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Leftover Samon

The concert season at this idyllic Richland County spot begins with a trio of drive-in style shows, happening rain or shine. Camping spots are sold out, but limited admission tickets (four people per vehicle) were still available as of Tuesday. The lineup will make fans of jam-friendly bluegrass very happy: Friday is Leftover Salmon, kicking off a tour for new album Brand New Good Old Days; Saturday brings northern Wisconsin favorites Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, and Sunday is Infamous Stringdusters, touring behind A Tribute to Bill Monroe, released on the band's new Americana Vibes label.

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Life is strange. As artists, we’ve had no choice but to roll with the changes brought on by COVID-19. Driftless Music Gardens is adapting to the new normal by getting bands and music fans together in a more intimate setting. Next year, we’ll bring you the 2021 “Micro Fest” Summer Concert Series including both drive-In tailgate shows and very intimate socially distanced limited capacity festivals. Driftless Music Gardens was an industry leader in hosting a safe concert experience during the summer of 2020. Heading into the future, we have the experience needed to throw a safe show and the space to spread out in an absolutely gorgeous natural amphitheater.

Our first announcement for 2021 is a full weekend of bluegrass. It’s three individual days of music, kicking off with Leftover Salmon playing Friday, May 28, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades playing on Saturday, May 29, and Grammy award-winning act The Infamous Stringdusters capping off the weekend Sunday, May 30. These Memorial Day weekend shows will be set up as a drive-in tailgate concert. Each night’s show is sold separately and tickets are on sale now.

A very limited number of on-site private group campsites are available and will be sold in advance. You must hold tickets to all 3-shows in order to camp. After those sell out, there are nearby off-site camping options that people can find listed on DMG’s website. Also new in 2021, kids will be allowed at shows if they are accompanied by an adult.

How do you throw a concert in a time of social distancing? We will be doing everything we can to ensure musicians and fans have the safest possible experience. We’ve dramatically cut capacity. Four people are allowed per vehicle. Each car will have a 15-20 foot personal tailgating area to enjoy music from while remaining socially distant. Guests will be asked to wear masks in all common areas, (check-in, merch, vendors, bathrooms, etc.). People must practice social distancing and proper hand washing. We will be operating cautiously as we proceed with the future of live music. A *complete* set of rules can be found below. We want to set a good example for the future of live music in our beautiful, natural amphitheater.

$180 * This is a vehicle pass, valid for up to four people in vehicle, also no pets **

More on Leftover Salmon: Few bands stick around for thirty years. Even fewer bands leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special, once-in-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun as Leftover Salmon. Since their earliest days as a forward thinking, progressive bluegrass band who had the guts to add drums to the mix and who was unafraid to stir in any number of highly combustible styles into their ever evolving sound, to their role as a pioneer of the modern jamband scene, to their current status as elder-statesmen of the scene who cast a huge influential shadow over every festival they play, Leftover Salmon has been a crucial link in keeping alive the traditional music of the past while at the same time pushing that sound forward with their own weirdly, unique style.

As Leftover Salmon nears their 30th year, their inspiring story is set to be told in a brand new book, Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival!t which will be released February 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield. In this book, critically acclaimed author of Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound & It's Legacy, Tim Newby presents an intimate portrait of Leftover Salmon through the personal recollections of its band members, family, friends, former band-mates, managers, and the countless musicians they have influenced. Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival! is a thorough guide covering a thirty-year journey of a truly remarkable band. It is a tale of friendships and losses, musical discoveries and Wild West adventures, and the brethren they surround themselves with who fortify Salmon's unique voice. Their story is one of tragedy and rebirth, of unimaginable highs and crushing lows, of friendships, of music, but most importantly it is the story of a special band and those that have lived through it all to create, inspire, and have everlasting fun.

Heading into their fourth decade, Leftover Salmon is showing no signs of slowing down as they are coming off the release of their most recent album, Something Higher (released in 2018) which has been universally hailed as one of the band's finest releases. Something Higher shows how even upon preparing to enter their fourth decade Leftover Salmon is proving it possible to recreate themselves without changing who they are. The band now features a line-up that has been together longer than any other in Salmon history and is one of the strongest the legendary band has ever assembled. Built around the core of founding members Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman, the band is now powered by banjo-wiz Andy Thorn, and driven by the steady rhythm section of bassist Greg Garrison, drummer Alwyn Robinson, and keyboardist Erik Deutsch. The new line-up is continuing the long, storied history of Salmon which found them first emerging from the progressive bluegrass world and coming of age as one the original jam bands, before rising to become architects of what has become known as Jamgrass and helping to create a landscape where bands schooled in the traditional rules of bluegrass can break free of those bonds through nontraditional instrumentation and an innate ability to push songs in new psychedelic directions live. Salmon is a band who over their thirty-year career has never stood still; they are constantly changing, evolving, and inspiring. If someone wanted to understand what Americana music is they could do no better than to go to a Leftover Salmon show, where they effortlessly glide from a bluegrass number born on the front porch, to the down-and-dirty Cajun swamps with a stop on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, to the hallowed halls of the Ryman in Nashville, before firing one up in the mountains of Colorado