{"id":294,"date":"2010-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T20:49:19","slug":"songs_and_stories_92_the_american_river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_92_the_american_river\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #92: Behind the Scenes at The American River Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3908\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-294-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories92.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories92.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories92.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories92.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=294-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories92.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories92.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click hear\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories92.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">episode #92<\/a> (time = 41:57, size = 38.5 mb)<\/p>\n<p>Summer is here, which means that music festival is also here. With that in mind, I thought it would be interesting to do a musical-tangent sort of episode. This time out, we&#8217;ll be talking to Matt Semonsen, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Executive Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/festival.php\" target=\"_blank\">American River Music Festival<\/a>, which is celebrating its fourth year this September 17-19 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/google_map.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lotus, CA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The festival uses the American River as its centerpiece and offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/river_rafting.php\" target=\"_blank\">river rafting<\/a> and hiking in addition to a full weekend of music (morning workshops, mainstage shows during the day, and evening performances in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/campgrounds.php\" target=\"_blank\">three campgrounds<\/a> that connect to the festival). I&#8217;ll talk to Matt about the origins of the festival, the kinds of artists who make a good &#8220;festival act&#8221;, and who&#8217;s on the lineup this year. We&#8217;ll also chat specifically about the Friday night <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/open_mic.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Open Mic Showcase&#8221;<\/a>, which I&#8217;m hosting again this year.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/slide_show01.php\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/armf_01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>More pics from the American River Music Festival<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(Tickets are available as single-day or with camping included. More info is here on the festival&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/tickets.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ticket page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Songs and Stories&#8221; #92 includes a clip of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slaid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slaid Cleaves&#8217;<\/a> &#8220;Green Mountains and Me&#8221;, off his latest release &#8220;Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away&#8221;. Along with folks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessewinchester.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Winchester<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karlabonoff.com\/\">Karla Bonoff<\/a>, Kenny Edwards, and Nina Gerber, Slaid is one of this year&#8217;s featured performers. (He plays at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/campgrounds.php#cl\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Lotus<\/a> on Friday evening and again on the main festival stage on Saturday afternoon.) This episode also includes &#8220;The River Song&#8221; off the new CD from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/mtwallets\" target=\"_blank\">MTWallets<\/a> (Matt Semonson&#8217;s band.)<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiblepodcast.com\/stories\" target=\"_blank\">audiblepodcast.com\/stories<\/a>, sign up for a 14-day trial, and receive a free audiobook just for checking it out. (If you cancel the trial, you still keep the book.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D216646993\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs_and_stories_92_the_american_river%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click hear\u00a0episode #92 (time = 41:57, size = 38.5 mb) Summer is here, which means that music festival is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}