Photos by: Ian Rawn
SweetWater 420 Fest :: 4.21.17
Centennial Olympic Park :: Atlanta
Centennial Olympic Park :: Atlanta
This year’s installment of the SweetWater 420 Fest started on Friday at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. Happy Ending Productions organized the event for sponsoring host SweetWater Brewing Company which features four stages and an “Experience Tent.” Local Atlanta band Moontower kicked off the festivities with a set on the Planet 420 Stage they got to play after winning a contest. The Planet 420 Stage also hosted performances from blues singer Samantha Fish, Vermont jam quartet Twiddle and hip-hop star Talib Kweli. Over on the SweetWater Stage, Dirty Heads showed off their reggae-heavy music ahead of a 105-minute set from moe. The jam stalwarts worked in plenty of beloved classics such as “Moth,” “Kids,” “Lazarus,” “Jazz Wank,” “Buster” and “Akimbo” within their improv-heavy performance.
Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio headlined Friday at SweetWater 420 Fest with two sets from his Trey Anastasio Band outfit. TAB fit many heavy rotation gems into their sets including “Sand,” “Cayman Review,” “Gotta Jibboo,” “First Tube,” “Simple Twist Up Dave” and “Alive Again.” Friday’s second TAB set featured the return of “Mr. Completely” which hadn’t been played since 2014 and the recently-debuted original “Everything’s Right.” Anastasio and his troupe brought the action to a close with an encore of traditional Irish ditty “The Parting Glass” and a typically frenzied “Push On ‘Til The Day.”
The festival continues on Saturday with performances from Widespread Panic, Slightly Stoopid, Anders Osborne, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Dopapod and more. Photographer Ian Rawn has shared an extensive gallery documenting the action at the first day of SweetWater 420 Fest ’17:
Pro-Shot Video
Setlists
Trey Anastasio Band (via Phish.net)
Set One: Sand, Magilla, Cayman Review, Mozambique, Gotta Jibboo, 1977, Tuesday, Money Love and Change, Small Axe, Sweet and Dandy, Valentine, First Tube
SET 2: Sometime After Sunset, Curlew’s Call, Everything’s Right, Simple Twist Up Dave, 49 Bye-Byes, Alaska, In Rounds, Alive Again, Clint Eastwood > Mr. Completely, Dazed and Confused
Encore: The Parting Glass, Push On ‘Til the Day
moe.
Set: Moth > Billy Goat > Tailspin > Tubing The River Styx > The Pit > Tubing The River Styx > Moth > Kids > Lazarus, Jazz Wank > Buster, Akimbo
Twiddle (via uTwiddle)
One Set: Daydream Farmer, Orlando’s, Apples, New Sun, Lost In The Cold, Beethoven and Greene, Subconscious Prelude, Second Wind, Moments, Jamflowman, Hatti’s Jam -> When It Rains, It Pours
