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Despite a few sit-ins over the last year and a half (see Trey with Phil & Friends and Trey with Robert Randolph for example) we haven't seen much from Trey Anastasio since his auspicious arrest in December of 2006.

But all of that was behind him on Sunday as Trey returned to the stage for a solo acoustic set on July 6th at the inaugural ROTHBURY Festival in Rothbury, Michigan.

Trey's ROTHBURY setlist included about a dozen Phish tunes, a Trey tune, and a GRAB tune. And as an added (though expected) bonus, Mike Gordon sat in for a few songs including two new ones — Backwards Down the Number Line and Alaska — though no official word on whether or not these are intended to be “Phish songs.” According to Trey he taught Mike both these of these songs to five minutes before the show.

You can download the entire Trey ROTHBURY set in lossless flac format on etree (Chris Davis and Col. George's Peluso cemc6/ck4 source | Nakguy's Milab VM-44 Link source) or you can download a lossy mp3 version of Trey's ROTHBURY set from mediafire. And stay tuned to this space for more concert videos from Trey's appearance at ROTHBURY.

UPDATE (July 6, 2008): After Trey's set, Mike had a set just a short distance away, and Trey returned the favor by joining Mike on stage (with a Stratocaster) for a jam and Meat. Then, just when you thought it couldn't get any better, there was a ¾ Phish reunion as Fishman joined Mike and Trey on stage for a cover of the Beatles song She Said, She Said!

Based on feedback from the concert photography community and invaluable advice from Pro-Imaging.org, I've decided to make some changes to the Official Rules for the 2008 Jamtopia Concert Photo Contest.

The changes not only open the contest to even more photographers, but also make the rules more favorable for entrants, clarifying and limiting how the submissions will be used, who can use them, and for how long. It's my hope that with these changes will come increased participation and with that an even better collection of great concert photos!

Learn more about the 2008 Jamtopia Concert Photo Contest.

Jamtopia's directory of live music streams has been updated with more live music from the Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, and live concerts from NPR's All Things Considered. If you know of any other great concert streams you'd like to see added to the directory, please send an email.

So I started one of my recent posts about a Phish reunion and the prospect of a new Phish album produced Steve Lillywhite by saying that I'm not much for Phish reunion rumor mongering. Ironically, I ended up being the Chief Reunion Rumor Mongerer.

Well I'll start this post by saying that I'm also not much for copying and pasting large blocks of text and calling it a post, but today a very enticing letter from Page McConnell appeared on Phish.com and posting the whole thing just seemed like the right thing to do...