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Hot on the heels of the first (and very well received) Trey Anstasio & Classic TAB show in Brooklyn, the band was back together again on Sunday for one set at the first All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ.

As expected, the show didn't match the energy or intimacy of Classic TAB's warm-up show in Brooklyn, but Trey still managed to deliver some “dirty wah” and “nasty solos” at the APW Fest according to the fine folks @glidemag.

An all killer no filler affair where the band didn’t take many chances, but allowed Trey to rip some incredibly fast and melodic solos.
— Scott Bernstein

Scroll down to see the setlist from Trey Anastasio & Classic TAB All Points West Festival, watch videos, and read reviews, but don't expect too many surprises. The set was 100% repeats from Brooklyn.

P.S. Sorry for the boring headline. It was really all I could muster. If you have better ideas, drop a comment.

Update (11:49 PM): Word is that Trey sat in with Jack Johnson on Mudfootball. More details as they come.

Update (August 14, 2008): I've just added a bunch of pictures of Trey at All Points West thanks to Matt Simpson of WNEW FM in New York.

Less than a month after Trey's triumphant return at ROTHBURY and in the midst of all sorts of Phish reunion speculation, Big Red returned to the stage again today for a solo acoustic set at the legendary Newport Folk Festival.

Trey's Newport setlist was filled with plenty of Phish tunes and included a bunch of songs that weren't played at ROTHBURY — namely Bouncing Around the Room, Heavy Things, Shine, Bathtub Gin, and Wilson.

Trey also debuted two songs at Newport: Peggy and If I Could Be a Sailor. The latter was written 10 years ago with, and dedicated to, Tom Marshall. It was described on Glide Magazine's Twitter stream as sounding like Dan Hill's 1977 ballad Sometimes When We Touch.

Scroll down for audio and videos from the show. And be sure to to check back once in a while as I'll be adding more audio sources and videos from Trey's Newport set as soon as I find them.

Phish’s Trey Anastasio, one of the day’s least folky performers in theory, was the only act to play unplugged and solo. He sounded as gentle as a mountain dulcimer.
— Daniel Gewertz, Boston Herald

Update (August 7th, 2008): See our post about Trey & Classic TAB at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

Update (August 10, 2008): See our post about Trey & Classic TAB at the All Points West Festival in New Jersey.

Curious what's going on at the 10,000 Lakes Festival this weekend? Head over to iClips for live video broadcasts from 10KLF 2008.

Today's coverage includes Everyone Orchestra (4:30 PM) and Flaming Lips (10 PM). Then come back on Saturday for Leftover Salmon (6 PM), Phil Lesh & Friends (8 PM), Deep Banana Blackout (11 PM) and Lotus (1:45 AM). NOTE: All times are for the Central time zone.

You'll also want visit the 10K Lakes 2008 page on the the OurStage Blog. They're live-blogging throughout the festival with videos, reviews, guest bloggers and more coming to you straight from the Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

Photo by Katy Batdorff/
The Grand Rapids Press
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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!

Update (August 2nd, 2008): See our post about Trey's solo acoustic show at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island.

Update (August 7th, 2008): See our post about Trey & Classic TAB at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

Update (August 10, 2008): See our post about Trey & Classic TAB at the All Points West Festival in New Jersey.