Rockin the Region with Soulshine Revival

Soulshine Revival is making their triumphant return to the Cooler in the Mountains concert series this Saturday outside the K-1 Base Lodge in Killington at 3 p.m.

This will be their second year in a row playing it. If you don’t know, the band is an Allman Brothers Tribute.

I can only attend one Cooler in the Mountains concert this season and this is the one, so I’m psyched. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ken Shofield for this article. Ken is one of the two drummers.

The band is Phil Graziano (guitar, slide guitar, vocals), Schofield (drums & vocals), Tim Comings (bass & vocals), John Wallace (drums), Gregg Krech (piano, organ, vocals) and Scott Adams (guitar). Ken said, “We’re delighted to be back in Killington, we don’t play in Southern Vermont a lot.

To be invited back for a second year is cool. A woman from the resort came out to the Zen Barn this winter and asked if we’d be playing there again.

All the guys are Vermonters, living all over the state. The band just celebrated their four year anniversary, but some of the guys have been performing together for 20-30 years. This is their first Allman Bros. project, that started due to a friend of Tim’s who passed. Ken said, “His wife reached out to Tim to see if he could put together a memorial with Allman Bros. music since that was his favorite. They didn’t want a traditional funeral, more like a pig roast with a band. Tim put the call out on social media and 20 people responded and said they’re in. What you’re looking at, with the current line-up, is the six people who actually showed up. We just kept it going, it’s grown organically ever since. Every time we played, people would ask us to play elsewhere. Next thing you know we’re doing crazy things like opening for Great White. It’s been fun, a real blast. We’re all older but we’ve been playing together for years so we had that in common. It made putting it together relatively easy.”