A very limited number of tickets to Phish's Miami shows on December 28, 29 and 30 have been released and are available now via Ticketmaster.com.

[NOTE: These pieces are SOLD OUT. We do not currently anticipate making any more available.]

Mike Gordon has teamed with his mother, artist Marjorie Minkin, to create 50 limited edition Inside In CDs. The CDs come inside plastic boxes that are wall-mountable, and are adorned with small one-of-a-kind paintings that have been signed and numbered by Marjorie Minkin. The CDs themselves are also signed by Mike. Essentially, these are fine-art pieces that also hold a copy of Inside In. Here to provide some more background, is Mike Gordon. Mike?

"Hello, Mike here...Some of you may know my Mother's work from the various backdrops she did for Phish, or from the song, "Minkin," on the band's early self-released album. She has always been a huge influence on me -- my biggest, in fact. She repeatedly demonstrates what it means to stretch artistic limits as far as possible. And for over a decade she and I have been talking about doing some sort of collaboration that mixes painting (her work is done with iridescent pigments on transparent plastic) and sound. Now "Inside In" is becoming the perfect opportunity for us to combine efforts. Our long term goal is to create a gallery installation, but we also wanted to create simpler pieces that people could handle and have for themselves."

The units sell for 101 dollars and 101 cents, for a total of $102.01 and will be shipped out directly from the Minkin studio. To learn more about the artist, please visit her web site at (http://www.marjorieminkin.com).

To purchase one of these pieces, please visit the Phish Dry Goods web site at : http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=70


For more information on the Inside In album, please visit http://insidein.com.

Unfortunately our server could not manage the simultaneous demand for the 20th Anniversary Pollock Posters. Instead these will be available via Dry Goods the old fashioned way, by phone, at 802.862.5400. We apologize for the inconvenience.

A limited edition series of 2000 posters, signed and numbered by Jim Pollock, was created for the recent show in Boston. Half the posters were sold at the show, and the balance will be available through Dry Goods on Monday beginning at 10 am EST. The posters will only be available online. so don't bother trying to sweet talk anyone over the phone. There is a limit of one poster per person, and we ask that anyone who purchased one at the show not purchase another online. The posters will be available at www.phish.com/drygoods

All 8 of Phish's concerts in November and December will be available for download at http://livephish.com. You may pre-order all 8 shows together at a discount or pre-order individual shows. Each show will be available for download within 48 hours of the actual performance.

If you're coming to the Boston show, please take a minute to read some safety and entrance information provided by the FleetCenter on the Tourdates section of Phish.com Click here fo more info.
HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Beginning with the Nassau Coliseum show on 11/28, tune in to Phish.com's From the Road section as we post the set live as it happens. As they say, a watched pot never boils, so go easy on the refresh button to keep our site from slowing to a crawl. We'll continue to update the From the Road section with photos, videos, and journal entries during Phish's upcoming shows.

Since we launched the Live Phish Downloads service last December, many of the more Luddite Phish fans (and we mean that in a good way) have expressed to us their interest in seeing select shows from the download series released on CD.

We are pleased to announce the release of three concerts from 2003 on 3-CD sets exclusively available from Phish Dry Goods and select independent record stores nationwide.

The shows are:

* 2/28/03 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
* 7/15/03 USANA Amphitheatre, West Valley City, UT
* 7/29/03 Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake, Burgettstown, PA

These shows (three of the most popular shows from the download series), have been remastered, and come in an innovative single-width jewel box with enhanced artwork based on the downloadable graphics on LivePhish.com.

Depending on the response to these CDs, we hope to create similar CD releases in the future. These releases are not part of the Live Phish series (volumes 1-20) released via Elektra Records, which has been discontinued for the time being.

The new Live Phish releases are $18 each, or $48 when purchased together. Everyone who buys all three new releases is automatically entered into our Live Phish preorder contest. The grand prize winner will receive two tickets to each of the four upcoming shows in Miami. Two runners up will each win two tickets to the New Year's Eve show in Miami. To preorder these shows, or for more information (including setlists) about these releases, go to http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=73. We will begin shipping orders shortly before the official release date of December 16.

These shows are also available at select independent stores nationwide for a limited time beginning December 16.

Dry Goods offers free shipping to anywhere in the U.S. for all orders over $50. Among the various new products we have available is the Phish 2004 Calendar, a new lightweight hemp hoody, a Weekapaug hoody and crewneck, and the infamous Masters of Fu T. Check out all the new offerings online at http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=19.

A short montage of footage of Vida Blue and the Spam Allstars recording at Middle Ear Studios last April was posted to the Vida Blue website. See if you can determine what worldwide pop superstars own the studio based on the photos on the studio wall. Check it out at http://www.vidablue.net/multimedia/video.php.

Tickets for the Vida Blue January tour are currently on sale. The tour will feature the Spam Allstars playing with Vida Blue on all dates, and Jazz Mandolin Project, featuring Jon Fishman, will open all dates except the last show in Vermont.

The tourdates are as follows:

VIDA BLUE January 2004

Sat, Jan 3 / Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts / Miami Beach, FL
Sun, Jan 4 / Jannus Landing / St. Petersburg, FL
Mon, Jan 5 / The Tabernacle / Atlanta, GA
Wed, Jan 7 / The Orange Peel / Asheville, NC
Thu, Jan 8 / 9:30 Club / Washington, DC
Fri, Jan 9 / Electric Factory / Philadelphia, PA
Sat, Jan 10 / Roseland Ballroom / New York, NY
Mon, Jan 12 / Higher Ground / Winooski, VT

Full ticketing information can be found on the Phish Tourdates page at http://www.phish.com/tourdates or on the Vida Blue site at http://vidablue.net

VIDA BLUE -- THE ILLUSTRATED BAND is available for sale directly from Phish Dry Goods: http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=92

Tickets for "An Acoustic and Electric Evening with Dave Matthews and Friends" go on sale to the public beginning this Saturday, November 1. As announced here previously, Trey will be joining Dave Matthews for twelve dates in December and January. The band also includes Brady Blade, Tony Hall, Tim Reynolds, and Ray Paczkowski, who's played keyboards with Trey's solo band for the past couple of years. The shows will also feature special guest Emmylou Harris and Spyboy. For the dates and full onsale information, please visit the Dave Matthews website at http://dmband.com.

In related news, Trey will join Dave and his solo band as the musical guest of Saturday Night Live on November 8 (the host is US Open men's singles champion Andy Roddick) and on Late Night with David Letterman both December 18 and 19.

Waterwheel's Touring Division will be back at it at the upcoming Phish shows. As always, the net proceeds raised at the WaterWheel tables will be donated to the nonprofit hosted at each show. So far over $423,000 has been given to more than 180 nonprofits, thanks to the outstanding support of the Phish community. The Register to Vote and Fishman 2004 campaigns will also be in full swing, now on their "election year" footing. If you're concerned about the leadership of this country or just want a decent band to play at the Inaugural Festivities, stop by the table and get registered.

WaterWheel is pleased to announce its 2003 grants for Lake Champlain. $289,000 has been given to 14 organizations working on environmental issues affecting Lake Champlain, bringing the total amount donated to Lake causes to $1,054,700. The largest grant is $105,000 to ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain. ECHO opened its innovative lake aquarium and science center on the waterfront in Burlington, VT earlier this year.

WaterWheel continues its support of the Conservation Law Foundation's (CLF) clean water advocacy with a grant of $80,000. Its Vermont office has been a consistent advocate for actual enforcement of the Clean Water Act and other environmental protection laws. An additional $40,000 was donated to CLF's nascent Lake Champlain Lakekeeper, part of the Waterkeeper Alliance. The Lakekeeper's mission is to protect and restore Lake Champlain through advocacy and by enlisting public support for the cause. The Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC) received its fifth grant from WaterWheel for $30,000. In conjunction with CLF, VNRC won a major legal victory earlier this year when the Water Resources Board rejected the Agency of Natural Resources' "Watershed Improvement Permits", issued the previous year despite the water bodies in question not meeting Vermont's basic minimum standards for water quality.

Additional grants of $13,000 have been made as part of WaterWheel's small watershed association program. Recipients are volunteer-led and locally-based watershed groups who galvanize the community to help with such projects as water quality monitoring and stream bank restoration. These grants went to the Au Sable River Association, Missisquoi River Basin Association, Keeping Track, Voice for the Potash Brook Watershed, Lewis Creek Association, Middlebury River Watershed Partnership, and the Poultney-Mettowee Watershed Partnership.

WaterWheel provided additional support for the Nature Conservancy of Vermont's battle against non-native nuisance species in the Lake with a $10,000 grant. Volunteers and staff have pulled over 200 tons of the plants since 1998, in some areas completely eradicating them. $5,000 was given to the National Wildlife Federation's (NWF) northeast field office for its efforts to protect and restore fish-dependent birds on Lake Champlain. $6,000 will help fund a volunteer water quality monitoring program in the City of Burlington.

Funding for this program is made possible by the sale of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food ice cream. All royalties due to Phish from Phish Food will be donated by WaterWheel to organizations working to improve the environmental well-being of Lake Champlain and its watershed. For more information about these grants and all things WaterWheel, visit the website at http://www.phish.com/waterwheel/.

Shortly after Phish wraps up their four-night run in Miami this December, Page will begin a short tour up the East Coast with Vida Blue. The eight-show tour kicks off at the historic art-deco Jackie Gleason
Theater in Miami Beach on Saturday, January 3.

Page, Russell and Oteil will be joined by the six-member Spam Allstars, who back Vida Blue on their new studio release The Illustrated Band, out today on Sanctuary Records.

We're pleased to announce that the Jazz Mandolin Project, featuring Jon Fishman on drums, will open all dates except the last date in Vermont.

The tourdates are as follows:

VIDA BLUE January 2004

Sat, Jan 3 / Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts / Miami Beach, FL
Sun, Jan 4 / Jannus Landing / St. Petersburg, FL
Mon, Jan 5 / The Tabernacle / Atlanta, GA
Wed, Jan 7 / The Orange Peel / Asheville, NC
Thu, Jan 8 / 9:30 Club / Washington, DC
Fri, Jan 9 / Electric Factory / Philadelphia, PA
Sat, Jan 10 / Roseland Ballroom / New York, NY
Mon, Jan 12 / Higher Ground / Winooski, VT

Tickets to the Vida Blue tour will be offered in real-time through our secure online ticketing system, beginning this Thursday, Oct 16 at noon, before they go on sale through public outlets. The Vida Blue ticket site can be found at http://vidabluetickets.rlc.net Tickets for individual shows will be onsale through this site until the allotment sells out or until one day before they go onsale to the public via traditional outlets.

The first public onsale is Wednesday, November 12, but please refer to the Phish or Vida Blue websites for exact onsale times for each show. All shows are general admission except the Miami Beach show.

Full ticketing information can be found on the
Phish Tourdates page at http://www.phish.com/tourdates or on the Vida Blue site at http://vidablue.net

VIDA BLUE -- THE ILLUSTRATED BAND is available for sale directly from Phish Dry Goods:
http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=92

Trey Anastasio will be joining Dave Matthews on the road for "An Acoustic and Electric Evening with Dave Matthews and Friends" this December and January. The band also includes Brady Blade, Tony Hall, Tim Reynolds and Ray Paczkowski, who's played keyboards with Trey's solo band for the past couple of years. The evening will also feature special guest Emmylou Harris and Spyboy. Tourdates are as follows:

Fri, December 12 / Bryce Jordan Center / University Park, PA
Sat, December 13 / Dunkin' Donuts Center / Providence, RI
Mon, December 15 / Wachovia Center / Philadelphia, PA
Tue, December 16 / Fleet Center / Boston, MA
Wed, December 17 / Madison Square Garden / New York, NY
Fri, December 19 / Hartford Civic Center / Hartford, CT
Sat, December 20 / Blue Cross Arena / Rochester, NY
Mon, December 22 / Allstate Arena / Rosemont, IL
Mon, January 12 / Key Arena / Seattle, WA
Wed, January 14 / Cox Arena / San Diego, CA
Thu, January 15 / Staples Center / Los Angeles, CA
Fri, January 16 / Oakland Arena / Oakland, CA

Full tourdate and ticket information is available at the Dave Matthews Band website (http://www.dmband.com). The Warehouse, DMB's Fan Club Association offers an early ticket window for Warehouse members only beginning this Thursday, October 9. Please visit the DMB website for more information.

As many of you may know, Trey plays on five songs on Dave Matthews' debut solo album, SOME DEVIL, released on September 23 from RCA Records. The album is available for sale directly from Phish Dry Goods at http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/product.html?pid=691CD&cid=19&pg=

The latest show in our ongoing series of Phish archival releases on LivePhish.com is now available: 12/1/92 Denison University, Granville, Ohio. The show came in the middle of the band's Fall 1992 tour. At this time, the band was featuring material off of Rift, which would come out three months later in February of 1993. The show also features the debut of the band performing Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk," which wouldn't be performed again until Lemonwheel, in 1998.

Download the show in its entirety at http://livephish.com

The setlist is as follows:
SET ONE
The Landlady
My Sweet One
Split Open and Melt
Bouncing Around the Room
Rift
Cavern
Fluffhead
Maze
Mike's Song
I Am Hydrogen
Weekapaug Groove


SET TWO
Axilla I
The Curtain
Chalk Dust Torture
My Friend, My Friend
All Things Reconsidered
Uncle Pen
Llama
Love You
Dinner and a Movie
Baby Elephant Walk
David Bowie

ENCORE
Good Times, Bad Times

In other LivePhish.com news, we are now offering a five show discount on livephish.com. Buy any five regularly priced shows in the same format at one time and receive a 10% discount. That means 5 MP3 shows for $44.95 or 5 FLAC shows for $59.95. Please note that this discount does not apply to any previously purchased shows.

Live Phish Downloads offers high quality, unedited soundboard recordings of select shows in standard MP3 and CD-quality FLAC files via a state-of-the-art delivery system. All download files are compatible with Windows, Mac and Unix, allowing for maximum flexibility and ease of use. Once downloaded, shows can be burned to disc, transferred to portable players, or played through your computer. Each show also comes with printable booklets, tray inlays, and labels if you elect to burn your files to CD.

Due to the unexpected lateness of the birth of Jon Fishman's second child (Jack Bradley Fishman, born 9/30/03), it has been necessary to postpone the Jazz Mandolin Project tour dates October 7-12 until
mid-January. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. Fortunately, we were able to reschedule all six dates, which appear below. If you are a ticketholder, please note that you have two options: you may hold on to your tickets, which will be honored on the new date, or you may go to the point of purchase (or web site) and request a refund. Show and ticket information for the newly rescheduled dates should be available on the Jazz Mandolin Project website (http://jazzmandolinproject.com) shortly.

JAZZ MANDOLIN PROJECT January 2004 feat. Jon Fishman

Sun, Jan 11 / Small's Theatre / Pittsburgh, PA
Mon, Jan 12 / Jack Quinn's Emerald Ballroom / Cincinnati, OH
Tues, Jan 13 / The Vogue / Indianapolis, IN
Wed, Jan 14 / Copper Dragon / Carbondale, IL
Thur, Jan 15 / House of Blues / Chicago, IL
Fri, Jan 16 / Canopy Club / Urbana, IL

Mike and his seven bandmates have been deep in the shed this week, rehearsing at Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York. They leave for San Francisco tomorrow, where they'll start the tour at The Fillmore on Sunday night. Mike sent a video postcard of what's going on up in the woods. View it at your leisure at http://www.phish.com/misc/mikeband.html . For full tourdate info, check out the Phish website: http://www.phish.com/tourdates

In other Mike news, a track of Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon's performance of "Rings" appears on the "Live from Bonnaroo 2003" Double CD, available in record stores and directly from Phish Dry Goods. To view the full track listing or to order, please visit http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=19

Vida Blue's second studio album comes out a week from Tuesday, October 14. "The Illustrated Band" features Page, Russell and Oteil backed by the Spam Allstars throughout. The Allstars, a Miami-based Afro-Cuban sextet, have been playing a monthly residency, "JAMON Y QUESO" at S.O.B's in New York City, which moves from Friday to Monday starting in October.

In celebration of the release of "The Illustrated Band" the next day, Page will sit in with the Allstars for a good part of the show at S.O.B.'s on Monday, October 13. For full show info (tickets are limited), please go to the club's website at http://www.sobs.com/

We're still lining up dates for a Vida Blue tour in early January, but this much we can tell you: Vida Blue featuring the Spam Allstars will kick off their tour with a show in Miami on January 3 (venue to be announced soon). Vida Blue and the Allstars will be joined by very special guests The Jazz Mandolin Project featuring Jon Fishman, who will open the whole tour.

The Illustrated Band is now available for preorder from Phish Dry Goods: http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=92

Due to Internet Service Providers (ISP) implementing tighter constraints on defining SPAM, there is a possibility that your ISP will categorize emails coming from Phish Tiickets as potential spam and filter us into a "Bulk" folder or a predetermined "SPAM"  folder you defined. If you are expecting an order confirmation or status email from Phish Tickets and have not received notification in your Inbox, please check in these areas before calling customer support.

Mike will be signing copies of his new album INSIDE IN on Wednesday, October 8, from 5 to 6:30 pm at Twist and Shout, located at 300 E. Alameda Avenue in Denver, Colorado. Check out http://twistandshout.com for more information.

Phish will play a four-show run beginning Thanksgiving weekend, culminating in a 20th Anniversary performance at Boston's FleetCenter on December 2.

The Boston show comes twenty years to the day of Phish's first performance, at an ROTC dance on the campus of the University of Vermont. While the exact date has been the subject of some dispute over the years, carbon dating, diligent research and a little common sense confirmed that December 2, 1983 was indeed the date of the band's first show.

At the end of December, Phish returns to Florida for a four-night run at American Airlines Arena in Miami, including a three-set New Year's Eve show. The shows are the band's first performances in Florida since their millennium festival at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in 1999.

The eight dates are as follows:

11/28 Nassau Coliseum Uniondale, NY
11/29 Wachovia Spectrum Philadelphia, PA
12/1 Pepsi Arena Albany, NY
12/2 FleetCenter Boston, MA

12/28 American Airlines Arena Miami, FL
12/29 American Airlines Arena Miami, FL
12/30 American Airlines Arena Miami, FL
12/31 American Airlines Arena Miami, FL

A limited number of tickets for all eight shows are available directly through PHISH TICKET's secure online ticketing system at http://www.phishtickets.rlc.net for a seven-day ordering period beginning Monday, September 22, at 12:01 PM EST and ending Monday, September 29, at 11:59 AM EST. Tickets go on sale to the public October 17 and 18. Full tour information can be found on the now nearly bulletproof Phish web site at http://phish.com/tourdates .

Mike Gordon will play his first-ever solo tour, a 9-date run in support of Inside In, released last month on Ropeadope Records. Kicking off October 5 at The Fillmore in San Francisco, the tour will stop at 8 cities, playing theatres and clubs before concluding on October 16 at New York's Irving Plaza.

The tour will feature a seven piece all-star group handpicked by Gordon that is as eclectic in its instrumentation as it is in personnel. Comprised of longtime Phish collaborators James Harvey on keyboards and Gordon Stone on pedal steel and banjo, as well as trombonist Josh Roseman (Dave Holland, Charlie Hunter), guitarist Scott Murawski (Max Creek), tap dancer and vocalist Jeannie Hill, flutist and vocalist Julee Avallone (Dr. Juice) and drummer Doug Belote (Anders Osborne, Tony Furtado), the band will perform songs from Inside In as well as other material from within and without.

Released August 26, Inside In is the complement to Outside Out, his first full-length feature film.  Recorded at his home studio, all songs on Inside In were written and performed by Gordon and feature a revered collective of guest musicians such as Jon Fishman, Béla Fleck, and Col. Bruce Hampton as well as many others.

The full tourdates are as follows:

10/5 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
10/7 Fox Theatre Boulder, CO
10/8 Fox Theatre Boulder, CO
10/10 Vic Theatre Chicago, IL
10/11 Bogarts Cincinnati, OH
10/13 Theatre of Living Arts Philadelphia, PA
10/14 Toad's Place New Haven, CT
10/15 Avalon Boston, MA
10/16 Irving Plaza New York, NY

We're pleased to announce that guitarist Kaki King will support all dates.

Tickets to the Mike Gordon tour will be offered in real-time through our secure online ticketing system concurrently with traditional 'public' outlets. The first onsale is Friday, Sept. 12 at 11 AM EST, but please refer to the Phish website for exact onsale times for each show. Tickets sold via our site will be available first come, first serve until our allotment has sold out or up until the week of the show. Tickets sold through other outlets will be available through the day of the show or until they sell out. All shows are general admission.

The Mike Gordon ticket site can be found at http://www.mikegordontickets.rlc.net . Please note that the site will not be live until Friday. Full ticketing information can be found on the Phish Tourdates page at http://www.phish.com/tourdates .

INSIDE IN is available for sale directly from Phish Dry Goods:
http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=70

The Jazz Mandolin Project featuring Jon Fishman on drums will be out for five dates at the beginning of October. For full info, check out the JMP website at http://www.jazzmandolinproject.com.

The dates are as follows:

10/7 Mr. Smalls Pittsburgh PA
10/8 Jack Quinns Cincinnati OH (2 shows)
10/9 House of Blues Chicago IL
10/10 The Canopy Club Champaign, IL
10/11 Copper Dragon Carbondale IL

Vida Blue, featuring Page McConnell, bassist Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers Band), and drummer Russell Batiste (funky Meters) will release "The Illustrated Band" on Sanctuary Records on October 14.

The band's second studio album, the release finds the trio backed by the Spam Allstars, a Latin Grammy-nominated Afro-Cuban sextet. The Illustrated Band represents a hybrid of sounds: a mix of Vida Blue's multi-textured grooves, infused with progressive Latin styles and rhythms, courtesy of the Allstars' eclectic instrumentation of turntables, sax, trombone, flute and percussion.

Page first hooked up with the Allstars while in Miami last March, sitting in with them during their weekly residency at a club in Little Havana. As some of you may recall, the Allstars' leader DJ Le Spam joined Vida Blue onstage for some shows in Philly and Providence in early April. Soon thereafter, Page invited the Allstars to record with Vida Blue in Miami's Middle Ear Studios, and the rest is history.

The album's four tracks clock in at over 60 minutes of music:

VIDA BLUE
THE ILLUSTRATED BAND

1. The Illustrated Band
2. Charmpit
3. You Don't Know
4. Little Miami (Reputation)

The Illustrated Band is now available for preorder from Phish Dry Goods:
http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=19

We're still recovering up here at Phish HQ from last weekend's festival up in Northern Maine. Many many thanks from all of us to those of you who made the unforgettable journey to Limestone.

We're in the process of gathering photos from our festival photographers and hope to launch some galleries within the next week or so on Phish.com. Also, our friends at Phisharchive.com have created a special IT Archive section with dozens of links to articles and photos that have been published. Check out the archive at: http://phisharchive.com/articles/it.html


A couple other items of note:
LIVEPHISH.COM 'IT' PACKAGE INCLUDES TOWER SET + SOUNDCHECK
In response to overwhelming demand, we are pleased to announce the release of the Sound Check and Tower Jam from this past weekend at It. You may purchase the entire weekend of music (that's 10 CD's worth!) as one package for $23.90 MP3 or $29.90 FLAC at http://www.livephish.com/packages/phish_it.asp

Phish played an extended soundcheck late Friday night as thousands were stuck in traffic waiting to get into the festival grounds. Also, at 2 AM late Saturday night, Phish magically appeared atop the control tower of the former Air Force Base and played an improvisational set while the tower was bathed in lights and dancers on rappel lines swirled in sync with the music and lights.

These two bonus discs worth of music are now available free to all Live Phish users who have already purchased the entire summer tour or purchased both days of It individually.

Special thanks to Chris McGregor, of Stage II Design and Production in San Francisco, who designed and lit the special Tower Set, and our good friends at Project Bandaloop (http://www.projectbandaloop.org/), who rappelled from the top of the tower.

THE T-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST / PHISH DRY GOODS UPDATE
As many saw in the flesh this past weekend, the winning It design featured our old friend Johnny on the Spot (the humble Port-o-Let). This integral part of a multi-day festival was captured by art-school student William J Smith of Savannah Georgia. Once again we thank all 857 entrants for participating in the contest. We have created a gallery of the best designs on the web site at http://www.phish.com/galleries/index.php?ID=10. We unfortunately ran out of most It merchandise (including the winning design) before the bell tolled. More of some of the items are available for order at Dry Goods at http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=19. (Sorry, no more It posters, but we do have mugs, magnets, sweatshirts, and a couple of the Ts.)

THE FIRST ANNUAL RUNAWAY JIM MEMORIAL 5K -- RACE RESULTS
For those of you that weren't there, or slept in on Sunday morning, over 2,500 runners, almost all of them clothed, ran the 3.1 mile course on the tarmac. Let's hear it for the winners, who joined the band on stage on Sunday evening to pick up the Limestone Cup and be recognized for their need for speed. Special thanks to the Caribou High School Athletic Department and Track Coach for helping us organize the race.

WINNERS:
MALE
1. Justin Easter
Presque Isle, Maine
15:01

2. Chris Powers
Muncie, Indiana
15:17

3. Scott Sargrad
Glenside, Pennsylvania
16:04

FEMALE
1. Ann Clemens
Albuquerque, New Mexico
18:51

2. Lindey Parker-Waters
Richmond, VT
18:58

3. Darleen Mein
Reno, Nevada
20:01

KEEP THE SCENE CLEAN: CLEAN VIBES RAFFLE WINNERS
Thanks to everyone that participated in our Clean Vibes Raffle. Our CV team is still up in Maine restoring the site to pre-IT quality, but we've posted a list of the winners on the IT web site at http://www.phish.com/it/clean . All prizes will be mailed to the winners over the next two months.

Mike Gordon's debut solo album hits stores on August 26, but you can preorder it now at Phish Dry Goods.

Be one of the first 500 people to pre-order Inside In and receive an autographed copy.

Preorder the album at Phish Dry Goods.

PRE-REGISTRATION and General Race Information for the Runway Jim Memorial 5k Road Race are now available on-line on the It website. Pre-Registration is ONLY available on-line through JULY 30 at NOON. Please note: Pre-registation is available on a first-come first registered basis. Due to course constraints, there are only 1,500 spots available, and once these are filled we will no longer accept registrations via the web. If you miss the chance to register online see below for more information about running in the race.

Officially Registered runners receive a numbered race bib for official timing. We encourage runners to pre-register on-line as only limited registration may be available up in Maine. If you're not registered, have no fear -- runners who are not registered may run at the end of the pack behind the Official Runners.

The race starts 11:00 am sharp Sunday morning. The start and finish lines are located in the area directly in front of the Control Tower, facing the campground. The course is a 5 kilometer loop along the outer tarmac around the campground. The course race will be shown on the venue map you receive when you arrive to IT. Runners will be running on pavement not grass. The Runaway Jim 5k Race Registration Table, providing Numbered Bib pick up, General Race Information and Course Maps, is open Saturday 12-5 p.m. in the "Outfield 13" area. For a full schedule and listing of race information check out the Runaway Jim Memorial 5k general information page on the IT website, http://www.phish.com/it/5k/index.html.

As Phish's summer tour departs glorious Wisconsin, preparations are well underway for IT up in Limestone, Maine. With the festival so close, we're excited to announce just a few of the key elements and events that are shaping up:

* THE BUNNY 96.1 FM Get your ears on. High up on the list of essentials to bring to IT would be a boombox. Why? Out of a little trailer behind the stage, we'll be pumping out 100,000 watts of killer music, traffic reports and event updates, roving interviews with those of you with a penchant for the microphone, a double session of Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro's "From the Archives" shows, late night audio buggery and have we mentioned the live broadcasts of all six Phish sets? Look for The Bunny out in Sunk City (more on that later) where you can speak your peace. The Bunny airs 24 hours a day beginning Friday, August 1 at 6 AM through Monday, August 4 at 2 PM. If you tune in before or after these times and you hear Jewel, don't freak out, you're hearing WQHR, a lovely adult contemporary radio station that we're hijacking for the weekend. Bring the boombox!

* THE RUNAWAY JIM MEMORIAL 5K ROAD RACE Nothing like a crisp morning run to get the blood flowing. The 100th Running of the First Annual Runaway Jim Memorial 5K Road Race winds through the campground Sunday morning at 11 am. The race will showcase some of the best and brightest in Tent City as they compete for the prestigious Limestone Cup (there will be a separate Cup for men and women). The band will preside over a moving Winners' Ceremony onstage during their set Sunday afternoon. All official runners will need to be registered. We'll make an announcement next week offering preregistration on the IT website, and we'll also offer limited registration up in Maine. Registration will be limited to 1,500 official runners due to the logistics involved -- PLEASE only sign up if you're serious. Serious enough to show up, not serious enough to win. If you're not registered, have no fear -- you can still run at the end of the pack. SNEAKERS REQUIRED. Drug testing will not take place before or after the race.

* SUNK CITY + OUTFIELD 13 As we've noted in other updates, the concert field has been moved from past Maine festivals. The new location features a number of wooded areas, which the Visual Design team has used to their full advantage. Nestled amongst the pines is SUNK CITY, an excavated skyline with art installations and interactive works in progress galore (10,000 rolls of masking tape, anyone?). We've opened the venue up early -- noon each day -- to accommodate for extended browsing, so be sure to check it out. Centered between the Campgrounds and the Concert Field is OUTFIELD 13, a bustling hub of tasty cuisine, unique craft vendors, the House of Live Phish (see below), WaterWheel HQ, the good ol' United States Post Office, amusement rides, and the General Store (with ice and beer aplenty).

* HOUSE OF LIVE PHISH Amidst the commotion will be a tranquil, well-lit, air-conditioned tent to create your own custom FREE Live Phish CD. Create a playlist from hundreds of Live Phish tracks preloaded onto a couple dozen iMacs, burn a CD on iTunes, and walk out with a great mix for the ride home. Or if you've had your fill of Phish, come on in, check your email, check the scores -- whatever your pleasure. Special thanks to Apple Computer for providing the iMacs and Verbatim for providing the top quality blank media.

Tickets for IT are still available via the Phish Tickets web site, http://phishtickets.rlc.net, and via Ticketmaster Online at http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/8418. Tickets may also be charged by phone at the following Northeast Ticketmaster numbers: 207.775.3331, 617.931.2000, 413.733.2500, 212.307.7171, 802.862.5300, 518.476.1000, 401.331.2211, and 757.671.8100. We recommend that tickets be purchased well in advance. PLEASE NOTE: As of July 21, tickets ordered through Ticketmaster MUST be picked up at the venue box office at IT. Tickets ordered from PHISH TICKETS after July 21 can be shipped OR picked up at the venue box office. Tickets ordered after July 25 from PHISH TICKETS will only be available at the venue box office. The venue box office opens at 8 AM On Friday, August 1.

Phish and Phish fans are featured on a short segment this Friday night on "On the Record with Bob Costas". The show interviewed the band and filmed footage out in the lot and onstage last week at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. "On the Record" airs at 11:30 PM EST on HBO Friday July 18.

Wipe your brows, contestants, because the winner of the It Design contest has been selected. It was a difficult decision: there were many excellent entries (857 to be exact), but only one winner. We thank the hundreds who entered, all excellent Number Twos, and salute William J Smith, an art-school student from Savannah, Georgia as our Number One. His design has a certain je ne sais quoi, a subtlety capturing the essence of a two-day music festival in a way absolutely everyone can appreciate. The design will be kept under wraps until it appears on the spot, as if out of a can, up in Maine.

For your viewing pleasure, a number of close runners-up are on display in a gallery in the East Wing of Phish.com.

Welcome to the third coming of the official Phish Web site. Nearly seven years to the day when we first hung out our virtual shingle, Phish.com is now a full grown adult (in web years). Fully loaded, with all the options, there's some serious data flowing through this beaut.

We had great response with the 'From the Road' feature on the Trey Anastasio website and have added it to the navigation on the new Phish site. Though we can't guarantee we'll beat fan sites to the punch, we'll put up setlists from each show as soon as we get the official word. In addition, we'll have road musings, audio, video and photos coming in from band and crew on a regular basis.

The Official Releases section is finally online, with all of the band's audio and video releases, including the Live Phish series. Each album includes lyrics, audio samples, and links. We plan to add video footage and photo galleries for some of the releases in the weeks ahead.

If you've got your geek on, you'll appreciate our RSS feeds. Frankly, we don't really understand what they do, but our site designers assure us that both news and tourdates have RSS feeds you can subscribe to read in any RSS Newsreader.

We pushed the site live to coincide with the start of Phish's summer tour, but we can't guarantee that it's fully bug-free...yet. PC users shouldn't have a problem, but if you're on a Mac (and we're all on Macs here at Phish HQ), consider viewing the site on the Safari or Camino browsers for best results (MAC OSX required). It will run on Internet Explorer for the Mac, but the ride will be smoother on Safari. if you notice anything really bizarre happening, or even have suggestions, drop us a line at web@phish.com.

All 21 of Phish's concerts this summer, including IT, Phish's tour-ending 2-day fest in Northern Maine, will be available for download at http://livephish.com. You may pre-order the entire tour at a special discount or pre-order individual shows. Each show will be available for download within 48 hours of the actual performance.

With the addition of the summer tour, there's a substantial amount of music up on the LIVEPHISH.COM website: 41 shows, including Phish's NYE and February tours, plus several archival releases. All 10 dates of Trey Anastasio's spring tour are also available. Look for more archival Phish
releases later this year.

Limited tickets are available for many of the shows on Phish's summer tour. Visit the Phish website for full show information.All 21 of Phish's concerts this summer, including IT, Phish's tour-ending 2-day fest in Northern Maine, will be available for download at http://livephish.com.

We're pleased to announce that Mike Gordon will release his solo debut "INSIDE IN" later this summer on Ropeadope Records.

Four years in the making, INSIDE IN started with OUTSIDE OUT, Mike's first feature film. With the theatrical and DVD releases behind him, Mike went back to the mostly instrumental soundtrack and significantly reworked the material, creating songs out of jams and adding lyrics to pieces that previously had none. Though there's clearly a link between film and album, it is only loosely a soundtrack.

All fifteen tracks were penned by Mike, who plays all guitars and basses as well as Wurlitzer, accordion, washing machine, cow tilt, etc. In addition, Gordon's backed by an all-star band: drummer Russ Lawton,
James Harvey on trombone, piano and clavinet, and Gordon Stone on pedal steel. Special guests include Jon Fishman, Bela Fleck, Jeff Coffin, Craig Johnson, Col. Bruce Hampton (ret.), Future Man, Buddy Cage, and Vassar Clements.

The album will be in stores August 26. Watch this space for pre-order information over the next couple of weeks. For more info, go to http://www.ropeadope.com.

It was 74 degrees today on the runway up in Limestone, and our team is in full swing preparing the site for IT, Phish's tour-ending festival up in Maine on August 2 and 3.

Lars Fisk and Russ Bennett (the designers behind such Phish festivals as all of them) are heading up our creative team again and cooking up a feast of visual delights. As we've announced in previous updates, the concert area is in a new location, centrally located, and with knolls and clusters of evergreens throughout. We'll be opening up the venue earlier on Saturday and Sunday than in years past to give fans plenty of time to explore.

The IT web site is open for your viewing pleasure at http:///www.phish.com/it. We've posted the first wave of info about the festival and plan to update it regularly as details get confirmed.

Tickets for IT are still available via the Phish Tickets web site, phishtickets.rlc.net, and via Ticketmaster Online at ticketmaster.com. Tickets may also be charged by phone at the following Northeast Ticketmaster numbers: 207.775.3331, 617.931.2000, 413.733.2500, 212.307.7171, 802.862.5300, 518.476.1000, 401.331.2211, and 757.671.8100. We recommend that tickets be purchased well in advance.

Dust off your craypas and put on your smocks. Announcing the first-ever Phish T-Shirt Design contest. Take your best stab at designing a T-shirt for "It," Phish's tour-ending two-day festival in northern Maine and you could win two tickets and hospitality passes to It. In addition, you'll have five of the winning shirts and the pleasure of seeing your art worn by hundreds of models on the runway, so to speak.

Submissions must be sent digitally (EPS or JPEG preferred, under 5 megabytes please, but the art can be compressed for submission purposes) to itcontest@phish.com. All submissions must be sent in by Wednesday, June 25 at NOON EST. Be sure to include your full name and a way to reach you by phone day and evening. While it's not necessary, we suggest that you put the words "Phish" and "It" somewhere on your design. However, you may not use any Phish or "It" logos in your design. Both front and back designs are welcome, but not necessary -- just a front will suffice as an entry.

By entering the contest, you acknowledge full and unconditional acceptance and agreement of the Contest Rules: Click here for Contest Rules.

Phish will sing the national anthem at Game Four of the NBA Finals between the New Jersey Nets and the San Antonio Spurs. The game takes place at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, NJ on Wednesday, June 11. The game airs at 8:00 pm on ABC.

A small allotment of tickets for both Trey Anastasio concerts at Hammerstein Ballroom on May 26 + 27 will be released at 6 PM EST on Wednesday, May 14. Tickets will be available online at www.ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone 212.307.7171.

We are pleased to announce that all 10 shows from Trey Anastasio's upcoming tour will be available for download from livephish.com. You may pre-order the entire tour at a special discount or pre-order individual shows. Each show will be available for download within 48 hours of the actual performance.

In other Live Phish news, we're offering the entire Winter Tour for a reduced price package. Purchase the entire tour and get 12 shows for the price of 10. Check it out at www.livephish.com

All shows to Trey's spring tour are completely sold out, except the two nights at the Chicago Theatre on June 4 + 5. Very limited tickets remain for these shows. Trey's two-CD Live set "PLASMA" is now available in stores or directly from us at Phish Dry Goods.

Mike Gordon and Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes will be doing two more screenings of the documentary feature "RISING LOW" in May, one in Vermont and one in the Boston area. Each screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Warren and Mike. For film info, go to http://www.Risinglow.net
Show Info:

Monday, May 12, 2003
Higher Ground
One Main Street, Winooski, VT
Tickets on sale now
Doors 7:00pm Show 8:00pm
Tickets are $15 general admission. Tickets are available at the Higher Ground box office, Pure Pop Records in Burlington, online at http://Highergroundmusic.com, or charge by phone 866.468.7619.
For more info: http://Highergroundmusic.com

Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Somerville Theater
55 David Square, Somerville, MA
Show 8:00pm
Tickets are on sale Wednesday, April 30th
Tickets are $15 general admission. Tickets are available at the Somerville Theater box office, select TicketMaster outlets, online at http://www.ticketmaster.com
For more info: http://www.somervilletheatreonline.com


Also in May, Mike will be performing two shows at The Iron Horse with mandolinist Jamie Masefield (Jazz Mandolin Project) and guitarist Doug Perkins (Smoking Grass) under the newly christened moniker GRAPPA BOOM. The trio plays original compositions as well as a variety of jazz and bluegrass standards.

Saturday, May 31, 2003
Iron Horse
20 Center Street, Northampton, MA
Two shows 7:00pm and 10:00pm
Tickets on sale now
Tickets are $12.50 in advance, $15.00 day of show, general admission. This is an all ages show. Tickets are available at the Northampton box office in Thornes Marketplace, For The Record in Amherst or charge by phone 413.586.8686 or 1.800.THE.TICK.
For more information: http://www.iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp

PHISH will release the next four volumes of their LIVE PHISH series on May 20. "Live Phish", Volumes 17-20 will feature selections made by Mike Gordon, after reviewing 20 years of personal journals, most of them commentary about Phish shows. Using his notes as a guide, he whittled down the list of 1,331 candidates -- that's (give or take) the number of Phish gigs between 10/30/83 and 10/7/2000 -- to a manageable 50. he halved that list to 25 and then further excised it down to 10 before making a final selection of four "Mike's Picks." Two of the releases are two-disc sets. The other two are three disc sets, and as a bonus, they include significant extra 'filler' tracks from additional shows.

We're still updating the Live Phish CDs web site http://cds.livephish.com with the new material -- look for audio and video samples of the new shows by the end of the month. In the meantime, you can view full setlists and filler tracks on the Phish Dry Goods site at http://www.phish.com/drygoods.
The shows:

LIVE PHISH 17 (3 cds)
7.15.98
Portland Meadows
Portland, Oregon
(filler: 7/29/98 Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, Missouri)

LIVE PHISH 18 (3 CDs)
5.7.94
The Bomb Factory
Dallas, TX
(filler: 11/22/94 Jesse Auditorium, Columbia, MO)

LIVE PHISH 19 (2 CDs)
7.12.91
Colonial Theatre
Keene, New Hampshire
Note: This show was part of Phish's "Horn Tour" which featured The Giant Country Horns

LIVE PHISH 20 (2 CDs)
12.29.94
Providence Civic Center
Providence, Rhode Island

Phish Dry Goods is now taking preorders for Live Phish 17 - 20. We will begin shipping orders about two weeks before the official release date of May 20. Although we cannot guarantee that you will receive your order before May 20, we will do everything possible to ensure that you do.

CONTEST ALERT: Everyone who preorders all four new Live Phish releases via Phish Dry Goods before May 20 is automatically entered into our Live Phish Pre-order Contest. Five winners will each receive two tickets to the Phish show of their choice from the upcoming summer tour (including IT). Tickets will not be transferable. No purchase necessary. We also have a new Pollock T and a limited edition Pollock Live Phish poster.

To preorder Live Phish click here:
http://www.phish.com/drygoods

Andrew Yeomanson, a/k/a/ DJ LE SPAM, will perform with Vida Blue at their concerts in Philadelphia and Providence this Friday and Saturday night. Well known for performing with his group The Spam Allstars at the weekly "Fuacata" parties at Hoy Como Ayer in the heart of Miami's Little Havana, DJ LE SPAM has also begun a monthly residency in NYC at SOB's called Jamon y Queso. Vida Blue is excited to have Andrew on stage with them and will likely have him spin between sets as well.

Vida Blue's tour starts in Chicago this Wednesday. Limited tickets for all five shows are still available. For more information, check out http://vidablue.net

Trey Anastasio and his 9-piece band will play 10 concerts nationwide over two weeks in May and June this spring, performing at a mix of theatres and auditoriums. The tour culminates with a two-night headlining stint at Burlington's Discover Jazz Festival.

The band is the same as his 2002 lineup, consisting of Anastasio, bassist Tony Markellis, drummer Russ Lawton, keyboardist Ray Paczkowsi, trumpeter Jennifer Hartswick, alto saxophonist Dave Grippo, saxophonist Peter Apfelbaum, trombonist Andy Moroz, tenor saxophonist and flutist Russell Remington and percussionist Cyro Baptista.

The tour comes on the heels of the double live CD "Plasma", due in stores on April 29. The set features over two hours of performances chosen from Trey's Summer and Fall 2002 tours. Plasma also features seven tracks previously unreleased, as well as covers of Bob Marley's "Small Axe" and Phish's "Magilla".

The dates are as follows:

5/26 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY
5/27 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY
5/28 Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA
5/30 The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
5/31 The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
6/02 The Fillmore, Denver, CO
6/04 Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL
6/05 Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL
6/07 Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, VT
6/08 Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, VT

A limited number of tickets are available directly through TREY ANASTASIO's secure online ticketing system at www.treytickets.rlc.net for a four-day ordering period period beginning Monday, April 7, at 12 NOON EST and ending Thursday, April 10, at 12 NOON EST.

Tickets for all shows go on sale to the public over the weekend beginning Friday, April 25. Full tour information, including on-sale info, can be found on the Tour Dates page at www.treyanastasio.com and on the Phish web site as well.

Anyone who pre-orders PLASMA from Phish Dry Goods is automatically entered into our pre-order contest. The Grand Prize is two tickets to one show of your choice from Trey's upcoming tour (dates to be announced) AND a Big Red Limited Edition poster, signed by Trey. Three runners up will each receive two tickets to one show of your choice from the upcoming Trey Tour. No purchase necessary and void where prohibited by law. For contest rules and to preorder go to http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=19

Phish will end their summer tour with "It", a 2-day festival held at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine on August 2 + 3, 2003.

"It" will be Phish's first time back to the legendary site which brought you "The Great Went" in 1997 and "Lemonwheel" in 1998. We've spent a great deal of energy on looking at how we can improve the site. Initial plans involve us placing the stage in a central location, allowing fans much closer proximity to the performance area. In addition, we hope to be able to have everyone be able to park and camp on grass.

As with all Phish festivals, It will feature three sets of Phish each day, as well as numerous attractions and art installations created by talented teams of artists and performers.

Tickets for It go on sale this Thursday, March 27 at 12 NOON via Phish Tickets-by-Mail, located at http://phishtickets.rlc.net, and via Ticketmaster Online at http://ticketmaster.com. Tickets may also be charged by phone at the following Northeast Ticketmaster numbers: 207.775.3331, 617.931.2000, 413.733.2500, 212.307.7171, 802.862.5300, 518.476.1000, 401.331.2211, and 757.671.8100. There is a limit of 6 tickets per person. As we said above, we're making a considerable effort on creating a more comfortable experience, and as a result, the capacity for this year's event has been reduced from years past. We strongly recommend that tickets be purchased well in advance.

We'll be creating a special web site for It that we hope to launch within a couple of weeks. Stay tuned for more info.

Phish will play twenty one concerts across the U.S. this summer, including several two-night stands at favorite venues like Shoreline Amphitheatre, The Gorge, Alpine Valley and the Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ, plus a three-night stand in Noblesville, IN. The dates are as follows:

July 7 Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ
July 8 Coors Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA
July 9 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
July 10 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
July 12 The Gorge, George, WA
July 13 The Gorge, George, WA
July 15 West Valley Amphitheatre, West Valley, UT
July 17 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Bonner Springs, KS
July 18 Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI
July 19 Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI
July 21 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
July 22 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
July 23 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
July 25 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC
July 26 HiFi Buys Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA
July 27 ALLTEL Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC
July 29 Post Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA
July 30 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ
July 31 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ
August 2 Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME
August 3 Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME

A limited number of tickets are available directly through PHISH TICKET-BY-MAIL's secure online ticketing system at http://phishtickets.rlc.net for a five day ordering period beginning Thursday night/Friday morning, April 18, at 12:01 AM, EST and ending Tuesday morning, April 22, at 11:59 AM EST. Tickets go on sale to the public beginning the weekend of May 9. Specific onsale information, door and show times and ticket prices are still TBA, but we wanted to send out tour dates with the "It" information above so you can plan your summer. Full tour information, when it becomes available, can be found on the Phish web site or in a text format at http://phish.com/print/tour_print.html.

Due to a family commitment of Leo's, Mike Gordon and Leo Kottke will NOT be performing at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. We apologize for any confusion. The duo WILL be performing at the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, TN on June 14.

Leo Kottke + Mike Gordon will get together to play two festivals this June, the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, TN and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in beautiful Telluride, Colorado.

The Bonnaroo Festival runs June 13 through 15, but an exact set time for Leo + Mike's set will not be confirmed for a couple of weeks. Be advised that tickets are expected to sell out shortly. For more information, visit the festival site at www.bonnaroo.com

Leo + Mike will also be playing the first day of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Thursday, June 19th at 3 pm. Now in its thirtieth year, the festival is truly an amazing event with lots of great music. Ticket and festival information can be found at http://www.bluegrass.com" target[www.bluegrass.com]

Trey Anastasio will release "PLASMA", a double live CD April 29 on Elektra Records. The set features over two hours of performances chosen from Trey's Summer and Fall 2002 tours. Plasma also features seven tracks previously unreleased, as well as covers of Bob Marley's "Small Axe" and Phish's "Magilla".

In addition, Trey will be doing a short tour with his band later in the spring. We plan to announce those dates by the end of the month.

The tracklist for PLASMA is as follows

PLASMA
DISC 1
Curlew's Call
Plasma
Magilla
When
Mozambique
Every Story Ends in Stone
Small Axe
First Tube

DISC 2
Night Speaks to a Woman
Simple Twist Up Dave
Inner Tube
Sand

Anyone who pre-orders PLASMA from Phish Dry Goods is automatically entered into our pre-order contest. The Grand Prize is two tickets to one show of your choice from Trey's upcoming tour (dates to be announced) AND a Big Red Limited Edition poster, signed by Trey. Three runners up will each receive two tickets to one show of your choice from the upcoming Trey Tour. No purchase necessary and void where prohibited by law. For contest rules and to preorder go to Phish Dry Goods

"Rising Low", the documentary directed by Mike Gordon, will have both an early and a late screening at Irving Plaza in New York City on Wednesday, March 12th. The early screening begins at 7 pm and the late screening starts at 10. The movie will be followed by a Q&A session hosted by Mike and Govt Mule guitarist Warren Haynes.

The film, which won the Audience Choice Award at the 2002 Newport Film Festival, documents what happened when 25 bass players as diverse as John Entwistle (The Who) and Larry Graham (Sly & the Family Stone) came together to record with Gov't Mule.

For tickets,
http://www.muleticketing.musictoday.com
http://www.ticketmaster.com [http://www.ticketmaster.com]
Govt Mule website: http://www.mule.net
Movie Site: http://risinglow.net

VIDA BLUE -- Page McConnell, Oteil Burbridge and Russell Batiste, will be out on the road the second week of April for five dates in the Midwest and Northeast. We're please to announce that Trainwreck, featuring KG of Tenacious D will be supporting every date. In addition, the show at Philadelphia's Electric Factory will be a triple bill: Vida Blue, Karl Denson and Trainwreck.

Tickets to the Vida Blue Tour will be offered in real-time through our secure online ticketing system starting tonight, February 27 at 9 PM. Tickets will be available first come, first serve until our allotment has sold out or up until the week of the show. Tickets sold through other outlets will be available through the day of the show or until they sell out. Tickets will go on sale through traditional 'public' outlets beginning February 28. All shows are general admission.

The Vida Blue ticket site can be found at www.vidabluetickets.rlc.net

The dates are as follows:

VIDA BLUE -- APRIL 2003
4/09 The Vic, Chicago, IL
4/10 Promowest Pavilion, Columbus, OH
4/11 Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA
4/12 Lupos, Providence, RI
4/13 Toad's Place, New Haven, CT

Rising Low, the documentary directed by Mike Gordon, will have a screening at Irving Plaza in New York City on Wednesday, March 12th at 7 PM. The movie will be followed by a Q&A session hosted by Mike and Govt Mule guitarist Warren Haynes.

The film, which won the Audience Choice Award at the 2002 Newport Film Festival, documents what happened when 25 bass players as diverse as John Entwistle (The Who) and Larry Graham (Sly & the Family Stone) came together to record with Gov't Mule.

For tickets,
TicketMasterGovt Mule website: http://www.mule.net
View the Trailer: http://www.mule.net/music_media/video.asp

Due to the heightened security alert, backpacks will NOT be allowed at Phish's concerts in Los Angeles on 2/14, in East Rutherford on 2/24, or in Uniondale on 2/28. Empty and factory sealed water bottles will be allowed. We'll continue to update any other venue security measures as the tour progresses. Thanks for your cooperation.

On another note, those with Taper Tickets at Phish's 2/24 show in East Rutherford should enter through the box office lobby doors. Signs in the box office will direct you to the taper gate.

We're pleased to announce that we will be offering high-quality digital recordings of all twelve dates of Phish's upcoming Winter 2003 tour via livephish.com. All twelve shows should be available for download no later than two days after each show. All download files are compatible with Windows, Mac and Unix operating systems and can be burned to disc, transferred to portable players, or played through your computer.

Phish's Winter tour is now available for pre-order, either a la carte or as a tour package for a special discounted price. In addition, we have made several shows from the archives available for purchase: 10/31/90 Armstrong Hall, Colorado Springs, CO; 12/07/97 Nutter Center, Dayton, OH, and 10/7/00 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA. All three shows are now available at livephish.com. In addition, Phish's New Year's Eve concert at Madison Square garden and the three subsequent shows at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA remain available for purchase and download.

Thanks for all of the valuable feedback. In response to your suggestions, the download process has been reengineered from the ground up. Now when you purchase a show, you can download each song from that show individually instead of downloading an entire CD's worth of music at once. We have discovered through your feedback that many cable modem and DSL service providers reset your internet connection after a certain amount of data transfer. By downloading one song at a time, especially for SHN purchases, you should get a more reliable download. Please review the newly-revised FAQ for detailed instructions on how to download and burn shows to CD. We also have instructions on how to resume your downloads if you get disconnected.

On the web: http://livephish.com

Mike joined mandolinist Jamie Masefield and guitarist Doug Perkins for a benefit performance this past Saturday, January 18, at the Village Meeting House in rural Starksboro, Vermont. The show was the trio's second benefit at the Meeting House. The first show, in January of 2000, allowed the Meeting House to buy a furnace. "There was much warmth," Mike said of this year's gig. The two-set show included a variety of jazz and bluegrass standards, including "Bewitched", "Doin' My Time", "Devil's Dream", plus some of Jamie and Doug's originals.

Some notes on the gig from Mike:
"This gig reeked of specialness. The vibe, for example, was being set an hour before we played by a man whose job was to lower the old church's central chandelier in order light 25 or so oil lamps, so that we could see. The crowd was whisper soft as we started tinkling the old ivories (strings, actually). None of us predicted how nicely the three instruments and two voices would gel. We did some jazz, bluegrass, folky and funky things in each set. The cookies and muffins were top notch. Normally reserved for preschoolers, the dressing decor was bright and fingerpainted."