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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. Jimmy, I’m sorry but you are way off. You have no idea of how these events are planned and the logistical details involved? It ain’t a backyard party. FACT: Security was well thought out and planned by the same people who have provided planning and crowd control for the largest and most successful music festivals and events in North America. Let me say it again..the largest and most successful music festivals and events in North America. My guess…someone like yourself spent an afternoon on Google searching the worst case scenarios and forwarded it to the museum. Bottom line: Who wins here…nobody. Cheers,Reality

  2. Thanks Dan for a great article in today’s days’.To bad The Museum still does not want to explain themselves….

  4. Oh come on! You can’t compare what happened here with racial discrimination! That’s just silly. You might feel like you’ve been treated unfairly – but it’s nothing close to the racial profiling that is going on in Arizona. Next you are going to call anyone who disagrees with you Hitler. Dial the rhetoric back a little bit. It’ll improve your argument.

  5. Not talking statistics…just making a point of the equivalent of “racial profiling” of certain concert goers/demographic. You all should move to Arizona. They like to discriminate there!

  6. Mountain Aire arrests translated to 3500 attendance Shelburne show = 22 arrests. Same calculation for the world cup = 0.275 arrests. Try again, genius.

  7. Hey! There have been 118 arrests so far during the world cup. So by this stereotyping logic that certainly means we should never have soccer games in VT, right?

  8. “Shelburne Museum made a decision without conclusive resolution of whether their position on the security issue was right or wrong.”…which could only come by holding the concert and seeing what happened. So the real “correlary” (sio) to what you were saying is that the only way for the Museum to prove themselves blameless in your mind would be to host the show and let their grounds get trashed. Then they could just get in a time machine, go back and cancel it. Good thinkin’, perfesser.

  9. P.P.S. Apologies for being part of a pot-kettle duo that has blown wayyyy too much hot air around these parts. Hope everyone – including Shelburne Museum, Jimmy, and that bird that pooped on my car – has a safe and happy 4th!

  10. If I relied on Crothers’ word, I would say that the adequacy of security plans had been proved. This is not the logical corellary of what I did state (i.e. that the adequacy of said plans had not been disproved).The objective data we have are:- public statement by Shelburne Museum taking ownership of the cancellation.- public statements by the museum and Higher Ground which provide conflicting opinions regarding the security situation (including second-hand assertions about authorities’ / officials’ perspectives)With such limited data, the parsimonious conclusion is that Shelburne Museum made a decision without conclusive resolution of whether their position on the security issue was right or wrong. To state otherwise is to use the handle of Occam’s razor, instead of the blade.The indelible reality at this point: *Both* sides were speculating, based on their own experiences and assumptions. We will never know who was right, because the concert is not going to happen. P.S. People might be inclined to volunteer their own biases if you don’t make hyperbolic accusations that miss the mark, peppered by ad hominem insults. Just sayin’…

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