Maybe there’s just something in the Florida water. How else do explain another festival where almost every band delivered brilliant if not best-ever performances? Perhaps it was the crowd trading energy back and forth with the musicians. Maybe it was exceptional sound and lighting, again. Possibly it was the amazingly supportive organizational staff, permitting everyone…
Here is a topic for debate: once again, I don’t care where you were last weekend, you didn’t hear music better than what we heard at Great Outdoors Jam (June 30 – July 3) in Mt. Dora FL. As good? OK. Better. Nope. There’s no debate in Florida. We know. Hometeam New Year’s Rally, Little…
The Great Outdoors Jam is in full swing! For the first time, GOJ is being held at Fields of Renninger’s in Mt. Dora. This new location is truly beautiful— and big! The two stages are very close together, and there are lots of vendors. We missed Thursday’s activities, but by all reports it was a…
Chances are you’ve already got your ticket to Great Outdoors Jam, which begins this Thursday, June 30, and runs until Sunday, July 3. Or you’re still contemplating this outstanding event. Contemplate this: Don’t miss Thursday! The lineup is amazing! We know, we know. Thursdays are tough. But you deserve a break. Celebrate the last day…
The Great Outdoors Jam just released the music schedule for this third edition, at the beautiful Fields of Renninger’s in Mount Dora FL. Music begins at 4 PM on Thursday, June 30th, and continues until dark on Sunday, July 3rd. The Great Outdoors Productions and Don’t Fret Entertainment are excited to welcome you to four…
The Great Outdoors Jam returns for its third year in a new location and with yet another amazing lineup. Last year’s event was superb. Musicfestnews photographer Bryan Edward said it best: “This festival should be called The Epic Outdoors Jam next year!” Festival organizer Kenny Blair searched for a bigger location for his event and…
This week’s Peach Music Festival is so incredibly star-laden that it would be easy to miss some of the other great bands in the lineup. With that in mind, here are six you owe it to yourself to check out. Back at the turn of the millennium, Deep Banana Blackout was one of the major…
Kenny Blair had almost everything properly planned for the Great Outdoors Jam at the Maddox Ranch in Lakeland FL over the Independence Day weekend. There was this one thing he forgot to do. See, he had written two memos to send out to some of the bands. The first one was for bands playing the…
The Dunedin Brewery is a fabulous place for a variety of reasons. Their food is very good, and their beer is outrageous. But it is the music that keeps bringing me back. They have music almost every night, from popular national acts to unknown locals… and everything in between. I have “discovered” so many great…
Chief Meters-ologist Kenny Blair of Accujammer Radar is predicting that three — count ‘em, three — hurricanes are heading down the Eastern seaboard from North Carolina, all three set to converge on the Great Outdoors Jam Independence Day weekend at the Maddox Ranch in Lakeland FL. Strangely, he doesn’t seem a bit worried. According to…