Mon 9/15 @ 8PM
In his book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, published in 1968, author Tom Wolfe made a hero of the slightly unhinged author/hippie lifestyle advocate Ken Kesey. Since then, legions of neo-hippies, jam bands, and others have fetishized that lifestyle, including the freewheeling 1964 bus trip Kesey’s psychedelic band of Merry Pranksters” made on their old bus, dubbed “Furthur” (also the name, not coincidentally at all, of a band formed by ex-Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir.)
Kesey took that great acid trip into the cosmo in 2001. But his son Zane restored an old bus in similar style, with the assistance of something his dad never dreamed of — a Kickstarter campaign. He’s taken it on the road to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his father’s legendary bus trip.
That bus will be hitting the Kent Stage for an evening of psychedelic/jam band raving and dancing that features Akron’s upbeat prog-jammers Aliver Hall (pictured), western New York’s rootsy, folky festival favorites Big Leg Emma.
Escape Pod is also on the bill.
Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door.
thekentstage.com/furthur-bus-50th-anniversary-kent/