Green Lemon Set to Play Buffalo Creek Music Festival
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Green Lemon’s busy summer tour and festival season will include a stop in Lexington for a show at the Buffalo Creek Music Festival hosted by Washington and Lee University. This tour leg will keep the Colorado-based band of Oklahoma natives on the road for three months criss-crossing the country to perform at festivals from Virginia to Minnesota to California. The tour will feature several special collaborations and is expected to continue building on recent successes which include being named the 2007 Band of the Year by the Oklahoma Music Awards.
The band has been named the “New Home Grown Band of the Year” by Leeway’s Home Grown Music Network and listed as a “Top Band to See Live in 2005” by Jambase.com. They were also named “Independent Artist of the Year” by Hapi Skratch Entertainment and “New Groove of the Month” by Jambands.com. Green Lemon won Relix Magazine’s Jam-Off Contest and was nominated for a prestigious Jammy Award. The Jammy Awards are the jamband world’s equivalent of the Grammy Awards. There are eight Jammy Awards handed out annually at a star-studded ceremony in Madison Square Gardens and Green Lemon was one of six nominees for the 2006 New Groove Jammy. In March, they were named the 2007 Band of the Year by the Oklahoma Music Awards program.
The 2007 festival season will find Green Lemon gracing the stages of some of the nation’s most prestigious festivals as well as a few up-and-coming festivals. The band kicked off their 2007 festival line up at Tucson’s Gem and Jam Festival in early February with former Particle guitarist, Charlie Hitchcock, and current String Cheese Incident drummer, Michael Travis, sitting in. The band celebrated Earth Day in April by participating in the Green Apple Festival. Hosted by Relix Magazine, the Green Apple Festival took place simultaneously in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco with Green Lemon performing in Chicago. They’ve also signed on to perform at Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival in Lawrence, Kansas; DogFest, benefiting the Akita Rescue Unit in Melvern, Kansas; Buffalo Creek Music Festival hosted by Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia; 10,000 Lakes Festival in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and Ashefest in Asheville, North Carolina. More festival shows are still under negotiation and will be announced soon.
Green Lemon blends progressive rock, reggae, electronica and on-the-spot jam improvisation to create the unique sound that is attracting an exploding fan base across the nation. The band members draw inspiration from a wide variety of musical genres. While guitarist Steve Schaben studied jazz in college, his fellow guitarist, Wayne Allen, prefers the sound of Irish rockers U2. Keyboardist Jon Cordero and bassist Jesse Fioravanti listen to indie rock, but drummer Chris Cox enjoys reggae and Maroon 5. Add four songwriters within the group to this diversity of musical tastes and you’ve got a recipe for auditory bliss. By merging pumping electronica beats with smooth reggae melodies, soaring vocals and some shredding guitar solos, Green Lemon inspired Relix Magazine to declare that they “could very well lead the next generation of jambands.”
On Saturday, May 19, the band will headline the festivities at Zollman’s Pavilion on Buffalo Creek in Lexington playing from 10:00 pm to 2:00 am. The Buffalo Creek Music Festival is in its 15th year and is hosted by Washington and Lee students on a farm 5 miles outside of Lexington on the Buffalo Creek. Tickets are just $10 for the entire weekend event and camping is encouraged. Other bands performing during the weekend include The Breakfast, U-Melt and The Bridge among others. Catch Green Lemon’s show on Saturday night and see what Hittin’ The Note Magazine says “happens when five guys from Oklahoma are pinned down in a collision of futuristic electronic music and the historic roots of dub reggae.”
For more information about the Green Lemon band, visit www.greenlemonband.com where you’ll find the full tour schedule, fan forums and audio samples, or visit www.myspace.com/greenlemon. | | | | | |
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