High Sierra Music Festival, Plumas-Sierra County Fairground, Quincy, CA, July 7, 2012 Photo Gallery by Alan Sheckter Photo at pbase.com

High Sierra Music Festival, Plumas-Sierra County Fairground, Quincy, CA, July 7, 2012

For the eighth time in 10 years, I attended the High Sierra Music Festival, at the 3,500-foot elevation level in the mountain town of Quincy. I typically attend for one day, as I did this year. Donna and I went up on Saturday, as we were most motivated to see Ben Harper and his band, as well as a late-night set by old-time-country jammers Brokedown in Bakersfield. The beautiful festival site did not disappoint this year, with its wide array of jamming funk, rock, alt-country, new-grass (and more) acts, as well as its particularly colorful, free-spirited audience of many thousands. As per usual, unscripted side shows and surprise moments containing all sorts of artistic self-expression broke out constantly as the audience is just as big a part of the festivals as the bands themselves. We caught Ryan Bingham, Devil Makes Three, Ben Harper, Brokedown in Bakersfield, Railroad Earth, Rubblebucket, and Red Baraat. All photos (c) Alan Sheckter/AlSheck@comcast.net. Republication without documented consent is prohibited.

Ambiance	Busy festival thoroughfare	Intersection of two festival avenues	Stacie hawks cold watermelon on a hot day	Colorful characters on the Grandstand Meadow
No. 1 sport at summer festivals; skull sunglasses are optional	Ryan Bingham trio	Grandstand Stage - Ryan Bingham	Ryan Bingham	Ryan Bingham lead guitarist
Ryan Bingham bassist	Tall guy makes friends	Colorful future	Forever Stoked	Biggest paella pans ever?
Red Baraat's Tomas Fujiwara (from left) Sonny Singh, Sunny Jain	Funky brass ensemble Red Baratt's Rohin Khemani (left) and Sonny Singh	Red Baraat's Tomas Fujiwara (from left) Sonny Singh, Sunny Jain	Global pride	Charismatic and colorful. I like the look from the woman on the right
Impromptu banjo strumming	Festival parade, featuring the Samba Stilt Circus, Third Planet Ceremonial puppets and Chico's Wolfthump	Festival parade - Samba Stilt Circus performer,	Festival parade - Wolfthump	Festival parade - Wolfthump, featuring Shanti Peace (at left)
Festival parade - Wolfthump, featuring Mike Wofchuck (white bandanna)	Festival parade - Wolfthump, featuring Dave "Dragonboy" Sutherland	Festival parade - Wolfthump, featuring Shanti Peace	Festival parade, featuring a Third Planet Ceremonial puppet	Festival parade, featuring Third Planet Ceremonial puppets (who's that with Jerry Garcia?)
Festival parade, Jimmy Kerrigan	Festival parade, featuring a Third Planet Ceremonial puppet	Dancing lesson on the lawn	Holistic Hooping - in the groove	Holistic Hooping
Baton twirler	Grandstand Stage - Devil Makes Three's Cooper McBean, Pete Bernhard, Lucia Turino	Devil Makes Three's Pete Bernhard, Lucia Turino	Devil Makes Three's Cooper McBean, Pete Bernhard	Fairly blatant copyright infringement, but all in fun
High Sierra inner-fest transportation	Grandstand meadow and stage	Grandstand meadow and stage	Members of Huckle jam atop an RV - Simon 'Huckle' Kurth, Ezra Lipp, Murph	Members of Huckle jam atop an RV
Huckle's Murph atop an RV	Fairgrounds 4H tribute tractor meets festivalgoers	Rubblebucket	Meadow Stage - Rubblebucket's Annakamia Traver	Rubblebucket's Annakamia Traver
Flowtoys	One of the Grandstand Stage tapestries	Ben Harper, Justin Pate	Ben Harper	Ben Harper, Jesse Ingalls, Justin Pate
Ben Harper, Jesse Ingalls	Ben Harper, Jesse Ingalls, Justin Pate	Donna enjoying Ben Harper	Grandstand Stage - Ben Harper band's Jason Mozersky	Ben Harper
Ben Harper	High Sierra Musical Hall - blue-light-lit for late-night show	High Sierra Musical Hall - blue-light-lit for late-night show	High Sierra Musical Hall - Brokedown in Bakersfield returns to site of its first show, one year prior	Late-night set, High Sierra Musical Hall - Brokedown in Bakersfield's Scott Law
Brokedown in Bakersfield's Nicki Bluhm	Brokedown in Bakersfield's Tim Bluhm	Brokedown in Bakersfield's Tim and Nicki Bluhm	Brokedown in Bakersfield's Nicki Bluhm	Brokedown in Bakersfield's Tim Bluhm
Brokedown in Bakersfield's Dave Brogan	Railroad Earth's Tim Carbone sits in with Brokedown in Bakersfield	Brokedown in Bakersfield's Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz	Brokedown in Bakersfield's Nicki Bluhm	Brokedown in Bakersfield
Marco Benevento and Tim Carbone sit in with Brokedown in Bakersfield	Brokedown in Bakersfield's Steve Adams (left) with Marco Benevento, Tim Carbone	Brokedown in Bakersfield's Dan Lebowitz, Scott Law	Railroad Earth's late night set, High Sierra Music Hall. Set started at 1:45 a.m.	Railroad Earth's John Skehan
Railroad Earth's Todd Sheaffer	Donna reads by flashlight under blue light leaves, waiting for Brokedown in Bakersfield's late-night set

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