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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. This show would have been too wild for Shelburne Museum and for Shelburne. Too big, lots of drugs, etc. It was a crazy idea to begin with.

  2. “It is not my job nor responsibility to make transparent the decision made by The Museum.”Well you said you know what happened, and clearly you don’t. That’s my point, no one does. HG has a huge vested interest in keeping “furthur” fans – their core demographic – from thinking they dropped the ball. SM, much less so. So you get a brief, calm press release from the latter, and a long, screeching one from the former. No surprise at all, and it gives you no sense whatsoever of what really went down.When you’re talking about the same band, you’re talking about the same demographic. You get the wine and cheese crowd at classical concerts at the Museum. You get the crowd described in your article for a “furthur” concert. The band and the ticket price are the only factors that are going to dictate the demographic, it’s not like there’s a dress code at the Museum.Dan, saying that the Museum didn’t do its homework is just silly, especially after linking to that soundspike article. You do understand that the concert at which there were 63 arrests was just earlier this month, don’t you?

  3. It’s very simple; Vermont needs a venue that can accomodate upwards of 5,000 people. it currently has none. I guess the Essex Jct. fairgrounds comes close, but they can only do seasonal shows, and the security for the shows there f#cking suck. We need an ARENA, like every other mid-size city. An arena that can hold 5-10,000 people. then maybe I won’t have to trek to Montreal or Albany if I want to see an arena-sized band. As for the p#ssy a-holes at Shelburne Museum, f#ck them and their disgusting, elitist, pretentious existence. BOYCOTT SHELBURNE MUSEUM FOREVER!!!

  4. I misspoke:The venue in question has a capacity of 30,000 vs. 3000 at Shelburne. 7818 2 day tickets were sold. Along with the individual day passes this put the attendance at 11,000.The demographic of the 2 venues is simply not comparable.I worked for several years with Clean Vibes attended all Concerts on the green shows. Your not picking up empty nitrous tanks and balloons at Shelburne, your picking up empty wine bottles and cheese wrappers and the Patagonia wind breaker some one left behind.It’s about so much more then “hawking pretzels” Jimmy. That’s pretty shallow.It is not my job nor responsibility to make transparent the decision made by The Museum. Their “official statement” was pretty weak. I am waiting to see if they step up themselves.

  5. JSVT, 30,000? Interesting, because the article you cited said they sold 7818 tickets. Extrapolate that to Shelburne and you have 30 arrests, a conservative figure given that the Museum is open to all four directions and virtually impossible to secure completely. The article was also entitled “63 arrested at chaotic Furthur fest,” and contains this quote from the Sheriff’s Department, who unlike Malerbi have no vested interest in spinning what happened:”Contrary to reports of the attendees being peaceful baby boomers from the 1960s and ’70s only using marijuana, the sheriff’s office came into contact with numerous violent young adults under the influence of strong drugs with psychotic and aggressive behavior expressing anti-government sentiment similar to those subjects who protest G-8 summits and other anarchist movements”Sorry you didn’t get to hawk your pretzels or whatever. Let us know if you ever get the full story on what happened, and I don’t mean by talking to a promoter who had to save face with their target demographic.

  6. Hey Jimmy,From that same article:”most in attendance enjoyed themselves safely and peacefully.””All in all, the festival was very mellow, a very nice crowd,” Malerbi said.”http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100603/A_NEWS/6030327And the main point: You are comparing a 2 day festival that sold over 30,000 tickets to a sleepy VT venue that sells 3000 tickets. Simply not apples to apples there!

  7. “stereotype much?”No, I just read blog posts before I comment on them. Like the Soundspike link from the one that you’re commenting on, about a “furthur” show from a couple of weeks ago. There are plenty of other choice nuggets in there…”It got so out of hand we had to call in everybody we could muster.”

  8. ” not some 4-day drug festival which happened to include live music (Calaveras County last month). “Furthur Festival was a wonderful musical experience, not as described above. I was there and had a great time with music, friends and fun. Yes, apparently there was some trouble in the lot, but that was.1% of the folks there. Just wookies without tickets making trouble…

  10. Uh, ya Jimmy you read about that all the time in Vermont. When you quote somthing, you should also include the source….

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