Gettin' Piggy With It
Perennial emcee Wavy Gravy is going
hog wild Labor Day weekend and he
wants a few thousand of his friends to
join him.
Wavy is opening his Black Oak Ranch
near Laytonville, Calif., for the 12th
annual Pignic September 2 - 3,
co-hosted by the Hog Farm - an
"intentional community" (i.e.: commune)
that resides at the ranch.
The two-day campout and jamfest isn't
just for aging hippies longing to relive the
1960s, though.
The lineup sports acts running the
gamut from traditional folk to pop to rap,
with some political activism thrown in, of
course.
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
headline the festivities September 2, and
are joined by Zap Mama, Indigenous, the
Flying Other Brothers and David Gans.
Jackson Browne tops the September 3
lineup, which features Richard
Thompson, Michael Franti and
Spearhead, the David Nelson Band with
Henry Kaiser, David Lindley with Wally
Ingram, and Odetta with U. Utah Phillips.
Also making an appearance the last
day of the Pignic will be activist Julia
"Butterfly" Hill, who earned headlines last
year by living in the branches of a
northern California redwood tree she
dubbed Luna in protest of logging
practices.
There will be bonus shows for
campers only, and plenty of vendors
purveying wares from arts and crafts to
food.
The Pignic began 12 years ago when
Wavy Gravy asked late Grateful Dead
frontman Jerry Garcia to play a gig for
the Hog Farm as a fundraiser to pay the
mortage on Black Oak Ranch. Garcia
agreed, and the show called Electric on
the Eel became an annual event. Five
years later, the concert moved to the
ranch and was renamed the Pignic.
Black Oak Ranch is located some 160
miles north of San Francisco. |
