Festival Nation with Marla Davies
Bay Area Radio Personality Marla Davies Hosts Festival Nation - which Celebrates The Magical World of Music Festivals. Each week we'll talk to musicians, cultural icons and fans about the Festival spirit and the enduring power of music to influence, enlighten and empower. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
Episodes
July 24, 2023 • 2 mins
The Metallica Report is coming!
Keep up with all things Metallica by going straight to the source for your news. This weekly report is hosted by Steffan Chirazi, long-time rock scribe and editor of the band’s online mag, So What!, and Renée Richardson, a well-known Bay Area radio personality who now oversees the band’s foundation, All Within My Hands. Â
Steffan and Renée will keep you in the loop each week with updates, features, a...
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October 4, 2021 • 59 mins
Today host of 'Festival Nation' Marla Davies met up with Chris Ralles as Pat Benatar/Neil Giraldo's 2021 DeNovo Tour came to the historic San Jose Civic Auditorium on September 8th. The tour is criss-crossing the United States after a long Covid-hiatus. The San Jose show was the 6th show on this tour. Accomplished sideman/hired gun/professional musician, Chris Ralles, shares his stories about the new normal on tour, the music proje...
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August 19, 2021 • 37 mins
Today host of 'Festival Nation' Marla Davies met up with Dark Star Orchestra's Drummer Rob Koritz when the band visited the Bay Area in Spring 2021. It's a time of celebration as festivals and live music have begun to fill the air again. Rob shares his stories about playing drive in shows, his time with the DSO and reaching the milestone of 3,000 shows, his early days as a Dead Head and the inspiration to start his own podcast duri...
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November 6, 2020 • 69 mins
Today host of 'Festival Nation' Marla Davies explores the 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, this year's snubs and musical highlights from the all-star jams over the last 34 years. Guests today are 3 Bay Area Rock DJ's -Radio Programming Consultant Dana Jang, The Breeze DJ Nicci Ross and Sunday Night Dead Host Grateful Don Potter and Host of 'Who Cares About The Rock Hall?' Joe Kwaczala.
The format for the show this year ai...
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October 30, 2020 • 42 mins
Host Marla Davies talks with FestForums Founder and CEO Laurie Kirby about the future of music festivals, how COVID-19 helped burst the festival bubble and the brave new world we're heading into and how film festivals are leading the way for music festivals.
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October 23, 2020 • 65 mins
Host Marla Davies talks to Rock and Roll Photographer and Filmmaker Jay Blakesberg about the 'Skull and Roses' Festival that was scheduled for April 2-5, 2020. 'Festival Nation' and the Pantheon Podcast Network teamed up with 'Skull and Roses' for a podcast mini-series. This is one of the interviews from the archives that didn't air before the festival cancelled.
You'll get a peak into a pre-pandemic world and a 2020 concert season...
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October 2, 2020 • 35 mins
Host Marla Davies talks with Talent Buyer Chris Porter about the upcoming 'Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival' and how the San Francisco iconic festival is reinventing itself virtually. It's a chance to watch from home or virtually from a tarp in you own backyard on Saturday October 3, 2020 from 5p-8p EST or 2p-5p PST. The day will be filled with new performances, archival sets and crowd sourced footage.
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August 16, 2020 • 51 mins
Host Marla Davies talks with Vinnie Dombroski from Sponge who performed at the July Mini-Fest (Formerly the Herd Immunity Festival) in Wisconsin July 16-19, 2020. This was the first rock festival featuring major acts to take place since the pandemic started. You'll hear a first-hand account from Vin about his experience at the Festival, speculations about how small clubs can survive this pandemic, how Sponge has survived and thrive...
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July 9, 2020 • 58 mins
Host Marla Davies talks with Nathan Morin - the deodorant king of Chicago about his latest product, Grateful Dead Deodorant. Nathan is a deadhead and says the music and spirit of the Grateful Dead have influenced my company's core principles of service, veganism and organic agriculture.
Join us as we talk about the power of live music, love of festivals and deodorant,
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June 17, 2020 • 56 mins
Festival Nation Host Marla Davies talks with Maria Maldaur about her latest work with the Garcia Project called Spirit - A Loving Tribute to Jerry Garcia and The Spiritual Songs He Performed. You'll hear a few tracks from the latest release - GarciaProject.com. Maria also shares stories of her over a half century in the music business, her early days in Greenwich Village, seeing Bob Dylan play electric for the first time, the bless...
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June 12, 2020 • 50 mins
Host Marla Davies talks with Festival Pass Founder and CEO Ed Vincent about Festival Pass - the world's first live events subscription service across music, film, food and wine, theatre and tech and innovation and where he sees festivals going after the pandemic.
Please connect with me - marladavies.com and festivalnationpodcast.com or shoot me an email festivalnationpodcast@gmail.com. @festivalnationpodcast @nationfestival @panthe...
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May 14, 2020 • 51 mins
Host Marla Davies explores the SoFa Music Festival - SIP - Shelter in Place Edition. The Music Festival/Street Fair held in April usually attracts between 3,000-5,000 people who travel to the South First Area of Downtown San Jose to listen to between 80-100 bands on more than 10 stages in a 2 block area. And living up to its name there's lots of sofas on the street to hang out on and enjoy the day's activities.
This year the event ...
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April 23, 2020 • 37 mins
Festival Nation Host Marla Davies takes you to day 3 of a Virtual Festival - ARockagedden 2020. She's come up with the ultimate setlist of bands whose songs reflect these crazy times. You'll hear live performances and song lore. Since we can't celebrate the magical world of music festivals in our usual fashion, this is the next best thing - a virtual festival.
Here's today's ultimate setlist:
Arockaliptic Stage:
U2 - 'Until The End...
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April 19, 2020 • 31 mins
Festival Nation Host Marla Davies takes you to day 2 of a Virtual Festival - ARockagedden 2020. She's come up with the ultimate setlist of bands whose songs reflect these crazy times. You'll hear live performances and song lore. Since we can't celebrate the magical world of music festivals in our usual fashion, this is the next best thing - a virtual festival.
Here's today's ultimate setlist:
Arockaliptic Stage:
R.E.M.: 'It's The E...
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April 8, 2020 • 33 mins
Festival Nation Host Marla Davies takes you to day 1 of a Virtual Festival - ARockagedden 2020. She's come up with the ultimate setlist of bands whose songs reflect these crazy times. You'll hear live performances and song lore. Since we can't celebrate the magical world of music festivals in our usual fashion, this is the next best thing - a virtual festival.
Here's today's ultimate setlist:
Arockaliptic Stage:
Aerosmith : 'Rockin...
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March 21, 2020 • 47 mins
Host Marla Davies tackles the difficult discussion of the Coronavirus COVID-19 and how it's turning the Festival World upside down and inside out. The words postpone, reschedule and cancel have suddenly become commonplace as SXSW, Coachella, Stagecoach, Skull & Roses, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage, Bonnaroo and Glastonbury as all accept the pandemic and the need to make schedule changes. These are strange days indeed! Today on 'Fes...
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March 8, 2020 • 35 mins
Festival Nation Host Marla Davies interviews Steve Parish who'll be performing at Skull & Roses April 2-5 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds as part of our Pantheon Podcast Network Mini-Series. On today's episode Parish talks about the upcoming festival and shares stories about his over 50 years traveling with the Grateful Dead, his bond with Jerry Garcia whose band (JGB) he managed for many years, the power of cannabis and psychede...
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February 22, 2020 • 51 mins
Host Marla Davies talks with Rock Guitarist Steve Kimock about his love of music festivals including the upcoming Skull & Roses festivals, Jam Cruise, playing rock 'n roll in Japan, his yearning to play the oud and how he still appreciates the little things.
Festival Nation on the Pantheon Podcast Network is featuring a special mini-series on Skull & Roses - the multi-day festival celebrating the music of the Grateful Dead. Join us...
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February 7, 2020 • 53 mins
Host Marla Davies talks with Dennis McNally - Author, Historian and Long-Time Publicist for the Grateful Dead and Promoter for the Upcoming Skull & Roses Festival at the Ventura County Fairgrounds April 2-5, 2020. The 4th Annual Festival will celebrate the music and community of the Grateful Dead.
McNally was the publicist for the Grateful Dead for 11 years and attended some 1,100 shows. During the interview, you'll hear stories ab...
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January 25, 2020 • 55 mins
Host Marla Davies talks to singer and guitar player Grahame Lesh of Midnight North who will perform at Skull & Roses the weekend of April 2-5 for the 4th Anniversary at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. Midnight North recently performed a homecoming show at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, CA. and special guest Phil Lesh (Grahame's Dad) made a guest appearance with the band. Marla and Grahame talk about how Terrapin Crossroads is a...
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