BLOG UPDATES
AUGUST
Musical Risk | An Interview with Jason Hann of EOTO | Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
“Documenting Nateva Just As” | 2010 Nateva Music Festival | Contributing Writer: Garret K. Woodward
JUNE
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals | “State of Grace” | Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
MAY
Blues and Lasers | Interview with Scott Tournet | Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
APRIL
Flaming Lips New York | The Flaming Lips – Ithaca, NY | Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward | Contributing Photographer : Andrew “Dirty Santa” Wyatt
Green Mountain State of Mind | Apr. 10 – Scott Tournet / Joshua Panda with Ian Thomas Band (Nectar’s – Burlington, VT) ; Apr. 11 – Sam Amidon (Hooker-Dunham Theater – Brattleboro, VT) | Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward | Contributing Photographer : Andrew “Dirty Santa” Wyatt
Drive-By at House of Blues | Drive-By Truckers Concert Review | Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward | Contributing Photographer : Andrew “Dirty Santa” Wyatt
Bluegrass Behind Bars | Hot Day At The Zoo in a Vermont Prison | Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
David Hasselhoff On Acid | Interview with bassist Erich Thomas | Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
MARCH
U-Melt’s “Perfect World” | Album Review | Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
Jamie McLean Band – [pay what you want] New Album – Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
Spose It’s Worth A Mention – Spose – Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
RUHA – Blog Update – Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
JAPHY RYDER INTERVIEW – Interview with Patrick Ormiston – Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
FEBRUARY
SARANAC LAKE WINTER CARNIVAL – Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward | Contributing Photographer : Andrew “Dirty Santa” Wyatt
White Pines – Interview with Joseph Scott - Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
A Lucid Interview – Interview - Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
GREYSPOKE – Interview – Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
JANUARY
Hot Day at the Zoo - Zoograss - Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
“is” – The Art of the Present Tense – Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
That Toga Band - Air Play – Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
Brian Haas – PETTING SOUNDS – Contributing Writer : Garret K. Woodward
2009
Rothbury v Rothbury | Round 2 – ROTHBURY Music Festival – Rothbury, MI – (a)
Growing up on the shores of Lake Champlain, Garret spent his childhood listening to vinyl records (Blood Sweat & Tears, The Beatles, Chicago, Steppenwolf, The Young Rascals, The Chambers Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, The Clancy Brothers, etc) passed down from his ‘60s flower child mother in an old farmhouse on the New York/Quebec border, just a stones throw from the Adirondack Mountains.
Handed a copy of the Grateful Dead’s “Skeletons In The Closet” and Phish’s “Rift” at the age of 10, he soon found his true passion in life- music. From there, the usual evolution of listening to The Allman Brothers, Black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin took its course.
But, it was his first music festival, Strangefolk’s “Garden of Eden” in 2001, which truly opened the floodgates of what would later amount to a career in music journalism. Spending every cent he earned throughout high school at the now-defunct Peacock Records in Plattsburgh (New York), Garret quickly delved into the works of Miles Davis, The Cure, AFI (the early stuff), John Coltrane, Primus, The Association, Fugazi, The Band, Jane’s Addiction, and whatever he hadn’t tracked down from the Grateful Dead and Phish.
Majoring in journalism at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, an obsession to see as many live shows as possible was born. Venturing up and down the eastern seaboard, Garret traveled far and wide to watch Ratdog, Assembly of Dust, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Phish (“It” and the muddy “Coventry”), and who ever else caught his eye over the next four years. A spontaneous trip (while reading Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road”) to Bonnaroo 2005 resulted in an epiphany of someday becoming a writer. It was during this time when he accepted an internship at State of Mind Music Magazine in Burlington, Vermont. His work there evolved into a staff writer position, which he still holds to this day.
The path of music journalist had begun.
Graduating in 2007 with a B.A in Journalism and a B.A. in History, he took a job as an arts and entertainment reporter for the Teton Valley News in Driggs, Idaho. It was here he received the 2009 Idaho Press Club Award (1st Place – Best Light Feature) for “Chasing the American Dream of Breakfast”. Covering concerts and events across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, Garret eventually crossed paths with renowned music photographer Andrew Wyatt while playing a game of horseshoes behind a dive bar in the Teton Mountain Range. An unbreakable bond was immediately formed over endless beers and excited chatter of hopes and dreams in a sometimes unforgiving industry.
After leaving Idaho, Garret headed back to Upstate New York to pursue freelance music writing. Since then, he has written for such fine publications as Roving Festival Writer, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Press-Republican, Fourth Coast Entertainment Magazine, JamBands.com, GlideMagazine.com, Valley Citizen, and Planet Jackson Hole among others.
Continually searching for the next great sound, Garret has attended and written about innumerable festivals- Burning Man, Gathering of the Vibes, Mile High Festival, Outside Lands, Wakarusa, Rothbury, Festivus for the Restivus, Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival, Strange Creek Campout, Love Your Mother Earth Festival, and Jackson Hole Music Festival.
He currently resides in Plattsburgh, writing features, conducting interviews, and awaiting the upcoming festival season.
Notable Interviews:
* Tommy Ramone (The Ramones)
* Luther Dickinson (The Black Crowes / North Mississippi Allstars)
* Peter Rowan (Old & In The Way / Peter Rowan & Crucial Reggae)
* Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead)
* Mike Gordon (Phish)
* Michael Kang (The String Cheese Incident)
* Les Claypool (Primus / Colonel Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
* Al Schnier (moe.)
* Grace Potter (Grace Potter and The Nocturnals)
* Kaki King
* Jason Hann (The String Cheese Incident / EOTO)
* Ben Harper (Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals / Relentless7)
* Nels Cline (Wilco)
* Jimmy Cobb (Miles Davis / John Coltrane)
* Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon / Great American Taxi)
* Reid Genauer (Strangefolk / Assembly of Dust)
* Brian Haas (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey)
* Michael Travis (The String Cheese Incident / EOTO)
* Half-Pint
* Eddie Roberts (The New Mastersounds)
* David Nelson (New Riders of the Purple Sage)
* Scott Tournet (Grace Potter and The Nocturnals / Blues and Lasers)
