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All Good Music Festival
All Good Music Festival on Marvin's Mountaintop above Masontown, West Virginia USA July 15, 2011.
GenreJam band, rock music, bluegrass music, music
Datesthird weekend in July
Location(s)Summit Point, West Virginia, United States
Years active1997–2013, 2015
Founded byTim Walther
Websitewww.allgoodfestival.com/

The All Good Music Festival and Camp Out was a weekend-long event held annually in July. Since its inception in 1997,

moe. and Cake.[3] In 2016, it was announced the festival had been retired and would be replaced by a two-day event at Merriweather Post Pavilion
.

Background

The event was organized by Walther Productions and included mostly

Moe., Lotus, Bassnectar, Old Crow Medicine Show, The New Deal, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Yonder Mountain String Band, Dark Star Orchestra, and Leftover Salmon.[4]

Kite flying at All Good.

The festival generally featured three performance spaces: the main stage, flanked by a smaller stage, and the Grassroots stage located by Shakedown Street. The two main stages in the concert area operated with no overlapping sets, allowing festival-goers the unique opportunity to see all of the music scheduled at the festival. The location of the main stage at the bottom of a hill created a natural amphitheater with the music from the stage projected to the maximum number of listeners sitting on the hill; the mountains of West Virginia serving as backdrop.

Legal action

A Virginia driver, Clay Lewin, crashed into a tent of sleeping women at the West Virginia festival site near Masontown in July 2011. Nicole Miller, 20, of South Carolina, died in the accident, with two friends severely injured—Yen Ton and Elizabeth Doran, both of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Lewin, of Cape Charles, Virginia, lost control of his pickup but blames parking and security agents who guided him to the "steep, grassy slope near tents and other vehicles."

Lewin, Ton, Doran and Kim Miller sued campground operator Marvin’s Mountaintop LLC; Walther Productions; California-based Tobin Productions; M&M Parking Inc. of Pennsylvania; and three security providers, Event Staffing Inc. of Virginia, National Event Services, Inc. of New Hampshire, and Axis Security Inc. of Tennessee. Some principals are being sued as individuals; all have denied culpability, filing counterclaims against each other.[5]

Fletcher's Grove performing at All Good 2015 (photo by Anthony Paitsel)

Locations

Jacob Hemphill of Soldier of Jah Army plays 2008 late night.

On October 13, 2011, Tim Walther sent a request to

Port Royal, VA
off U.S. 17 owned by the Silver Cos. The festival would feature 14 to 16 hours of music a day, twice as much as the county allows.

  • 2015 - Berry Hill Farm - Summit Point, West Virginia: July 9–11
  • 2013 - Legend Valley - Thornville, Ohio: July 18–21
  • 2012 - Legend Valley - Thornville, Ohio: July 19–22
  • 2011 -
    Masontown, WV
    : July 14–17
  • 2010 -
    Masontown, WV
    : July 8–11
  • 2009 -
    Masontown, WV
  • 2008 -
    Masontown, WV
  • 2007 -
    Masontown, WV
  • 2006 -
    Masontown, WV
  • 2005 -
    Masontown, WV
  • 2004 -
    Masontown, WV
  • 2003 -
    Masontown, WV
  • 2002 - Sunshine Daydream Campground - Terra Alta, WV
  • 2001 - Oakley Farm - Spotsylvania, VA
  • 2000 - Buffalo Gap Campground - Capon Bridge, WV
  • 1999 - Wilmers Park - Brandywine, MD
  • 1998 - Wilmers Park - Brandywine, MD
  • 1997 - Wilmers Park - Brandywine, MD

Line-up by year

2012:
Michael Franti & Spearhead, Yonder Mountain String Band, Dark Star Orchestra
and . .
2011:
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
and . .
2010:
Parliament Funkadelic
and . .
2009:
Bob Weir & Ratdog
and . .
2008:
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Phil Lesh and Friends, Gov't Mule
and . .
2007: Leftover Salmon, Keller Williams and the Keels, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Les Claypool, Yonder Mountain String Band, Drive-By Truckers and . .
2006:
Umphrey's Mcgee, Railroad Earth, Tea Leaf Green
and . .
2005: Lake Trout, Del McCoury Band, Dark Star Orchestra, Keller Williams, The String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band and . .
2004: Leftover Salmon, Del McCoury Band, Dark Star Orchestra, Keller Williams, The Hackensaw Boys and . .
2003:
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
and . .
2002: Leftover Salmon, Sam Bush Band, Dark Star Orchestra, Keller Williams, Railroad Earth and . .
2001:
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Donna the Buffalo
and . .
2000: Leftover Salmon, Lake Trout, Acoustic Syndicate, Yonder Mountain String Band and . .
1999:
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
, and . .

See also

References

  1. ^ [1] Archived 2010-05-31 at the Wayback Machine All Good Music Festival Campout
  2. ^ Chelsea DeMello (October 3, 2014). "Board of Zoning Appeals rules in favor of All Good Festival". The Journal. Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
  3. ^ Dave Emke (February 17, 2015). "Primus, Cake to headline All Good Music Festival". The Journal. Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  4. ^ Newby, Tim (10 July 2020). "Americana Roots: Leftover Salmon". AmericanaUK. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  5. ^ Smith, Vicki (August 1, 2012). "Virginia Man Settling Lawsuits in West Virginia Festival Death". Claims Journal. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  6. ^ All Good Official Site

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