Virtual ProgDay, Sept 5th & 6th, 2020 - audio from live streams

Broadcast from North Carolina (announcements), Austin TX, Russia, France,
Quebec, Sweden, Italy and Philadelphia PA. Recorded near Hershey, PA.

Disc 1 - Saturday Sept 5th, 2020:

1. Welcome to Virtual ProgDay (0:43)

Stop Motion Orchestra (pre-recorded live on a band member's deck in Austin, TX)
2. Mystery Grandma (3:33)
3. Metal Pants (2:35)
4. Oceano de Leche (8:01)
5. TVTV (Cardiacs cover) (4:09)

Vespero (pre-recorded live in a studio in Russia)
6. intro -> Tharmas (7:59)
7. Luvah (5:36)
8. Lebedivo (5:53)

VAK (pre-recorded in a home studio in France)
9. Au Fond des Creuses (8:48)
10. SaiL (9:25)

Les Evades (streamed live from Quebec, Canada, ~6:30-8:00pm EST)
11. intro -> La Holi -> (5:26)
12. Anita's Dance (3:35)
13. Arizona (4:51)
14. Invitation (Bronislau Kaper) (2:21)
15. band intros ->
Caravan (Duke Ellington) (5:39)

Total Time CD 1: 78:34 (1 hr, 18 min, 34 sec)

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Disc 2 - Sunday Sept 6th, 2020:

Hooffoot (pre-recorded live in a studio in Sweden)
1. Welcome to day 2 / intro (0:34)
2. Pablo Octavo - 7th Sea (12:41)
3. Working Title B1 (6:22)

MAD FELLAZ (streamed live from Italy, ~1:30pm - 3:30pm EST)
4. Opening (title?) (5:00)
5. Leaf (7:47)
6. Me Gusta (6:41)

Ghost Rhythms (pre-recorded live in home studio in France)
7. Kamaloke (6:22)
8. Maohee (7:39)
9. Tree Ashes (6:09)

Gnarbot (streamed live from Philadelphia, ~6:30pm - 8:30pm EST)
10. Very Good Man, Very Bad Wizard (6:37)
11. Thrapticious (10:36)

Total Time CD 2: 76:28 (1 hour, 16 min, 28 sec)


Notes:

Back in the festival's formative years (1995-2001), they
regularly released CD sets of festival highlights (ProgDay '95,
ProgDay Encore, ProgDay '98, ProgDay 2001). Unfortunately,
that custom ended in the early 2000s. I started to miss
those sets after a while, so since 2013 I've been cobbling
together my own 2-disc highlight set out of audience recordings.

Note that as of this writing (Aug, 2021), the full recordings
of the sets that these highlights were drawn from are still
available on the Dime a Dozen site.

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Due to COVID-19, ProgDay 2020 had to be held "virtually", with
performances flown in from around the world and streamed through
the StageIt web site.

There were obviously downsides to this method - ProgDay regulars
didn't get to hang out with their friends at beautiful Storybook
Farm (and reports are that the weather was unusually mild and nice
there that weekend), and watching bands on a TV or computer screen
just isn't the same as being there in person.

On the plus side - no long drive, no hot sun, no bug spray, no
hauling tents/chairs/etc out to the field, and quality beer was
just a few steps away in the fridge. But the biggest advantage
was for people like me who try to get good audience recordings of
ProgDay every year. In this case I was able to just connect the
audio output of my computer directly into my recorder and get
soundboard quality recordings. So this year's highlight set came
out particualarly well.

Enjoy, and please help support the bands and the festival in any
way you can.

https://www.progday.net/

https://stopmotionorchestra.bandcamp.com/

https://music.vespero.ru/

https://vakprogband.wixsite.com/site?fbclid=IwAR0GWAJjNwPvveNe2D_aQhjgobwbnaTDB6QsWlGc4h0P7jjFQ26UhVEG_88

https://lesevades.bandcamp.com/

http://www.hooffoot.com/

https://www.madfellaz.com/

https://ghostrhythms.bandcamp.com/

https://gnarbot.bandcamp.com/

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