Yesterday, Cloud 9 Adventures‘ annual Strings & Sol Mexican bluegrass destination event kicked off with performances from Greensky Bluegrass and Yonder Mountain String Band, in addition to a late-night Mimi‘s On The Beach set at the Palapa. Greensky got the 2017 festivities underway with an appropriately beach-y, carefree set that featured, among other things, a take on “Broke Mountain Breakdown” that used the song’s ever-changing narrative to incorporate 1993 global dance phenomenon “The Macarena”, dance moves and all. Watch a short clip of Greensky’s “Macarena” below via Instagram user @smashleywhite:
Relive Greensky Bluegrass’ Tremendous Day & Night Sets At Suwannee Hulaween [Videos]
Greensky also surprised their Mexico “Campers” with a cover of Widespread Panic‘s “Bust It Big”. Recently, a member of the band’s Facebook fan group, Camp Greensky, had posed the question of whether or not the band had ever covered a WSP tune, and with the “Bust It Big” cover, it appears the band took note and cleared up that question. You can watch footage of Greensky’s Strings & Sol rendition of “Bust It Big” below, via the Strings & Sol Facebook page (begins 5 minutes in):
Strings & Sol continues today with a poolside Greensky set in the afternoon, followed by a sunset show from The Infamous Stringdusters, full performances from Leftover Salmon and Railroad Earth, and a late night Roc Watson set featuring Bryan Sutton & Friends. For a full schedule, hit the Strings & Sol website.
SETLIST: Greensky Bluegrass | Strings & Sol | Now Sapphire | Puerto Morelos, MX | 12/8/17 (via Camp Greensky Facebook group)
Dustbowl Overtures (1)
Burn Them
Handle Me with Care (2)
I’d Probably Kill You
Worried About the Weather (3)
Demons
Wings for Wheels
Broke Mountain Breakdown (4) 》
Macarena (5)(6)》
Broke Mountain Breakdown (7) 》
Macarena 》
Broke Mountain Breakdown
In Control
Letter to Seymour
New Rize Hill
Jaywalking (8)
Bust it Big (6) 》
The Four (9)(10)
Living Over (10)
(1) Lyric change “under a Mexico sky”
(2) “Don’t Lie” jam
(3) “Landlady” / salsa teases
(4) DJ Mike Bont playing percussion on banjo
(5) With dance instruction from Anders Beck and Annabel Lukins
(6) First time played
(7) “Macarena” jam and quotes
(8) Quote by Anders “You have a red light.”
(9) Lyric changes “somebody elses beach” ; “fell in love with the quatro”
(10)”Macarena” teases
[Cover photo courtesy of Dave Vann]