Review of Jammin’ For the Animals – Day 1

Aug 2, 2011

Jammin for the Animals Day 1: Flux Capacitor,

George Crow, Dirk Quinn Band, Yarn

“You know, every time we play, an animal comes alive.”

By: Autumn Walden & Heather Penn

So spoke a member of Flux Capacitor as they opened for this year’s Jammin’ for the Animals Music Festival, held at Blue Falls Grove in Reading, PA. Human and canine festival goers did indeed come alive on a hazy, Friday afternoon on the brink of rain—though, we were spared the showers and left to dance (and sweat) the weekend away. Flux Capacitor flexed its psychedelic rock muscles with Drop It Like It’s Hotter and Moth from the current album They Know We Know. Be on the lookout for the fall release ofMonolith.

George Crow, all smiles with a sandy blonde ponytail, emerged from the field dancing crowd to perform solo acoustic sets on the side stage in between sets.

Have you been initiated into the mysteries of the Evil Bird Man? You’d know because it leaves a glistening layer of funk all over your body. Source? The Dirk Quinn Band. They even launched into a rendition of Pink Floyd’s Great Gig in the Sky–of which the wailing woman was Dirk Quinn’s slender, golden-wood guitar.

Closing out the night was Brooklyn-based Yarn, a band that has weaved its way into my heart after I heard the song Abilene from their latest album, Come On In. Maybe it was the Dazed and Confused, Led Zeppelin jam they squeezed into the middle of Abilene–maybe it was the Sugaree Grateful Dead cover–the bottom line is, Yarn rocks. Stay tuned for Day 2.