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Your Favorite Local Band Could Play Summer Camp Photo of Summer Camp 2009 by Smith

This year’s Summer Camp: On the Road tour continues to roll through the Midwest with stops this week at the Canopy Club in Urbana, IL and Uncle Fester’s in Bloomington, IN. The On The Road Tour brings the magic of the Summer Camp Music Festival straight to your hometown.

At each stop along the tour some of the area’s top performers will each play one set, with the audience choosing which band will perform at the Summer Camp 2010 Music Festival.

Here are the remaining stops on the tour:

3.12 – Urbana, IL – The Canopy Club

3.13 – Bloomington, IN – Uncle Fester’s

3.18 – Denver, CO – Quixotes

3.20 – Fort Collins, CO – Hodi’s Half Note

3.26 – St Louis, MO – 2720 Cherokee

3.27 – Carbondale, IL – Tres Hombres

3.28 – Indianapolis, IN – Birdy’s Bar and Grill

Be sure to come out and support your local music scene. For a complete list of performing bands and winners visit the Summer Camp: On The Road tour page.

You can also keep up on Facebook and Twitter for continuous updates as Summer Camp canvas the Midwest looking for fresh local talent.

Check out the initial Summer Camp 2010 announcement here.

For more on Summer Camp see our 2009 coverage here.

Baaba Maal

Legendary Senegalese singer and star of the world stage Baaba Maal will head out on a coast to coast U.S. tour this spring, marking his first stateside dates in four years. The master musician will also make his debut on the Bonnaroo stage this June, bringing his signature blend of electronic dance elements and timeless West African musical tradition to this year’s festival. These upcoming shows will be the first opportunity for Baaba’s adoring American fans to hear tracks live from his new album Television (Palm Pictures), released last year to critical acclaim. Joining Baaba onstage are Aliou Diouf on drums, Massamba Diop on talking drum, Mbara Cisse on bass, Ibrahima Cissokho on electric guitar, Hilaire Felicien Chaby Hary on keys, Cire Sall on hoddu and Mouhamadou Lamine Sarr on percussion. The U.S. leg begins April 8 in Wisconsin and wraps May 7 at the Lake Eden Festival in North Carolina.

Television is a collaboration primarily between Baaba Maal and singer Sabina Sciubba and keyboardist Didi Gutman, both members of New York’s Brazilian Girls. The result is a stunningly beautiful and diverse record that meshes two genres, generally unfamiliar to each other, to produce an eclectic and romantic sound. The enigmatically named title-track refers to a relatively recent phenomenon in Africa – ubiquitous TV screens. “The television set is like a stranger you didn’t ask for coming into your living-room,” explains Baaba. “You don’t care about who he is: he just seems to come from nowhere and gives you information.”

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“The Truckers do here what they do better than almost anyone elseblow the fucking roof off.” – 5 stars Uncut

Drive-By Truckers

The Drive-By Truckers will appear on Late Show with David Letterman on Friday, March 12 and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, March 31. They’ve also added additional dates to their The Big To-Do tour including nine dates with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

The Big To-Do will be released on Tuesday, March 16 on ATO Records and has already been in the Top 10 in music on Amazon. The band is offering an exclusive deluxe pre-order from their web site www.drivebytruckers.com. The deluxe package includes a 52-page color book with the art and text from the album, a Wes Freed limited edition, signed and numbered giclee, 18 postcard set, and 180 gram double gatefold vinyl. The band has also posted “You Got Another” as the third preview track on the record. The track is streaming on the band’s website.

The band will kick off the tour this week in Atlanta, GA with a two-night stand at the Variety Playhouse then heading to SXSW where they’ll play an in-store at Waterloo Records on Thursday, March 18 at 2 p.m. and then perform at Stubb’s at 10:30 p.m. with Band of Horses and Broken Social Scene. iClips Network will broadcast the band’s performance live from the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA on Friday, March, 12 and their sold out show on Saturday, March 13. The band’s long-time producer David Barbe will open the show with his band the Quick Hooks and they will also participate in the broadcast.

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