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Green River
Genre	Indie rock, folk, alternative country, blues, reggae
Dates	Three day Festival over a weekend in July
Location(s)	Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, Western Massachusetts
Years active	Began 1986 - present
Founded by	Jim Olsen, Ann Hamilton, Bob Diamond
Website	https://www.greenriverfestival.com/

Green River Festival

The Green River Festival is an annual summer music and arts festival held on a weekend in July at the Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, Western Massachusetts. It was founded in 1986 by Jim Olsen, the  president and cofounder of Signature Sounds Recordings. The event features musical artists from many genres of music, including folk, indie rock, alternative country, blues and reggae, as well as art and hot air ballooning. The festival hosts over 30 bands on three different stages – the Tea Guys Main Stage, Parlor Room Stage, and Dean’s Stage. It is a three day Festival, with a variety of different ticket passes: weekend pass (with or without camping), single day pass, one night pass, 3 day pass. Children under 10 years of age gain free admission to the festival and camping. There is a Kids stage and arcade that hosts children’s music and performers, as well as an art garden, art activities tent, games, circus acts, a mardi gras parade and much more. The Festival hosts a variety of great local food, accommodating vegans and meat-lovers, beer and wine, a handmade craft fair and family activities and games. Each morning and evening hot air balloons are launched for customers, and on Saturday night 10 hot air balloons are released to perform a light show with bands playing in the background.

Location and Festival Grounds

The Green River Festival is an annual music and arts festival held in Greenfield, Western Massachusetts. It takes place at Greenfield Community College, One College Drive, Greenfield, Ma 01301. It is wheelchair accessible, but remains on the grass, with ample handicapped parking. There is also accessible viewing areas for each stage, with which you are allowed 2 people to accompany you, and accessible bathrooms.

The festival has 3 separate stages:

·     Tea Guys Main Stage: The main stage is located in the upper field and hosts the headlining acts

·     Dean Bean’s stage: Features world music and dance, dedicating Friday to all Latin acts

·     Parlor Room stage: features local teen bands exclusively.

The Kid’s Area consists of a Kid’s Stage which hosts children’s music and performers, and an arcade tent with free activities and games. The Art Garden Arcade will feature lawn and Carnival games and there will also be a Mardi Gras parade.

There has recently been a fourth stage added called the Green House stage, which is a small house that will have musicians playing on the porch. It is meant to educate the audience and showcase more environmentally friendly and sustainable housing options.

Organisation

Jim Olsen is the director of the Green River festival, and also the Talent buyer. Olsen, along with Ann Hamilton and Bob diamond, were on the original planning committee and helped to merge the festival back in 1987. Over the years, the Green River Festival has grown and attendance was approximately 13,000 in 2015 and is expected to rise the coming years. The Festival is working to become more environmentally-friendly to reduces its carbon footprint. To do this, organisers at the Green River Festival have partnered up with Klean Kanteen, a reusable water bottle company, in order to eliminate the use of plastic water bottles through the Cup Karma program. The Green River festival will be offered discounts in drinks purchased in reusable Klean stainless steel pints throughout the event as a part of this program, and no plastic water bottles will be sold on site. Klean will also provide water refill stations to reduce waste from single-use water bottles. In 2017 the festival also started a bike valet program, which encourages festival-goers to bike to the event rather than drive. They have also created a new bike path to and from the campground and a new ride-share program to increase popularity of this program. In addition to banning all plastic bottles, all food and drink vendors are required to use compostable plates and utensils. There will be recycling and compost stations around the festival grounds. Furthermore, there will be solar-powered stage operations and charging stations – seen through the Parlor Room stage which will be solar powered.

History

The festival begun in 1986 where it originated as two separate events at the Greenfield Community College held a week apart. A concert that featured 2 bands – NRBQ and 10,000 Maniacs was staged to celebrate the two events. The first saw the Franklin Country Chamber of Commerce sponsor their first Balloon fair; and the following weekend the WRSI local radio station celebrated their 5^th-year anniversary. The Festival grew and the two events merged to eventually become the Green River Festival. Early on, the festivals main focus was on ballooning, but that soon changed in 1990 when the festival featured music legend Dr John and other renowned talent, including Alison Krauss & Union Station, Taj Mahal, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings. The Festival changed its name to the Green River Festival in 2001, and expanded their event to include more artists and multiple music stages. Currently in its 32^nd year, the Green River Festival has seen to of hosted dozens of musical legends including: Emmylou Harris, Buddy Guy, Lucinda Williams, Mavis Staples, Arlo Guthrie, Steve Earle, The Avett Brothers, Deer Tick, Neko Case, Calexico, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and CAKE.

Past Performers by year:

2018

Michael Franti & Spearhead // Old Crow Medicine Show // Dr. Dog // Josh Ritter // I'm With Her // Deer Tick // Robert Earl Keen // Femi Kuti & The Positive Force // Lucy Dacus // Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express // Birds of Chicago // Chris Smither // Amy Helm // Ana Tijoux // The Ballroom Thieves // James Hunter Six // Marco Benevento // Molly Tuttle // The Mammals // Las Cafeteras // Magna Carda // Bella's Bartok // Yes Darling // The Revelers // The Brother Brothers // Twisted Pine //Big Mean Sound Machine // Trailer Park w/ Samirah Evans // Jack Broadbent // Orquesta El Macabeo // Orquesta Akokan // Old Flame // Kate Lorenz & The Constellations // Threesies // Khalif Neville

2017

Lake Street Dive // Joe Russo's Almost Dead // The Mavericks // Houndmouth // Funky Meters // The Infamous Stringdusters // Rachael Price & Vilray // The Suitcase Junket // Amadou & Mariam // The Dustbowl Revival // Pokey LaFarge // Bridget Kearney // Darlingside // San Fermin // Big Sam's Funky Nation // Mandolin Orange // Robbie Fulks // Dan Bern // Chicano Batman // Big Al Anderson // John Brown's Body // River Whyless // Parsonsfield // Kat Wright // Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams // Sun Parade // Western Centuries // Tank & The Bangas // Madam Uncle // Twisted Pine // The Deslondes // Workman Song // Hammydown // Dietrich Strause & The Blue Ribbons // Sweet Crude // Lyle Brewer\

2016

Tedeschi Trucks Band // Dawes // Peter Wolf // Los Lobos // Shakey Graves // NRBQ // Shovels & Rope // North Mississippi All-Stars // Dustbowl Revival // Charles Neville // The Suffers // Birds of Chicago // The Felice Brothers // Big Sam's Funky Nation // Margo Price // Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds // And The Kids // Winterpills // Sonya Kitchell // Ola Fresca // Xixa // Mariachi Flor De La Toloache // Campos // The Soul Rebels // Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers // Bridget Kearney & Benjamin Lazar Davis // Greyhounds // The Railsplitters // Anthony D'Amato // Upstate Rubdown // Leland Sundries // Mikey Sweet // Sumner & Moss // Mal Devisa // Oh Pep! //Mister G // Peter Mulvey & The Crumbling Beauties Present Raindogs // The Alchemystics // Lux Deluxe // Hannah & Maggies // Colorway // Lula Wiles

2015

Steve Earle & The Dukes // Punch Brothers // TuNe-YaRdS // Preservation Hall Jazz Band // J Mascis // Rubblebucket // Polaris // Milk Carton Kids // Eilen Jewell // Booker T. Jones // Pine Hill Project // Valerie June // The Wood Brothers // Langhorne Slim & The Law // Elephant Revival // Parker Millsap // Red Barat // Bella's Bartok // Lydia Loveless // The Stray Birds // Joe Pug // The Revelers // Sean Rowe // Antibalas // M.A.K.U. Sound System // Arc Iris // Chuchito Valdes // The Suitcase Junket // Charlie Parr // Marco Benevento // Jose Gonzalez and Banda Criollo // Twisted Pine // The Lonesome Brothers // Hayley Reardon // Ryan Hommels' Optical Shop

2014

Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band // Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue // Puss'n'Boots ft. Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson & Catherine Popper // Dirty Dozen Brass Band // Trampled By Turtles // Lucius // Hurray For The Riff Raff // Ana Tijoux // Dave & Phil Alvin & The Guilty Ones // The Lone Bellow // James Hunter Six // The Iguanas // Lady // Parsonsfield // The Debo Band // Heather Maloney + Darlingside // The Shinolas Revue: featuring Chris Collingwood (Fountains of Wayne), Freedy Johnston, Syd Straw // Lady Lamb the Beekeeper // And The Kids // Gaslight Tinkers // Grant-Lee Phillips // Barnstar! // Paul Burch & The WPA Ballclub // The Deadly Gentlemen // Dirty Bourbon River Show // Girls Guns & Glory // Bright Lines // The Snaz

2013

Gogol Bordello // Brandi Carlile // Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale // Devil Makes Three // Todd Snider // JD McPherson // Lake Street Dive // Bombino // Sally Ford & The Sound Outside // The Bernie Worrell Orchestra // The Skatalites // Spirit Family Reunion // Ryan Montbleau Band // Slaid Cleaves // Spanish For Hitchhiking // Heather Maloney // Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole // The Duhks // Caravan of Thieves // Jeffrey Foucault & Cold Satellite // Poor Old Shine (Parsonsfield) //Rusty Belle

2012

Woody Guthrie's 100th Birthday Celebration with Arlo Guthrie & The Guthrie Family Reunion // Los Lobos // Ozomatli // Richard Thompson // Rubblebucket // Rebirth Brass Band // David Wax Museum // Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires // Chris Smither & The Motivators // JD McPherson // CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band // Winterpills // Lost Bayou Ramblers with Gordan Gano Elizabeth Cook // Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express // Pimps of Joytime // Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three // Brown Bird // Sweetback Sisters // Casey Driessen // Lake Street Dive // Peter Mulvey & The Crumbling Beauties // Martin Simpson // Session Americana & Friends // Sun Parade // Alchemystics // Samirah Evans & Her Handsome Devils // Lee Fields & The Expressions

2011

Emmylou Harris // Toots & The Metals // Wanda Jackson // Carolina Chocolate Drops // Terry Adams & The new NRBQ // Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers // JJ Grey & Mofro // Old 97's // Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears // Patty Larkin // Eilen Jewell // Grupo Fantasia // Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited // Rubblebucket

2010

CAKE // Calexico // The Felice Brothers // The Low Anthem // Anais Mitchell // Lake Street Dive // Rusty Belle // David Wax Museum // Old Crow Medicine Show // Allen Toussaint // Donna The Buffalo // Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars // Red Stick Ramblers //  Sweetback Sisters  // Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams // Joy KIlls Sorrow

2009

Michael Franti & Spearhead // Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings // Kathleen Edwards // CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band // Justin Townes Earle // Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women // Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave // Sweetback Sisters // Swing Caravan // Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem // Chris Smither // Crooked Still // Eilen Jewell // Winterpills // Richard Shindell // Kris Delmhorst

2008

Lucinda Williams // Mavis Staples // Jimmie Vaughn // Eilen Jewell // Crooked Still // Red Stick Ramblers // Richard Shindell // Los Straightjackets // Gokh-Bi System // Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys

2007

Buddy Guy // Neko Case // Subdudes // James Hunter // Southern Culture on the Skids // Erin McKeown // Crooked Still // The Kennedys // Ray Mason Band // Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience //Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem

2006

Fountains of Wayne // John Hiatt // Alejandro Escovedo // Winterpills // Avett Brothers // Hunger Mountain Boys // Amity Front // Chris Eureka // Eilen Jewell Band // Iguanas // Sonny Landreth // Marcia Ball // Hot Tamale Brass Band // Kris Delmhorst // Mark Erelli // Jeffrey Foucault // Lori McKenna // Peter Mulvey

2005

Steve Earle // Buddy Miller // Donna The Buffalo // The Duhks // Paul Cebar & Milwaukee's // Allison Moorer // The Mammals // Tracy Grammar // Redbird // Zydeco's // Inner Visions // Anais Mitchell

2004

Campbell Brothers // Donna the Buffalo // Drunk Stuntmen // Gillian Welch // Hot Tuna // Jeffrey Foucault // Lori McKenna // Mosquitos // Old Crow Medicine Show // Planet Zydeco // Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem // Resophonics // Rosie Ledet & Zydeco // Sweethearts // We’re About Nine

2003

They Might Be Giants // Patty Griffin // Asylum Street Spankers // Balfa Toujour // Brave Combo // Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez // Inner Orchestra // Josh Ritter // Kris Delmhorst // Paul Rishell & Annie Raines // Slaid Cleaves // Stone Coyotes // Terrence Simien

2002

Alan Marcus Band // Avalon Blues // Chris Adroin and Double Clutching’ // Dave Alvin and The Guilty Men

Dave Carter and Tracy Grammar (Carter died – was replaced by Mark Erelli) // Fred Eaglesmiith and Band // Little Feat // Mary Gauthier // Steve Riley and The Mamou Playboys // Tim O’Brien and The Crossing

2001

Amy Rigby // Ben Demerath // Corey Harris & 5X5 // Cottonwood // Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks // Dan Olney // Erin McKeown // Leo Kottke // Solas // Sonny Landreth // The Iguanas // The Lonesome Brothers // The Tarbox Ramblers // Michael DiMartino & World Beat // Wright Brothers

2000

Beausoleil // Kelly Joe Phelps // Louise Taylor // Peter Mulvey // Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem // Robbie Fulks // Stacey Earle // Taj Mahal // The Sevens // Travis LeDoyt //Gypsy Wranglers

1999

Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men // Great Big Sea // Hot Club of Cowtown // Kelly Willis // Mark Erelli Band // Martin Sexton // Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers // Sankai // Stash // Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys

1998

Koko Taylor & Her Blues Machine // Gillian Welch & David Rawlings // Don Walser // Bap Kennedy & Six String Drag // Cheri Knight // Brooks Williams // Maria Sangiolo // Viva Quetzal // Trailer Park

1997

Marcia Ball // Big Sandy & The Fly-Right Boys // The Nields // Chris Smither // Geno Delafose // Erica Wheeler

1996

Fred Eaglesmith // Guy Clark // Louise Taylor // Nathan & The Zydeco Cha-Chas // Quetzal // Roomful of Blues // Salamander Crossing // Tish Hinojosa // Tom McClung & Valley Jazz Allstars

1995

Pioneer Valley Symphony // Maura O’Connell // Loudon Wainwright // Junior Brown // CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band

1994

Allsion Krauss & Union Station // Subdudes // Ted Hawkins // Sleepy Labeef // John Gorka // Susan Werner

1993

Robert Earl Keen // Cheryl Wheeler // Jonathon Edwards // Cox Family // John Sheldon

1992

Northern Lights // The Barnstormers // Pearly Gates and Craig Eastman // Russ Thomas

1991

Bill Morrisey // Dr. John // Hot Peppers Dixieland Band // Outer Space Band // The Holmes Brothers // The Rude Girls

1990

Bobby Darling Show // CB Express // Country Squires // Sun Dogs

1989

No Regrets // Paradise City Jazz Band

1988

Country Showdown – Regional country bands

1987

Judy Polan & Lorrie Wyatt // Aztec-Two-Step // Hot Peppers Dixieland Band

WRSI BIRTHDAY PARTY (THE BEGINNING) - 1986

10,000 Maniacs // NRBQ // Ed Vadas

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