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www.Facebook.com/ChicagoJoeMercado www.Youtube.com/ChicagoJoeMercado Here It is, "Banyan at Summercamp 2012", in Chillicothe, IL. "Summer Camp Music Festival" is a jam music festival held each Memorial Day weekend at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois. Developed by concert producer Ian Goldberg of Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment, the first year of the festival was 2001. Summer Camp is a co-promotion of Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment and Jam Productions. The music festival features a variety of activities. There is a Kids Camp area where the coordinators make sure that there are plenty of activities for children. This is a family-friendly area where an adult must accompany the child and participate in the fun. The Kids Camp parade allows kids to dress up in costumes furnished by the festival or made by the kids themselves. The parade route encompasses the festival site, passing through the campgrounds. Despite criticism over confiscating all alcoholic beverages during check-in, and then reselling them inside the venue, the festival maintains that this is to encourage a family atmosphere. In 2008, the Summer Camp Music Festival featured 6 stages: the Moonshine Stage; the Sunshine Stage; the Camping Stage; the Late Night Stage; the Campfire Stage; and, new in 2008, the Star Shine Stage. Each year of its existence, the festival has featured the band Moe. Summer Camp 2008 was broadcast live online on iClips. In 2009 the festival features a Hot Air Balloon ride and is sponsored in part by Major League Baseball. "Banyan" is an art rock/alternative rock band with heavy jazz, funk, and punk influence, based in Los Angeles, California. The leader and co-founder is Stephen Perkins, who first played drums for Jane's Addiction (1986--1991, plus later regroupings), and then for Porno for Pyros. He co-founded the group with Emit Bloch. The core members of the band are Nels Cline on guitar, Willie Waldman on trumpet and Mike Watt on bass. Mike Watt also sings on some Banyan songs. Both Mike Watt and Nels Cline generally play only West Coast dates and at various times the band has had Rob Wasserman on bass and Clint Wagner on guitar fill in when they are unavailable. Saxophone players Steve Mackay and Herman Green, guitar player Calvin Newborn, and bass player J. D. Westmoreland have also joined the band during select live shows. Los Angeles artist Norton Wisdom paints on a wet-erase board while the band plays, and the imagery he creates interprets the music much in the same way that lyrics might. To see the band in more than one performance, you will see some images that recur and some that are new, since the songs are compositions whose structure remains the same while there is also a large amount of improvisation, in the jazz tradition. The first EP featured Money Mark as keyboardist labeled as the Freeway Keyboardist. The first album was engineered by the Dust Brothers at their studio and produced by Turin and Perkins. Notable guest appearances on the second album Anytime at All include Flea, John Frusciante (both from the Red Hot Chili Peppers), Martyn LeNoble (Perkins' former bandmate from Porno for Pyros), Rob Wasserman and Buckethead. For their third album Live At Perkins' Palace (named after the fact that it was recorded at Perkins' home studio, not after the live performance venue of the same name), the band reduced itself to a four-piece unit of Perkins, Watt, Cline, and Waldman. Steve Kimock sat-in with Banyan during their August 26, 2007 performance at the Riverview Music Festival in Chicago, IL. Stephen Andrew Perkins (September 13, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter. A drummer and percussionist, he currently plays with Jane's Addiction and Hellflower.[1] Following the dissolution of Jane's Addiction, Perkins continued to play with frontman Perry Farrell in the rock band Porno for Pyros. He also has a solo project called Banyan, and in the 1990s was involved in Lil' Pit with Mike Watt. In 1992,...