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əkoostik hookah is a jam band from Columbus, Ohio. Every year they host two large jam band festivals known as Hookahville typically located at Frontier Ranch in Kirkersville, Ohio. Hookahville occurs once in spring, over Memorial Day weekend, and once in fall over Labor Day weekend. At Hookahville one can listen to a variety of bands, enjoy the outdoors, camping, and good company.
Not only do they host Hookahville, but recently they have started making trips to Amsterdam and Jamaica for shows.
For fans not interested in traveling they routinely play at the Newport Music Hall, and Promowest Pavilion in Columbus.
The band is comprised of Dave Katz, vocalist/keyboardist, Steve Sweney, lead guitarist, Cliff Starbuck, bassist, Eric Lanese, drummer, Ed McGee, vocalist, rhythm guitar, and Johnny Polansky, percussionist. JOhnny P. has left to pursue other oppurtunities in a band called One Under and Ed McGee will be leaving at the end of 2005 for the same reason.
Also, əkoostik hookah will go on hiatus until Spring of 2006 to regroup. However in the meantime they will enjoy many side projects and will regroup as "Under Full Sail" with John Mullins returning on Guitar for a spring (2006) trip to Jamaica.
The band and fans subscribe to a policy of "no hassles or bad attitudes."