JUNE 27th - Tribu festival, Dijon FR 

(thank you very much Michael for info!!)

You know, in Dijon, we were scheduled to play this big festival. The day of the festival the stage workers went on strike, so they cancelled the whole festival. So there we were in Dijon, expecting to play for thousands of people and we show up and they say, ‘the whole thing is cancelled’. So there was a little backstage area where people had been cooking food all day for the artists and for the stage crew and there were a few other people there. When I showed up, I said; ‘no no, we’re going to play some music. And they said; no son, you can’t, it’s not going to happen. There was even a guy in the backstage playing guitar and they told him; no, you can’t even play an acoustic guitar.’ When I heard that, I just said no, these people are cooking and making noise with the pots and pans and I’m going to make noise with my guitar, that’s what I do. So we brought a guitar back there and Manas played on a little garbage can, we started playing music at midnight and pretty soon somebody brought a bass amplifier out there and some congas. After that Dave brought his guitar and a keyboard, and pretty soon we set up a whole lot of music instruments. Right there in the backstage area. There were about 60 people there, and we played music for midnight till four in the morning. And it was probably my favourite show of this whole tour. (Michael Franti, taken from the PTTP fan interview, read the complete interview here)