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The hippies are coming! The hippies are com … wait a sec. They’re not?

According to their website, Grateful Dead redux Furthur have been forced to cancel their upcoming Concerts on the Green performance scheduled for 7/5 at stately — and now 99% hippie free — Shelburne Museum. Here’s the announcement:

July 5th Shelburne Vermont Show CANCELLED
To All Of Our Fans Who’ve Purchased Tickets To Our July 5 Show in

This article appears in Jun 23-29, 2010.

Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to see rock shows for a living. He became assistant arts editor in 2017 and culture coeditor in 2021. Bolles has received numerous local and national awards for his writing on Vermont arts, sports and the occasional celebrity canine murder mystery. He loves...

56 replies on “Furthur Show at Shelburne Museum Abruptly Canceled”

  1. “Authorities said assaults, conflicts and the rampant use of hard drugs led to the that arrests of 63 people””In one cited incident, a 3-year-old child tethered by a leash to his overdosing mother removed his clothing to get away from the woman.””Undercover officers reportedly seized 8.9 grams of ketamine, 962 grams of psilocybin mushroom and mushroom chocolate, 61 ecstasy tabs, 2.5 trams of powered ecstasy and 30 doses of LSD.”Sounds super mellow

  2. BOOOOOOOOO to the Shelburne Museum for waiting until the last minute to cancel this show. It is a real shame that they screwed up so many people’s plans and vendor’s opportunities to make a living. I only hope that they suffer a similar fate. It will be a long time before I spend another dime at the Shelburne Museum.I will also think twice before purchasing tickets with service charges. This non concert cost us $24.00 in non-refundable service charges.

  4. “Actually I do know what really happened here.”Interesting that you choose not to tell us, than. There are certainly plenty of details left out of this story that could use filling in. Just as well, because if you don’t have the Museum’s side of the story, you don’t really know what happened. When did HG submit their security plan? What was done to resolve whatever differences came up? HG will lose money on this, so if the Museum violated their contract, we should see a lawsuit. That would just be common business practice in a situation like this. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that that won’t happen, and that concerts on the green will continue.

  6. “Furthur is not the Grateful Dead, and this is not 1995.”True that brother.”These are people who are too busy and responsible to go see their favorite bands far from their own backyard.”So, Further is one of your favorite bands? What is their latest album? Can I hear any of their songs on the radio?”Further” is a joke and exactly what Trey never wanted Phish to become, a nostalgia act playing for pay. Frankly, I’m surprised Shelburne Farms agreed to host this “sham-band” in the first place.

  7. Hey Jimmy,Actually I do know what really happened here. As a scheduled Vendor at the show and someone who works closely with Higher Ground, you bet I called several police departments and local officials to see what/who was to blame for us as well as others losing thousands of dollars in revenue. This is a busy weekend for VT vendors who only have the capacity to be at one or two events that weekend. With such a short notice, yes we do have to suck it up and take the loss and tell our employees there is no work for them that day.Its not just about going to another show…you need to see beyond the superficial here.The point being, Shelburne Museum dropped the ball. If initial permits/contracts were issued in FEBURARY, there is no excuse for this to happen so close to the show.And The Museum WILL lose business if the Concerts on the Green venue is dropped.

  8. The reality is that despite the press releases, none of you know what really happened here. Maybe the police were the ones who deemed the plan inadequate. Maybe the museum asked Crothers to do more and he refused. You just don’t know.The idea that the Museum is going to lose business over this is just laughable.Lowell is just a 3 hour drive, and tickets are still available to that show. Suck it up.

  9. This was absolutely poor on the part of Shelburne Museum. Everyone involved with putting this on (with the exception of the museum) were professionals insofar as putting on a show. The museum has left the registered vendors who were counting on income from this show out in the cold as well as created a negative ripple to the VT economy on all that would benefit from revenue generated by the show. To cancel this in the 11th hour was extremely poor, and I hope the museum feels a hit from the mismanagement of this. Higher Ground, please pull the concerts on the green and find a more suitable spot as I enjoy the shows, but I as well as many I know will no longer be a supporter of Shelburne Museum.

  10. First of all, Shelburne Museum is awesome. BUT, it sounds like they dropped the ball on this one AND threw Higher Ground under the bus in their official statement. Pathetic.

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