{"id":2562,"date":"2012-04-01T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2012-04-01T21:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:59:03","slug":"in-praise-of-savannahs-music-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/01\/in-praise-of-savannahs-music-march\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of Savannah&#8217;s &#8220;Music March&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking a break from writing my next Man About Town column for Thursday&#8217;s Do. I know, it seems funny to non-writers that I should be taking a break <em>from<\/em> writing <em>by<\/em> writing . . .<\/p>\n<p>The column is going to be taking a look back at the Savannah Music Festival&#8217;s first 10 days &#8212; a stellar mix of performers and genres and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t help thinking about the entire month of March, which also featured the Savannah Stopover&#8217;s 4-day serving of indie rock and a variety of other great shows from acts that just happened to be coming through town.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2563\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0233.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2563\" data-attachment-id=\"2563\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/01\/in-praise-of-savannahs-music-march\/dsc_0233-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0233-e1333328436852.jpg?fit=400%2C266\" data-orig-size=\"400,266\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC_0233\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Oberhofer performing in Telfair Square on opening night of the Savannah Stopover&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0233-e1333328436852.jpg?fit=300%2C199\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0233-e1333328436852.jpg?fit=594%2C395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2563\" title=\"DSC_0233\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0233-e1333328436852.jpg?resize=400%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oberhofer performing in Telfair Square on opening night of the Savannah Stopover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just a few years ago, Savannah&#8217;s March was pretty much completely dominated by St. Patrick&#8217;s Day &#8212; a great festival and huge party. That&#8217;s a bigger event than most cities of our size ever host, but Savannah&#8217;s March has taken on a very different meaning for music lovers.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order, and with apologies to all the bands I&#8217;m not mentioning while mixing the famous and the not-yet-famous, I saw shows here in Savannah by all of the following in March:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oberhofer (who then played Letterman) (Stopover)<\/li>\n<li>The War on Drugs (Stopover)<\/li>\n<li>The Black Lips (wild Atlanta-based band with over 75,000 fans on Facebook) (tour at The Jinx)<\/li>\n<li>Sanders Bohlke (Stopover)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1492500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;color=a2a092\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt (SMF)<\/li>\n<li>B.J. Barham of American Aquarium, one of my favorite performers who comes through Savannah regularly (tour at The Jinx)<\/li>\n<li>Pink Martini (SMF)<\/li>\n<li>New Orleans&#8217; Preservation Hall Jazz Band with the Del McCoury Band (SMF)<\/li>\n<li>Bela Fleck and the original lineup of the Flecktones (SMF)<\/li>\n<li>Chelsea Crowell (granddaughter of Johnny Cash) (Stopover)<\/li>\n<li>Pujol (Stopover)<\/li>\n<li>The Love Language (Stopover)<\/li>\n<li>The Train Wrecks, a great Savannah band (Stopover)<\/li>\n<li>The Jimmy Bosch Orchestra (SMF)<\/li>\n<li>Country Mice<\/li>\n<li>Damon &#038; the Shitkickers, another great Savannah band (at regular Saturday happy hour gigs at The Jinx and at Saddlebags the day before St. Patrick&#8217;s Day)<\/li>\n<li>Triathalon, a stunningly good up and coming Savannah band (Stopover)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=1566544917\/size=venti\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=4285BB\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/triathalon.bandcamp.com\/album\/relationchips-remastered\">Relationchips (REMASTERED) by Triathalon<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I&#8217;d stack that list of shows up against any music fan&#8217;s list from any city for the last month.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when it was routine &#8212; almost mandatory it seemed &#8212; for Savannahians to complain about &#8220;nothing going on.&#8221; Hard to make that argument anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I went out a lot, lost a lot of sleep, and spent a lot of money &#8212; but no regrets about any of that. Seize the day, seize the night, seize the month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when it was routine \u00e2\u20ac\u201d almost mandatory it seemed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for Savannahians to complain about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nothing going on.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hard to make that argument anymore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/01\/in-praise-of-savannahs-music-march\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[14,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0233-e1333328436852.jpg?fit=400%2C266","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-Fk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}