Gov't Mule performing "Thorazine Shuffle" at Hunter Mountain's Mountain Jam Festival on Saturday.
The seventh annual Mountain Jam Festival at Hunter Mountain went off splendidly over the weekend, and featured a showstopping act from a diva-esque performer with a history of last-minute no-shows: Sunshine. From the Times Herald-Record:
"The tag line to this year's festival should be, 'No rain, still insane,'" [Michael] Franti, a Mountain Jam veteran, said during his acoustic set. He was commenting on the remarkable fact, that so far, the weekend had been free of precipitation — not a common occurrence at the Jam, as it's rained during every previous festival so far.
Most of the 15,000-odd jammers behaved themselves nicely, and the festival had its best attendance yet:
"I'd say Mountain Jam 7 was the best one we ever did," said Gary Chetkov, president of Radio Woodstock, WDST (100.1 FM). "Certainly the highest attendance numbers, great weather — which contributed to it — and fantastic music all weekend long."
Still, it's not Mountain Jam without a few arrests. In what's become another annual tradition, the Daily Freeman has a police-blotter roundup of concertgoers (both local and otherwise) hauled in on minor drug charges:
They came from far and wide to hear great music and have a good time. Most went home exhilarated; others, also high but not on music, were ticketed or sent to jail on drug or alcohol-related charges.
State police at Hunter and Catskill made another 20 arrests late Saturday into Sunday, the final day of the seventh annual Mountain Jam Festival at Hunter Mountain. On Saturday, the first full day of the festival, police arrested about 25 people.
Nice lead, Freeman. Minus ten points for misspelling "Fleischmanns" later in the story, though. ("Fleisshmann’s"? Really?)
