

As far as school goes you should just take all your classes online. I'm doing fall term full time online and still going on railroad tour. Where there is a will there is a way!

[Sister Fennario]

I do agree with you fully, Taylor about the packed house and the group energy dynamic. Just suggesting that the mountains may in some way work on the ritual participants so that they all want to be in the mountains together in the first place -- using the local currency, greenbacks, whatever, as you say -- where there's a will, there's a way. I am just grateful for a rocking mountain show in Park City, really really rocked out thanks folks.

And, I hope you enjoy taking courses online to get your degree, and I hope that you get what you want or feel that you need by pursuing your education online. I would also like to suggest that your REAL education is the one that you get on the road, and that this will serve you in life in ways more practical and meaningful than staring at a computer screen. That being said please please please do not read this as an excuse for quitting school. Just study what you really love and let your path open before you. I have been blessed with some amazing teachers, both in the classroom and out (in the field, as they say) and I hope you get to experience some of the same.

I need to get back home because my kids start school in 10 days! For 2nd and 4th grades, online classes aren't an option, thank god! In fact, they don't use computers, play video games, or even watch TV because the school they attend discourages media exposure during the tender years, strongly supports outdoor play, storytelling, arts and music. LIVE music especially. "We got to get ourselves back to the garden."

[silentmark]

Money talks, shrug ...

[hoboholic]

Anybody know if this is really needed? I saw a picture on Yarmony Grass and it just looks pretty wide open, is there any shade, special spots that are worth getting out of bed for?

See you all Friday!

[ludlow66]

I was looking at some elevated spots that I thought would be a nice view and less traffic. I also like to get a spot that I can remember or an easy stumble

[ColoradoEd]

I need a spot where I can prominently display my red '71 Westfalia.