Live music in the desert?

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JD GUMBEE

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With new people coming in for Spring time, it makes me curious about something.

How many of the people here LIKE a good campfire drum circle?
A couple of guitars and sing a longs?
Dead/Phish/String Cheese shows causing fire-people to kind of gently sway in unison?

Dead-lot-style camping experiences?

I often wonder how a few co-op concerts in the desert would work out.

Anyone else have these thoughts?

There is a group in Cali who do the laser lights off the rocks and there are a bunch of pickers in the nomad online groups.
Seems to me it would not be hard to set up a mellow music weekend, no?

Even thought about the walkman concerts they have for quiet areas.
Folks end up dancing to a DJ who broadcasts the music on an FM transmitter.
To the neighbors, it is virtually silent, but to those with walkmans/headphones, they make it as loud as they want it.

There was a group doing bluegrass in the desert way back, but I think they stopped doing it.

Anyone know of this portable music festival happening now?
Especially a coop situation??

No one is putting on any plays either, it seems.
Nomadic talent shows ought to be going on, right?
Poetry and stripper poles...okay, don't want to offend anyone...so forget the poetry. ;)

Wouldn't a good blues band be worth a $20 spot for a nights entertainment?
Get 50 people together to share costs and it suddenly becomes much easier.


There seems to be kind of a hole here no one has filled yet.
All the bands tend to be in a bar.

I wonder if a donation coop was started, how many would attend little micro fests?
Wonder how many nomads would share wares and products there?
Like a flash mob kind of thing. No??

Websites you know of?
YT channels on the subject?
Stages in the desert you have seen?
Shows coming up?
 
The RTR has such a thing. I've been to something semi-organized in Moab. They had a good private spot on former Utah Trust land.

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The answer would be it just depends...you might be intruding and unwelcome with what you want to do or you might be welcome. You don't know who your neighbors are or how they are going to react. Not everyone you meet is going to be downright friendly.
 
maki2 said:
... Not everyone you meet is going to be downright friendly.

Especially if you make a lot of noise.  A lot of people get out to get away from all the noise to experience nature and solitude. 

The idea of using headphones tuned to an FM transmitter has some merit as long as the people can keep from yelling at each other.
 
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