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The Mammals
Summer Hoot 2019
The Ashokan Center
477 Beaverkill Rd
Olivebridge, NY 12461
Aug 23, 2019
7:00 PM EDT
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A 3-day music festival at The Ashokan Center 477 Beaverkill Rd Olivebridge, NY 12461 (20 min from Woodstock.) The Summer Hoot is your source for family fun in nature, local food and crafts, and lyric-laden, foot-stomping, soul-soothing, fiddle-infused live music where the Catskills meet the Hudson River Valley.
Discover your new favorite bands, try your hand at blacksmithing, visit the sheep, go on a group hike to Cathedral Gorge, camp in a tent, sleep in a bunk, play music under the stars, sing by a campfire, learn to square dance, improve your juggling, participate in some cool music & dance workshops, see a film, bond with the trees, meet our craft vendors, eat local food, drink local beer and cider, try a hula hoop, see an old friend, make a new friend, sing an old song, and get inspiration for a new one.
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Ovi
May 19th 2018
The Mammals were AMAZING. Whoever didn’t come missed a kick ass show.
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The Mammals Biography
Hailing from Woodstock, NY, The Mammals are a warm-blooded party band with a conscience. As the Washington Post proclaimed, “They don’t suffer from multiple genre syndrome, they celebrate it as if gleefully aware that the sound barriers separating old-timey music, vintage pop and contemporary folk are as permeable as cotton.” Their 2018 solar sing-along, "Sunshiner," was nominated for Folk Alliance International’s Song of the Year.
Their new album "Nonet," (out May 22, 2020) brims with their characteristic hope and authenticity. Like a shimmering wall of sound, with sparkling piano and banjo, pulsing double-drums, and soaring fiddle and organ, their courageous dynamics draw you in, lift your spirits, and renew your heart. The Mammals will perform 2020 festivals and release concerts in the USA and Australia, and will curate and headline their festival the Summer Hoot in the Catskills at the end of August.
At the creative heart of the project are songwriting multi-instrumentalists and founding members Mike Merenda and Ruth Ungar Merenda. They generally tour as a quintet featuring Konrad Meissner and a rotating cast of their favorite organ and bass players.
“The Mammals tell stories that are at once topical and timeless, bearing a message of hope and empowerment with a modern string-band sound.” - FreshGrass Festival
"Indeed, The Mammals are all heart, and Sunshiner seems to be packed with ideas about how love will yet win over darkness and fear.” - Kim Ruehl, Folk Alley
Read MoreTheir new album "Nonet," (out May 22, 2020) brims with their characteristic hope and authenticity. Like a shimmering wall of sound, with sparkling piano and banjo, pulsing double-drums, and soaring fiddle and organ, their courageous dynamics draw you in, lift your spirits, and renew your heart. The Mammals will perform 2020 festivals and release concerts in the USA and Australia, and will curate and headline their festival the Summer Hoot in the Catskills at the end of August.
At the creative heart of the project are songwriting multi-instrumentalists and founding members Mike Merenda and Ruth Ungar Merenda. They generally tour as a quintet featuring Konrad Meissner and a rotating cast of their favorite organ and bass players.
“The Mammals tell stories that are at once topical and timeless, bearing a message of hope and empowerment with a modern string-band sound.” - FreshGrass Festival
"Indeed, The Mammals are all heart, and Sunshiner seems to be packed with ideas about how love will yet win over darkness and fear.” - Kim Ruehl, Folk Alley
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