Music and Arts festival The Mad Tea Party Jam, presented by Appalachian Jamwich, has announced the dates for their 5th annual event.  The unique 3-day festival will take place June 16-19, 2016, at a new venue, Four Quarters Interfaith in Artemis, PA.  This premiere venue of the Northeast features shaded camping, showers, flushing toilets, swimming holes, and a beautiful "vibration" built by years of spiritual love and respect for the land.

Bassnectar, the genre-bending artist who once rocked so hard that he sank a stage, has been announced as the first headliner of Euphoria, a four-day music and camping festival returning to Austin, Texas April 7 through 10, 2016.

Joe Marcinek Band is hitting the road this December and will be making stops in Columbus OH, Covington KY, Syracuse NY, Buffalo NY and Cleveland OH. Joe Marcinek Band’s December tour will feature Joe Marcinek on guitar, Reed Mathis (Tea Leaf Green) on bass, Holly Bowling on keys and Pete Koopmans on drums. Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident) will join the Columbus and Covington shows on percussion. Michelangelo Carubba (Turkuaz) will join as percussion for Syracuse, Buffalo and Cleveland shows. Punk-pop electronic duo, ROAR!

Mike returns to the road in January, this time hitting the western half of the U.S. with his band on the heels of a well-received June run. The tour will begin with the band's debut shows in Texas beginning in Austin on January 22 before carving its way west with stops in Flagstaff, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Denver and others.

Always a pleasure guys, thanks for meeting with me to talk about all things Vine Street.  First off let’s talk about the new album you have coming out. Would you care to share any details or inspirations?