Music
Featured Bands at Alaska's biggest ocean event of the summer.
Alaska Ocean Festival 2009
Full Sail - 12:05pm
Bill Yeagle has performed and recorded with many of Alaska’s
premier acoustic bands including Grass Plus, McLeod, the Bernard
Glansbeek Quartet and Wellstrung. He is obsessed with all things
mandolin. Tony Elder began playing guitar at 13 and has played
in bands since he was 15. After moving to Alaska in 2000, he also began
performing as a soloist. However, “playing with Full Sail is like an
ice cold beer on a hot summer day. It refreshes you best.” Doug Schutte played the French horn for a number of years but gave it up for the
banjo because, as he says, "you really can't sit around the living room
with your friends and jam on the French horn." Doug has been playing
banjo for about 16 years. Travis Dennison started playing the
violin when he was 8 years old. Later he learned guitar, bass, and
piano as well. His background is mostly in jazz but since his recent
introduction to the world of bluegrass, he has been trying to find a
way to work less so he can play more of it. As the daughter of a
musician, Kalia Yeagle grew up steeped in music. At the age of
three, she picked up the fiddle. Kalia, a former Alaska state fiddle
champ, excels at both fiddling and the classical side of the violin.
Sweating Honey - 2:05pm
A band whose sound defies definition, but whose magnetism commands
attention. Sweating Honey’s music is more a melting pot of styles
including rock, reggae, funk, calypso, bluegrass, Dixieland, latin,
blues, jazz, and rockabilly. Song writer and founder of the band, Luke
Beckel describes the band as “…New Americana spliced with socially
conscious lyrics and a powerful train wreck of energy…every month or so
our style changes."
Rabbit Creek Ramblers - 4:30 pm
The Rabbit Creek Ramblers are a group of 8 friends who enjoy getting together and playing a wide variety of musical styles and tunes. Besides playing their original songs, the Ramblers also enjoy covering such prolific artists as Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, G Love & Special Sauce Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ben Harper, Sublime, The Black Crowes, and Todd Snider. The Ramblers also enjoy collaborating with as many other artists as possible.
Last Train - 6:00pm
The music of Last Train is shaped by the musical
journey of its members, with influences ranging from roots rock, pop
and country, to punk. The result is an unusual openness to diversity –
with a refreshing ability to create genre bending arrangements that
defy convention. The sound of the band could be described as grunge
meets twang meets punk. It is familiar Americana and Alt-country, but
yet somehow different.
“Comprised of Mark Ward, Steve Padrick, Ted Rosenzweig and Matt Janssen, the band describes themselves as “a melding of ideas as each one of us taps into a love for just about every kind of American music out there.” Anchorage Press, March 09
Pimps of Joytime - 7:45pm
Over the 7 year history of the Ocean Fest, we've
featured an incredible range of musical styles - from world music to
world class zydeco, festival goers have celebrated the oceans to many
different headliner beats. The one uniting factor has always been
dancibility - Pimps of Joytime will have you jumping from start to
finish! Hailing from Brooklyn and New Orleans, The Pimps of Joytime's
members
traffic in a funk style laden with elements of soul, punk,
Afro-Caribbean, afrobeat and rap. Read what NPR's Derek Rath has to say
about these guys.
