Bo Carper, left, and Jeff Miller look toward Saturday’s show at GuitarFish in Soda Springs. Tahoe Onstage photo by Tim Parsons
A jammed summer for New Monsoon continues this weekend with the third annual GuitarFish Festival at the Cisco Grove Campground in Soda Springs, on Highway 50 halfway between South Lake Tahoe and Sacramento.
The festival opens at 12:30 p.m. Friday with Drop Theory and concludes Sunday at midnight with Peter Joesph Burtt and the Tide Kings.
New Monsoon plays the midway point, 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The band is in the process of recording its first studio album since”New Monsoon IV in 2007. It recently put down the rhythm tracks at TRI studios. Guitarists Jeff Miller and Bo Carper and keyboardist Phil Ferlino will add their tracks to the mix at a future date, presumably back at Bob Weir’s busy Marin County studio.
“We’re looking at 10 songs now for the record,” guitarist Jeff Miller said. “We have some songs we’ve played and a couple of new ones we have not played live so it’s going to be a healthy mix of the two.”
New Monsoon will be play Homewood Days Saturday Aug. 17, and are planning a second annual GaryFest Halloween weekend.
Bo Carper, left, and Jeff Miller look toward Saturday’s show at GuitarFish in Soda Springs. Tahoe Onstage photo by Tim Parsons
Third annual GuitarFish Music Festival
Cisco Grove Campground, Soda Springs
Three day family, community, arts & music festival to raise awareness of over fishing and pollution of the ocean and to help preserve our fresh watersheds, rivers and streams. Children under 12 free. Sustainable Tahoe, is a nonprofit joint venture partner with the GuitarFish Festival. Both dedicated to preserving and protecting the Lake Tahoe watershed, and are looking to help raise awareness for all bodies of water: lakes, streams, rivers, deltas and oceans.
Tim Parsons is the editor of Tahoe Onstage who first moved to Lake Tahoe in 1992. Before starting Tahoe Onstage in 2013, he worked for 29 years at newspapers, including the Tahoe Daily Tribune, Eureka Times-Standard and Contra Costa Times. He was the recipient of the 2011 Keeping the Blues Alive award for Journalism.
