The annual Weekend At Bertha's is a gathering celebrating counterculture and arts of a diverse variety and kind.

The event is generally a three day camp out, and showcases musicians, artists, crafts and vendors from all over.

Put your good where it will do the most! - Tom Wolfe

Merry Pranksters are necessary

Weekend at Berthas is the northeasts premier counterculture grateful camp out, hosted by the Diamond State Merry Pranksters in Delaware
And a trip to the Moon.

The Diamond State Merry Pranksters are pleased to present Return to Weekend at Berthas, the regions premier counterculture event. This event is a three-day campout happening in the safety of veteran ran Firebase Lloyd in the Delaware coastal wilderness of Townsend.

We are the psychedelic model in 2023, as the Artemis I Project is manifested ... NASAs trip to the moon project is realized as Artimus Pyle brings his band to Delaware on Friday July 28th, playing 2 hours of the best of Ronnie Van Zants Lynyrd Skynyrd.

More than just a tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd a tribute to the man that defined it. Artimus Pyle has said If it wasn’t for Ronnie, no one would know my name. Since his departure from Skynyrd in 1991 , Artimus Pyle’s career has led him down an amazing path of solo records and projects culminating into one the finest tributes to southern rock royalty.

The Artimus Pyle Band is a high energy, true to the music, and true to the era rock group. One of the few that is on the road today. Artimus Pyle, Brad Durden, Jerry Lyda, Dave Fowler, and Scott Raines are not only a group of friends and contemporaries but a group with some of the most seasoned musician in the southeast.

APB delivers hit after hit after hit, night after night after night. From Freebird to Sweet Home Alabama, APB gives fans the best of Skynyrd with one of men who made it!

Artimus Pyle – Drums

2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee

Long considered the “wild man” of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Artimus Pyle’s powerful and distinctive double bass drumming helped define the legendary Skynyrd sound.

Artimus got his first real break at the Charlie Daniels bands Volunteer Jam. His first recording lists — Artimus Pyle, percussion. Then with other work for the Marshall Tucker Band, Artimus became known as a powerful session drummer.

Using his connections with Charlie Daniels and Marshall Tucker, both acts that toured often with Skynyrd, Artimus met with Ronnie VanZant and Ed King at Studio One in Doraville, Georgia. The results of that meeting — Saturday Night Special — greatly impressed Ronnie. Artimus live debut with the band took place in Jacksonvilles Sgt Peppers Club in October 1974. The gig, a show to raise money and awareness for Jacksonvilles food bank, was hot Everyone remembers the band walking through the front door and into a crush of people that doubled the legal occupancy of the club. Playing under the hot lights in an over-packed club with an underpowered air conditioner made for a memorable night When Bob Burns left the band permanently following Skynyrds first European tour in December 1974, Artimus quickly got the nod as Skynyrds new drummer.

The years Artimus played with Skynyrd were the years that solidified the legend behind the band. Quickly developing into one of the nation’s top touring draws with a grueling schedule of 300 shows a year, the constant work and touring paid off. By October 20, 1977, Skynyrds songs had become radio staples." (From APB Website)

IT DOESNT STOP THERE !!!

On Saturday July 29th, we reach the moon in Townsend, DE with the help of DOSE HERMANOS, the psychedelic Avant Garde project from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member pianist Tom Constanten and electronic composer Bob Bralove.

Tom Constanten (born March 19, 1944) is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1970, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, United States, and known among friends and colleagues as T.C., Tom Constanten wrote orchestral pieces as a teenager while growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada and briefly studied astronomy and music at University of California, Berkeley, where he met future Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh in the summer of 1961. The two became roommates and dropped out; shortly thereafter, they enrolled in a graduate-level course taught by Italian modernist composer Luciano Berio at Mills College. Constanten also studied piano with Mario Feninger. In 1962, he lived in Brussels and Paris, met Umberto Eco, and studied on a scholarship with members of the Darmstadt School, including Berio, Henri Pousseur, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez.

Bob Bralove is a keyboard–synthesizer player who worked as a sound technician with the Grateful Dead from 1986 to 1995. Throughout his tenure, he performed as an auxiliary musician throughout "Drums" and "Space", the band's signature aleatoric music segments.[1] Accordingly, he played a key role in their integration of MIDI technology, first working with drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, keyboardist Brent Mydland, and later guitarist Bob Weir and synthesizer/piano player Vince Welnick. He also co-wrote several songs with Weir and Welnick, including "Picasso Moon" on Built to Last (1989) and "Way to Go Home" and "Easy Answers", which were slated to appear on the bands unfinished fourteenth studio album. (A live reconstruction, Ready or Not, was ultimately released in 2019 and contains both songs.) Perhaps his most significant project with the band was curating excerpts from "Drums" and "Space" on Infrared Roses, a 1991 compilation album. "Parallelogram" and "Little Nemo in Nightland" are some of his most notable "compositions" from this release.

Bralove was also a member and producer of the Psychedelic Keyboard Trio, along with Welnick and fellow former Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten.[2] Bralove and Constanten also collaborated as Dose Hermanos, a showcase for their improvisational keyboard work; since 1998, they have toured irregularly and released five albums under the moniker.

DOSE HERMANOS has just released a new album, "Persistence of Memory", available on most digital platforms. They will play music from that album, other albums, and of course some tasty psychedelic cuts from the Grateful Dead catalogue that TC contributed to.

WEEKEND AT BERTHAs will see the return of Move Me Brightly liquid light show, bathing the stage and field in psychedelia. Also, Pro Creative Lights. Other bands include ...

Dogs in a Pile

Juggling Suns

FlowPoetry

Steal Your Face

Urban Shaman Attack

Stackabones

Rootsetters

One Eyed Jack

Divided Sky

Ayreheart

Organ Fairchild

Mr Mota

Fragments of Greatness

KnightsReign

Riko and Whaler Collective

Psychedelic Elders

Howl Train

Reality Check Experiment

The Forsaken

Creatures of Content

Dave Koster

Noah Lehrman

The Chops

Trip Hazard

Brian Corcoran

Tricia Murphy

Wonderbred

Dee Maple

Red Smith

Theresa Ratliff

Xtra Alltra

This event will have a progressive tier price, going up every few months leading up to the day of show. There are weekend passes, which include camping, and daily passes with one night of camping. There is also a VIP option that includes VIP tent access, hospitality, credentials, a poster, and closer parking.

Schedule:

July 28, 2023

Blues Side Stage (between sets)

Noon - 1:30pm : Creatures o£ Content

2pm - 3:10pm  : The Psychedelic Eiders

4pm - 5pm : The Forsaken

5:30pm - 7:30pm : KnightsReign

8pm - 10pm : Artimus Pyle Band

LATE NIGHT

10:30pm : Riko and Whaler Collective

Mid - 2 am : Midnight How! Train

2:30am : Reality Check Experiment

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July 29, 2023

Prankster Side Stage ( between sets)

11am - 12:30pm : Stacka bones

1pm - 3pm : Rootsetters

3:30 pm - 4:15pm  : Flowpoetry

4:30pm -6:30 pm : Juggling Suns Project

7pm - 9:30pm : Dose Hermanos

LATE NIGHT

10pm- Midnight  : Dogs In A Pile

Mid - 1:30am : Urban Shaman Attack

2:00am : Steal Your face

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July 30, 2023

11am - 11:30 pm : fragments oi Greatness

1pm - 2pm : One Eyed Jaek

3:20 pm - 5:10 pm : Ayrchcart

6pm - 9pm  : Divided Sky

LATE MIGHT

9:20 pm - Midnight :  Organ Fairchild  

Mid :Mr. Mota

Jam Side Stage (between sets )

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Date : July 28, 2023 - July 30, 2023

Location :

Firebase Lloyd

474 Fleming Landing Road

Townsend, DE 19734

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