2025 Dark Star Jubilee!

[Tea]

https://darkstarjubilee.com/

 

2025 Dates Announced // 'Blind Faith' Tickets On Sale this Friday

First, we want to give a big thanks to all who attended and participated in an absolutely mind blowing Dark Star Jubilee in 2024! It may be early, but we are primed up and ready to do it again.

We're thrilled to announce that Dark Star Jubilee will return on May 23-25, 2025 at Legend Valley in Thornville, OH. Dark Star Orchestra will headline the festival and perform a full, 2-set show on all three nights! The complete 2025 Lineup will be released in the coming weeks.

"Blind Faith" tickets will go on sale this Friday, October 25. These tickets will be the best priced tickets for 2025, with $100 savings off GA gate price, and $150 savings off VIP gate price.

Over the years, the fans, bands, crew and staff have united as one creating a vibe that is unparalleled in the festival world. As soon as you pass through the gates and set up your camp, you’ll enjoy a relaxing, energizing and inspiring atmosphere immersed with the kindest people on the planet. It's a Family Thing!

For all those returning we can’t wait to have you again, and to our first timers, we cannot wait to welcome you to the Jubilee!

 

[Tea]

https://darkstarjubilee.com/

 

Dark Star Orchestra announced the 2025 lineup for their Dark Star Jubilee festival, which returns Memorial Day Weekend to Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio. moe., Warren Haynes Band, Leftover Salmon and Melvin Seals and JGB (featuring Jennifer Hartswick) are among the artists that will perform along with three nights of DSO between May 23 – 25, 2025.

 

Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country, Too Many Zooz, Hot Buttered Rum, Toubab Krewe, Armchair Boogie, Organ Fairchild, Joslyn & The Sweet Compression, Spikedrivers and New Gypsy Cowboys are also aboard for the 2025 Dark Star Jubilee. DSO side projects set to play the three-day festival include Jeff Mattson & Friends and drummer Dino English's “Iconic A.”

[Mr. B]

I've attended Jubilee for several years. This year, decided to go the the RV route and purchased an RV pass.

 

I'll be renting a RV from a local resident, and have them deliver and set up in an RV spot.

 

Since this is my first time doing this, anyone have experience with this process, and issues that might come up? (e.g. Allowing the RV owner to enter, set up, then leave.

 

Thanks!

[Ammagamalin Crew]

He might have to have a ticket of some sort or something to connect him to your RV pass. That could get dicey if everyone ends up having their rigs run in by a third party

Something has to go to the head that's driving in at gate time. 

[Rude]

On 12/10/2024 at 10:45 PM, Ammagamalin Crew said:

He might have to have a ticket of some sort or something to connect him to your RV pass. That could get dicey if everyone ends up having their rigs run in by a third party

Something has to go to the head that's driving in at gate time. 

that may not be necessarily true b/c you don’t actually need an armband to enter the car area. You need one to get through the festival gate. That’s where they check it. He probably just needs to email them and print out the email. 

[Ammagamalin Crew]

https://archive.org/details/gd89-04-08.sbd.26348.sbeok.shnf/gd89-04-08d1t04.shn

Dark Star did justice to this the first night at last year's ~ remember?

This sbd doesn't dew justice to the level of energy to that swirled through Riverfront Coliseum; however, Dark Star Orchestra brought it to a new height with their rendition, adding at a least another 10 minutes to the overall show time if not more. Great choice to open a three night series in Ohio with.

[BillK522]

9 hours ago, Ammagamalin Crew said:

https://archive.org/details/gd89-04-08.sbd.26348.sbeok.shnf/gd89-04-08d1t04.shn

Dark Star did justice to this the first night at last year's ~ remember?

 

Continuing to poke me on that on one,

the girlfriend and I got into a big tif over

the one ticket scored, she went in.

 

Praise DSO.

[Ammagamalin Crew]

Hope you make it this year! 🇱🇷🎶⚡🔥🌿

[Tea]

Daily Lineups are out!  Hey Chuck:  Allie Kral is sitting in with Hoy Buttered Rum!!!  

[chuckvegas]

❤️❤️

 

Unfortunately circumstances dictate that I can’t be there. Unpleasant circumstances.

 

But I still have my memories! Cornmeal was the “other band I traveled for,” and her time with Yonder was fantastic. She is a true phenom.

[2muchfun]

I remember 2 shows 

7 hours ago, chuckvegas said:

 

But I still have my memories! Cornmeal was the “other band I traveled for,” and her time with Yonder was fantastic. She is a true phenom.

I remember enjoying a Cornmeal appetizer for DSO at these 2:

2/5/2009 Oxford MS

8/4/2007 Dunegrass Fest

 

Fun times

[Ammagamalin Crew]

Either 2007 or 2009 I believe Cornmeal was included at Grateful Fest at NLRQ when Dark Star was resident artist. Also, Terrapin Nation played there sometime from 2007-2009

 Enjoyable festivals those three years

[Tom Banjo]

I was fortunate enough to catch a few of Scott’s last shows with DSO before his untimely passing. I was not a star head or even a deadhead at the time but loved the energy of DSO and the vibe felt through the crowd. I would later find out that this vibe was fostered championed and shaped by fans that were pillars of the DSO community. For the most part, they had been members of the greater GD community for a long long time. They did seem to have a greater appreciation for the quality of music they sought to hear live and a greater knowledge and appreciation of the music and evolution of the GD. Many of them I would coin even to this day coin GD nerds. I became a nerd too following in their footsteps. 
 

At this time, I was what you might call a festy kid or even a lost soul. I had become disconnected from the society I had known and the American myth I had been taught. I had gone through a punk stage where I was fueled by anger even managed to get away with throwing a brick through a cops window during a protest. They were tear gassing us and using shields and batons to forcibly remove us from a Harrisburg courthouse when we were peacefully supporting the release and retrial of Mumia Abu-Jamal or at the very least, the removal of the death penalty he was facing. He eventually did get the death penalty removed from his sentence.  
 

Mumia is still in prison today. He may very well be innocent. Forensic evidence supporting this has been deemed unusable in court. Most of the evidence convicting him has been recanted. At the very least, we know the police officers were committing felony assault of his brother. They were abusing their power. Just like many cops do today, especially in their treatment of people of color. By the way, I eventually experienced my own assault by a member of one of our great, noble, and just police force. Just like on the night Mumia may or may not have killed officer Daniel Faulkner, the police were abusing their power to end the protest. 
 

Their tactics caused broken bones bruises, and psychological damage of those protesting. Many of us were young high school or college aged Americans. We were kids standing behind a cause we felt needed correction. Some were even pro-life republicans that felt that the death penalty was just as wrong as abortion. We were “young people speaking our minds.” The general or most common stance amongst these youngsters was a belief in America, our Constitution, and that we had rights and that the American judicial system was just and stood for justice. When I saw an officer, knock a protester unconscious with a baton after he has already cuffed and apprehended him was sickening it was crushing. This guy swung with everything he got hitting the head of a young man or even what you might call an old boy that was laying face down with his hands cuffed behind his back. Other officers had clearly seen what the other cop had done and did nothing to discourage this cop from doing it again. It was business as usual.  In response I grabbed what was probably actually just a large piece of concrete that had separated itself from the roadway and yet to be cleared. I’ve always referred to it as brick. Without abondoning my current beliefs as pacifist and non violence, I hurtled the rock at an empty police car. The rock partially shattered the window shield, caved the windshield in, and was left stuck in the glass. 

I do not believe my actions that day to be completely morally sound and not beyond reproach. I would act differently today.?However, I still believe in Civil Disobedience and can’t completely remove my actions from the grey areas of life. I ran away at this point reaching my car a few blocks away and quickly hitting the road towards home. The myth was over. Justice in America is a joke. I’m not talking about just the most egregious acts of our police forces across America, I’m simply pointing out the fact that many cops abuse their power. 
 

Studies has been conducted that state police officers are 4 times more likely to commit domestic abuse yet much less likely to face prosecution or loss of job for their actions. I myself have had money stolen from me during traffic stops and while my car in police impounds.

 

Fortunately, even before this protest, I had found marijuana, psychedelic drugs and people who were in search of a different way of life and different culture. These people sought out music and formed communities around the music of Phish, Widespread Panic and countless other bands that provided an outlet to lose themselves through sound and dance. Despite the fact that Jerry had long since past and many had moved on to a new band of choice, the community centered around the GD, their music, and their vision was the largest. By 2004, I was usually a lot of my free time and energy to see live music. I did a lot of Phish shows, DMB shows, and attend festivals were I was exposed to countless other bands and styles of music. The passion I saw others have for the GD led me to see the Dead a few times during their 2004 summer tour. I can say for a fact that I went to the two shows in Camden (I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia). I want to say I want to one of the two shows in Holmdel as well but not sure, it all blends into one. I wasn’t impressed. The music I heard at these shows did not move me in any special way. I did like the lot scene and the crowd vibe but I was not sold on the music. 
 

Up until this point I hadn’t chosen a band to identify with, I simply knew I’d liked pyschedelics and live music. I couldn’t get enough of how beautiful hippie girls were. Festival provided a great outlet for me to find my joy, dance and maybe even get laid. My loyalties and desires in regard to this carefree directionless lifestyle slowly started to change in December of 2004. I saw my first DSO show at the Electric factory. These guys were good. The best music I had ever heard. I had yet to find archive and listen to actual GD shows but that would come soon. These guys smoked it. Needless to say, I started to lose interest in all other music other than that of the GD and the various offshoots of their members. I started doing multiple show multiple city runs chasing this band around. 
 

This really intensified by 2007. I was in college now and had a new degree of freedom I had never experienced before. I also met Frankie or Frank who became my touring companion. We saw countless Ratdog, Phil and friends, and DSO shows. It certainly didn’t happen over night and we were forced by many members of the DSO community and touring scene to earn our stripes.  I had found where I belonged. Members of this community helped us get down the road whether it was a free meal, a place to crash or even occasionally some gas money when we bit off more than we could chew and didn’t have the means to make it back to school. DSO had become my band my greatest outlet for joy and their community had become family. They taught me life lessons about kindness and love. They also gave me insight and warning into the dangers of this lifestyle and life on the road. “The highway is for gamblers”

 

I know some of you just be wondering what the hell all this has to do with this current thread and what sparked small insight into my story and journey with DSO and believe me this is a small insight. DSO has taken me all over the world and all over this country. I met my wife to be at DSO concert. 
 

Prior to Grateful Fest 2007, I got tipped off that you can arrive early and camp at the festival and that if so I would be able to catch the sound check the day before the festival officially started and what a sound check that would be. I guess you could call it a Terrapin Nation set. I believe it’s Eaton who remarks that the word had got out and then they blow our minds with this set. You can listen to it on Relisten. I’m going to listen to it right now myself. 

July 3rd 2007

 

word got out

The weight

Big Iron

I’ll take a melody

I am walrus

Ohio

Watching the wheels 

up on cripple creek