Phish: A Benefit For Vermont Flood Recovery, September 14th
Phish will play a special show at Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, VT next Wednesday, September 14th. The concert will benefit Vermont flood recovery efforts. In the wake of Hurricane Irene, Vermont experienced its worst flooding in a century, which devastated communities throughout the state.
"It's been heartbreaking to see all the loss and destruction that came from the storm," said Phish keyboardist Page McConnell. "Vermont is very much a part of who we are as a band. We're really looking forward to playing this show and we hope the money raised will make a difference in the recovery and rebuilding effort."
General admission tickets will be $75. In addition, a special "Friend of WaterWheel" package will be available for $250. It will include preferred parking, a reserved box seat, a limited edition poster and access to a Vermont craft beer tent. A very limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com. The ticket request period is currently underway and will end on Wednesday, September 7, at noon ET.
Tickets will go on sale to the public on Saturday, September 10, at 10:00 AM ET. In order to ensure that a large allotment of tickets is available to local residents, the public onsale will be in-person only and will be cash only. The box office location will be announced this Friday at http://phish.com, by email update and on local radio stations. There will be a limit of two tickets per person whether individuals are purchasing in person or during the online ticket request period.
Proceeds from the concert and merchandise sales will be directed to The WaterWheel Foundation and The Vermont Community Foundation to aid in the recovery of the Green Mountain State.
The WaterWheel Foundation was created by Phish in 1997 to oversee the band's various charitable activities. Fans can donate to The WaterWheel Foundation by clicking here. You should specify that you would like your contribution to go to Vermont flood recovery efforts.
The Vermont Community Foundation was founded in 1986 and is Vermont's largest homegrown philanthropic foundation, managing a collection of over 600 charitable funds that invest more than $18 million annually in Vermont through grants, loans and other investments. In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Foundation worked with donors and other partners to facilitate donations for relief and recovery efforts, including the establishment of a fund to benefit Vermont farmers affected by the storm. Visit vermontcf.org or call 802-388-3355 for more information.
The show will be Phish's first in Vermont since 2004. Doors will open at 5:30 PM and the concert will begin at 7:00 PM.
1. Play Gamehenge in Vermont
2. TRey play your older guitar for just one night. The newer one sounds tinny and just plain aweful.
thankyou
The doors are now opening at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday to help alleviate the traffic flow; only people with tickets will be allowed inside the Essex fairgrounds, so trying to get in without a ticket's a waste of time. Also, they will be clearing the parking lot by midnight after the show.
Stop fucking around and Play Gamehenge up here in Vermont ans also Trey switch back to you older guitar the new one sounds tinny and weak
You better play Gamehenge in Vermont and also switch back to your old guitar Trey, the newer one sounds tinny as all hell!
Seems to me the people selling GA tickets on ebay for 300+ should donate those funds to the vermont flood relief. I am appalled that there are those out there making a profit from our friends welcome contribution to help us here in Vermont. I dont have any money left to be able to see the show, as recovery from Irene has been way more than i can afford. Thank you Phish for this, and thanks to all the friends and fans of the band for your support. As muchas some of you who dont have tickets want to see the show, please dont support scalpers it detroys the whole purpose of the show.
Please post asap where tickets will be sold! Im so excited and cant wait!
Thank you so much for recognizing the dire need that the state of Vermont is in. Being a longtime Vermonter and loyal Phish fan I appreciate your generosity, love and support. There is so much devastation all around the state.
The funds raised by this concert will be able to help so many Vermonter's in so many ways. I am so proud to be part of the Vermont community as well as the Phish community. And I am so excited to be part of this special event.
<3 <3 <3
PhanResponse is requesting volunteers to aid in recovery efforts. Phish fans around the universe are invited to your nearest street corner to raise money like a hobo for Vermont Flood Relief. Door to Door solicitations are also encouraged (where permitted by law).
You are now a regional representative for Phish Phan Response. Welcome. Please begin immediate recruitment and fund-raising.
Please remit collected donations to Phan Response c/o The WaterWheel Foundation PO Box 4400, Burlington VT 05406-4400. Please include a note directing funds towards Vermont Flood Recovery.
UNFORTUNATELY I DID NOT receive tickets and being a native Vermonter I was so looking
forward to helping my neighbors and seeing a GREAT band. My friend bought tickets at the same time and
GOT THEM!!!!!!!!
It is also VERY unfortuate to see these same tickets on EBAY for ridiculous $$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't people understand this is a BENEFIT NOT for profit!!
So wish I was around to stand in line for tix but that is not the case!
Whhooooot!
If this is a BENEFIT for Vermont Residents, let us help by webcasting the show and our payment for the webcast pays the ticket price to send Vermont residents for free to the show... D0n't they have enough expenses to cover with the looming recovery they face!?
Set it up and I'll chip in as will millions of other Phans across the country...
And make the webcast viewable one time at any time for those of us that work during the hours the show actually happens...
Thanks Brothers and Sisters for all you do!
-Derek
Detroit, Michigan
Hi All! Here is a wesite that will help get you to the show. It shows road conditions (CLOSED ROADS AND BRIDGES, etc.) in VT among other helpful info. Please pass this on so that folks can avoid these areas. Peace.
http://crisislanding.appspot.com/?crisis=2011_flooding_vermont
Hi All! Hope you have a very groovy show!
Here is a website that will help you make your way to the fair. It gives all of the CLOSED ROADS and BRIDGES among other helpful info. Peace.
http://crisislanding.appspot.com/?crisis=2011_flooding_vermont
This show is monumental for me, it is going to be my first show since coventry. I haven't been around due to the federal BOP, and have dreamed getting back into the mix. so much for the
, and i will gladly give to the relief!
Our small town of Wilmington suffered terribly this past week as Irene flooded our streets, and tested the strength of our town folk. Our community as well as many others could certainly use the help a benefit concert could bring. HOWEVER...
Many roads are still closed! and will remain as such for several months if not longer. You've heard the saying, 'You can't get there from here' well for some areas that's true.
I plead with my fellow PHISH fans...Please drive slow, give yourself extra travel time, pack water, nonperishable foods, extra clothing, a shovel, mud boots, a flashlight, a "good" spare tire, don't let your gas tank get below 1/2 full if you can help it and most of all, if you see a stranded vehicle.... roll your window down and see if they need your help. Brother to brother, sister to sister be safe, be happy, be kind.
In addition to a benefit for Vermont in Vermont, how about a benefit for Vermont in NYC?
My parents' house is in Wilmington VT, and there and elsewhere they are encouraging people not to drive into the area, to give them time to rebuild the roads and to ease the pressure on the already damaged infrastructure.
Vermonters definitely deserve a show, and need the money that will be raised, but it would be great to give those of us who live elsewhere but have a special place in our hearts for Vermont (and for Phish) an opportunity to attend and support a benefit without pressuring the VT infrastructure before they are ready for it.
PLEASE PLEASE Webcast this show. You know we PHISH PHANS will pay a little extra to help others and get our groove on....Thanks for everything!!
hang in there vermont cali loves you i will pay extra for the webcast
Thank you for giving back to your community, now how about a live webcast so we can all be part of this moment!! Thanks guys for my own personal 20 years of seeing/enjoying your music and vibes!!!
I just wanted to thank you guys from the bottom of my heart for giving us Vermonters a show that we really need right about now. Need to do some boogeying with Phriends to get us all through this ... thank you Phish ... again you have proven to me why I have been a fan for 20 years ... thank you thank you thank you!!!
us and how truly giving you are to those in need. Your spirit of generousity surrounds the scene and many of my true best friends, I've met at your shows. Thank you!!
thank you guys!! this will help. those of us in southern vt are truly grateful...i'll be passing the word on to folks down here. seriously though, mother nature is rad bitch and her girl irene had something to prove. neighbors lost homes...everything. who would have guessed a hurricane here? not leaving home much as the 8 mile trip to town is now 40 + courtesy of a broken bridge. would love to drive up to see the show, but not very practical right now....what am i thinking???? please play hard!!!!!!!!!! perhaps a webcast or something? yay...again, thanks so much...it is pretty great that you guys are doing this!!!!!
First, I don't live in an area of Vermont affected by the floods, but thank you to Phish for pitching and helping out and thank you to the previous posters for requests of Live CDs and Phish Casts of the show and whether or not these happen, anything extra you can donate to the links above for flood relief efforts are really going to help. Some folks here are really going to need IT.
Please extend couch tour by webcasting the benefit show next week! This is a rarity we'd all love to be a part of, even if only from our respective couches.
it would be cool to see a live phish cd of the show released ,to benefit flood victims. i cant make the show but i'd buy the cd.
please offer a webcast so we can participate in the benefit and enjoy the music! thank you!
I'd pay extra for a webcast if I knew some of that money was going to hurricane relief. In any case, glad to hear this is happening.
Another way to raise more money for this country/ world wide. That would be wonderful!
GREAT Summer tour for 2011!
A webcast would generate so much more money.
Lets go Phish!
The pics out of VT are insane! So sad
Yes, this would be a good way for many more of us to donate to charities that we know will do good with our donations.
[And, we'd get to see a Vermont show that might make up for that long weekend in Coventry. ]
Thanks!
Can you please set up a live webcast for the Benefit show? It will help raise more money!
PS- Thanks for the SSSSSSSuper time in Colorado!
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