[UPDATE 10:26 p.m.] High Times Announces Reggae on the River Is Cancelled
The perennially troubled event, Reggae on the River, has been cancelled as of 5:30 p.m. today.
High Times, which signed a contract to produce the event in May of 2018, bowed out.
Last year’s ticket sales were dismal.
Information from the Reggae on the River’s website:
Reggae on the River has been cancelled all ticket holders will be refunded within 10 business day.
UPDATE 6:57 p.m.: Dusty Hughston, Mateel Community Center board member, confirmed that the 2019 Reggae on the River show has been cancelled. “It’s real. They called me and the treasurer,” he told us. The Mateel Board will release a complete statement but at this time Hughston said that though the board won’t have the money from Reggae this year, they have continued to pay down the Mateel’s debt.
Hughston said that with the closure of the big event, the Mateel will put on a smaller event at their hall in Redway. “We’re going to do something that weekend at the Mateel,” he told us.
UPDATE 10:26 p.m.: The Mateel’s Board of Directors issued this statement,
The Mateel Community Center is disappointed, shocked and saddened regarding the cancellation of Reggae on the River 2019. We are feeling the pain of the community for the loss of local income and much more a tradition. We will continue to pursue all avenues to restore the show. And will undoubtedly have a show at the Mateel the weekend of R.O.T.R
Mateel forever….
Mateel board of directors
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Haha .
I volunteered back in 96-98… I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did. Good times before the neck tatted meth, heroin, coke freaks moved in.
my buddy had his vehicle and tent robbed in 96 and said it is over. you can blame this on local meth freaks. please educate your kids or don’t have them.
Bwahahaha . Get a god damned job like everyone else and stop ripping people off for “ survival”
Was this a joke?
Using Meth at Reggae because surviving is a challenge demonstrates an almost pathological lack of discernment.
Coup d’etat clear out the infestation all new staff all new board the Mateel Community Center needs restructuring before it’s too late to resurrect give a opportunity to all new staff everyone steps down for the greater good like a breath of fresh air the real new Mateel Community Center well make the changes
Necessary to bring us into the future
~if the board at the Mateel is anything like The County Board, don’t hold your breath. Even after a recall, Estelle doesn’t ‘step down for the greater good.’ I’ve witnessed this same type of behavior in other control freaks … when you rattle their cage … more negative gets heaped on.
In my 29 acres of paradise -shared with 39 others who live out of county – the absurd is applauded by the know-nots, and on into another year where Rules of Order, Conduct, Bylaws, bookkeeping, records etc., do not apply.
The laws of the order is the vehicle that gets us there.
Hahaha back in 96? I was there volunteering back in 2015 had a blast.
A blast of meth or heroin?
I volunteered for Reggae on the River in 2013 and 2014. NO MORE!! I saw turds floating in the river where children were playing. I was girls being sexually touched when they were drunk. I saw people smoking and snorting meth and coke. At night I saw girls drug into tents by more than one guy. And worst of all I saw Security standing around doing NOTHING!! Reggae on the River is a pigsty of offensive behaviors mostly perpetrated by males. Unless it could be cleaned up it should be banned. The people administering the event are ONLY in it for the money. They could care less about people’s safety or health. If you had a blast you were probably high or unsafe.
I’ve been attending 15 yrs , never saw any of thAt crap
When is metal on the mattole ever gonna happen? I’ve been waiting 2 decades! AW way campground would be a sick site!
Dude.
There is the Roll on The Mattole.
I said metal! Not fukn David Lindly!
Trump Rally On The River would be worth attending…
A giant Prius effigy could be hit with sticks as the crowd cheered in delight.
Similar to Burning Man but minus all the neo hippy nonsense, it could whip the crowd into a frenzy causing them to stomp every marijuana plant for miles, building a better community.
Find a new effigy
The burning man would be Bernie Sanders (naked)! O the irony! Burn Bern! Lol.
Naked Sanders with a sign that says, stick it to the neo hippies…
Perhaps you and Anon can have a discussion on Lying. Trumps lies vs. PBs lies. Who does it better, Trumo or PB?
Trump supporters are too freakin’ STUPID to do what you say.
Nomadic Logger, EMP, too fucking funny! Laughing hard!
You are probably them, the game is so old it’s rotten but it keeps getting played like it’s a brand new chess move.
Agreeing with yourself in comment threads is weak… weak as hell.
Already done in the 1970s with Beat-A-Japanese-Car day. Radio stations and ‘Merican car dealers would hold the events.
🖕
They have the roll on the matole every year
Paying hundreds for a ticket so you can rip ppl
off is related to survival how
I read the paper everyday waiting for the announcement of the law suit. I believe it will be arriving soon. There is too much that is hidden. Mismanagement, missing funds, people with dirty pockets full of money. And Garberville planning a new Main Street. Where is that money coming from?? And how much will be mismanaged? There is sufficient weed money to completely redo the town if weed growers were not so stingy. It has been reported that the greater Garberville area is close to generating a billion dollars in weed sales. If true they spend less than 1% in Garberville. That is a travesty.
There is no excuse, never!
In the Early 90s it was a blast at Frenches Camp. I remember Third World being really great in either 90 or 91.
No way it was going to last with that kind of magic though. All good things pass….
Use to Love Reggae on the River…
My Son started out volunteering picking up trash back in 2000. It experience of a lifetime for a groupie of an kind it was group of people getting together sharing their stories from all over the world. Sharing stories food good music. But just like all ( window warrior) they find them looking for a new reason to infect you with their choices why work they can rob you why buy food they’ll eat yours { which is a gallon of ice cream & six candy bars . I have never seen a successful tweeker. And as you can tell that’s what we need a wall for. Shit I,lol take 30 Mexican Americans as apposed 1 tweeker. Sorry for all the true lives you count the Days until the next festival
Sorry for all the young people that are now going to miss out on an amazing festival. But so glad you could get the experience with all your friends ( Family
There are a lot of other more amazing festivals with a way higher vibration that rotr
So proud of the person that you have become. An amazing Man . But always my baby
Boy, ain’t that the truth. I went to the first 20 years, raised a son there. It went the way of all good things.
No one needs to come here to buy herb any longer….
It was as close to a county fair as we had here. Almost every local who wanted to go got in free. I had seen Bob Marley live in the late seventies in Santa Barbara and was blown away by the line ups at ROTR. Jimmy Clif who started the whole Reggae thing with The Harder They Come and Toots . We were spoiled back then everyone from Los Lobos to Taj Mahal Jerry Garcia and Queen Ida passed thru here. Then there was David Lindley, Tito Puente and the Chilipeppers. Carol had a hand in a lot of that. Those were good times.
Bring back electric on the eel!
Only two acts listed in the lineup – was that part of the reason?
And only two tickets sold.
Reggae, it’s over. Whenever white guys play Reggae, alls I can do is just shake my head…
One less reason to do drugs all day for 3 days… The CHP breathe a sigh.
Who could have predicted this?
Uh, CHP does NOT breathe a sigh. ROTR has been a major cash cow for CHP. Each patrol officer can pull in as much as $3K for the weekend (on his or her own time). And then there’s the dispatcher and Command Center charges. Last year’s CHP bill was for over $40K. Poor guys. Cal Trans does OK $$$ too.
All I can do is marvel at how many people are fixated on what white people do.
Amen, couldn’t have put in any better words!
White people are the minority people on earth. Black, brown and Asian people totally out number whites. And the people of color are still slaving people of color. Millions of slaves and sex trade victims are a big part of their population in Africa, Asia, and the Middle east. No slaves in US, looks like white people are the safest bet for freedom. Millions of slaves in China, and they still do slave raids into North Korea. America, the greatest nation on earth, is pro freedom for all, no slaves, and everyone has all the human rights God has given us. If you are a person of color and a slave in Africa, Asia, or the middle east, white folks in the US probably don’t look so bad. There must be something good to us honkeys after all. Perhaps we should farm more white folks, the more whites, the less slavery.
You need to go back to school & learn geography! Middle East is not a continent! It’s a term that’s used by the European invaders ! It’s part of Asia. & is what’s your comment got to do w/ ROTR?
There is some truth to what he or she said about slavery. Forgot about the geographical location. So what. Most of what he is trying to say is true
This troll will work in White suppression, black on black crime, his disdain for brown people, his love of Trump, his hatred of Leftists and Liberals, and any other Alt Right nonsense into every comment thread. It’s so pathetic.
What is pathetic is calling “troll” on everything that is simply a difference in opinion. And in assuming every comment that disagrees with yours must be by the same person. That’s like you can’t address ideas but must pigeonhole a person without bothering to think.
Pigeonholeing as in blaming all crime and societal misstep “Leftist” and “Liberal ” and “Socialist “?? That kind of pigeonholeing????
[edit]Asia is equally a “term that’s used by the European invaders ” as Asia, Europe and Africa were names that all originated by the ancient Greeks and/or Romans. The term “Middle East” was first used by the British in late Victorian times at which time it was part of the Ottoman Empire (you know them as they were Asian (?) Conquerors of parts of Europe.)
Really? Edited because I said it was a snotty comment on something that wasn’t even said while “You need to go back to school & learn geography” is left standing? It was Jennifer who was shy on geography- and history- not stuber who never mentioned the world “continent” as far as I could tell. As usual your choice of what’s an insult will be rationalized into who says, not what is said. Being principled is not a popularity contest.
I am actually very impressed by Stuber who I know who he is. I don’t know if Jennifer is even her real name.
Stuber, I think that you are delusional. The Europeans and then the Americans(caucasions), for hundreds of years were the people that made an industry out of enslaving millions of people, not to mention genocide (where did the vast majority of Native Americans go?). What about dirt poor Asians, Mexicans, and other people around the world making a few dollars a day at manufacturing jobs, so we can get cheap stuff at Costco or Amazon. For that matter Jeff Bezos has become the richest man on the planet by essentially enslaving or at least exploiting hundreds of thousands of people.
Also …Yeah you’re right…White guys like Trump, Bolton, Pompeo, Kushner, NutenYahoo etc. are our best bets for freedom.
George
Wage slaves are still slaves you know. Modern slaves in America are not in chains, they are in debt.
Or in our prison system…
~you got it right.
Those who wave the freedumb flag around, such as in Stuber’s comment, i chalk it up to 20-something, and the public fool system churning out graduates who enter a world that doesn’t exist.
Stuber, geography not notwithstanding, please site your sources. Why do you think there are slaves in asia?
Why do you think the chinese raid korea for slaves?
There’s a weird sex trade, but white people go to that market in big numbers, so why so easily let white folks off the hook?
And white creeps keep kidnapping girls here in America so again i dont get it.
And then the wage slavery thing is really real.
I disagree with kym, which i rarely do, but To me your letter smacks of whiteness and lack of awareness.
I’m not impressed by Stuber’s arguments here but by what I know of his real life.
Rod Deal and the Ideals were Humboldt “white guys” that played in 1991. Learn your history!
🙌🏻 Rod RIP your a legend
One of the greatest Humboldt musicians ever!
That is not exactly a true statement.. Mega Grower.. Ty Anderson was one of the greatests guitar ledgends ever…
Hey some of them motherfuckers can sing though. I must have been blind and deaf the day they made rules for who sings specific genres of music. There was something drawn up in the sand in this regard … otherwise maybe the show would still go on . I wasn’t going anyway. Regardless of who was singing… I cannot leave the state because of all the theiving I’ve done in my childhood… I’m a lifer on parole
Well hopefully they can figure out a way to keep the hall I hope they know that we are in a economic recession been in it for a while they won’t tell you so but all the economist know it is not a good time to borrow money or be in debt I believe they made a little bit of money at summer arts festival although it wasn’t the largest turnout they should try to pay a bit too the local volunteer fire departments the fuel density in our area is really high and we might be needing these Crews to help protect everybody in the area and their belongings
the Mateel still owes Piercy Volunteer Fire department for half of their contract for services for 2017 and I don’t think they have paid Salmon Creek VFD anything that they owe them for 2017.
Finally. Needed to be put down.
…and fuck the Mateel too!
Can you get an official statement from High Times please Kym? The website announcement looks totally fake
I agree I thought hacked
Updated with a statement from Dusty Hughston, Mateel board member.
When you see that quality of work, it gives some idea of why it went under.
This will definitely help the river
🕯🌳I’ll second that. 👍🏽🐟
You know why? Because it got blown out. To big too many raves and late night partying. It needs to go small again, family’s and non profits. Local volunteers who know how, locals with the connections. Less hype, less perks I know it could be done.✌🏾❤️💛💚
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Bummer man.. That was a cool event….25 years ago…
Sad. All that $$$ Mateel, Inc. sunk into rejuvenating someone else’s property @ French’s Camp. Oh well, I’m sure they can dig up that $55k catchment pond and move it to the So Hum Community Park. Any volunteers?
And what about the contract the Mateel made with the Arthur family? They might be on the hook to pay for having a non-event there for a few more years.
They need to bring it back to Benbow if still possible. When they decided to go big with it back in 2010 it was the beginning of the end.
Yahoooooooooooo, there is a god after all…
Smelled this one coming from “6 miles away”. Heh. Perhaps the MCC, Inc can get a good price on that fab amp system and pay off all their creditors.
ROTR: Perhaps not the birthplace of drug addled mediocrity, but it was probably conceived there…
Reggae on the river pales in comparisson to other drugged oht festivals. Get outta yer bubble. Maybe do some drugs.
Doubt it. I think you need some good drugs in your life buddy
There ARE no “good drugs”, and your “good drugs” are killing your community…
Giving a poor quality product, charging a high price, having dishonest and incompetent management, well, this results in broke “non-profits” like the “Community Park”, the Mateel “Community” Center, and Jerold Phelps “Hospital”… If new people show up, look around, and leave, your community loses.
Enjoy the gift, God has granted: Another day to live. Jorma Kaukonen
Build something, care about something, participate in something.
Good Luck!
I beg to differ. There are life changing great drugs out there. Sorry youve never done them.
Taking drugs is like spitting in God’s face. Pissing on your time on earth…
Who told you that your or any generation invented taking drugs? Nothing could be less true…
Drugs waste your life, get you nowhere, and lead to inane comments on a blog…
Life is a gift, that’s why we call it the present!
Wake up! I hope you end up mature and wise, but you will have to live that long… Drugs won’t help.
Then just do drugs that have always been here like psylocibin and dmt. [edit] Theyve existed longer than us and will.
And i knownlots of people very old who still taje entheogens and are probably a lot happier than you
Well, I am forced to agree that drugs are doing YOU a lot of good. Enjoy…
Why donyou edit the words “jesus was a mushroom” or are you a good christian?
“All drugs are bad, some are just funner than others”
(Me)
Go Big, not go big? I feel like some of these people never went when it was the best. Really from the beginning through 2006 or so was a blast. Reggae Rising and that bumbling crew was the beginning of the end.
Those couple years of ROTR at Benbow were nice and very family friendly. I could do that again!
Bring back Reggae Riding!
Reggae Riding… into the sunset as well…
What is with all these nasty comments? One should feel profound sadness that both SNWMF and RotR is not happening this year. The higher level attitude should be sad for this giant loss and just stop pointing fingers or wishing the worst. Reggae is a spiritual healing and no matter what caused the death, a life is gone.
Even a green festival isn’t as sustainable as no festival at all. It’s sad that people can’t enjoy life in more simpler ways, but if loosing at least trash producing festival helps to force people into less wasteful pastimes, then so be it!
Yeah, I can dig it, very insightful view. Totally agree! It’s sad I will admit, what’s sadder though, seeing a new landfill being developed because of the waste we as human beings generate on a massive scale, daily? Or your loss of ROTR ?
I am from SoCal and I’m profoundly sad.
This would of been my first year. What a bummer.
Should have went 2 years ago.
All that quality mateel management and solid decision making sure payed off. At least when they blame others this time they… oh what the hell they failed again. What a Joke the mateel has become. Took a world class reggae festival and ran it into the ground because they thought they could do it better than the people that guess what DID IT BETTER!
SMMFH
I agree. Reggae was a world-class event when Carol and Co were running it. Handing it over to High Times, a third rate canna-porn rag did nothing to increase its cachet. Indeed, it was a death sentence for the event and most likely also for the Community Center. So sad.
Carol and Co were the beginning of the disaster. They were the ones who diluted the brand by bringing in dancehall and hip-hop, and drove the expenses through the roof, to draw in a bigger (and nastier) crowd. They were the ones who started taking a large cut for themselves, the nonprofit fundraising mission be damned. They, and their allies on the MCC board, were the ones who ran off competent financial managers who could recognize the whopping irregularities that they used to line their pockets. They were the ones who made a killing off the event while leaving next to nothing for MCC. They were the ones who hustled Tom Dimmick into taking on their debt from the MCC lawsuit settlement, with the false promise of big $ down the road.
Boy, ain’t that the truth. I went to the first 20 years, raised a son there. It went the way of all good things.
The Mateel membership is much to blame. They voted in the crew that told them they wanted to go back to French’s Camp and “go big” once again. The membership voted for the crew that moved ROTR from Benbow where they made a $240,000 profit in it’s 2nd year.
Hopefully that board isn’t managing anything else that involves finance.
Or cash…
Or decisions…
The halcyon days of reggae on the river will never be forgotten. All those years of working the food booths for the nonprofits. And our kids running around in safety. The great music, and less people…. but then it all went to crap and has been dying a long lingering death for a while now. I went last year and it was really sad. I had to leave after a few hours. The magic was gone. Northern nights will still happen down there, so let’s hope they continue to take as good care of the river. With Carol Bruno’s memorial coming up on July 3 there is much to reflect upon. I for one will always have happy memories of reggae. Yes there were problems, but the community pulled together really well. every one had a role to play, from the firefighters, to the security, to the info booths, to the vendors, to the food booths. It took a large village and we pulled it off for many many years. We made lots and lots of money for the local nonprofits. Beginnings alone made enough to pay a teacher for a year. Rest in peace reggae on the river.
I believe Carol’s Memorial is on the 6th…Just sayin’…
yes the 6th
Carol’s Memorial will be July 6th
.well said RIP ROR. I had my years there that I will NEVER forget. The 90s were a very good local vib RIP carol b.
Crapola!
Too many thoughts to comment much, yet.
What about the deposits people put down on booths, etc?
where is Darryl Cherney now with his 400 point plan to save the Mateel? oh right now he’s off to save the schools with another 400 point plan. It didn’t work out at the hospital for him either. this really isn’t about Darryl but it reminds me of all the people who have these grandiose ideas and not the capacity to manifest them. i think that bringing in High Times was such a big mistake. I agree. Back to Benbow! Keep it local. Keep it small.
If it’s not about Daryl why did you bring him up ?
Because he is the best representation of a radical martyrdom generation – driven on ego, conspiracy, drugs and delusion. A cancerous ideology founded on hate and human economic suffering.
Yeah, sure….
The River Gods are smiling and so am I…..
This was inevitably going to happen after marijuana legalization. “Rebel Music” is not nearly as rebellious as it used to be. They should try to put together a Reggae-light festival next year with most of the music being non-Reggae. Times change, even if High Times doesn’t. Reggae isn’t all there is, folks.
WAit till flowcana takes over the summer arts fair…..
I went to the first one – whenever that was. The music was good, But, it was too hot, too dusty, and too crowded for me. I cannot imagine what it was like at its peak.
Bring Back P.B! Haha, it was awesome when he was running things
Meh.
https://arisefestival.com
Same show new name.
Oh and some might enjoy this , he calls himself the original founder of reggae on the river..
https://m.facebook.com/arisemusicfestival/posts/238141579670242
So what….
Satan?
Some of you here get overly excited . So excited that you post stupid links like it’s life changing news, a big exciting reveal. Pffffft, how friggin petty can you get?
Right? Because duplicity is not worthy of noting. You sound like a great pretender yourself.
Knock yourself out. 🙄
Different show different bands different folks attrndting.
Same narcissistic leadership style. Came out of retirement hah! More like exhiled. All bragging about community this, and unity that, while he left division and discord in ours. So fake.
Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm for the end of that man shall be PEACE. Always remember when you dig a pit, dig two, one for your brother and for you!!!!!
Man I’m not even a huge reggae fan at all but that’s sad regardless of when it was better. I went to it at Benbow and at Matteel and had a blast both times saw Toots last time I went a few years back and it was cool I think I had more fun at the all night party at separate camp ground last time cuz they had a ten o’clock sound curfew where the actual festival grounds were so they had a separate party camp ground down the road, it was a crazy party for two nights straight loved it! Sad to hear it is gone for good.
Iam glad it’s over. That festival has been garbage since the 2000’s. The ppl who go are drugged out losers who pollute the river and throw thrash everywhere.
Gross generalization….
When Sizzla was told he could not come back for singing the truth. It was all down hill
Yes. An anti-rasta reggae show…….
It will be a rainbow show next year.
Too bad. I had some fun times there. I hope that the Mateel can keep going.
I’m glad it’s over. It was on life support for too long. I hope it just ends. I went for 20 years. High Times still has 4 more years of their 6 year contract to produce the festival .I wonder what happens there? Try again next year? Did they breach the contract and to what end?
Ya, that’s what I’m wondering. Does the mateel have the right to produce the festival next year if high times walks away? They should turn it into more of an EDM rave. Reggae music is a dying genre, young people don’t really listen to it.
Faro, Not dying , evolving.
And if you turn on a radio or music video s you will hear almost every other song has a reggae beat!!
Across the WORLD!
Reggae is alive and continues to inspire and uplift us!!!
ROTR was one of the best festivals anywhere! Putting together wonderful lineups of artists from all over the world (I know that many artists loved playing ROTR- the vibes were so good and the care and treatment of the artists was wonderful!!)
I agree, I definatley hear some rythyms when I occasionally listen to pop music. But the festival needs to evolve really fast. Blue by the Bay used to be a big thing but now it’s become the redwood coast music festival because not very many people younger than 60 or 70 listen to the blues.
That’s where reggae is going. Teenagers and people in their twenties don’t listen to reggae (except a small number of hippies/trustafarians). I like the idea of bringing back Rock and Reggae.
Forget Reggae, the Mateel should start a new festival called “Dub-Step on the River”
Is there a minimum fee that HT needs to pay the MCC each year?
Come to the Board meeting TONIGHT (6-18-19) at the MCC for details!
Yes hopefully we can keep the Mateel Center for further Generations and bringing back our community together thank you Carol and John for helping build the beautiful building and property that the community center is and many Helping Hands from everyone in the community even the less fortunate and homeless return to the roots reggae is a spiritual movement mostly started in the ghettos sharing food and music and dance connecting our souls and spirits and sharing the good sacrament sometimes we have to remember what life is all about it is not about money
That’s the best post I’ve seen. I’ve been involved with the sound production since the second one. Helped Carol and Jimmy D get a real sound system there and it stayed through Reggae Rising. My crew and I have done the sound there since the last carol produced ROTR before the big split up and Reggae Rising. Did sound for all the reggae risings and the ROTRs and all the Summer Arts festivals since then. I’m from Nevada City and we don’t have a Mateel Community Center or anything like it. We have a couple of concert venues that are non profits that do try hard to support the arts but they are more interested in making a well paying job for themselves as individuals and like many elected officials, have no clue how to run a concert hall BUSINESS, which is what this is. Mateel on the other hand supports the community, feeds the homeless (or anybody who is hungry), brings music and arts to the Sohum area, brings much needed revenue from OUTSIDE the area INTO the area and supports the non profits that actually HELP your community. We have NONE of that where I live and so I am VERY supportive of your community center and your community as you should be as well as thankful you have one. As for the people running it, think you can do better??? ITS NOT EASY!!! Try it! Volunteer your dumb ass and DO SOMETHING instead of sitting in your arm chair and telling the rest of the world what a shitty job your government is doing, while not voting, what a shitty job your community is doing while not supporting it, while complaining about what kind of music is being played instead of buying an instrument and spending every day trying to learn how to play it, spending your life trying to write music and getting other musicians to agree to play it with you and try to get the rest of your compatriots to actually LIKE it enough to PAY to see you play it! Most people just try to get in to the clubs for free, try to get on their friend’s pest lists, (I get 400 new found friends every show: “dude! Can you get me in???”) Fuck you, you have millions buried in a jar, rat holed away for when somebody else subverts the New World Order for you… from growing weed for the last 60 years back when it was worth 4 g a pound… or did you snort all that $$$??? Quitcher bitchin you winey ass fucktards and DO SOMETHING TO HELP!!’ I’ve been very very fortunate to be a part of ROTR, SAMF, SNWMF and the MCC, and others, including my own crazy community, for 40 years and I love all of it and all the people who have given their all and are still doing it like the current MCC folks who you all seem to just want to condemn. I bet you complainers have never volunteered your asses for ANYthing! I don’t wanna hear negativity from those who do not, I wanna hear solutions to this issue: get off your ass and create a consortium of angel investors like those who put on Cochella, Bottle Rock, etc, and raise the $ to put on events that DRAW people to your community in support of the arts and music, cuz as my friend Joe Craven says, “These artists are working very hard for LITTERALLY, hundreds of dollars a year!…”
The mateel has no idea how to run a concert hall venue either bud
And the mateel does not do anything for the community anymore… Where have u been? They dont feed the homeless. Get a little clue man.
Yes the Mateel Center stop feeding the hungry about a year-and-a-half ago when they took the community out of that heading now they are the mateel center and they might lose that Center also and then they’ll be the Mateel left. That they’re taking the headwaters out as we speak mattole Headwaters are in danger yes they split our community into fragments and now we can’t even protect our precious environment
How do we pull our community back together maybe we should put on a concert
Maybe because they are in debt to other community members like the aforementioned fire departments and are trying to pay that down? Maybe because many of you have voiced your opinions that feeding homeless drug addict meth monkeys only enables them the continue feeding their habits off of those who actually work for a living? Hmmm…. I still don’t hear solutions, just complaining. I know for a fact that those who are still working at the MCC are working their asses off for FREE OR really cheap to save YOUR COMMUNITY CENTER. Dusty and his son even helped me load out the sound system at SAMF when the rest of you non-volunteers didn’t show up, and guess what??? It was a skeleton crew and did it faster than any crew ever has!!! Surprise! Dusty, his 12 year old son, michael and my monitor guy did the work of twice as many in half the time! So I have huge respect for those who are actually DOING SOMETHING TO HELP. That goes for EVERYBODY at Mateel! Working HARD to save YOUR community center, YOUR community! The rest of you have your heads up your asses. Nothing but turds up in those do nothing asses… lol! Get off your fat asses and help, or stfu.
Volunteers Must sign a agreement that they give up their rights even if the mateel is negligent and you die, you cannot sue them or have your family paid for their negligence. why would somebody want to volunteer? not everybody who is hungry is a drug addict and not all drug addicts are hungry. calling people names will probably get you nowhere.
I gave the board some really good Solutions but they won’t listen to anything. They’re too good for it
So Sad. RIP ROTR. Carol Bruno was the Fuel for Your Success. It was a Great Event for Many Years. It was Good up until 2015 when they let new inexperienced arrogant
“wanna be growers”people from LA/Brazil come into ruin it. She single handedly sold 10 corner booths and defrauded vendors. Justin honored us by giving us refunds. He was fooled Unfortunately. I will never forget the Good Days with Carol. XO
Justin is a fool and is the real reason for the demise . The Blue Star guy too !
What a bummer! I was looking forward to going this year!
High Times was trying to get $5,000 for both space. Twice as much as a trade show. That was how they though they were going to make money in the event.
Its funny how this community acts about reggae on the river.. So much better stuff outbthere… Shoot bring bak ekectric on the eel! Ohbwaot thebgeneral taste in music if pot growers suuuux
WHAT IS UP WITH ALL THIS NEGATIVITY?!!!! The Mateel Community Center is a terrific LOCAL place that puts on some great events – with local talent – AND brings some BADASS talent to this REMOTE AREA!!!! We are all blessed to be able to see world-renowned acts without having to leave home! Summer Arts Festival rocked it thanks to a skeleton crew, dedicated volunteers and HUMBOLDT COUNTY/MENDO COUNTY who came and had a great time! We are all a part of the Mateel Community!!!!!
Come and show your support at our open board meetings! 3rd Tues of the Month 5:30. Come and help make things happen! Bring some POSITIVE ENERGY!!!!!!
Bless you Babette! Keep it positive!! Share the love!!
The Mateel has done and will do SO much for this community!
The MCC is in a metamorphosis stage right now. Being reborn, as our community does the same thing. I welcome that!!
And! If I have it right, from your message/ invitation, the 3rd Tuesday means…..
THE NEXT OPEN, MATEEL BOARD MEETING IS TOMORROW/TUESDAY EVENING AT 5:30PM AT THE HALL.
Probably nobody will show up at your board meeting like usual maybe one or two but I doubt you get full house for that just going to give everybody more of the same maybe you should put the mateel up and get a big giant loan so everybody could get paid then you could default on the loan and give up the building for pennies on the dollar are put the burden on the future of our community for the next 25 years sounds like a good idea right maybe the mateel Center and it’s board members need to be spanked like newborn baby maybe then they’ll wake up if you guys are going to have some interesting topics maybe you should post them up on this comment section like filing to get the grant money to feed the hungry
I agree with Babette. It’s a lot easier for some folks to tear things down than to help rebuild. I’m glad the Mateel is having a show that weekend, and very glad they’re continuing to pay down their debt. We need all of the community we can get these days. Let’s look forward.
Thank you, Babette, and for the covfefe and the morning minf**k! This years was frozen 1/4-3/4… 😜 And I AGREE!!! Read my post above…
Truly sorry to hear you have to find a new summer job.
Perhaps you can feature his comment since you’ve run out of ideas.
You know she works for FREE, right? She supplies the whole rehydration station backstage for the whole crew at all events. Pretty big job. She even gets the supplies donated whenever possible. She gives us all free coffee in the morning and it’s GOOOOD!!! My morning goddess! For FREE! Got it?
Oh well… the dogs are happy they won’t be going to the boarding facility, I’ve gone to rotr for years as a volunteer, photographer and attendee… met my wife there and many life long friends… place was magic when it was on and fun even when it wasn’t … but all good things must come to an end… just glad I got to be a part of it… RIP ROTR… maybe some day you’ll be back?
Never loved the festival or the crowd but we should all be mourning the loss of the revenue it brings to Gville every year. I’ll bet a lot of local shops get in the black due to summer tourism including reggae.
The summer music festival season is saturated, on any given weekend across the nation with many having top notch musicians. As a previous commentor said this so called ‘rebel music ‘ has become diluted with legalization. Bringing back ‘Electric on the Eel’ would have been a wiser business decision.
So this year all that happened is a bunch of frog eggs got relocated from their natural nesting spots.
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What really sucks is that High Times lead us and Mateel Board on, to believe they were going to do it again. And they cancel it now, past the last minute! So inconsiderate!!
Yes. Next year, we REBOOT Reggae On The River, as a smaller event, to bring in a modest amount of annual income for our beloved and important Mateel Community Center!
Bring on RotR 2020…… with hindsight!
Like in 2015 when the “new” Mateel got the show back and were going to do such a better job than the “other guys” and went over budget by $350,000?
Mateel Community Center still plans on being a Production company if they do should Branch off and have a separate production company that is not associated with the building to lose the building because of bad turnouts at a show is not what is good for the community are those that truly love the community center
🖤 ❤️💛💚🖤 Mi miss yuh RoR! Thenk yuh ! Luv yuh!🖤❤️💛💚🖤
Sad, so sad. Maybe it will be a blessing in disguise. Certainly a lot of shifts in the triangle right now. I hope something more rooted and small scale will rise to the challenge….Excuse me while I go bury my sorrows in really loud Reggae tunes now…
Bummer!
❤️“Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.” Bob Marley❤️
I was there the years that Manila Community Center had the General Store in front of the main gate. I worked the overnight shifts and saw some weird stuff.
Use to Love Reggae on the River…
Boycott HIGH TIMES! And Damian Marley since is a big investor in that corporation.
If you’re one of those people that have read that rag (that’s been absolute trash since the early 80s) you should be embarrassed.
Save your money, get a passport, come to Jamaica every year and support the Festivals here.
You will be glad you did!
One Love!
I had been going since 99. ROTR was a great way for me to come up to humboldt and see all there was to see. I ended up moving up here shortly after my first ROTR, going to HSU getting a degree and working doing what I love with people I love. I ended up building a family and communuty. Im sad to see all the hardship that the southern humbold community is going through and I hope the love and community pushes through these changing times. ❤💛💚 u ROTR, Mateel and all the countless peops giving their time and energy to make this event happen. Hope the next chapter will thrive!
💥Wiith change comes opportunity 💥
Yes! We need to get back to OUR Reggae Roots! We started small and we CAN do it again. My first Reggae was in ’91. Someone got me a volunteer spot backstage kitchen and then told me they had enough crew & I didn’t have to work! I was so amazed that I went back to thank the co-ordinator only to find him frantically trying to make hundreds of crew meals alone- his crew hadn’t shown up! So I volunteered and I and 1 other person made bagged meals all night long! I only missed 1 Reggae after that! The music is great, but I love the family that we become as we make it happen. It’s something truly amazing. And when I would travel out of the area, even to other states – wearing my ROR t-shirts and people would stop me and tell me what an amazing time they had – in my teeny tiny hometown- l felt so blessed to say that my community center made it happen! We need our community to make things happen!
Same thing happened to the Oregon Country Fair. For many years it was a pretty humble hippy gathering. It started getting popular, money started flowing, and evil hand of greed got involved.
I went back to Oregon 2 years ago to do 3 days at the fair. It was a sad money grubbing shadow of its former self. Im sure it only has a few years left on it. Wherever money is involved, greed and destruction will soon follow.
Dear Neighbors, Stay in Peace we are all One – no separation
Stop and think for a moment of all the hundreds of artists, singers and players of instruments, who have come from every corner of this sweet mother Earth to bring us all the message of Unity, One Love, and Giving Thanks all the while. The memories of those who gave there lives to bring PEACE and Loving Vibrations here for us ALL to realize and actualize in our hearts minds and hands. In our families, home and community centre’
(The house that Reggae built)
Think of All the Joyous connections and lifetime friendships and the children who all grew to be good people
through all the IRIE vibes and Positive Rastamon Vibrations.
Rejoice in the glory of Jah Light and the energy as it built from the morning prayer to the amazing headliners
that include the whole entire Pantheon of the greatest of the greats Ruggs. Jimmy Cliff. Judy, Joseph Hill, Lucky Dube,Thomas Maphumo , SteelPulse, Midnite, Hugh Masakala, Angela Kitjo, Emmily Michelle, Salif,
David Rudder, Bunny Wailer, Mykal Rose, come to mind the list goes on & on . These Stars became our friends our loved ones part of our hearts , our family . Everyone should reflect on how many ways being a part of the musical educational experience has elevated and edified our love for life. Helped us to grow as a human being and cultivate community out of a field of mud in a podunk backwoods hillbilly haven full of rednecks and
opportunists out to make it rich exploiting the sacred Herb for selfish gains. Right in the middle of the last remaining stands of the Mighty Redwood Region ! This is afterall a very sacred place ! Wake up and Live ya’ll
Wake up and LIVE ! Give Thanks all the while . Jah no dead . One Love – everytime
p.s. Peopleof the Mattole and of the Ell = Mateel For I Ver may Jah guide and protect- seen ?
💛SEEN!💛
1️⃣💚. … TY! 🖤❤️💛💚🖤 Visualize Futures History.. 💚Visualize positivity… Fisualize prosperity for the proper living💚❤️ 💛🖤When one door is closed..many more will open!❤️💛🖤( Fisualize.. Fusing reality with vision)🖤
❤️(The house that reggae built!) Jah liv! 💛💚❤️ Much reflection.. Much Luv🖤! 💚Biggest Blessings!💚
The salmon and steelhead appreciate it.
wow – lots of energy around these topics. everything changes, nothing stays the same… evolve or die… dig it while it is happening. Having a community center is so precious. Live music is vital. I volunteered and worked at RoR for many years in many different ways… and loved it. .. though my favorite experience was making blackberry short bread and brownies with the Petrolia High School students. What a blessing to see Jimmy Cliff, Third World, the Marleys… long long list of amazing shows. Time to regroup and evolve. Thank you Mateel and everyone of you that has contributed to that amazing energy. peace out
I remember when Dread Zeppelin played at reggae I was to young to go I didn’t have the money and Humboldt was to far away . A reggae band with an Elvis 🕺 impersonator that sings Zeppelin songs reggae style those were the days when reggae was the coolest music festival and everyone wanted to go, good old 90’s .
Last years sucked. Very creepy vibe. Not hard to believe it got shitcanned this year.
Regarding Bhyngimon (?) most of the “rednecks” hillbilly peeps are generations whom have resided here for multiple generations. Some of the worst, disgusting, egomania, greed and environmental destruction has been at the hands of many back to the landers (not all) and self proclaimed hippies (not all). And the hypocrisy is flagrant as it is laughable, especially as they condemn corporations for jacking their employees as they fill their pantries full of organic food and stiff their trimmers or people who grew their weed for them while they jet off to vacation or go shopping, typical despicable CEO behavior. I’ve witnessed and experienced it a several times over. People are people, some good, some bad, some downright delusional, and some just disgustingly douchey (and yeah most of those creeps were hippies, or riding reggae herb). Duh, that’s the game, that’s the lie. Yeah let’s go to Reggae, get wasted, trash the river, do a bunch of blow in the food booth, fry our brains right in front of the kids. Don’t you know kids love to see their parents getting wasted and then tell them what a beautiful thing they’re doing for the community, “thank Jah” “look at all the love.” Hippies are so easy to make fun of, most especially when they’re bawling about the injustices of the world that they’re not only scathingly guilty of, while shamelessly perpetuated under the idea of cloak of, ‘one love.” Get real and time for some hard honest reflection. Why people keep holding onto the past and not seeing it for what it really is? Reggae was on it’s way out in the early 90’s. Stop pining for the, ‘good old days’ and grow up. Thank Jah? Thank goodness this shit show is gone. The Mateel now has the potential to redirect its energy to a broader base and diversify their shows and maybe clean up and create more efficient ways to raise money for the community. They do do good work and there are people out there with good intentions trying to do the right thing in the community, for the community. It’s time to let ROTR go and move on to more productive viable possibilities.
Whenever it’s that long winded, it turns into blah.
Actually @Really, I see truth in your statement. Honestly if it wasn’t for people on all sides of the spectrum Reggea on the River would have never been such a success, for as long as it possibly was.. It wouldn’t have been at all if the Original owners of the Ranch had not opened it up to everyone…I believe Jim Morrison said it best..lol “People are strange”.. People are multi facited… Good people can be Bad, And bad people can be good. And everything in between…It’s so ironic to me that a festival based on such a outword impressions of Unity was also internally combusting. Sometimes, the chaos of the universe is a way to truely evaluates a situation, for the higher good…Helps people to grow.. sometimes that can be tough….What ever comes forward in the future, I sincerely hope it’s a healthier picturer….
The confusion between “hippies” and pot growers who like reggae on the river is astoundint and ignorant. Real hippies like the grateful dead. And the grateful dead is not all flowers and rainbows.
Hey.. I like the GD.. I also like roots music..I know people who are not hippies at all that luv the dead.. I also know “ hippies” that don’t like the Grateful Dead at all… I also know “pot growers” who don’t even smoke or like cannabis really at all.. I am sure people will see a lot more of that in the coming times. I also know Country types that are some of the biggest stoners I know. Lots of grey area when defining “people”..
I agree. Just sayin. The grateful dead is america. Hippies are high intelligent people persuing internal enlightenment.. [edit]