Calvary was searching for Sam Jones and Billy Bowlegs.”Ģ003.269.12, ATTK Museum Hard Rock Hollywood and Tampa Billie, wrote “It’s going to be awfully crowded in the cow pasture…the last time there was this much traffic in these parts, the U.S. The author of the article, Peter Gallagher, who was also appointed the Tribal Liaison for the concert by Chairman James E. In a DecemSeminole Tribune article about the event, the tickets are listed as costing $175 each. Tickets were limited to four per purchase, and included both events, parking, and camping for the weekend. The news touted it as the “biggest traffic jam in the country.” Below, you can see a full-page ad from the Weekly Planet paper advertising the concert. In the same podcast episode, it is noted that fans waited 18 hours in traffic. It was incredible, and, for me, it was the greatest, the pinnacle.” “We actually played two days, but the last set was from 11:15, or something, on New Year’s Eve, until 7 or 8 in the morning. “We played all night,” Anastasio said about the event. In 2019, Phish lead singer and founding member Trey Anastasio spoke about the show on After Midnight: Phish’s Big Cypress Festival, a five-part podcast hosted by Jesse Jarnow. A two-day event, the final set lasted from the evening of December 31 st, 1999, well into the morning of January 1st, 2000. A 2020 Seminole Tribune article commemorating the 20 th anniversary stated that an estimated 80,000 people attended the event. To celebrate New Year’s 2000, the Seminole Tribe of Florida hosted the “largest concert on Earth to usher in the new millennium.” Held in John Motlow’s pasture, this seemingly innocuous event quickly blew up into one of the largest events ever seen in the Everglades. The image is a Seminole Tribune file photo, via the Seminole Tribune. The triumph of the Phish concert would be a precursor to how the Seminole Tribe rocked this decade and expanded their gaming empire into the international sphere. During the New Year’s 2000 concert, Phish performed to an estimated 80,000 screaming fans. In our featured image this week, the rock band Phish performs on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation.

This week, join us for the triumphs of 2000s, as the Seminole Tribe rocks through Y2K.

Over the last year, we have traced the triumphs and struggles of Seminole tourism, economic independence, and survival since 1900. Welcome back to the latest installment in our Decades of Seminole Tourism series.

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