Listen: Bruce Hornsby @ Hoxeyville Festival (2012)

Two hours of Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers at the Hoxeyville Music Festival in 2012.

Background

For 23 years, the Hoxeyville Music Festival was an Americana and roots festival in the Midwest, based in the Manistee National Forest in Wellston, MI. It closed for the last time in 2024.

Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers joined them for their tenth anniversary in August 2012, for this two hour set. They were joined by Paul Hoffmann for Rainbow’s Cadillac. 

You can hear the whole concert using the player below!

The band at Hoxeyville was:

Bruce Hornsby
Bobby Read
J.V. Collier
Moyes Lucas
Doug Derryberry
J.T. Thomas
Paul Hoffmann (for Rainbow’s Cadillac)

Setlist

08/18/12 Hoxeyville Music Festival – Wellston, MI
Big Rock Candy Mountain > Candy Mountain Run, See the Same Way, Mirror on the Wall, End of the Innocence, Funhouse > You Sexy Thing, Won’t Get Fooled again/banter, The Good Life*, Valley Road*, Prairie Dog Town*, Super Freak**, Jacob’s Ladder** > Cartoons and Candy** > Jacob’s Ladder**, The Way It Is, Sunflower Cat > No Diggity > Sunflower Cat, Fortunate Son, Rainbow’s Cadillac***
Comments: * denotes on dulcimer; ** denotes on accordion; *** w/Paul Hoffman on mandolin.

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