Hey everybody: Again, we've been flooded with generous offers from bands to play this year and i'm blown away by the line-up as it stands: over a hundred acts in three nights and a day! Jackson Browne is coming back (thanks to his amazing generosity) as are Jane Wiedlin, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons, James Hall, Eric McFadden, Kim Manning of P-Funk, and many more!
Victor DeLorenzo (Violent Femmes drummer), will join the Construction Zone, as will Louise Goffin (daughter of the most famous male-female collaborative songwriting team of all time!), Lynda Kay (The Lonesome Spurs), Martin Jack Rosenblum ("the Holy Ranger"), and fiddler Doug Kershaw, the legendary "Ragin' Cajun"!
(This is not a complete list of favorites, just a few that come to mind right now.)
Our booking process has been rather free-form, so if you're a musician or band who's offered to play, and you're not sure whether you're booked or not, send an email with the subject heading "OFFER TO PLAY" to: steelbridgebooking@yahoo.com to get a confirmation. Include your play date preference. I'm way behind in answering emails, and i swear i WILL catch up, but if you think i might not have received your email, don't hesitate to write again.
Again, if i invited you to play this year, and you said yes, even if i was drunk at the time and we haven't spoken since, and whether or not you're listed on the website yet, please know that if i said it, i meant it (but feel free to remind me anyway, just in case :) by sending an email to steelbridgebooking@yahoo.com)
Please tell your friends and fans that we expect a much larger turnout this year due to increased promotion and growing awareness of the event, and with venue capacities limited as they are, get your passes early! If you want to make sure all your friends get passes, tell them to go to our homepage and click on the "Buy Passes" link, or go to my myspace page, www.myspace.com/patmAcdonald where there's some html code you can copy and paste into your myspace profile to put a link to the Steel Bridge website/store.
We'll be finalizing the line-up and schedule right now, so check here at www.steelbridgesongfest.org for updates.
xo,pat