Dam Jam REVIVAL with Dave Gutter Band & Dominic Lavoie Band! August 18, Sunday 3-8:30pm

August 18, Sunday 3-8:30pm It’s back with more family fun than ever! Our outdoor festival focuses on family with kid’s art, stilt-walkers, traditional craft artisans, good music-as always, and fun selection of food trucks! 3-8:30pm. 12 and under Free-accompanied by an adult

Our headliner is Maine’s Grammy winner for Best American Roots Performance for the song “Stompin Ground”, which he wrote with Eric Krasno. Dave Gutter is also a longtime Maine musician and frontman for Rustic Overtones, a rock, soul and funk band-Dave Gutter Band.Dave Gutter Band: Grammy winner Dave Gutter is the founder, vocalist, and frontman of indie rock groups Rustic Overtones, Paranoid Social Club, and Armies. Singer/songwriter/composer/producer, Gutter has written songs with David Bowi, Imogen Hep, Gramatik, Eric Krasno, Aaron Neville, The Roots, Spose, Bensbendead, Haughty by Nature, Tedeschi Trucks Band and has had his works licensed by Netflix, Ubisoft, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, Warner, Fox, NBC and ABC.

Gutter, renown as one of the most perceptive and enigmatic lyricists of his time is also a horror oficionado and host of the show “Speak All Evil” digging deep into horror films :-0 @speakallevilpod. His song “Letter to the PResident” is taught at Harvard as part of a literary class on protest music and “Stomping Ground’ written by Gutter and performed by Aaron Neville and The Dirty Dozen Band, is taught as part of the history of New Orleans music at Berklee School of Music. Dave Gutter band will resurrect Rustic Overtones tunes at Dam Jam REVIVAL. Listen to Feels Like Forever.Listen to some Rustic Overtones

Dominic Lavoie is a singer-songwriter, musician and producer who uses music to stay as true to himself and the creative spirit as possible. Ethereal dreams to jarringly clear human experiences dance in his songs: and become real both on stage and through his albums.

He’s shared the stage with Rayland Baxter, Los Lobos, Dr Dog and Guster; and Lavoie is as comfortable on stage as he is in the studio, having released 7 full lenths, 2 EPs and a self-directed music film.

Dominic’s co-written for artists, like rapper Spose, and collaborated with producer Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, Deer Tick) on his own 2020 release ‘Wave With a Broken Arm’. Lavoie’s 2022 release ‘FLUX’ is a collection of songs written during the pandemic, recodrded to a 16-tract reel-to-reel tape maching and mixed in isolation. Listen to Time Machine Listen to Canopy

JACK GENTEMPO knits together performances with his original vaudeville skits that will keep you rolling with laughter!

PARKING is off-site with SHUTTLE SERVICE-Parking Lot A (Denmark Town Offices-Rte 160/62 East Main St.), Parking Lot B (Downeast Energy-48 Bull Ring Rd), and Parking Lot C (Khiel Lumber/Logging & Chipping-65 Bull Ring Rd). Shuttles will make the rounds every 30 minutes to pick up from parking lots and drop off at Bicentennial Park/Dam Jam REVIVAL.

Rain will cancel the outdoor events and move inside to Lake Region High School Performance Center in Naples, Maine for a 7pm performance with Dave Gutter Band.

Kids Area: On wheels the Fantabulous ArtVan-Keeping the arts rolling and Neveah Dance Circus with hula-hoop jam, face-painting, and roaming artists! Kids can design their own tee-shirts, make spin art, and a chance to make their own instrument to join in with the music! Children’s readings every hour on the 1/2 hour with children’s author Donna Seim’s. Kids 12 and under are FREE!

Traditional Crafts Area: Guitar-making with luthier Alex Edney, and Tear Cap Workshops Wood products and Pickett Hill Pottery.

GATE Open: 3:00-8:30pm

FOOD TRUCKS: Smokin’ J’s Wicked BBQ, Dragon Wagon Food Cart Sailaway Coffee Co Bridgton & Wolfie’s Links-Bridgton ME

SPONSORS: STANDARD Gastropub, Avenue Media, Norway Savings Bank, Baked Beans Recording, WMPG radio, Wyonegonic Camps, VisitMaine, Onion Foundation, and Atlantic Hardwoods, SO MUCH THANKS!

FAQs: What items are OK to bring-bottled waters (no glass please), blankets, chairs, hats, sunglasses, sunscreen, raincoat or poncho, valid driver’s license for concessions tent to purchase alcohol.

Guests are welcome to bring personal lawn chairs into the festival. To ensure clear sight lines for all of our guests, low “beach style” lawn chairs are suggested. The area in front of the stage is dance zone, please set up your personal area about 15 ft from the stage.

Please leave at home: PETS, coolers, glass bottles, alcoholic beverages, illegal or illicit substances of any kind, weapons, fireworks, and professional photo/audio/video equipment. Per Town ordinance smoking is not permitted in Bicentennial Park, please honor their statute allowing Denmark Arts Center to use Bicentennial Park in the future-thank you!