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This Year's Lineup of Artists
A festival different than any you’ve experienced, Ski Jam throws a different twist on the average festival model. Intimate venues, no long lines, and no binoculars needed. Ski Jam is about the music, the fans, and the scenic slopes of Steamboat that highlight this one of a kind festival. Priding itself on the casual, relaxed vibe of Steamboat, the Ski Jam festival schedule is a perfect compliment to its stunning mountain surroundings.
- New Monsoon -:- The NEW South Austin Jug Band -:- Drew Emmitt Band
Back Door Slam -:- -Bill Nershi & Honkytonk Homeslice -:- Tea Leaf Green
North Mississippi Allstars -:- The Gougers -:- Dedringers :- Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Belleville Outfit
Relix Magazine eloquently summed up Ski Jam’s unique appeal:
“As much as we love High Sierra, Bonnaroo, and the other multi-day all-day music bashes, it’s an exhilarating relief to find a music festival that concentrates its acts in the evenings, keeping the days free for skiing, boarding, gourmet snowshoe treks, sledding or just working your way by the fireplace through the gigantic bottle of Ketel One you got for your birthday.”
-Relix ’04 Ski Jam WebLog
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South Austin Jug Band
Described by San Francisco's East Bay Express as “a joyful noise that seems made of pure sunlight and moonshine,” Ski Jam vets’ the South Austin Jug Band will perform for the 4th year in a row at this year’s festival. They have churned out three discs to date--the now out of print live effort Pickin’ and Grinnin, the self titled South Austin Jug Band, and their most recent release, Dark and Weary World. They were crowned Best New Band at the 2003 Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Best Bluegrass Band at the 2005 Austin Music Awards. When James Hyland, Will Dupuy, Willie Pipkin, Brian Beken, and Dennis Ludiker take the stage they simply take over the stage and win crowds over with their salient blend of newgrass, original tunes, and choice covers of artists from Jimi Hendrix to Hank Williams.
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Listen Here:
Long Journey Home (624k MP3)
No Baby Swings Like Mine (668k MP3)
Overdrivin' the Mic (692k MP3)
For more music and info visit the
South Austin Jug band website
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Quick Links
New Monsoon
The NEW South Austin Jug Band
Drew Emmitt Band
Back Door Slam
Bill Nershi & Honkytonk Homeslice
Tea Leaf Green
The Gougers
The Dedringers
North Mississippi Allstars
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Belleville Outfit
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New Monsoon
San Francisco's rock quintet, New Monsoon, has been transforming audiences across the country into dedicated fans with a relentless touring schedule. Their exhilarating marriage of acoustic and electric instruments comes together in an irresistible blend of sophisticated songcraft, inventive musical exploration and down home rock-n-roll.
In January 2007, New Monsoon sold out the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, and continued to play to huge crowds all over the country. Their fifth album, New Monsoon V, was produced/ mixed/engineered by John Cutler, best known for his production work with The Grateful Dead on platinum selling album In the Dark (co-produced with Jerry Garcia). Combining influences that range from Jimi Hendrix to Pink Floyd to Tito Puente, San Francisco based New Monsoon creates a marvel of audience friendly compositions energized by numerous instrumentation, with Latin, Brazilian, and Indian percussion layered on didgeridoo, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, mandolin, banjo, keyboards and more.
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Listen Here:
Bridge of the Gods (412k MP3)
Journeyman (412k MP3)
Trust in Me (412k MP3)
For more music and info visit the
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Honkytonk Homeslice
and Bill Nershi of The
String Cheese Incident
Bill Nershi, guitarist/singer/songwriter from The String Cheese Incident, joins the Ski Jam roster with his new acoustic project - Honkytonk Homeslice. The group is a collaboration with his wife Jilian, who sings, plays guitar and contributes her original songs and Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter/ guitarist/mandolin-player Scott Law.
Honkytonk Homeslice came together spontaneously in the summer of 2004 at the trio’s campsite at Hornings Hideout (SCI festival/Oregon). After almost two years of spontaneous music making, the trio decided it was time to document their sound, and recorded their self-titled album Honkytonk Homeslice.
Artists who have joined Honkytonk Homeslice onstage include members of the Del McCoury Band, The String Cheese Incident, Reeltime Travelers and others.
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Listen Here:
Across the Great Divide, live 02-10-07 Boulder Creek, CA (5.89mb MP3)
That's All Right Mama, live 11-12-06 Placerville, CA (6.3mb MP3)
For more music and info visit the
Honkytonk Homeslice website
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Quick Links
New Monsoon
The NEW South Austin Jug Band
Drew Emmitt Band
Back Door Slam
Bill Nershi & Honkytonk Homeslice
Tea Leaf Green
The Gougers
The Dedringers
North Mississippi Allstars
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Belleville Outfit
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Drew Emmitt Band
Drew Emmitt, the dynamic lead singer and mandolin player with the popular jamband Leftover Salmon, is a true renaissance man on musical instruments. Playing mandolin, guitar, fiddle, banjo, harmonica, flute and electric guitar, he's a string man to be reckoned with.
On his debut solo release, Freedom Ride, Emmitt reveals once again his amazing picking abilities and songwriting talents. He recruited some of the hottest acoustic musicians around to join him; John Cowan and the John Cowan Band (Jeff Autrey, Luke Bulla, Scott Vestal, Pasi Leppikangas), Peter Rowan, Sam Bush, Ronnie McCoury, Vassar Clements, Stuart Duncan, Randy Scruggs, Vince Hermann & Greg Garrison from Leftover Salmon and more. The result is the most exciting newgrass album to come down the pike since the original New Grass Revival.
The Boulder based quintet of Leftover Salmon has been a force in the Colorado music scene for over a decade. With Freedom Ride, Drew Emmitt is becoming a force to be reckoned with himself.
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For more music and info visit
the Drew Emmitt Band website
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Tea Leaf Green
Following the 2005 release of their critically acclaimed album, Taught to be Proud, Tea Leaf Green toured North America becoming one of the most exciting and fastest growing rock bands today. Busting out of a revitalized San Francisco music scene, the group has honed their strength as both songwriters and improvisers to catapult to the next level, keeping audiences screaming for more. After winning the "Song of the Year" Jammy award for Taught to be Proud’s title track, the road warriors plowed ahead with sold out shows in many major markets and most notably, the historic Fillmore Auditorium in their hometown of San Francisco, CA.
The band’s chops earned the respect of their musical contemporaries as they have opened for the Dave Mathews Band, Trey Anastasio, Gov’t Mule, and Bruce Hornsby. Their latest release, Rock 'N' Roll Band, captures lightning in a bottle. Available separately in both CD & DVD formats, the film joins the band for an evening performance at The Fox Theater in Boulder, Colorado and offers an intimate look at a day in the life of a young rock band on the rise.
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For music visit Tea Leaf Green's website
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Back Door Slam
Back Door Slam is teenagers Davy Knowles (guitars, vocal, mandolin, lap steel), Ross Doyle (drums) and Adam Jones (bass), all hailing from the small-but-perfectly-formed Isle of Man*... (*to find the tiny isle, go to Liverpool and look out to sea - you might even see Douglas bay on a clear day!) Brought up on a potentially overindulgent appetite of Everything Blues, they're now using their precocious talents to create their own mindblowing brand of contemporary/traditional blues-rock.
The result is a sound reminiscent of the greats (BB King, Howlin Wolf, Jimi Hendrix, SRV) but with a big fat nod to the modern music and songwriters they all share a love of (Clapton, Knopfler, Mayall, Mayer). With this exciting mix fronted by the extra-ordinary vocal and guitaring talent that is Davy K, and armed with a scutch of hit songs under their youthful belts, you won't know whether to holler for joy or scream in envy at the perfect musical package that is Back Door Slam.
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Dedringers
The Dedringers are fast making a name for themselves with their compelling live shows. At the ripe old age of 20, Sean Faires and Jonny Burke have already been playing together for four years developing their craft under the influence of Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Steve Earle, Gram Parsons, Todd Snider, Guy Clark and a host of others.
Sean and Jonny work hard to uphold the traditions of their musical heroes, passionate about music and its power and ability to move the hearts and souls of listeners. Performing as a duo the Dedringers captivate audiences with honest lyrics, succinct harmonies, and tried and true musical chops. Muscle the band up with a rhythm section, add a couple of electric guitars, and this band will rock you hard somewhere between early Wilco and (electric) Neil Young. They are currently working on developing a full time rhythm section and preparing to record a collection of their songs with producer R.S. Field.
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Visit the Dedringers MySpace page
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The Gougers
Formerly as The Sidehill Gougers, the four-piece Americana band contributed to such albums as Palo Duro Records’ Texas Unplugged: Vol. 2 (2006) — an example of the neo-traditional porch-and-parlor, mandolin-and-fiddle facet of its music, the tender “One Tiny Sin” — and recorded Runaway Scrape (2003), the band's debut CD, and an EP, Gone To Seed (2005), a harmonic and graceful collection of seven songs that intrigued fans and continue to mesmerize them.
Now the Sidehill has been dropped, a drummer has been added, and there’s been a switch to electric guitar and bass. The outstanding vocals of Walker and Wilson wrap around a ringing guitar, sometimes a laidback one, a drum riff, echoes or reverb — and always a great lyric.
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North Mississippi Allstars
Legendary author Nick Tosches hailed the three-time Grammy nominated North Mississippi Allstars as “a formidable and mesmerizing force,” and Rolling Stone magazine’s David Fricke described the band as "pureeing historical precedent into exuberant modernism – manic cotton field psychedelia.” Luther and Cody Dickinson soaked up the music of their father, Jim Dickinson, and absorbed the North Mississippi Blues legacy while playing and shaking it down at the juke joints with their blues ancestors.
Luther (guitar and vocals) and Cody (drums and vocals) joined up with bassist Chris Chew to form the core of their own band, The North Mississippi Allstars. Through the filter of generations of Mississippi Blues men, the Allstars pioneered their own blues-infused rock and roll and continue to do so.
The band hit the road with the release of their first record, Shake Hands With Shorty, Grammy-nominated for “Best Contemporary Blues Album.” Bringing their hill country blues-infused rock & roll to stages all over the country and the world (including multiple tours in Europe and Asia), the Allstars quickly gained a loyal fan base, and to date have released six full-length albums.
Keep on Marchin, a double CD 10 year retrospective with a bonus documentary DVD, is the brand new and first release from the North Mississippi Allstars’ own label, Songs of the South Records.
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The most prolific modern New Orleans brass band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is an international concert performance force. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band has been up for big challenges in the past with its bracing, innovative blend of traditional New Orleans sounds and modern jazz sensibilities.
The ensemble, co-founded by Trumpeter Gregory Davis, Roger Lewis (baritone and soprano sax), Kevin Harris (tenor sax), and Efrem Towns (trumpet, fugelhorn), has recorded with artists from Dizzy Gillespie (a hero and inspiration) to Elvis Costello, taken on the music of jazz inventor Jelly Roll Morton for the album Jelly and reinterpreted the hymns and parade songs of the Crescent City second-line bands for 2004's Funeral For A Friend (following the death of co-founding member Tuba Fats). They've mixed intriguing approaches to traditional and familiar material, but in a context emphasizing challenging original music composed by the Dozen members themselves.
In the course, the band resurrected, revitalized and put distinctly personal stamps on what was a dying tradition of New Orleans brass bands when the group formed in the late '70s, inspiring a full-on revival that's flourished with several new generations of young brass bands each bringing their own twists to the form. Released on the one year anniversary of Katrina's devastation on New Orleans, the group's most recent release, What's Going On, translates the songs of Marvin Gaye into its own musical language.
Mixing vibrant instrumental pieces with simmering, scorching vocal numbers (performed by guests Chuck D., Bettye LaVette, G. Love, Ivan Neville and Guru), the new recordings are infused with the powerful feelings resulting from the Dirty Dozen's own experiences with Hurricane Katrina, the subsequent massive flooding and the devastation of their homes and communities.
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The Belleville Outfit
With hometowns littered across the United States, the Belleville Outfit serves up a truly unique mix of gypsy swing, big band jazz, and roots Americana/Bluegrass. Both innovative in their combining of genres, and true to their musical roots, the Belleville Outfit, though young, has already solidified itself as a tour-de-force in the world of acoustic music. Teter, Hood and Brown toured extensively with a group based out of South Carolina called the DesChamps Band, an all acoustic swing/bluegrass group that has shared stages with such prestigious acts as The Waybacks, Junior Brown, the Del McCoury Band, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Duhks, and Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, as well as released two full length records under the guidance of celebrated Nashville producer and Marshall Tucker Band Alumnus, Paul Riddle. Now, as the Belleville Outfit, with the additional talents of Austin's own Phoebe Hunt on violin, Connor Forsyth on piano, and Jonathan Konya on the drums, the group is poised to introduce their inventive sound into the ears of anyone and everyone who will listen.
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Quick Links
New Monsoon
The NEW South Austin Jug Band
Drew Emmitt Band
Back Door Slam
Bill Nershi & Honkytonk Homeslice
Tea Leaf Green
The Gougers
The Dedringers
North Mississippi Allstars
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Belleville Outfit
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Quick Links
New Monsoon
The NEW South Austin Jug Band
Drew Emmitt Band
Back Door Slam
Bill Nershi & Honkytonk Homeslice
Tea Leaf Green
The Gougers
The Dedringers
North Mississippi Allstars
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Belleville Outfit
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