Bear Creek Music and Arts Festival 2009 Review

Here is an excerpt of the review I wrote, recounting some collaborations.

Saturday was one of the best days for collaborations with Stanton more sitting in with Robert Walter's 20^th Congress also joining them was Bernie Worrell of Parliament/Funkadelic, The Shady Horns AKA the horn section from Lettuce, (Sam Kinninger and Ryan Zoidis), sat in with The Papa Mali band an hour later. Garage a Trois sat in with The Slip for an old school jamband collaboration. The horns from Bonerama sat in with Brooklyn's Pimps of Joytime and really filled out the sound. Saturday Galactic had a huge jam joined by Ivan Neville, Derek Trucks, Mike Dylan of Garage a Trois and the artist at large Skerik. It was almost impossible to track all the jams and collaborations, there were so many going on at any given moment, luckily there were quite a few tapers in the audience.

Derek Trucks who only lives a few hours away showed up unannounced for the second year in a row and jammed with good friend Eric Krasno and the rest of Lettuce. The “Bear Creek Mystery Show” turned out to be Neal Evans on keys joining Lettuce to complete the lineup of Soulive. Soulive and The Shady Horns ended their set with instrumentals of the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby and She’s So Heavy.

Saturday Galactic was joined by their touring partner Corey Henry, Mike Dillon and Roosevelt Collier of The Lee Boys on steel pedal. Collier is also a Florida resident and showed up unannounced. Galactic played their standard songs “Baker's Dozen,” “Tuff Love,” “Boe Money,” “Garbage Truck” and “Crazyhorse Mongoose” to name a few. Later that night around 12:00 a.m., I listened to Trombone Shorty from a hammock; they played a set similar to what I heard the Dirty Dozen Brass band play at Brooklyn Bowl a week before; the songs Included “When The Saints Go Marching In” and “Sissy Strut.”