Festival Nation with Marla Davies

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Today host of 'Festival Nation' Marla Davies met up with Chris Ralles as Pat Benatar/Neil Giraldo's 2021 DeNovo Tour came to the historic San Jose Civic Auditorium on September 8th. The tour is criss-crossing the United States after a long Covid-hiatus. The San Jose show was the 6th show on this tour. Accomplished sideman/hired gun/professional musician, Chris Ralles, shares his stories about the...

Today host of 'Festival Nation' Marla Davies met up with Dark Star Orchestra's Drummer Rob Koritz when the band visited the Bay Area in Spring 2021. It's a time of celebration as festivals and live music have begun to fill the air again. Rob shares his stories about playing drive in shows, his time with the DSO and reaching the milestone of 3,000 shows, his early days as a Dead Head and the inspir...

Today host of 'Festival Nation' Marla Davies explores the 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, this year's snubs and musical highlights from the all-star jams over the last 34 years. Guests today are 3 Bay Area Rock DJ's -Radio Programming Consultant Dana Jang, The Breeze DJ Nicci Ross and Sunday Night Dead Host Grateful Don Potter and Host of 'Who Cares About The Rock Hall?' Joe Kwaczala. T...

Host Marla Davies talks with FestForums Founder and CEO Laurie Kirby about the future of music festivals, how COVID-19 helped burst the festival bubble and the brave new world we're heading into and how film festivals are leading the way for music festivals. https://www.festforums.com/home FEST NEWS FLASH: https://www.ivotedconcerts.com/ https://www.hbo.com/specials/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame Plea...

Host Marla Davies talks to Rock and Roll Photographer and Filmmaker Jay Blakesberg about the 'Skull and Roses' Festival that was scheduled for April 2-5, 2020. 'Festival Nation' and the Pantheon Podcast Network teamed up with 'Skull and Roses' for a podcast mini-series. This is one of the interviews from the archives that didn't air before the festival cancelled. You'll get a peak into a pre-pande...

Host Marla Davies talks with Talent Buyer Chris Porter about the upcoming 'Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival' and how the San Francisco iconic festival is reinventing itself virtually. It's a chance to watch from home or virtually from a tarp in you own backyard on Saturday October 3, 2020 from 5p-8p EST or 2p-5p PST. The day will be filled with new performances, archival sets and crowd sourced f...

Host Marla Davies talks with Vinnie Dombroski from Sponge who performed at the July Mini-Fest (Formerly the Herd Immunity Festival) in Wisconsin July 16-19, 2020. This was the first rock festival featuring major acts to take place since the pandemic started. You'll hear a first-hand account from Vin about his experience at the Festival, speculations about how small clubs can survive this pandemic,...

Host Marla Davies talks with Nathan Morin - the deodorant king of Chicago about his latest product, Grateful Dead Deodorant. Nathan is a deadhead and says the music and spirit of the Grateful Dead have influenced my company's core principles of service, veganism and organic agriculture. Join us as we talk about the power of live music, love of festivals and deodorant, https://northcoastorganics.us...

Festival Nation Host Marla Davies talks with Maria Maldaur about her latest work with the Garcia Project called Spirit - A Loving Tribute to Jerry Garcia and The Spiritual Songs He Performed. You'll hear a few tracks from the latest release - GarciaProject.com. Maria also shares stories of her over a half century in the music business, her early days in Greenwich Village, seeing Bob Dylan play ele...

Host Marla Davies talks with Festival Pass Founder and CEO Ed Vincent about Festival Pass - the world's first live events subscription service across music, film, food and wine, theatre and tech and innovation and where he sees festivals going after the pandemic. Please connect with me - marladavies.com and festivalnationpodcast.com or shoot me an email festivalnationpodcast@gmail.com. @festivalna...

Host Marla Davies explores the SoFa Music Festival - SIP - Shelter in Place Edition. The Music Festival/Street Fair held in April usually attracts between 3,000-5,000 people who travel to the South First Area of Downtown San Jose to listen to between 80-100 bands on more than 10 stages in a 2 block area. And living up to its name there's lots of sofas on the street to hang out on and enjoy the day...

Festival Nation Host Marla Davies takes you to day 3 of a Virtual Festival - ARockagedden 2020. She's come up with the ultimate setlist of bands whose songs reflect these crazy times. You'll hear live performances and song lore. Since we can't celebrate the magical world of music festivals in our usual fashion, this is the next best thing - a virtual festival. Here's today's ultimate setlist: Aroc...

Festival Nation Host Marla Davies takes you to day 2 of a Virtual Festival - ARockagedden 2020. She's come up with the ultimate setlist of bands whose songs reflect these crazy times. You'll hear live performances and song lore. Since we can't celebrate the magical world of music festivals in our usual fashion, this is the next best thing - a virtual festival. Here's today's ultimate setlist: Aroc...

Festival Nation Host Marla Davies takes you to day 1 of a Virtual Festival - ARockagedden 2020. She's come up with the ultimate setlist of bands whose songs reflect these crazy times. You'll hear live performances and song lore. Since we can't celebrate the magical world of music festivals in our usual fashion, this is the next best thing - a virtual festival. Here's today's ultimate setlist: Aroc...

Host Marla Davies tackles the difficult discussion of the Coronavirus COVID-19 and how it's turning the Festival World upside down and inside out. The words postpone, reschedule and cancel have suddenly become commonplace as SXSW, Coachella, Stagecoach, Skull & Roses, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage, Bonnaroo and Glastonbury as all accept the pandemic and the need to make schedule changes. These are...

Festival Nation Host Marla Davies interviews Steve Parish who'll be performing at Skull & Roses April 2-5 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds as part of our Pantheon Podcast Network Mini-Series. On today's episode Parish talks about the upcoming festival and shares stories about his over 50 years traveling with the Grateful Dead, his bond with Jerry Garcia whose band (JGB) he managed for many years,...

Host Marla Davies talks with Rock Guitarist Steve Kimock about his love of music festivals including the upcoming Skull & Roses festivals, Jam Cruise, playing rock 'n roll in Japan, his yearning to play the oud and how he still appreciates the little things. Festival Nation on the Pantheon Podcast Network is featuring a special mini-series on Skull & Roses - the multi-day festival celebrating the...

Host Marla Davies talks with Dennis McNally - Author, Historian and Long-Time Publicist for the Grateful Dead and Promoter for the Upcoming Skull & Roses Festival at the Ventura County Fairgrounds April 2-5, 2020. The 4th Annual Festival will celebrate the music and community of the Grateful Dead. McNally was the publicist for the Grateful Dead for 11 years and attended some 1,100 shows. During th...

Host Marla Davies talks to singer and guitar player Grahame Lesh of Midnight North who will perform at Skull & Roses the weekend of April 2-5 for the 4th Anniversary at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. Midnight North recently performed a homecoming show at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, CA. and special guest Phil Lesh (Grahame's Dad) made a guest appearance with the band. Marla and Grahame talk...

Festival Nation here on the Pantheon Podcast network is excited to feature an upcoming mini-series on Skull and Roses. Skull & Roses is a multi-day festival which celebrates the music and community that formed around iconic American rock band the Grateful Dead. It returns for its 4th and best installment so far at the holy grail of the West Coast Grateful Dead scene, the Ventura County Fairgrounds...

Today on 'Festival Nation' we head to Willington England in the time of Elizabeth the 1st and join the Northern California Renaissance Faire. The NorCal RenFaire is renowned for it's legendary full-contact joust. Spectators root for a country and their favorite knight. Today you'll meet Greg Hopla - owner of the World Tournament of Champions Knights of the Realm. You'll hear how Greg's love of sno...

Host Marla Davies welcomes friend and fellow Bay Area DJ Nicci Ross to 'Festival Nation' - The Podcast. The Rock Radio DJ's share stores of first concerts, favorite festivals and debate if the band the Eagles are responsible for the high ticket prices of concerts today. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Host Marla Davies talks with Mary Bridget Davies who plays Janis Joplin in the Broadway Production of 'A Night with Janis Joplin' which recently traveled to San Jose . The pair talk about the events that made the women, the women who made the music and the music that changed history. Tony nominated singer Mary Bridget Davies is exceptional in the roll and has the same grit, pas...

On today's episode host Marla Davies talks with Music Programmer Chris Portman about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. This free festival has been held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the past 19 years on the first weekend of October. This year some 750,000 festivalgoers will enjoy 3 days of eclectic American roots music on 6 stages with some 80 musical acts. More on the Festival htt...