Last Updated 08/01/1999 07:41:15 AM

For immediate release Contact: Beth Miller





June 24, 1999 607-776-4060





The first Mother Earth Music & Arts Festival, a multi-cultural gathering for


peace, is being held July 15-18 outside of Bath, NY. Evening performances


will feature 10,000 Maniacs, Melanie, Odetta, R. Carlos Nakai, Baba Olatunji,


and Samite of Uganda. This three-day family-friendly event combines the


earthy vitality of Woodstock with the sacred character of a spiritual


retreat. A combination Day/Evening pass is $50; and Evening Only pass is $25.


FREE for children 12 and under. Family discounts available. For tickets and


details contact the PeaceWeavers - 607-776-2026. Email pw@peaceweavers.com or


visit www.peaceweavers.com.

[04/21/99]





Wharf Rat Pow-Wow





When: The weekend of the Fourth of July





Where:  5192 S 550 West, Wabash, IN





Same as last year, bring food to share, tapes to spin, and camping gear.


The is 100 acre woods outside our


door... or plenty of floor space.





Contact: Therese B.


219 563 4771


darkstar96@juno.com


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[05/28/99]

NEW DVD SINGLE FROM MICKEY

Order Online Now at dead.net or order by phone

Call 1-800-CAL-DEAD

Item Number: #5071

Title: INDOSCRUB

Format: DVD Video Single

Price: $8.00

Digital Surround Sound remixes of two tracks from

the Planet Drum album "Supralingua"

("Indoscrub" and "Endless River"),

plus a video interview with Mickey and other hidden suprises.

MICKEY WILL BE APPEARING AT THESE DATES :

June 19th
Mickey Hart/Planet Drum
At the House Of Blues in Las Vegas

June 20th
Mickey Hart/Planet Drum
At The House Of Blues in Los Angeles

July 25th
Mickey Hart/Planet Drum
At Woodstock '99 in Rome, NY

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[05/28/99]

Hey there Folks! I wanted to send a note out to all the Clean and Sober
folks I could reach. Please forward this on if you know of anyone else
who might be interested, and let me know if you wish to be removed from
this list.

High Sierra Music Festival is up in the Sierra Mountains of California
on the 4th of July Weekend. Any of you planning on going? The line-up
is smokin' this year (see http://www.hsmusic.net) and we will have a
"One Show at a Time" table. If you will be at the festival and are
interested in doing some service please let me know. We could use some
folks to work the table. It will be in the music meadow so the music
will be heard for sure.

I will be out of town through June 5th, but will get back in touch with
you when I return. Hope to see some old and new faces!

Peace,

Mama Paige

"Trying to live a life that's completely free."- Phish

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[05/28/99]

From: GDTS Too, Inc

Friday, June 18 at the Fabulous Fillmore in San Francisco, :

"Offline with EFF - the Third Annual Benefit Concert", featuring RATDOG.

EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been working for years to try

and safeguard our freedom in cyberspace. You could check out their current

information at http://eff.org. John Perry Barlow has been instrumental in

the work of this foundation and you may also be able to link to his

website.

The show will start at 9 pm. Doors at 8 pm. General admission mailorder

tickets are now available at $37.50 per ticket with a limit of 4 per order.

Tickets are also available at local outlets. You may mail in for this show

right away.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

We announced a show just before this email announce list became

operational. We thought you will still want to know about it. This is our

original post:

>We are very pleased to announce that mailorder tickets for the 25th

>Annual Fort Ross Volunteer Fire Department Benefit in Cazadero, Ca. on June 19

>are now available. KVHW will headline and play from about 8.30 pm. until they

>quit.... Gates will be open at 10 am. Music will start at noon. Other acts on

>the bill: Vinyl, Cohesion, Keith Alan, John Sikora, Azibo Tribe. The Snake

>River Dancers will also perform. These events are quite legendary.

>Extensive >information about how great and groovy a party this is, is on

>our website as per address below. This is truly a 'family affair'.

>Ticket prices: $25.00 for adults, $20.00 for 13-to-17 year olds (you'll

>have to prove it at the gate), 12 and under, and seniors 65 and older: FREE.

>This is a general admission show. Therefore you can mail in right away.

>Tickets >will be available as long as we have the information up on our

>website, so

>don't be afraid you're too late. These tickets will only be available through

>GDTSTOO and through local-to-the-area-outlets. No TM or BASS. For local outlet

>information, call 707-847-3184. There will be a limit of 6 tickets per

>order.

>Directions and camping information can be found in the links to our

>website. Information will also be sent with your tickets.

>We are truly looking forward to this event.

>The crew of GDTS TOO

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

A small observation: we are working very hard to get the Phil Lesh and

Friends tickets to you as soon as we can. We are not yet able to check with

any degree of accuracy whether your orders have been filled. By late Friday

we may know more and we will be in the office next Monday also.

"Now is the Time past believing..."

Robert Hunter

Customer Service Number: (415) 898-2364, Monday-Friday, 11am-5pm, Calif. time.

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RatDog Dates


Day    Date            Event                             Venue                         City and State 


         


Fri    5/28/99         HOOKAHVILLE                       BUCKEYE LAKE MUSIC CENTER     HEBRON, OH


       (Tickets to this venue available thru GDTSTOO)


    


Sat    5/29/99         FIRST UNION JAM ON THE RIVER      PENN'S LANDING                PHILA, PA


  


Tues   6/8/99          1999 BELL ATLANTIC JAZZ FESTIVAL  SEAPORT ATRIUM                NYC, NY 


       (Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman Trio)





Sun    6/20/99         Solistice Santa Cruz Music Fest   Highland Park                 Ben Lomond, CA       


(available thru GDTSTOO) 





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KVHW News (as of 5/28/99)

KVHW (http://www.kvhw.com) are Steve Kimock - Bobby Vega - Alan Hertz & Ray White

They will be playing at
The 25th Annual FRVFD Music Festival
(http://www.dead.net/hotline_info/GDTSTOOFolder/GDTSTOOcazadero.html)

June 19, 1999

Subject: Chester's June 19, 1999

Here's the scoop: The mail order is over but tickets are still available at local outlets!

KVHW will play at Chester's in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Friday, May 21 and Saturday, May 22.
Showtime is 10 pm. There will be no opening act.

There also will be a Friday 7 pm. 60 minute 'matinee' set. This is an unticketed event.
There will be a $2.OO door charge until the place is full.

*Please note* - and this is very important to the well-being of Chester's - that this is a 21
years-and-over venue. Please do NOT jepardize their license. They could face a heavy fine
if minors were caught in the club, even if they are not drinking.

I would say that this is excellent news for all you folks in the middle of the country.

Sounds like a road trip!!

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Yes still more stuff:

PHIL LESH and FRIENDS
@ The Warfield Theatre
San Francisco, California
June 4 & 5, 1999
SOLD OUT 

NEW VINCE SHOWS
Tue. May 25.....Sweetwater in Mill Valley.
(Vince Welnick with Jef Ciernaik on guitar
and Robin Sylvester on bass)

Fri. May 25 ........ The Fillmore
San Francisco, California

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Check out Mickey's newly worked site 


http://www.mhart.com


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Letter From GDTS TOO
Latest update May 28, 1999

Tickets are now available for the following performances

RATDOG, offline with EFF, 3rd Annual Benefit Concert @
Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, June 18, 1999

Mickey Hart & Planet Drum, House Of Blues,
Las Vegas, NV, Saturday, June 19, 1999

RATDOG @ The Solstice Santa Cruz Musical Festival,
Sunday, June 20, 1999, Ben Lomand, CA

Vince Welnick & The Missing Man Formation,
Friday, June 25, 1999, The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA

The "Thirteenth" Annual Hog Farm Pignic, Labor Day Weekend,
September 4 & 5, 1999, Laytonville, CA

KVHW @The 25th Annual FRVFD Music Benefit,
Cazadero, CA, June 19, 1999

Drums Drums Drums,
Vital Information featuring Steve Smith of Journey,
Primitive Medicine featuring Michael Carabello of

Santana & The Scott Amendola Quartet June 2 & 4, 19999

Sons Of Champlin & Stolen Ogre,

Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA, June 12, 1999

For more info on Tix and whatever Email: GDTSTOO@dead.net

Mail Order is over for the following performances:
Mt. Aire 99' Calaveras County Fairgrounds May 29 & 30, 1999

RATDOG Hookaville Spring 99' Buckeye Lake Music Center, May 28th
Tickets are still available at local outlets

SORRY SOLD OUT - Phil Lesh & Friends,

The Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, June 4 & 5 1999 -

SOLD OUT Thank You For Your Support!

Also Rhythms Of The Land with Mickey Hart @Copperfield's May 21,
1999 has been postponed until the fall. Please stay in touch
with this site for future information.

For Complete Mail Order Instructions
Email: GDTSTOO@dead.net

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Terrapin Station is back on schedule


For GTround Breaking and other new info 


& floor plans check these web sites

This story is from SonicNet 5/20/99
http://dead.net/cavenweb/terrapin_site/pressgroundbreaking.html

You can also go to http://dead.net/cavenweb/terrapin_site/index.html
for more info on this latest project this site was also updated 5/20/99

Then visit Virtual Terrapin Station and see what's goin' on as we speak, from elevation to floor plans
and actually take a virtual trip right through (no speacial software needed)
http://dead.net/cavenweb/terrapin_site/virtualterra.html

Despite coming off its most successful outing to date in '98, the Furthur Festival -- the popular concert tour
organized by alumni of the Grateful Dead -- will not return this summer, according to the Dead's longtime
publicist, Dennis McNally.

"They decided to wait and see how [former Dead bassist] Phil [Lesh] was doing, and by the time they realized
he was fine, it was too late to book a major tour," McNally said. Lesh underwent a successful liver transplant
operation in December and has been recuperating since his surgery, McNally said.

Last year's Furthur Festival featured Lesh, guitarist Bob Weir and drummer Mickey Hart of the Dead, with
latter-day Dead pianist Bruce Hornsby, playing under the name the Other Ones. During the second year of the
tour, the band thrilled its fans by resurrecting such Dead classics as "Friend Of The Devil" and "Sugaree".

The '98 version of the festival was the first tour by surviving members of the Dead since the legendary San
Francisco psychedelic-rock group disbanded after the 1995 death of its iconic singer/guitarist, Jerry Garcia.

That tour was an unqualified success, grossing nearly $500,000 at each stop with attendance exceeding 18,000
fans per show, according to Pollstar magazine.

"I gather Phil has other issues now," McNally suggested. "He is physically able to play and has a modest
schedule of his own gigs planned, but I think he wants to spend more time with his family this year."

In April, Lesh will return to the stage with two members of Dead protÈgÈs Phish for a series of shows in San
Francisco. The "Phil Lesh and Friends" shows, April 15-17, will feature Lesh playing alongside Phish guitarist
Trey Anastasio and keyboardist Page McConnell at San Francisco's 2,200 capacity Warfield Theater.

Longtime Dead fans who were energized by the Other Ones last summer said they were disappointed to learn
that the group would not be returning. "It's too bad, because it was so much fun last year. It was really a great
gift to Deadheads everywhere," said Blair Jackson, former editor of the Dead fanzine The Golden Road and
author of a Jerry Garcia biography, "Garcia: An American Life," to be published in August.

"I think everyone was caught off guard by how great it was, and I guess it [raised] the question, 'Is it
repeatable?' " Jackson said. "I hoped it might be." However, he said his optimism began to fade several weeks
ago when Lesh posted a comment about his problems with the festival in a discussion group on the Dead's
official website (www.dead.net).

"I enjoyed playing with each and every musician in the Other Ones last year," Lesh wrote, "but the tour was
extremely stressful due to business and creative differences. I honored my commitment and made no promises
for future shows. After my surgery, I was approached about doing another tour, but it became clear that the
same unresolved issues were still haunting us."

"I knew it probably wouldn't happen when I read his post," Jackson said.

The loss of the tour, which McNally said may return in 2000, does not mean the former Dead members are
resting on their laurels.

McNally said Weir is working "ferociously" on an album by his band Ratdog, for which he's already penned
20 new songs. Hart is also working on a new album of percussive world-music with his Planet Drum ensemble.
Although release dates for the albums are not yet set, both musicians are expected to play some shows this
summer.

All three of the former Dead members in the Other Ones (ex-Dead percussionist Bill Kreutzmann has not been
involved in the group) are expected to play a one-off show at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa, Calif.,
in late April, according to McNally. "They're working on doing a benefit for open space, to buy land and keep
it from being developed in Sonoma[, Calif.]," McNally said, adding that the issue was one of Hart's pet projects.
The gig at the 1,200-seat converted church will feature sets by each member's respective band.

Hard-core Deadheads can also take solace in the recent release of an album by Mother McCree's Uptown
Jug Champions, touted by McNally as the "Rosetta Stone of Grateful Dead tape archaeology." The July 1964
performance by the informal jug band was the first collaboration among future core members of the Dead: 
Garcia, Weir and late keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.

The show captured on the album is from a mid-'60s gig at Palo Alto, Calif.'s Tangent coffee house. It includes
the songs "Overseas Stomp," "Ain't It Crazy," "Yes She Do, No She Don't," "Memphis," "Boodle Am Shake"
and "Big Fat Woman."

Drumcircles And
Rainbow Family Gatherings

From www.welcomehome.org:

Where the Gathering will be in 1999:
This year the North American Rainbow Gathering (hence referred to as the
Gathering) will be in Pennsylvania from June 28 - July 10. If a site can't
be found in PA, then the rest of NE will be scouted as a backup.

Other Sources of Information:

The current address for this years All Ways Free is:
ALL WAYS FREE
1512 7TH Avenue
Lewiston, ID 83501
Send them: articles, poems, heartsongs, visions, artwork, photos and
(of course) donations of Green Energy.

The current address for this years Rainbow Guide is:
The Rainbow Guide
PO Box 3937
Costa Mesa, CA 92628
rbwguide@ix.netcom.com

The current info/donations address for the 1999 Rainbow Gathering is:

Rainbow '99
P.O. Box 3082
Maple Glen, PA 19002

Here's more information on the 1998 gathering that was held in June 28th -
July 10th, 1998 in Arizona.

For general information about the Rainbow Family and regional events, please
first look around the web site (www.welcomehome.org) You can find most info
you'd want by going back to the top level and searching again. Good spots to
start are the Calendar of regional Events, or the Hotlines. If that doesn't work,
email our newsgroup at gathering@conf.welcomehome.org

Bugs in the web pages mentioned above can go to me at
rob@welcomehome.org

HOG FARM PIGNIC

Sat., September 4 & Sun., September 5, 10:00 AM
Black Oak Ranch, Laytonville CA

Advance Ticket Prices (does not include service charges):
1 day $33.00, 2 day $60.00, kids 6-12 $10.00, camping $30.00 per vehicle

Sat 9/4:

Mickey Hart & Planet Drum
Spearhead
Galactic
KVHW
West African High Life Band
Maria Muldaur & The Red Hot Blusiana Band
Frida's Circus

Sun 9/5:

String Cheese Incident
Baaba Maal
Ozomatli
Linda Tillery  & The Cultural Heritage Choir
John Trudell & Bad Dog
Eric Bibb
Stictly Roots

As always, Wavy Gravy will be the M.C.

On the campground stage
Friday evening: Clan Dyken
Saturday evening: The Zen Tricksters

New Shows!
On Sale Saturday May 15 at BASS and selected other Northern CA outlets!

On sale now via GDTS TOO:
(http://www.dead.net/hotline_info/GDTSTOOFolder/GDTSTOOPignic.html)

New meeting:

On AOL on Sundays 10pm (EST) 7pm (PST)

There is also an online meeting on Wednesdays
at 10:00pm (EST) 7:00pm (PST)