2008 Lineup

• Phil Lesh and Friends
  Phil Lesh and Friends
  Phil Lesh and Friends is an American rock band formed and led by Phil Lesh, former bassist of the Grateful Dead.Phil & Friends is not a traditional group in that several different lineups of musicians have played under the name, including groups featuring members of Phish, Little Feat, and the Zen...
  
  
• The Flaming Lips
  The Flaming Lips
  The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983.Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What...
  
  
• Michael Franti and Spearhead
  Michael Franti
  Michael Franti is an American poet, musician, and composer. He is the creator and lead vocalist of Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock...
  
  
• Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
  
   Band featuring Steve Kimock
  Steve Kimock
  -External links:** at the Internet Archive's live music archive* at the Internet Archive's live music archive* at Internet Archive's live music archive*, San Francisco, April 3, 1999*, Unofficial Fan Forum...
  
   and George Porter, Jr.
  George Porter, Jr.
  George Porter, Jr. is a musician best known as the bassist and singer of The Meters. Along with Art Neville, Porter formed the group in the mid 60's and came to be recognized as one of the progenitors of funk. The Meters disbanded in 1977, but reformed in 1989...
  
  
• Leftover Salmon
  Leftover Salmon
  Leftover Salmon is a jam band from Boulder, Colorado, formed in 1989. Their unique blend of bluegrass, rock, country, and Cajun/Zydeco, which the band calls "Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass", has found favor with the jam band scene...
  
  
• George Clinton
  George Clinton (musician)
  George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...
  
   and the Parliament-Funkadelic
  Parliament-Funkadelic
  Parliament-Funkadelic is a funk, soul and rock music collective headed by George Clinton. Their style has been dubbed P-Funk. Collectively the group has existed under various names since the 1960s and has been known for top-notch musicianship, politically charged lyrics, outlandish concept albums...
  
  
• Medeski Martin & Wood
  Medeski Martin & Wood
  Medeski Martin & Wood is an American jazz trio formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards and piano, Billy Martin on drums and percussion, and Chris Wood on double bass and bass guitar....
  
   with special guest John Scofield
  John Scofield
  John Scofield , often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham,...
  
  
• Slightly Stoopid
  Slightly Stoopid
  Slightly Stoopid is an American band based in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, who describe their music as "a fusion of acoustic rock and blues with reggae, hip-hop, and punk". As a band, they have released eight albums with their sixth studio album, entitled Slightly Not Stoned Enough To Eat...
  
  
• Dark Star Orchestra
  Dark Star Orchestra
  -References:* at the Internet Archive* - John Kadlecik's official website & personal pages**-External links:* , official website of Dark Star Orchestra* , official website of Dino English...
  
  
• WookieFoot
• TR3
  TR3
  TR3 is the Tim Reynolds Trio. Founded by Reynolds in 1984, there have been numerous members to come and go during its history.-Members:Current line-up:* Tim Reynolds - Guitars, Vocals* Mick Vaughn - Bass* Dan Martier - DrumsFormer Members:...
  
   featuring Tim Reynolds
  Tim Reynolds
  Tim Reynolds is a Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist known as both a solo artist and as the lead guitarist for Dave Matthews Band...
  
  
• The Bad Plus
  The Bad Plus
  The Bad Plus are a jazz trio from the United States, consisting of pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King, originating from Minneapolis, MN.-History:...
  
  
• JJ Grey & MOFRO
• Deep Banana Blackout
  Deep Banana Blackout
  Deep Banana Blackout is a New Orleans style Jazz-funk band from Fairfield County, Connecticut. Formed in the summer of 1995 when members of two bands joined forces in their spare time to run through old Funk & Soul standards...
  
  
• Lotus
  Lotus (rock band)
  Lotus is an instrumental electronic jam band formed in Indiana in 1999 now based in Philadelphia, PA and Denver, CO.-History:Formed at Goshen College in Indiana in 1999, and after a few years of playing what they describe as "funk/jam music", Lotus recruited percussionist Chuck Morris in 2001 and...
  
  
• Bonerama
  Bonerama
  Bonerama is a brass funk rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.Bonerama was formed in 1998 by trombone players Mark Mullins and Craig Klein, who, from 1990 up until late 2006, were also members of Harry Connick Jr.'s big band...
  
  
• Papa Mali
  Papa Mali
  Malcolm "Papa Mali" Welbourne is an American slide guitarist, singer, and songwriter who grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, and is based in Austin, Texas....
  
  
• Extra Golden
  Extra Golden
  -History:Bandmember Ian Eagleson studied Benga music from Nairobi for his Ph.D. thesis, and received assistance from Otieno Jagwasi, a Kenyan musician who played in a group called Orchestra Extra Solar Africa...
  
  
• EOTO
  EOTO
  -Description:The band's music is created live and without prerecorded loops.The band formed in 2006 as a side project of The String Cheese Incident incorporating looper pedals, like Echoplex and the DJ program Ableton. According to one reviewer, the duo sets their live instruments free and take on...
  
  
• Panjea with Michael Kang
  Michael Kang (musician)
  Michael Kang, born in South Korea on May 13, 1971, is a multi-instrumentalist for the jam band The String Cheese Incident ....
  
  
• The Waybacks
  The Waybacks
  The Waybacks are an American four-piece band based in the San Francisco Bay area of California. Their style has been alternately described as Americana, Progressive bluegrass, rock-n-roll, folk, and acoustic mayhem...
  
  

• Everyone Orchestra
• Secret Chiefs 3
  Secret Chiefs 3
  Secret Chiefs 3 is an instrumental rock group led by guitarist/composer Trey Spruance . Their studio recordings and tours have featured different line-ups, as the group performs a wide range of musical styles including surf rock, Persian, Arab, Indian, death metal, film music, electronic music,...
  
  
• The New Mastersounds
  The New Mastersounds
  The New Mastersounds are a four-piece funk band based in Leeds, England.In the late 1990s, guitarist and producer Eddie Roberts was running a club night in Leeds called "The Cooker." When The Cooker moved into a new venue with a second floor in 1999, there was space and the opportunity to put a...
  
  
• The Wood Brothers
  The Wood Brothers
  The Wood Brothers are musician siblings Chris and Oliver Wood from Boulder, Colorado. Chris is a founding member of Medeski Martin & Wood, and Oliver played second guitar with Tinsley Ellis before forming King Johnson....
  
  
• Dub Trio
  Dub Trio
  Dub Trio is a dub/rock cross-over band from Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:Dub Trio is DP - Dave Holmes Stu Brooks and Joe Tomino...
  
  
• Cornmeal
  Cornmeal (band)
  Cornmeal is a roots and bluegrass jamband from Chicago, Illinois. Formed over 10 years ago. Heavily influenced by American roots and folk music....
  
  
• Kelly Richey Band
• Family Groove Company
  Family Groove Company
  Family Groove Company is an unsigned American four piece jam band based out of Chicago, Illinois. FGC tours heavily and as of June 2006, they have played in 28 states totaling over 400 shows.-History:...
  
  
• U-Melt
• One Under
• God Johnson
• Phix
• Kinetix
• New Primitives
• White Iron Band
• Moon Taxi
• Lynx
• Redux
• WBPN
• Pert' Near Sandstone
• Heatbox

• Ultraviolet Hippopotamus
• The Hue
• GypsyFoot
• Gold Standard
• Enchanted Ape
• The Limns
• Rhinestone Diplomats
• The Histronic
  The Histronic
  - History :Formerly a live electro trio, the Histronic now features the duo of: DJ and Guitarist Mike Moilanen, and DJ and Keyboard player Kevin Dorsey. Dorsey is a founding member of the group, a graduate of the University of Denver's Lamont School of music, and the owner of a recording studio in...
  
  
• Solution
• Teddy Presberg
• Sovereign Sect
• Blue Martian Tribe
• Dead Larry
• Roster McCabe
  Roster McCabe
  Roster McCabe is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, exploration of music across genres and devoted fan base. Named by Billboard Magazine as one of "five up-and-coming jam bands that could draw audiences to the festivals of tomorrow", Roster has toured...
  
  
• Comosapiens
• Bill Smith
• The Twin Cats
• Dred I Dread
• Jpetty (All Good Things)
• The Stretch
• Springdale Quartet