Yonder Mountain String Band has announced a weekly archival video broadcast series, dubbed 'Yonder May.' Every Thursday in May, starting this afternoon, May 7 at 4:20 p.m. ET, the band will broadcast "YMSB sets from the 1990s and early 2000s" on Jambase.com.
The archival sets will be "culled from the band’s personal, fan-gifted VHS tape collection and hand-edited (yes, painstakingly cut and spliced, remember that?) and digitized by guitarist and founding member Adam Aijala." (Quote via press release.)
The first broadcast will feature Yonder Mountain String Band's June 23, 2000 performance at the Dexter Lake Music Festival. “I remember hanging backstage with Leftover Salmon and smoking copious amounts of marijuana with Vince Herman, Ben Kaufmann, and Dave Johnston,” recalls Aijala (via press release). “I must have swam in the lake because I was wearing a red Hawaiian bathing suit on stage!”
“Not only were we playing with Leftover Salmon, who we revered in the way of older brothers, but I believe it was our first summer playing any festivals out there," recalls Dave Johnston via press release. "It would prove to be a lynchpin in our presence in the Northwest. It was the beginning of the feeling that would strike me again and again whenever we came to the Northwest, that we belong here and there were plenty of people who made us feel that way.”
According to a press release, "Yonder May will raise funds to support the entire YMSB team while not on tour via a 'virtual tip jar' for Venmo and Paypal donations."
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