Moontower – The H.O.R.D.E. Show!

MOONTOWER presents The H.O.R.D.E. Show! Join us at Vista Room on 10/19 as we relive this 90s jam fest. See tributes to The Black Crowes, Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors and more plus a special Ladies of H.O.R.D.E. set! “These Crowded Streets” opens the show with a set of DMB. Totally 90s $10 tickets on sale now!

From Wiki –

The H.O.R.D.E. Festival began in 1992 as a solution to the dilemma of five east coast bands that sought to avoid the club circuit in the summertime when other larger bands were playing to sold out amphitheater’s.

Inspired by the previous summer’s success of Perry Ferrell’s Lollapolooza, John Popper and Blues Traveler called upon their friends Widespread Panic, The Samples, The Spin Doctors, The Aquarium Rescue Unit and Phish to join them in a nationwide summer amphitheater tour. After originally christening the traveling spectacle “Horizons of Rock Developing East Coast”, the vision spread to “Everywhere”, and so the name was created.

The H.O.R.D.E. tour can be viewed as the beginning of the second incarnation of jam band music, as well as the improvisation, community of fans, and diversity of music that became trademarks of the genre. The initial incarnation of jam music, led and epitomized by bands like the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band, sparked a love for improvisational rock and jazz that was fostered by both the musicians and fans associated with the second wave of ‘jam’ music. The H.O.R.D.E. tour, featuring such new jam icons as Phish, Dave Matthews Band, The Spin Doctors, Widespread Panic, The Aquarium Rescue Unit and subsequent Col. Bruce Hampton projects allowed for a new generation of experimental improvisational music to hit a national audience. The festival was able to bring together a group of musicians with a similar approach to live performance, and thus consolidate fans of the music; hence, a scene was created around the developing genre. After seven successful years, the final H.O.R.D.E. Tour concert took place on September 5, 1998 in Portland, Oregon.

See you at The Vista Room!