Bender Jamboree returned to Las Vegas earlier this month for the first edition of the hotel festival in five years. Top acts The String Cheese Incident, Umphrey’s McGee, and The Infamous Stringdusters took over the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino for four days and nights of music from September 12th through 15th.
The full Bender Jamboree lineup cast a wide net, catching fans of bluegrass, jam, reggae, and funk and bringing them to Sin City. Other top acts included Leftover Salmon, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Yonder Mountain String Band, Keller Williams performing solo and a Grateful Grass set with The HillBenders (plus a sit-in with Cheese), Kitchen Dwellers, Lindsay Lou, Joe Marcinek’s Dead Funk Summit, George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners, Ivan Neville & Friends, Big Richard, Dogs In A Pile, Neighbor, DJ Logic, League of Sound Disciples (Jason Hann), Sweet Lillies, Grateful Dub, Roots of Creation Thee Mess Arounds & Catfish John, The HillBenders, Mega-Scopes, Unique Massive, Katie Skene, and Timber!
Headliners The String Cheese Incident performed six sets across three nights and brought in plenty of help from the stacked lineup and beyond. To open the festival, Cheese called up Mr. Las Vegas himself Wayne Newton for a cover of Elvis Presley‘s “Viva Las Vegas”. On night two, Cheese got a hand from fellow Centennial Staters Vince Herman, Drew Emmitt, Jay Starling, and Andy Thorn of Leftover Salmon for “Colorado Bluebird Sky”. Finally, The String Cheese Incident closed out Bender Jamboree on Sunday with a little Keller Williams Incident as the barefoot bard joined the band for his “Freeker by The Speaker”.
Check out a gallery of images from Bender Jamboree 2024 courtesy of photographers Erik Kabik, Paul Citone, and Chris Baldwin. Watch the Cheese Newton Incident below and visit MyTallTripod’s YouTube channel for a full collection of audience videos.
The String Cheese Incident, Wayne Newton — “Viva Las Vegas” (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) — 9/12/24
[Video: MyTallTripod]
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