About Truck America
Come April 30, 2010, us TRUCKERS are packing our rather large bags and heading to the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY for the inaugural TRUCK America Festival. The three day, intimate gathering will celebrate the art of live music, personal (offline) connections and the environment. And really...who wouldn't kill to go to a three-day shindig, set deep in the beautiful Catskill Mountains??
The first ever TRUCK AMERICA is thrilled to present a special appearance from upstate NY legends and one of our all-time favourite bands MERCURY REV!
The show will feature a career retrospective selection of favourite tracks of ours and theirs, accompanied for the first time by a chamber orchestra lead by TRUCK founders Joe and Robin Bennett (on Violin and Flute respectively).
Latest additions WINTERSLEEP are a band we enjoyed so much at the UK Truck Festival last year that we invited them along for this inaugural American edition, alongside psychedelic popstrels HERE WE GO MAGIC. They join a batch of the finest independent and roots artists from both side of the pond: from Brooklyn the energetic WHITE RABBITS and the doomy majesty of HOPEWELL, top-drawer country-rock from Joshua Tree resident TIM EASTON and Canada’s hardest working band THE SADIES, a dose of upstate folk from MIKE & RUTHY and IDA. From Blighty THE JOY FORMIDABLE – one of Britains’s hottest live acts, NEIL HALSTEAD of Slowdive, and latterly Mojave 3.
Also joining Robin & Joe’s new project DUSTY & THE DREAMING SPIRES at the Full Moon Resort will be the many varied delights of our stateside friends CAT MARTINO, THE SILENT LEAGUE, COMMON PRAYER, OXYGEN PONIES, BRANDON PATTON, ATLANTIC / PACIFIC and THE SHOESTRING BAND and many more acts on 3 stages (The Barn, The Roadhouse and the Main stage, in a large heated tent).
The festival is not just about watching bands: there will be WORKSHOPS, FILMS, KIDS' ACTIVITIES and JAM SESSIONS, and a healthy dose of CAMPING for those who don’t book a room.
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW from www.brownpapertickets.com
OR
in person from BEACON'S CLOSET, Brooklyn NY
Williamsburg branch, 88 n11th street brooklyn, ny 11211 tel:(718) 486-0816
Park Slope branch, 92 5th avenue, Brooklyn, ny 11217 tel:(718) 230-1630
OR
from the FULL MOON RESORT, Valley View Road, Big Indian, NY 12410 tel: (845) 254-5117
APRIL WARMUPS AND APPEARANCES
18 Woodstock / Colony Cafe: Dreaming Spires, Nina Violet, Diet Kong, 2 Dark Birds
19 Robin & Joe talking on WDST at 8am (!) with Jimmy Buff
20 New Brunswick / Court tavern Walter Schreiffels, Atlantic/Pacific. Dreaming Spires
21 Brooklyn / Bell House: Atlantic/Pacific, Dreaming Spires, Oxygen Ponies, Cat Martino
22 NYC / Nurse Betties- Acoustic session + Robin, & Joe on East Village Radio
23 Kingston / Basement : Common Prayer, Dreaming Spires
25 Kingston/ Stellas: festival pre-party, + Jonathan & Sean from Mercury Rev on WKZE 8pm
26 Greenpoint / Matchless: Common Spires all star set w/Caulfield sisters
then...30th: TRUCK AMERICA!!!!