The Suitcase Junket is Matt Lorenz: artist, tinkerer, swamp yankee, one-man band. His is the road-worn voice rising over the grind of a tube-amped dumpster guitar, with wild double pitches of throat singing. From The Suitcase Junket’s penchant for thrift and ingenuity comes a full-length album — his debut at Signature Sounds — of original rock anthems, mountain ballads, blues manifestos and dance-hall festivity, played on instruments built of broken bottles, twisted forks, dried bones, gas cans, shoes, saw blades, a toy keyboard, and an overhead compartment’s worth of luggage. Enjoy a sampling of salvaged sounds from this one man rock band.
The Strawberry office will be closed during for the holidays starting on Friday, December 22nd and we will return on Tuesday, January 2nd. Don’t forget that the Spring Festival Winter Discount deadline is coming up. Save on adult, teen and child camping tickets when you buy now through January 3rd. Tickets are available 24/7 online and at (209) 984-8630 M-F, 9-5 during normal business hours. You can also print our check order form and mail a check to P.O. Box 664, Jamestown, CA 95327. Feel free to call us, or email info@strawberrymusic.com with any questions or comments you might have.
From all of us at Strawberry Music, we wish you and yours a happy and healthy holiday!
We’re pleased to announceSam Reider & The Human Hands will play at the Spring Festival. For the last year, Reider has been composing a body of work called “Too Hot To Sleep”, set to release on February third. It’s all original, acoustic music rooted in jazz and American Folk, but also inspired by sounds and rhythms encountered in his travels around the world. He wrote ”Too Hot To Sleep” for a group of friends and virtuoso musicians called The Human Hands. Band personnel for their Strawberry appearance this spring will be Sam Reider on keyboards/accordion, Dominick Leslie on mandolin, Roy Williams on guitar, Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, and Sam Grisman on bass. Watch their video to enjoy a wonderful sampling of sound and then we’ll see you at the Spring Festival.
Next week, the Strawberry office will be closing for the holidays, starting on Tuesday, November 21st and will re-open at 9:00 am on Monday, November 27th. Camping tickets to the Spring Festival are available online 24 hours daily, so you can take advantage of holiday savings during the Winter Discount, on now through January 3rd.
We’re happy to share news about three remarkable acts that will be joining us in 2018, to kick off the first round of lineup announcements for the Spring Festival.
After 30 years of friendship and mutual admiration, folk music legends Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore just recently began to play music together. When they partnered up and hit the road, earlier in 2017, the pairing of shared musical roots revealed a wonderful chemistry between the two. Inspired by these performances, they decided to make a record and will be appearing at Strawberry with a full band, as one of the first stops on next year’s tour to celebrate their first joint recording.
The Revelers, founding members of the Red Stick Ramblers and The Pine Leaf Boys, have joined together to form a Louisiana super-group which combines swamp-pop, Cajun, country, blues and zydeco into a powerful tonic of roots music. From the Main Stage to a varietal smorgeous board of workshop presentations, their signature recipe for good times boils down to a gathering of the ingredients on hand, steeped in culture, spiced by way of life, prepared lovingly to joyous music and shared robustly among neighbors and friends.
Duo Quartet featuring Chris Webster, Nina Gerber and Pam Delgada, JeriJones is a joining of musical forces and festival favorites. Pam Delgado and Jeri Jones of Blame Sally return to their roots in performance ranging from mournfully sweet love songs to blazing acoustic soul. Chris Webster and Nina Gerber are well known to music fans for their sublime blend of Webster’s compelling voice and Gerber’s masterful guitar work. As a duo-quartet they’ll each be doing their own “thang” AND mixing it up for some dueling guitar jams and three part harmonies.
The Spring Festival is already shaping up to be a delightfully eclectic merging of talents, so stay tuned for more exciting lineup announcements coming in December and January!
We’d like to thank everyone who participated in our Pre-Season Sale. All Spring Festival camping ticket types are now available at the Winter Discount. It isn’t even officially winter yet and we’re already excited about next year’s Spring Festival. Can’t wait to see you there!
REMINDER: Tomorrow is the last day of the Pre-Season short sale on four day camping tickets types, for the Spring Festival. To take advantage of these low prices, order your tickets online until midnight, call our office by 5:00 pm or send your check in the mail postmarked by Thursday, November 2nd. All camping tickets, including 2-, 3-, and 4-Day Camping tickets will be available at the Winter Discount, starting Friday, November 3rd. Just give us a call if you need help deciding what ticket type is right for you. Thanks and see you there!
You can still pay for your Spring tickets by check or money order. Click here to print, fill out the form and send with your check or money order, postmarked by November 2nd, to take advantage of our special Pre-Season price on four-day camping tickets.
Our special Pre-Season short sale on four day camping tickets, to the Spring 2018 Strawberry Music Festival, has now begun! Tickets are available online 24 hours daily, over the phone M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630, or by check sent to P.O. Box 664, Jamestown, CA 95327. This special Pre-Season sale is our reward to die-hard Berryheads who make plans to attend the full festival, before the lineup is announced. All Spring camping tickets will be available, at the Winter Discount, starting November 3rd. Ticket will ship after December 1st, so shipping and handling is free for orders placed on, or before, November 15th. More information will be coming soon about how and when to reserve partial and/or full hookups RV sites for the Spring Festival. You can call us M-F, 9-5, to talk to a real person, with any questions you may have about the festival, or what ticket type is right for you. See you there!
Strawberry’s special Pre-Season short sale on four day camping tickets, to the Spring Festival, starts tomorrow. We are very pleased to share that we will be taking our ticketing service back in-house for the 2018 season! This means no more third party ticket fulfillment, lower shipping and handling fees, a more attractive looking ticket, and more personal customer service. We’re super excited to be printing our own tickets again, Strawberry style.
The Suitcase Junket is Matt Lorenz: artist, tinkerer, swamp yankee, one-man band. His is the road-worn voice rising over the grind of a tube-amped dumpster guitar, with wild double pitches of throat singing. From The Suitcase Junket’s penchant for thrift and ingenuity comes a full-length album — his debut at Signature Sounds — of original rock anthems, mountain ballads, blues manifestos and dance-hall festivity, played on instruments built of broken bottles, twisted forks, dried bones, gas cans, shoes, saw blades, a toy keyboard, and an overhead compartment’s worth of luggage. Enjoy a sampling of salvaged sounds from this one man rock band.
