Last weekend, Vermont jam band Twiddle hosted their inaugural Tumble Down festival at the Burlington Waterfront Park. The band brought tons of great music to the town, recruiting Nahko & Medicine for the People, Cabinet, Turkuaz, Holly Bowling and more for the experience. Of course, it was the hometown group Twiddle that pulled out all the stops, bringing big jams and some great guest stars to power their four festival sets.

On the first night, the big surprise was an appearance from the full horn and vocalist sections of Turkuaz, who helped Twiddle conclude their show with a rollicking version of “Funky Town.”

The guests continued on night two, as Holly Bowling performed between sets and stayed on to usher the return of Twiddle. During the musical interlude, Phish keyboardist Page McConnell made a guest appearance, dabbling with Bowling and Ryan Dempsey in “When It Rains It Poors.”

Watch pro-shot footage of “When It Rains It Poors,” courtesy of Frendly Productions, below.

The second night show also featured Scott Zwang of Dopapod, who joined in for “Lost In The Cold” towards the end of the second set. It was a great weekend full of music and fun. Check out some of Dave DeCrescente Photography‘s images from the night below, as well as setlists (via uTwiddle.net) and full audio recordings of Twiddle’s sets (via taper Mark Van Blunk), below!

Setlist: Twiddle at Tumble Down, Burlington, VT – 7/29/16

Soundcheck: Fire On High

Set 1: Blueberry Tumble, Brown Chicken Brown Cow[1], Amydst The Myst, Westcotton Candy, Zazu’s Flight, Beehop[2], Honeyburste

Set 2: Fire On High, Blunderbuss, Tiberius, Every Soul, Beethoven and Greene, Carter Candlestick[3], The Catapillar > Funky Town[4]

Show Notes: This show was a part of the “Festively Plump” 2016 summer tour. This was the first show of the inagural Tumble Down music festival. Annie In The Water replaced Kitchen Dwellers who had flight troubles and were unable to make their opening set. Turkuaz played prior to Twiddle and Holly Bowling played a tweener set. “Funky Town” was last played 2016-02-20 (41 Shows).

[1] “Brown Chicken Brown Cow” featured Craig Brodhead (Turkuaz) on drums.

[2] “Beehop” contained ‘Pawn Shop’ (Sublime) quotes from Mihali.

[3] “Carter Candlestick” conained a “Get Lucky” (Daft Punk) tease and was dedicated to Mihali’s mom who was in attendance.

[4] “Funky Town” featured Sammi Garett (Turkuaz) and Shira Elias (Turkuaz) on vocals. The lyrics were changed to ‘Won’t you take me to Tumble Down?’. The song also featured Chris Brouwers (Turkuaz) on trumpet/keys, Greg Sanderson (Turkuaz) on tenor sax and Josh Schwartz (Turkuaz) on brass sax.

Setlist: Twiddle at Tumble Down, Burlington, VT – 7/30/16

Set 1: Subconscious Prelude > Earth Mama, Brick Of Barley, Daydream Farmer, Second Wind, Indigo Trigger > Subconscious Prelude, Best Feeling[1]

Set 2: Hatti’s Jam[2] -> When It Rains, It Poors[3], Dr. Remidi’s Melodium, Grandpa Fox, Lost In The Cold[4], Wasabi Eruption -> The Box

Show Notes: This show was a part of the “Festively Plump” 2016 summer tour. This was the second night of the inagural Tumble Down music festival. Cabinet opened the show followed by Nahko and Medicine For The People right before Twiddle. Holly Bowling played a tweener set.

[1] “Best Feeling” contained a “Smooth Criminal” (Michael Jackson) jam.

[2] “Hatti’s Jam” was started by Holly Bowling solo and slowly blended into a full band performance of “When It Rains, It Poors” featuring Holly.

[3] “When It Rains, It Poors” featured Holly Bowling and Page McConnell (Phish) on keys.

[4] “Lost In The Cold” featured Scott Zwang (Dopapod) on drums.

All photos via Dave DeCrescente Photography; full gallery below.