April 25, 2008 Higher Ground, Burlington, Vermont
Moonalice poster by Ron Donovan

Legend

According to Moonalice legend, Vermont has magical powers.

Burlington is the biggest city in Vermont and one of the few known habitats of the Moonalice tribe’s nomadic clan. It has always had great music. Now it also produces really good ice cream. And snowboards. And craft beer. And chocolate. And bagels. In short, heaven. Burlington also gave us Orson Bean, Howard Dean, Patrick Leahy, Harry Bliss, and ¾ of Phish. Pretty cool.

April 25 is a big day in history. Our favorite fun facts . . . In 1961, Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit. Eight years earlier – on April 25, 1953 – Watson and Crick published their first paper on DNA.

Poster Details

Artist:	Ron Donovan
Performers:	Moonalice, Tea Leaf Green
Venue:	Higher Ground
City, State:	Burlington, Vermont
Date:	April 25, 2008
Printer:	PsPrint
Dimensions:	12.75 in. x 17.25 in.
Medium:	Offset Lithograph
Paper:	14 pt
Series:	Moonalice M58

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Notes

• Listed in the art database at ExpressoBeans.com.
• Listen to this show at Moonalice.com.

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April 23, 2008 Rev­o­lu­tion Hall, Troy, New York
Moonalice poster by Ron Donovan

Legend

According to Moonalice legend, the city of Troy, New York has long been a bastion of progressive tribal activity. According to Wikipedia, Moonalice tribe members in Troy showed great leadership during Prohibition, becoming a “way station” for the illegal alcohol going to New York City from Canada. Thanks to this infrastructure, Troy was able to diversify, complimenting its speakeasies with brothels to serve western New England. Wikipedia is silent about Troy’s hemp trade in those days, but it’s worth noting that Troy’s high profile ended with World War II, the same time that hemp prohibition took hold in the United States. Coincidence? We think not.

Today is the 26th anniversary of the Conch Republic, an outpost of the Moonalice tribe in the southeast. The Republic is the town formerly known as Key West. The town seceded from the US in 1982 to protest Border Patrol roadblocks – searching for drugs and illegal immigrants – which “greatly inconvenienced” residents. The Conchs declared war, surrendered a minute later, and immediately applied for $1 billion in foreign aid.

In September, 1995, a Public Affairs battalion of the US Army Reserve staged an exercise in the Conch Republic . . . the mission was to capture a foreign island. The Army sent PR guys to invade an island? That sounds serious. It was only an exercise, so the Army forgot to tell the Conchs, who thought they were under attack. Armed with fire boat water cannons and stale Cuban bread, the Conchs defended themselves before counterattacking at Fort Jefferson. The counterattack didn’t work out, but the Republic lives on.

Poster Details

Artist:	Ron Donovan
Performers:	Moonalice
Venue:	Rev­o­lu­tion Hall
City, State:	Troy, New York
Date:	April 23, 2008
Printer:	PsPrint
Dimensions:	12.75 in. x 17.25 in.
Medium:	Offset Lithograph
Paper:	14 pt
Series:	Moonalice M56

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Notes

• Listed in the art database at ExpressoBeans.com.
• Listen to this show at Moonalice.com.

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February 14, 2008 House of Crave, Colum­bus, Ohio
Moonalice poster by Ron Donovan

Legend

According to Moonalice legend, February 14 is one of three hundred sixty-five High Holy Days of the tribal calendar. Among those elevated days, however, February 14 is one of the Most High. In tribal traditional, it is a day for sharing music, hemp products, and hormonal urges among lovers. While there are no tribal rules on the matter, traditional holds that the day generally featured one-on-one, rather than team activities. In some parts of the tribe, it is known as Tee Hee in Teepee Day.

Poster Details

Artist:	Ron Donovan
Performers:	Moonalice, Tea Leaf Green
Venue:	House of Crave
City, State:	Colum­bus, Ohio
Date:	February 14, 2008
Printer:	PsPrint
Dimensions:	12.75 in. x 17.25 in.
Medium:	Offset Lithograph
Paper:	14 pt
Series:	Moonalice M45

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Notes

• Listed in the art database at ExpressoBeans.com.
• Listen to this show at Moonalice.com.

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February 7, 2008 The Main­te­nance Shop, Ames, Iowa
Moonalice poster by Ron Donovan

Legend

According to Moonalice legend, the famed ballplayer-turned-evangelist Billy Sunday was not a member of the tribe. Well, duh. Billy was a big time proponent of Prohibition. Obviously not a Moonalice. But Billy hailed from Ames, Iowa, which is the home of Iowa State University and birthplace of Peter Schickele, PDQ Bach. We’ve never met Mr. Bach, but we’ve heard his music. It positively reeks of Moonalice.

Moonalice legend also holds that quality control is of paramount importance. The tribe has long believed in the power of testing its products, often at the gatherings known as gigs. In the years since the prohibition of hemp, the tribe has sought to diversify its testing services. We discovered that tribe members in Ames are part of that diversification. Ames is home to the National Animal Disease Center, where “all American Mad Cow Disease samples are tested, among other things.” Moonalice tribe members know what those “other things” are. Everyone knows that the best way to mollify a grumpy cow is to feed her some prime hemp buds. Works every time.

The band’s journey to Ames is a new chapter in the legend . . . or a possible sequel to Spinal Tap. We left Davenport after the gig in a bus with no snow tires and a driver from Florida who didn’t like winter driving. We got on Highway 80, went a couple miles and stopped. Black ice. The driver didn’t want to go on. We pulled off the road in the lovely town of Walcott and spent the night at a Day’s Inn. By the time we got to Ames – only 193 miles from Davenport – it was 3:30 the following afternoon. Tea Leaf Green, which left Davenport twelve hours after we did, arrived only five minutes behind us. It didn’t matter. The gig was awesome.

Poster Details

Artist:	Ron Donovan
Performers:	Moonalice
Venue:	The Main­te­nance Shop
City, State:	Ames, Iowa
Date:	February 7, 2008
Printer:	PsPrint
Dimensions:	12.75 in. x 17.25 in.
Medium:	Offset Lithograph
Paper:	14 pt
Series:	Moonalice M39

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Notes

• Listed in the art database at ExpressoBeans.com.
• Listen to this show now at Moonalice.com.

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