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When you missed the Nice South Bay Music Pageant this previous weekend, don\u2019t fret. There are\u00a0 different music festivals coming our method this summer season. <\/p>\n
For the previous 10 years, Grateful Lifeless tribute band Half Step has taken half in\u00a0 Jerry Jam\u00a0at Cathedral Pines County Park in Center Island.<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s an awesome sense of pleasure and group among the many robust Lengthy Island Lifeless scene,” says lead guitarist\/vocalist Tom San Filippo, 58, of Lynbrook.\u00a0“It\u2019s an annual custom that everybody appears to be like ahead to.”<\/p>\n
This is what to learn about Jerry Jam, and two different music occasions to\u00a0look out for. <\/p>\n
WHEN |\u00a0WHERE 6-10:30 p.m. Aug. 2, noon-10:30 p.m. Aug. 3, noon-9:45 p.m. Aug. 4; Cathedral Pines County Park, Yaphank-Center Island Highway (South of Rt. 25), Center IslandCOST\u00a0Aug. 2: $35, Aug. 3: $50, Aug. 4: $50, Aug. 2 plus\u00a0(add a day Aug. 3 or 4): $75, Aug.\u00a03 and\u00a04\u00a0combo: $90, three-day cross: $120.<\/p>\n
In celebration of the late Grateful Lifeless singer\/guitarist Jerry Garcia\u2019s birthday (Aug.\u00a01), Deadheads yearly congregate at Jerry Jam, a three-day pageant in Center Island centered on his music. The occasion usually attracts 1,300 folks, a number of hundred who really camp out on website for the whole weekend.<\/p>\n
Bands have fun the music of Jerry Garcia throughout Jerry Jam at Cathedral Pines County Park in Center Island.\u00a0\u00a0 undefined<\/p>\n
“Folks benefit from the communality of it,” says founder\/organizer John Cino, of Patchogue. “The Grateful Lifeless had the spirit of the \u201860s and we keep in mind these days as a really particular time in American historical past.”<\/p>\n
Seventeen acts will carry out this yr together with Jellyband, the Electrix, the Brother Pluckers, Tiger Rose, Lifeless Ringers, Half Step and extra.<\/p>\n
“Everyone loves Jerry and everyone on the Jam loves one another,” says Cino, 67. “We’re all there with the singular goal of honoring his music.”<\/p>\n
Many individuals picnic however there are additionally meals vans obtainable in addition to Shakedown Avenue \u2014 a Grateful Lifeless vendor\u2019s market with tie-dye clothes and head store paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
MORE INFO jerryjamli.com<\/a><\/p>\n WHEN | WHERE 12:30-11 p.m. July 27, Masone Seaside, 1 Waterford Rd., Island ParkCOST $30 on-line, $37 on the gate<\/p>\n For over a decade, Norah Kelleher, 62, of Island Park, has paid tribute to her late mom, Dorothy Finn, a beloved native dance trainer, with Finn Fest. The day-into-night seaside pageant options greater than a dozen dwell bands throughout two phases plus a comedy tent that includes seven stand-up comics.<\/p>\n “One stage is on the grass and one other is within the sand dealing with west with the Manhattan skyline within the background,” says Kelleher, who serves because the occasion organizer and president of the Dorothy Finn Basis, which raises cash for animal rescue teams and humanities alternatives for underprivileged youngsters. “Folks are available in with their seaside chairs and blankets to camp out all day.”<\/p>\n Lengthy Islanders will have fun the summer season with dwell music and stand-up comedy throughout Finn Fest at Masone Seaside in Island Park on July 27.\u00a0 undefined<\/p>\n This yr will characteristic a slew of tribute bands together with The Chain (Fleetwood Mac), Shattered (The Rolling Stones), Sons of Skynyrd (Lynyrd Skynyrd) and Echoes of the Eagles (Eagles) plus native acts the Katie Mitchell Band and Diamond Groove.<\/p>\n “There may be such a laid again island escapism form of vibe on the pageant and the group is extraordinarily into the leisure, which makes it a lot enjoyable for us,”\u00a0says comedian Mike Keegan, 40, of East Meadow, who serves because the emcee.<\/p>\n A meals court docket gives Filthy Pig Barbecue, Gary\u2019s Excessive Empanadas and Docks\u2019 lobster rolls on the market together with a beer and wine tent for these 21 and over (with legitimate ID). Don\u2019t overlook to take a look at the distributors promoting jewellery, pocketbooks and handmade artwork in addition to Zion\u2019s Mission Animal Rescue tent the place attendees can undertake a pet.<\/p>\n MORE INFO 516-984-7320, finnfestlb.com<\/a><\/p>\n Lengthy Island has at all times been an enormous guitar group spawning\u00a0such greats as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Brian Setzer, Leslie West, John Nolan, Chieli Minucci, Buck Dharma in addition to guitar luthier John Monteleone, who will host “The Artwork of Guitar Pageant” at The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook.<\/p>\n Vinny Raniolo, John Jorgenson and Frank Vignola carry out on the 2023 Artwork of Guitar Pageant at The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook. undefined<\/p>\n “The guitar is an instrument that goes again to the historical past of time in all cultures,” says Thomas Manuel, president and founding father of The Jazz Loft. “It\u2019s an emotional instrument you maintain proper in opposition to your coronary heart, which makes it private.”<\/p>\n The three-day occasion will characteristic performances by Laurence Juber (5 p.m.) and Anthony Wilson Organ Trio (7 p.m.) on Aug. 2, plus Frank Vignola\u00a0and Pasquale Grasso (4 p.m.) and Martin Taylor and Alison Burns (7 p.m.) on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n There will even be a collection of well-known guitars on show.<\/p>\n “George Benson\u2019s 1958 Blonde D\u2019Angelico New Yorker might be readily available in immaculate situation in addition to Charlie Christian\u2019s Gibson ES-250,” says pageant co-producer Chris Paradysz. <\/p>\n Monteleone will conduct a particular guitar workshop on Aug. 3 at midday with guitarist Steve Salerno and a few particular visitors.<\/p>\n Uncommon\u00a0guitars might be on show at \u201cThe Artwork of Guitar Pageant\u201d at The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook Aug. 1-3.\u00a0 undefined<\/p>\n “There\u2019s a group of guitars that we are going to discuss representing the varied durations of music going again to the Nineteen Twenties as much as current day,” says Monteleone, 77, of Islip, who has hand constructed guitars for Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler and Ben Harper. “These devices get paired with music that belongs to these durations. We will even give some historical past behind every guitar equivalent to the place they’re from and the way they had been developed.”<\/p>\n MORE INFO 631-751-1895, thejazzloft.org\/monteleone<\/a><\/p>\n David J. Criblez is a reporter for Newsday’s exploreLI, protecting entertainment-related occasions from native music to stand-up comedy to festivals.\n<\/p>\nFINN FEST<\/h2>\n
WHAT TO EXPECT\u00a0<\/h3>\n
THE MUSIC<\/h3>\n
THE FOOD<\/h3>\n
JOHN MONTELEONE: THE ART OF GUITAR FESTIVAL<\/h2>\n
WHAT TO EXPECT\u00a0<\/h3>\n
THE GUITARS<\/h3>\n