Thelistof musicians who have performed atHigher Ground — which opened in South Burlington , Vermont , in 1998 — top the bound of literary genre and generation in the way that any self - respecting indie concert locale should .
You ’ve got your Modest Mouse and your Thundercat , your Fleet Foxes and your Mountain Goats . Big Freedia and Big Thief have both graced the stage ; so have Al Green and “ Weird Al ” Yankovic . The post has also played host to two of the three members of supergroup boygenius ( Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus , though not together ) , as well as Bonnie Raitt , Tenacious D , and Busta Rhymes ( also not together ) .
For most of the acts , there ’s a silkscreen concert poster to fit , produced through a partnership with two other Burlington - found creative organizations : graphical figure firmSolidarity of Unbridled Labourand non-profit-making printmaking studioIskra Print Collective . But Higher Ground does n’t really sell the bill — instead , they ’re drop dead out liberal of charge to consultation phallus who stick to around forlong enoughto nab one .
To celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday this year , Higher Ground is publishingECHO : A Survey at 25 Years of Sound , Art , and Ink on Paper , a 10 - in - by-10 - column inch coffee berry mesa book filled with 367 poster designs commemorating many of Higher Ground ’s most memorable guests , fromBob Dylanto Wu Tang Clan to Maggie Rogers . In addition to the images , the book also features audience with leader of the tri - org collaboration and a foreword by Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy .
“ Concert notice are as close as one can get to the solid grounds that we all hunger — proof that what happens when we make is beyond the scope of the individual work , ” Tweedywrites .
The purchase even comes with the hope that you ’re pouring your money right back into Vermont ’s arts residential area : payoff gain Iskra Print Collective . ECHOgoes on sale April 1 , and you canpre - order it for $ 59.50 here .
