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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Just right and just weird
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s the final day of the inaugural Echo Project, and organizers are now estimating the total attendance at 15,000. While that’s probably not the big numbers many had hoped for, it’s a nice sized crowd when you’re on the festival grounds.
Marnie Reynolds, who drove down from Raleigh with a group of three friends, seemed happy with the turn out. “Everyone’s been so nice, and it never seemed really crowded. It gives you room to move and room to just be,” said the 22-year-old, dressed in a wrap-around skirt and carrying one of the fest’s must-have accessories, a hula hoop. “The music has been awesome, too.”
Speaking of great music, Philadelphia quintet Man Man turned barely controlled chaos into a suprisingly fan-pleasing set. It was like a twisted cabaret for the anteroom to the underworld. Bleating horns, clanging persussion, screeching keyboards, thumping bass and a gaggle of freaky mutant orange kazoo-like horns converged in a whirlwind of avant-garde weirdness set to a brutal oom-pah beat. Somehow, these guys managed to make all that strangeness immensely entertaining, dressed entirely in white and making an hour-long set look as much like an athletic endurance test as a concert.
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Echo in the final stretch
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The final day of the first Echo Project began at the 99X Pontiac Green Garage, tucked away in the corner of the grounds, furthest from the main entrance. This is where the Spencer Durham Group set Sunday’s festivities in motion.
Durham has a lot classic rock in his soul. The 19-year-old has gathered a talented young band, including two more musicians still in their teens and hotshot guitarist Joel Williams, 24. Playing the very first set of the final day of Echo Project, Durham and his bandmates didn’t necessarily modernize their Grateful Dead/Allman Brothers moves, they just gave them a youthful jolt of energy. Durham’s forceful voice is even more impressive coming from his small frame. Close your eyes and you’d expect a mountain of a man would be making that sound. It’s been tough to draw crowds to this local band-centered, since is tucked away in the back of the site. Durham proved a decent draw, despite the early hour and the stage’s low profile.
Back on the other side of the site, things were getting a little crazy. For sheer foot-stomping, joy-making fun, you couldn’t beat the MarchFourth Marching Band from Portland, Ore. It was a blend of burlesque, vaudeville, horn-driven funk and marching band madness. The costumed horde, many of them with their faces painted and several on death-defying stilts, made for the kind of spectacle that deserves the word awesome. At the end of the show, the entire entourage - and it was a probably a couple of dozen - trouped into the middle of the crowd at the Eclipse tent and it was almost like the shouting, chanting fans were part of the band.
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