This is a post ive been meaning to write for a while, partly because i love these guys and partly to thank them for doing what so few bands in the jam community do - a comprehensive Canadian tour! Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks have somehow been able to plan not only a full of slate of US festivals shows and dates, but have done the same in Canada, proving once and for all that such a thing can be done! Hear that Phish? Come play Osheaga or something...
Seriously tho, these guys are really inspiring and uplifting when you see them live. Like Michael Franti on stage, the combination of Trucks' filling-the-bucket guitar jams with Tedeschi's angelic high notes and vocals practically make the sun come out on a cloudy day. Their Canadian tour kicks off tomorrow night in Calgary then Edmonton, and resumes at the Toronto Jazz Festival June 29, the Winnipeg Folk Festival July 6, Thunder Bay and Ottawa Blues Festivals, the Quebec City Summer Festival and, after a swing through the southwest states, back to Fredericton, NB for the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival.
No offense to the Calgary/Edmonton shows, but id take a festival setting over a concert hall to see these guys any day. And thanks again to Derek and Susan for fitting all these great shows in between Allman Bros dates and all the fantastic options you have south of the border. Im hoping to catch at least three of these gigs. See you there!
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