SATURDAY JUNE 20 MORE THAN A FESTIVAL....IT'S A MOVEMENT

In five weeks, we will gather on Carmel Green to celebrate the summer solstice and enjoy this year's rendition of the Southern Shore Music Festival. Eight great acts will share the stage and perform continuous music starting at 11 a.m. and go non-stop to 8 p.m..  Nik Everett will start things off and we look forward to hearing this 20 year veteran on the music scene, whom just completed co-writing the music for the new documentary of Asbury Park which I watched last night on PBS. Nik always keeps everyone informed through his emails and facebook comments and we are sure he will keep you posted.  Our second artist for the day will be 61 North who in a very short time have developed a great following in the Southern New  Jersey/Delaware region. The band are high energy and have been busy promoting the festival at their live gigs and in fact are busy selling  festival tickets to their fans. Philadelphia based performer Nora Whittaker who opened for the Boss last Fall in Philadelphia on the Parkway will perform with her band and will demonstrate her blue-eyed soul style of music. Eilen Jewell has been delighting audiences up and down the east coast and her country laced blues-infused music has been compared to Lucinda Williams. This Boston based artist is touring behind her latest cd release "Sea of Tears".  Fifth on stage at this years festival will be the taste of New Orleans that has become a signature of both the Bridgeton Folk Festival and the Southern Shore Music Festival.  The rock oriented brass funk band Bonerama is guaranteed to have the audience up and dancing during their high energy set.   Hoots & Hellmouth will be fresh off their end of May CD release party and hear why their material has been described as New Music for Old Souls. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals grew up in the roots of  rock and roll the old fashion way and their brand of organic American rock n roll  music has been wowing audiences throughout the country. Look for them to rev up the crowd like they did at Wiggins Park at the XPN festival.   What a great way to end this years' festival which falls on the summer solstice during the 40th anniversary summer of Woodstock, then with 1960's folk troubador the legendary Arlo Guthrie.  His music helped spark a movement and he is a not to be missed. It has been a long time since he performed outside in Southern New Jersey so don't miss this event of the summer