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    Thanks to: Chez Henri Wayside Commons Bob's Stores Directions to the Hatch Shell Use public transportation! Take Red Line to Charles (Street)/MGH station or the Green line to Arlington station. Heading North on 93: Take Storrow Drive (exit 26) Get in the right lane shortly after exiting the Storrow Drive tunnel. Hatch Shell will be coming up on your right. Heading South on 93: Take Storrow Drive (exit 26A). Follow the exit to the traffic light. Take a left @ at the traffic light. At the next Traffic light ( @ Leverett Circle) enter Storrow Drive West Bound. Hatch Shell will be coming up on your right. From I-90, The Mass Pike... Take the Mass Pike I - 90 to the end and follow the directions above for heading North on 93. A look back at Riverfest '04 
 The Thrills: The Thrills are one band who get it right. Right songs. Right attitude. Right reference points. For a group to casually list it's influences as The Beach Boys, ESP, Burt Bacharach, but equally stone-cold film classics like The Virgin Suicides and West Side Story, you know there's something cool going on. A recent fantasy compilation tape they made for the NME read like a Who's Who of Greatness - featuring Dexy's, Jimi Hendrix and Al Green. It couldn't have been more right if Beck had done the track-listening. The difference is, The Thrills aren't trying. They just are. The Thrills are touring in support of their fantastic debut, So Much For The City.  John Eddie: On the roller coaster of his career so far, New Jersey's John Eddie has had enough big breaks, hard luck, new beginnings, false starts, serious adventure, and big fun to inspire a boxed set's worth of country songs. He's had the sort of life - often hard-scrabble, occasionally charmed -- that other artists only imagine, or have someone else write about for them. John has managed to document a lot of this on Who The Hell Is John Eddie?, his debut disc for Lost Highway, along with details of assorted dreams, wishes, romances, and regrets. John really has spent endless days and nights on the road, playing the "dive bars" he so hilariously and accurately recalls. And he's endured the heckling of alcohol-fueled patrons wanting to hear Skynyrd and Petty and demanding to know, Who the Hell Is John Eddie?. Of course it doesn't hurt that Bruce Springsteen, was, and still is, a fan and would sometimes surprise John by hopping onstage during his weekly gig at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, and a huge River favorite! 
Mindy Smith: Adopted at birth by a minister and his wife, the music director of her Husband’s church, Smith grew up in Smithtown, Long Island. Early on, she felt drawn to music. "I heard music in my head," she says. She found her biggest supporter in the woman who adopted her, Sharron Patricia McMahon Smith, who she has and will forever know as her mother. An outstanding singer, her mother sang in church as a soloist and as a choir leader. With only $300 to her name, and knowing only one person in Nashville, Mindy made the leap. Struggling through low- paying jobs and difficult writer¹s nights, she persevered. Amid the thousands of young, ambitious songwriters moving to Nashville, it became apparent that Smith was special, and her reputation spread. Several publishing offers came her way, and she signed with the respected independent, Big Yellow Dog Music. Given the budget to record as frequently as she wanted and in the style she desired, she created a series of demos that attracted a line of record labels wanting to sign her up, subsequently signing with Vanguard Records. Currently touring in support of her new CD, One Moment More, Smith makes it clear: She's a uniquely talented songwriter and singer with a vision perfect for pulling people inward and reminding them of how to face the challenges we all confront.  The Push Stars:
There were about seven people at the first-ever Push Stars concert at the
Middle East Bakery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That was February 1996, and
four albums and thousands of tour miles later they're still playing, only
now to sold out rooms all over North America. After building a strong
following in Boston and releasing the critically acclaimed Meet Me at the
Fair in 1997, The Push Stars signed a two-album deal with Capitol Records
and released After the Party in 1999.
After relentless touring, radio play and numerous awards, The Push Stars
started to gain a passionately loyal national fan base. Two of their biggest
fans, fortunately, were the Farrelly Brothers. When the Rhode Island natives
needed an upbeat song for their hit comedy There's Something About Mary,
they chose The Push Stars' "Everything Shines" for the movie and the
soundtrack.
Paint the Town, now on 33rd Street Records, is
the fourth album from The Push Stars. And, once again, they'll find
themselves on the road doing what they do best. Their loyal fan base can
always count on them to show up, play their hearts out and make them happy
for a night on the town. And it is this inspiration that has kept the band
going, whether there are seven fans in the audience or seven thousand.
Riverfest Sponsors:     
PAST RIVERFEST PERFORMERS:  10,000 Maniacs (1997) Amsterberg, Merrie (1997) Andreone, Leah (1997) Big Head Todd and the Monsters (1998) Big Wu, The (2000) Brian Setzer Orchestra (1997) Brooke, Jonatha (1998) CPR (with David Crosby) (1999) Cracker (2001) Curtis, Catie (2001) Ferrick, Melissa (1998) Fiction Plane (2003) Finn, Neil (1998) Fixx, The (1998) Folds, Ben (2003) Gaines, Jeffrey (1998) Grey Eye Glances (1998) Griffin, Patty (1997) Hambridge, Tom (2001) Hoffs, Suzanna (1997) Indigenous (2000) Jayhawks, The (2000) Johnny A. (2000) Johnny Marr and the Healers (2003) Jump Little Children (1999) Kottke, Leo(1997) Larkin, Patty (1997) Lennon, Julian (1999) Mann, Aimee (2000) Miller, Rhett (2003) Mullins, Shawn (2001) Mulvey, Peter(1997) Paloalto (2003) Parker, Graham (2001) Pat McGee Band (2001) Richey, Kim (1999) Seven Nations (2001) Smith, Patti (2002) Sobule, Jill (1997) Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (2001) They Might Be Giants (2002) Trynin, Jen (1997) Vega, Suzanne (2002) Venice (1999) Wilcox, David (1999) Williams, Dar (1997, 2000) Folds, Marr photos: David Goldman |
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