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General Admission
Includes all 3 Days, Camping and Parking

Kids 12 and Under are FREE with a Paid Accompanying Adult

Special Early Bird Price
Good Till 8/1 $100.00
Regularly $135
 
 
San Diego's Beautiful Back Country Music Festival
September 12th, 13, 14th, 2008

Box Office, Will-Call & Gate Opens at 8 am Friday
Gate opens on Thursday at 6pm for Pre-sale Ticket Holders
All Tickets Purchased After September 1st will be held at Will-Call
Music Starts at Noon on Friday and NEVER Stops!

YONDER MOUNTAIN
STRING BAND
◊ BASSNECTAR ◊
MOUNTAIN
featuring Leslie West
and Corky Laing
◊ PARTICLE ◊
RUBY
the Fire Breathing Fire Truck
featuring Aerial Performers
Zircon & Wish
The Nate LaPointe Band
Naomi & The Courteous Rudeboys
PUJA
Glynn Smith
Red Warrior Drum Group
Cheap Thrills
Linda Sublett
The Blues Experience with Cash McCall
Tefflon
Beth Preston
4 Minutes Til Midnight
OB3
Shafter Wasco
Sistine
Funky A
Jalopy
Compass Rose

More Bands to be announced, please check back.

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3 Days * 5 Stages * 60+ Bands
Comedy Camp * Performing Arts
Beer & Wine * On-Site Camping
Kids Zone * Great Food
Late Night Shows
And Much More!

  • Gates will open at 6:00pm Thursday September 11th
    FOR PRE-SALE TICKET HOLDERS ONLY!
  • No one will be allowed down Grapevine Canyon Road (the only entrance road to the venue) without a pass or ticket.
    NO EXECPTIONS.
  • The Box Office, Will-Call and Gate, located at the entrance of Grapevine Canyon Road, will open Friday September 12th at 8:00 am.
  • All Tickets Purchased After September 1st will be held at Will-Call.
  • Car Camping and RV Spots are limited
    and are first come first serve.
  • You must have a 3 day pass to camp. 1 day passes include event parking until it is full. Cars in event parking will be towed after 1AM.
  • Parking is limited. When the event and car camping spots are full, a shuttle will be at Grapevine canyon and S22 for transportation to the venue.
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    Save Anza Borrego Desert State Park from Commercialization!

    We are fighting the proposed SDG&E 150 mile long, devastating transmission line that would cut through Anza Borrego Desert State Park. You can help – join us at Ranchita Rocks have fun and be heard.

    Buy your tickets today and save BIGTIME.

    Three days and 3 nights of non-stop Live Music and events on 5 stages.

     

    Articles

    Get Ready for Act II of the Ranchita Rocks Festival 

    San Diego Union Tribune
    July 6, 2008

    The three-day music festival, which debuted last year as a fundraising concert for community and environmental groups opposed to San Diego Gas & Electric's proposed Sunrise Powerlink electrical transmission line, is returning with several national headlining acts and an emphasis on solar, biodiesel and wind energy to power the event. Headliners include earthy jam-band favorites Yonder Mountain String Band, DJ Bassnectar and hard-rocking Woodstock  .....

    Will These Keep the Lights On? 

    By Joe Deegan | Published Wednesday, May 28, 2008 San Diego Reader Front page

    The Sunrise Powerlink gleamed for the first time in Sempra Energy’s eye on November 1, 2002. At the company’s San Diego headquarters, an energy-management expert from Shell Trading gave a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the potential transmission line. Nameless at first, the new line would run from the Imperial Valley, near the Mexican border, to Rainbow, northeast of Fallbrook.

    According to the pr .....

    Hot on photo trail of elusive Big Foot 

    From the editor…


    Breaking News…

    a sighting of a Desert Yeti in Ranchita California!


    Now I do not subscribe to any rubbish like “Big Foot”, I might as well be from Missouri, until I see it, or there is concrete proof, and well you know. But for those keen on the seek for Big Foot, you can see what I will dub the Desert Yeti, yes sir, the American version of the Abominable Snowman right in downtown Ranchita, ‘magine that. Even over heard rumors tha .....

    Our Sustainable Energy Future 

    A Green Alternative to the Sunrise Powerlink

    …an article from visionmagazine.com

    by Elyssa Paige

    In the beauty of nature, our connection to all living things is clear. Life can be so simple amidst the trees and the flowers.

    But return to the hustle and bustle of city life—the whizzing and whirring of all our technological advances—and things get a little more complicated. All of the conveniences that our civilization has brought us, from lights to laptops, require ener .....

    Come for the music, enjoy San Diego's backcountry.
    CAMPING • RV ACCESS


    Mission: Create a better energy future for San Diego and stop the Sunrise Powerlink.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Announcements
    6/23/2008 
    Gates for PRE-SALE ticket holders will open Thursday at 12:00 noon.
    Ticket booth will open at 10:00 am Friday, if not sold out. 
     
    We are adding new bands every day check back soon 
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