[UPDATED] Greensky Bluegrass Welcomes Mike Gordon, Marco Benevento & More At Camp Greensky

On Saturday, the inaugural Camp Greensky Music Festival came to a close at the Hoxeyville Festival Grounds in Wellston, Michigan. Host band Greensky Bluegrass shared the stage with a number of guests during their headlining sets last night and then treated festivalgoers to a surprise “Campfire Set” around 1 a.m.

Greensky’s first set on Saturday began with If Sorrows Swim gem “Leap Year.” Then, guitarist Dave Bruzza led his mates on the debut of a new song titled “Like Reflections On A Pond.” Phish bassist Mike Gordon emerged following “Past My Prime” and “Kerosene” for a two-song collaboration. Gordon and his quintet performed on the main stage earlier in the day. Mike fronted Greensky on “Endless Highway,” a tune written by Roger Rasnake that Alison Krauss recorded for 1990’s I’ve Got That old Feeling. While Mike Gordon played acoustic guitar for the first song, he switched to electric bass for the set-closing “Don’t Lie.” Last night’s “Don’t Lie” spanned nearly 15 minutes and featured lots of interplay between Gordon and the members of GSBG.

Saturday’s second Greensky Bluegrass set saw the group work a tease of Phish’s “Harpua” within the “Windshield” opener. The band went on to tease two more Phish songs, “Contact” and “Simple,” during the “Take Cover” that followed. Marco Benevento was Greensky’s second guest of the night as he added keyboards to “I’d Probably Kill You” and “Worried About The Weather.” The frame and collaborations concluded with Cris Jacobs and Dusty Ray Simmons sitting-in on “Bone Digger” and “No idea.” GSBG encored with a version of “Living Over” that included a reprise of Foreigner’s “Feels Like The First Time,” the cover the band opened their first set of the festival with back on Thursday.

Later in the night, the quintet went without microphones for an acoustic “Campfire Set.” Greensky opened the surprise performance with Flatt and Scruggs’ “Down The Road” and “Little Maggie” by The Stanley Brothers. Paul Hoffman then led the group on a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” ahead of the traditional “Sitting On Top Of The World,” The Band’s “The Shape I’m In” and “Small Axe” by Bob Marley. Next up was “Courage For The Road,” a tune sung by Hoffman that Greensky debuted on Friday night. The set and festival came to a close with “Who Is Frederico?”

Listen to audio of Greensky’s Saturday night main stage sets taped by Todd Moore:

Check out a pair of photos from the event shared by Mike Gordon:

Setlist (via Camp Greensky)

Set One: Leap Year, Like Reflections On A Pond (1), Past My Prime, Kerosene, Endless Highway (2), Don’t Lie (3)

Set Two: Windshield (4) > Take Cover (5)(6) > Exhuberance > Take Cover, Just To Lie, I’d Probably Kill You (7)(8), Worried About The Weather (7), Bone Digger (9), No Idea (9)(10)(11)

Encore: Living Over > Feels Like The First Time > Living Over

• (1) – FTP
• (2) – w/ Mike Gordon (acoustic guitar)
• (3) – w/ Mike Gordon (electric bass)
• (4) – Harpua tease
• (5) – Contact tease
• (6) – Simple tease
• (7) – w/ Marco Benevento
• (8) – Lyric change “Pretty sure Billy Strings was in there”
• (9) – w/ Cris Jacobs & Dusty Ray Simmons
• (10) – Lyric change “We’re all going down on Bill Devol’s dime”
• (11) – Stairway To Heaven tease

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Campfire Set: Down the Road, Little Maggie, Atlantic City, Sitting On The Of The World, The Shape I’m In, Small Axe, Courage For The Road, Who Is Frederico