Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival

Subject: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: NicoleC
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 01:59 AM

I just learned that a local favorite of mine is playing the spring Strawberry Music Festival
at Camp Mather in Yosemite, CA. 2 minutes later, I learned it was sold out -- bummer!

However, the line up for Fall 2003 (Aug 28 - Sept 1) is pretty hot, including Patty Griffin, Alison Krause & Union Station, Laurie Lewis, Great Big Sea, Sam Bush, and many others. And I've never been, but it looks like a lot of fun, and I'm thinking of trying to get together a gang to go.

Any Mudcatter's planning to attend? Anyone who has been and can tell me if the steep ticket price is worth it? (Not that bad, though, $130/$140 for 4 days including camping.)

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: GUEST,ghost
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 02:48 AM

Never been but have wanted to go for some time. Alas, the cost and distance sounds prohibitive.

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: open mike
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 03:23 AM

i have been there twice a year for nearly 20 years...
each memorial and labor day weekend is reserved for
Strawberry! It is like a huge family reunion! The
friejnds I camp with have become my family and the
chat list of festival folks is an extended family
which i look forward to connecting with each day
when the list arrives in my e-mail box! There is a
ticket trading site which might be possible to get
a ticket thru if you check there soon. The spring
"berry has been sold out for a while, and i suggest if
you want to go to the fall one, on labor day, you
secrue yuour tickets soon, as it has sold out for
years as well; though they do sell a few more tix
for the fall fest as the meadows are quite wet, and
canmping space more limited in the spring.
I have woprked on thje Hog Ranch Radio Crew, and
in the artisans tent, and at the front ticket gate
at the festival for years. People get into their
festival camp groups, inventing camp names, personae,
and on & on.
some camp names: camp decadence, Tequila Flats, Camp
Remember, Camp Pig Out, Camp Howdy, and others including
ours: Camp Dung Beetle.
Check this web site:
www.strawberrymusic.com
here is the info on the mailing list:
Send Strawberry mailing list submissions to
       [e-mail]
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
       http://www.hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/strawberry
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
       [e-mail]
You can reach the person managing the list at
       [e-mail]
and here is the site where ticket info is shared:
is the Strawberry Ticket Exchange Forum
http://phorum.freeradio.com/list.php?f=8
but i have seen way more requests for tickets than there are
tickets to offer...
http://phorum.freeradio.com/

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: Rolfyboy6
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 10:29 AM

I go when circumstances and finances allow and it's worth every penny. While I'm a blues nut and Strawberry is somewhat weak in that area, the festival really takes care of my other musical needs, folk, world, new acoustic, and bluegrass. And if you have kids it's the place to take them. Plus the jamming all night long.

The setting is wonderful and the services good. The workshops and special programs are wonderful. and the Sunday morning concerts down at the lake are always a highlight.

Go.

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: rangeroger
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 02:10 PM

The TBA for the Fall Festival is Avalon Blues with Dave Alvin,etal,doing Mississippi John Hurt music.

rr

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: open mike
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 03:39 PM

roger-surprise! we meet again! we are neighbors at the festival,
and i hope if any other mud catters go, they will stop by camp
dung beetle and say howdy, and then we eill go around the path,
and harrass roger, too! I have been the host of the radio variety
show which happens at the dining hall during breakfast...
the festival is literally a 3 ring circus where there is always
something happeing either on the main stage, at the ampitheatre,
at the stage by the lake, or at eh dining hall which alterantes
as a breakfast club variety show, a teen dance hall or an after-
hours night club. The High Sierra near YOsemite and Hetch Hetchy
offers beautiful scenery, and recreational opportunities, and
the food and crafts are always excellant as well. the closest
thing to Utopia that I know of!

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: NicoleC
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 09:18 PM

Wow, such great reviews! I may have to find a buddy with camping gear and cough up the dough!

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: rangeroger
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 01:12 AM

NicoleC,it's well worth the money. I have been on staff for both Spring and fall Festivals for the past 17 years and it has become a major part of my life.

There are friends there who have become family that I only see twice a year. The festival grounds are magic,at almost 5,000 feet in the Sierras on the edge of Yosemite National Park. Once you go,you will become addicted and all your friends will want to know why you are smiling so much when you return home. It is a life altering experiance.

rr

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 01:41 AM

Roger....how are you??

LL

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: GUEST,ghost
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 06:14 AM

It really does sound wonderful, but if it's always sold out, and there's more folks wanting to attend than there are tickets for, how does one attend who hasn't ever been there before, or is that just for those in the know to know?

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: open mike
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 02:29 PM

if you check the links there is a place to search (beg? plead?) for tickets for the memorial day festival, or get tickets, which are
still available for the labor day event--quick before they, too,
are all gone! The spring fest has, i think, about 3,000 tickets,'
and the fall more like 5,000. I Recommend going if you can.

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: rangeroger
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 08:29 PM

Barb, I'll e-mail you.

rr

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: NicoleC
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 12:08 PM

One buys tickets very early, ghost!

I figure if I buy tickets now, and then can't go, I should have no trouble unloading them later.

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: open mike
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 01:36 PM

true--there are always takers...
i bet no-one ends up holdinig tickets
if they end u pnot being able to go.

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: duuuude
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 03:16 PM

Open Mike, Ranger Roger - good to meet some 'Berry people on here. You've done a fine job describing the fest, for those of you that have never attended it IS well worth the trip and cost. Drop by the Strawberry Patch (between bath C & Kamp Koala) for a Waborita next time yer passin by.

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Apr 03 - 10:58 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: open mike
Date: 18 May 03 - 03:50 PM

i hear there has been water standing in the meadow
where the main stage is-so be prepared for wet
and mosquitos. The bridge on evergreen road is
being repaired, but should be ready to carry the
crowds by festival time. Hope we can meet there.
and i hope to find out what a waborita is. hope
it is not something involving tequila and wasabi!

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: open mike
Date: 18 May 03 - 03:53 PM

there may be tickets found by watching this board:
http://phorum.freeradio.com/index.php?f=2
http://phorum.freeradio.com
general info on the festival here:
http://www.strawberrymusic.com/

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: rangeroger
Date: 18 May 03 - 08:42 PM

This is really weird for me.I'm sitting at home in North Idaho, when I should be at Mather helping with set up for the Festival. This is the first time in 17 years that I will not be there.

Laurel, be sure and sing some for me at Camp Dungbeetle.

rr

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: open mike
Date: 19 May 03 - 12:24 AM

no way! how can we do strawberry without you"?!
are you o.k.?! Just saw Tom Russell--he did
California Snow and i thought of you! I had
a friend draw a blue wing on my shoulder with
a "sharpie" pen for his concert. I'll go stomp
on your old stomping grounds for you!

Subject: RE: Fall '03 Strawberry Music Festival
From: open mike
Date: 30 May 06 - 10:45 AM

roger we missed you...again...
we sang a song for you and also
for Terri who was not able to
come to camp mather due to surgery

how are you doing up there in Idee Hidee Ho?