WE’VE GOT A WINNER !!

Ceres Seeds' Fruity Thai wins the 2006 Indica Cup 2nd place !!

Big, big thank-you to all who voted for Fruity Thai! And to all who attended the Grass-A-Matazz Party!

Grass A Matazz, The Second Edition was a smash! About 600 Cannabis Cup Judges and other guests joint us through-out the evening to help celebrate Ceres Seeds’ entry Fruity Thai and enjoy The Grass-A-Matazz party & musical line-up!

The party kicked off with the tunes of DJ Vinny Vega and the sweet smell of Fruity Thai from the vaporiser. All Guests received a Bush Grinder*, from Hempshopper at the door. (* Why? Well, wouldn’t you like to grind Bush for a bit?!)

At the same time, on the second floor, Radio Free Amsterdam hosted a John Sinclair Radio Show. There, from the up-stairs Grass-A-Matazz lounge, overlooking the entrance, John Sinclair played his jazz & blues favourites and talkes about his new album Criss Cross. On air, he has a chat with the Self-Hemployed people, Ravi from Sensi Seeds and the guys from Ceres Seeds. They talk about Cannabis, Counter Culture, Ben Dronkers & Ed Rosenthal, Cup Politics and of course the Grass-A-Matazz party! John also talkes to The Rainbow Family, Super Dude & Mark Ritsema.
>> Listen here

After the official opening, Bonguru, the three-time Grammy nominee AND daddy of the Santa Maria, played a set of Flamingo guitar and smoked a bong or two on stage.
the audience liked both so much, Bonguru had to play (and smoke) an encore!

Next on stage was Super Dude, two-time winner at the 2006 Global Marijuana Music Awards! Fans of Super Dude broke down the house while he played his winning songs African Herbsman & Pot Head Punk.
Super Dude is a rock ‘n roll experience, even when he’s singing his reggae hit!

Down-stairs at the party booth, guest could smoke (or vapor) Fruity Thai and buy Ceres Seeds at 50% discount. There were also all kinds of hemp treats available. And at the booth you could get a hold of the new CD of John Sinclair and Mark Ritsema Criss Cross, John´s new book It´s All Good, and Super Dudes winning album Pot Head Punk.
Many people hung-out by the party booth to talk to Thomas from Self-Hemployed and Adam Brook, the Guardian Of The Edge while enjoying a puff.

Soon it was time for one of the absolute high lites of the evening: The John Sinclair performance with Dutch blues guitarist Mark Ritsema. The two played numbers from their new album Criss Cross and gave away an impressive show that featured numbers such as  My Buddy and Monk in Orbit. They finished their set with a smashing version of Ain’t nobodies bizzness (We Got A Right To Our Bad Habits).

Ilene Spain’s played and sang with her three-man jazz & blues band Little Jazz Thing.
beautiful sound of jazz classics like All Of Me filled the rooms.

At the end of the evening there was another edition of Hempshoppers' Cannabis College Benefit Raffle with lots of great prizes! Cristie from Cannabis College and Andrea from Hempshopper gave away a ton of prizes (see pics) Ceres Seeds, Bonguru Seeds, Sensi Seeds, Extravaganja Body Care, Euro-American & Pure Hemp Packs, Dalman Digital Scales, Glass Pieces, and all kinds of hemp goodies. A lucky guy named Nathan walked away with one of the big prizes: an original hemp Hoodlamb in the model, size and colour of his choice! He came to Hempshopper store the next day and picked-up a Ladies Drop Top Hoodlamb for his girlfriend!

The Night got closed with the jazzy sound from our own ‘Louis, King Of The Jungle’:
DJ Pot Head (“Everything Is Spinning!”)

See the Pics, Listen to the acts, watch the video >> It will all be up shortly!
We need this weekend to recover and to celebrate Ceres Seeds' success at the Cup, but it will all be up on this site by Wednesday the 29th.

Thanks to everyone who joint us! See you all next year!!

Hempshopper open daily 10am - 8pm / Address: Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 80 View Map
Visit Grass-A-Matazz on Myspace!

Hosted by:
Ceres Seeds  http://www.ceresseeds.com
Hempshopper http://www.hempshopper.com
Cannabis Cup Winners http://www.cannabiscupwinners.com
Friends of Cannabis.com http://www.friendsofcannabis.com
Radio Free Amsterdam http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com 

Prizes for The Cannabis College Benefit Raffle from:
Hempshopper http://www.hempshopper.com/ 
Hemp Hoodlamb http://www.hoodlamb.com
Extravaganja http://www.extravaganja.net/
Ceres Seeds http://www.ceresseeds.com/
Sensi Seeds http://www.sensiseeds.com
Dalman Scales http://www.dalman.co.uk/
Cannabis Hosting http://www.cannabishosting.com
HBI Europe http://www.hbieu.com/
Euro American http://www.euro-american.com/
Hempro http://www.hempro.com
Cannabis College http://www.cannabiscollege.com 

Thanks to all!

Special Thanks from Ceres Seeds to:
John Sinclair, PT Dante, the 'Self-Hemployed' people, The Gorgeous Gardner, Ravi & Ed Rosenthal. And to The Rainbow Family, Louis Weiss, Super Dude, Bonguru, Ilene Spain, Mark Ritsema, Vinny Vega, Tim Pate, Thomas Bos, Adam Brook, Smurf, Crucial & Gad.

On behalf of The  Cannabis College Amsterdam, Hempshopper would like to thank the following people and companies for their support and help:
Self-Hemployed, HBI, Hoodlamb, Extravaganja, Dalman Scales, Hempro, Euro-American Hemp Gear, Bonguru & Sensi Seeds and special thanks from Hempshopper to Lorna & Cristie from the Cannabis College Amsterdam.




About The Grass-A-Matazz

Grass-A-Matazz is a, free-of-charge, jazz & Blues event, held during the annual High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam (NL).

The Grass-A-Matazz party celebrates, and keeps alive, the connection between Jazz & Marijuana.

Louis Armstrong: (1931) "We did call ourselves Vipers, which could have been anybody from all walks of life that smoked and respected 'gage'. That was our cute little name for marijuana, and it was a misdemeanor in those days. Much different from the pressure and charges the law lays on a guy who smokes pot - a later name for the same thing which is cute to hear nowadays. We always looked at pot as a sort of medicine, a cheap drunk and with much better thoughts than one that's full of liquor. But with the penalties that came, I for one had to put it down though the respect for it (gage) will stay with me forever. I have every reason to say these words and am proud to say them. From experience"...

Gage, tea, muggles, reefers, and a dozen more names for marijuana, were common parlance among jazz musicians and friends who were 'Vipers.' This word has a period ring today, but was much used (as was tea) in some jazz circles during the `30s. It found its way into quite a few tune titles, among them Mezzrow's "Sendin' The Vipers," Snuff Smith's "If You're a Viper" and Fats Waller's "Viper's Drag." The rest of the marijuana-smokers' jargon infiltrated respectable society by way of record labels and catalogues and music publishers' lists. "Golden Leaf Strut," "Muggles," "Texas Tea Party," "Chant of the Weed," "Song of the Vipers" and "Smokin' Reefers" are random examples of `celebratory' recordings made in the `20s and `30s.

The Grass-A-Matazz is an idea of Self-Hemployed (Dutch hemp/cannabis- promotion organisation) and Ceres Seeds (Amsterdam based cannabis seed company).