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Dancing in the dust
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Aside from the omnipresent dust, the Echo Project grounds are remarkably clean for the second day of a three-day festival. The eco-theme really seems to resonate with this crowd. You’ll see folks picking up random trash and depositing it the nearest receptacle, even though they had nothing to do with creating it.
That red-hued dust, meanwhile, partially obscured the stage during the powerful Saturday afternoon set of North Carolina’s Avett Brothers. The frenetic dancing reached a peak during the encore, “Talk on Indolence.” The trio’s music - imagine folk and bluegrass jammed through a punk-rock sieve - had the crowd stomping and twirling, raising clouds of dirt.
“These songs are supposed to be played out of tune, by the way,” said guitarist Scott Avett earlier in the set, as his brother Seth once again tuned the banjo. Those tuning interludes happened frequently, but it never seemed to stall the momentum these guys created. The brothers attacked their instruments with such force, it was a minor miracle that they didn’t crush their instruments.
A short distance away, at the fest’s main stage, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah started up just minutes after the Avett Brothers’ set. There was a decent-sized crowd gathered, but the enthusiasm seemed a little muted compared with the hoots and hollers that greeted the Avetts. Perhaps CYHSY’s spiky post-punk wasn’t quite what the average Echo-goer was looking for. You could find that at the Eclipse stage, where the sprawling, solo-heavy jam-rock of San Francisco’s Tea Leaf Green wafted through a crowd that overflowed the tent.
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By anne
October 13, 2007 9:48 PM | Link to this
Please explain to me what is environment conscience about bringing tens of thousands of automobiles to this usually rural, quiet, peaceful neighborhood? We bought our property here to get away from this crap. By the way, the several elderly couples living in hearing distrance aren’t very happy. The neighborhood dogs’concert sounded better than the noise from your gathering.