The Motet 11/15/13 Bear Creek Music Festival
Closed Mouth Don’t Get Fed (with Roosevelt Collier), Cheap Shit (with Weedie Braimah):
The Motet 11/15/13 Bear Creek Music Festival
Gettin’ To Know You (with Nigel Hall) [Parliament cover], 1+1+1=3 [Prince cover] > Love Rollercoaster [Ohio Players cover] (with Steve Watkins):
The Motet 11/15/13 Bear Creek Music Festival
1, 2, 3 (ending), The Fountain (new song):
The Motet 11/14/13 Bear Creek Music Festival
Back In Love (ending):
Here it is. A massive slap of funk upside your head. This highlight video will give you a glimpse into this “funky festival in the fall”. Featuring clips from 39 different performances over 3 days and 4 nights, this 27 minute collage represents the work of one man armed with 3 video cameras and 1 mic. With any event bringing together this many talented musicians and acts you can never experience all of it, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t try.
Funk It’s Bear Creek Music & Art Festival 2013 Highlight Video:
Funk It’s Bear Creek Music & Art Festival 2013 Highlight Video:
01. Bernie Worrell Orchestra – Red Hot Momma [Funkadelic cover] (with Freekbass)
02. Jennifer Hartswick Band – Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place) [Talking Heads cover]
03. Lee Fields & The Expressions – Ladies
04. Profit – Yes We Can [Allen Toussaint cover] (with Rachel Murray & Nigel Hall)
05. Robert Walter’s 20th Congress – Corry’s Snail and Slug Death
06. Galactic – Sunday Araq (with Bernie Worrell)
07. Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe – The Hen
08. Bootsy Collins & The Funk Unity Band – Bootsy? (What’s the Name of this Town)
09. Chali 2na & The House of Vibe – Comin’ Thru
10. The Roots – Fantastic [Slum Village / J Dilla cover]
11. Bear Creek Allstars – Them Changes [Buddy Miles cover] (Dumpstaphunk with George Porter Jr, Eric Krasno & Neal Evans)
12. Bear Creek Allstars – For My Friend [Bill Withers cover] (Lettuce with Nigel Hall & Alecia Chakour)
13. Bear Creek Allstars – Shake Everything You Got [Maceo Parker cover] (Ian Neville, Andrew Block, Matt Grondin, Eric Vogel, Joey Porter, Joe Tatten, and ?? on drums)
14. The Nth Power – Jazz Fest 420
15. Toubab Krewe – Keme
16. Ron Haynes’ Game Changers – A Few Good Men [Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band cover]
17. The Revivalists – Chase’s House
18. Monophonics – Sure Is Funky
19. The New Mastersounds – On The Border
20. Space Capone – A-Rod
21. The Motet – Gettin’ To Know You [Parliament cover] (with Nigel Hall)
22. Jennifer Hartswick Band – You Got The Love [Rufus & Chaka Khan cover]
23. Galactic – Dollar Diva (with Maggie Koerner & David Shaw)
24. Zach Deputy – Cellular Phone (with Roosevelt Collier)
25. Robert Walter’s 20th Congress – Honky Tonk [Miles Davis cover]
26. The Pimps of Joytime – Dank Janky
27. Antibalas – Beaten Metal (with Skerik)
28. Brownout – Into The Void [Black Sabbath cover] (with Skerik)
29. Kung Fu – Scrab
30. Bonobo Live Band – Sapphire
31. George Porter Jr’s Runnin’ Pardners – Ride Your Pony [The Meters cover]
32. Mike Dillon Band – Monk Meets Fela (with Weedie Braimah)
33. Skerik’s Orchestra At Large – Improvisation (with Mike Dillon, George Porter Jr, Brian J, Ryan Zoidis, Igmar Thomas, Natalie Cressman, Cheme Gastelum, Khris Royal, Lucas Ellman, Weedie Braimah & ?? on keys)
34. The Legendary JC’s – Lifted Me (with George Porter Jr & Mike Dillon)
35. Roosevelt Collier & Nigel Hall’s Gospel Surprise – How I Got Over (Nikki Glaspie, Nick Cassarino, Nate Edgar, Weedie Braimah, James Casey, Natalie Cressman, Alecia Chakour, Jennifer Hartswick & ???)
36. Zach Deputy – Home
37. Dumpstaphunk – I Wish You Would (with Natalie Cressman, Igmar Thoms, James Casey, Skerik & ???)
38. Lettuce – Last Suppit
39. Zach Deputy, Jesus Coomes & Simon Allen – After Party Jam Session Improv
Several other videos from the festival have already been posted at http://www.youtube.com/user/thefunkitblog and many more will follow, so stay tuned.
Also, check out Bee Getz’ masterful written review over at JamBase.
Late Sunday night after the festivities had ended I was sitting on the porch of the Fiyawerx Winter Wonderland Cabin sipping whiskey and listening to live D’Angelo bootlegs with Bee Getz, Khris Royal & Ian Neville when festival organizer Paul Levine sent a few shuttles over and whisked the party away to his cabin deep in the woods of the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park.
Peep the scene: Upon arrival Ryan Zoidis is spinning a set of dub sides and there is beer and liquor flowing and a buffet of wonderful foods laid out as an appreciation party for the hard working staff of the festival. As more people arrived, Zwad’s dub set slowly morphed into a Toubab Krewe led percussion jam. The jam continued for about 2 hours mostly led by Zach Deputy with appearances by Eddie Roberts on guitar, Eric Krasno on bass,and other staff members. The meat and potatoes was Jesus from Lettuce on bass and Simon Allen from The New Mastersounds on drums while Zach Deputy led a dubbed out jam on Peter Tosh’s Legalize It. Deep in the Florida woods the weather was warm and the people were happy.
Part 1 of 7 (Toubab Krewe):
Part 2 of 7 (Toubab Krewe continued):
Part 3 of 7 (Zach Deputy & Eddie Roberts):
Part 4 of 7 (Eric Krasno, Zach Deputy & Eddie Roberts):
Part 5 of 7 (Eric Krasno, Zach Deputy & Eddie Roberts continued):
Part 6 of 7 (Jesus Coomes, Zach Deputy & Simon Allen):
Part 7 of 7 (Jesus Coomes, Zach Deputy & Simon Allen continued):