Goose was looking forward to some time off. After months on the road, traversing the country and playing to the largest crowds of its career as the live industry restarted, the hot Connecticut jam band had free time allotted on the calendar for August.
But when Peter Shapiro rings, you take the call. The jam impresario and Dayglo Ventures founder, who has had his hand in everything from the Grateful Dead’s 2015 “Fare Thee Well” shows to Trey Anastasio’s 2020 livestreamed Beacon Jams residency, had an unexpected proposition: Lockn’, his annual festival outside of Charlottesville, Va., was moving from a single weekend to three, and he wanted Goose to anchor one of them.
The only catch?
“We had vacations planned,” says Goose singer and guitarist Rick Mitarotonda. “At first, we declined, reluctantly.”
