In what year was the band that John Drinkwater was musical director for established?
John Drinkwater (musician, technologist) John Drinkwater (born 1957 in Suffolk) American music writer. Working for the BBC, he wrote the theme tune and incidental music for the award-winning children's drama series Dodgem. He was musical director for The Bootleg Beatles from 1993–1995. He made a major contribution to the Facing the Radio project (awarded the Radio Academy BT Award in 1995) and to Settling the Score. His technological research includes musicDNA, an ontology and interface for mapping and navigating the musical universe, and the related iPhone app, musicGPS.
List of jam band music festivals This is a list of jam band music festivals. This list may have some overlap with list of historic rock festivals and list of reggae festivals. Jam bands are musical groups who relate to a unique fan culture that began in the 1960s with Grateful Dead (see deadheads), and continued with The Allman Brothers Band, which had lengthy jams at concerts. The performances of these bands typically feature extended musical improvisation ("jams") over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns, and long sets of music that can often cross genre boundaries.