In August 2003, Glass hosted a who's-who of Canterbury Music for a second, two-day "Progman Cometh" festival at the Moore Theatre in Seattle:
* Phil Miller - guitar
* Richard Sinclair - guitar, bass & vocals
* Hugh Hopper - bass
* Elton Dean - saxello & alto saxophone
* Fred Baker - guitar & bass
* Alex Maguire - keyboards
Exactly who played what when & where is listed here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progman_Cometh#Progman_Cometh_2003

This second Progman Cometh concentrated solely on the Canterbury Scene, unlike the previous year's festival which had been more broadly-based.
therealglass.bandcamp.com/album/canterburied-in-seattle-2002

2003's festival gave the opportunity for these Titans of Canterbury to play together in a variety of combinations, in a program of their own choosing. By all accounts a splendid time was had by all.

These recordings have never been made public before, and sadly some of these fabulous musicians are no longer with us. It's time to get these recordings out.

We couldn't decide on an hour's worth of "highlights" -- for fans like us it is ALL highlights. So here is the COMPLETE EVENT (all 2 hours 43 minutes & 29 seconds of it!) For those of you lucky enough to have made it to the concerts in 2003, this will be a heavenly reminder. For those who did not attend -- well, we're happy to finally be able to bring you everything now!


"This second installment of the Progman Cometh festival archives addresses the second and final edition of the festival, and is more complete in its documentation of the Canterbury Scene part of the festival, although for understandable reasons it is missing the sets by the headliners for both nights – Procol Harum and the Alan Parsons Live Project. It was felt that booking more famous headliners would attract a large audience and expose them to more obscure areas of the ‘progressive’ scene. It was a brave attempt, and although attendance was insufficient to ensure a third edition, it did produce the memorable event documented here, combining both night’s opening sets featuring the band Glass, whose drummer Jerry Cook was the mastermind behind the event, and a fairly large contingent of Canterbury Scene luminaries. Jerry and the other drummer in Glass, Paul Black, provide all the drumming here, while the Sherman brothers, Jeff (bass, keyboards) and Greg (keyboards) perform on the Glass material and make occasional appearances elsewhere. All those present provide material, including both 1970s/1980s classics as well as (then) newer material, mostly from In Cahoots, SoftWorks and Psychic Warrior, all performed in various unusual combinations. Enjoy!"
-Aymeric Leroy
philmillerthelegacy.com/music/canterburied-in-seattle-2003/

"Jerry Cook's dream was to bring a little bit of Canterbury to Seattle. For this year's Progman Cometh progressive music festival, he's bringing a lot more.

The second edition of the two-day festival is bolstered by the appearances of two prog mainstays from the 1960s and '70s, Procol Harum and Alan Parsons.

The first Progman, which took place in the summer of 2002, featured a lineup of 16 mostly obscure bands, either made up of or inspired by musicians from the music scene that sprung to life in Canterbury, England, in the mid-60s. That scene produced the seminal prog band The Soft Machine.

That band, and others from the Canterbury scene, started off as Cook's idols, and eventually became his friends and collaborators.

"I grew up listening to these guys," the drummer-studio co-owner-promoter (whose "day job" is running a construction company) said by telephone this week, after a day of shuttling festival participants from the airport to his West Seattle home. "It used to be my dream just to meet them, much less play with them and have them stay at my house."

Collectively, the invaders from Canterbury -- whom Cook met and befriended during his own 35-year music career -- and some other Cook collaborators are known as Two Monkey Finger. They'll open both nights of the festival with long sets (different each night) featuring individual performances and various combinations of musicians.

At the heart of Two Monkey Finger are two Soft Machine founders, Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean. At last year's inaugural festival, they joined other Soft Machine alums John Marshall and Allan Holdsworth to headline under the moniker Software (since changed again to SoftWorks, according to Cook).

"We think of (Two Monkey Finger) as zero members, but infinite performers," Cook said. "There'll never be the same lineup."

In this weekend's performances, Cook said, "We're trying to give an equal share to the different performers so they're all represented in their band formats."

Sunday's show also will feature the acoustic jazz of the Smith-Zilber Quartet, led by former Journey drummer Steve Smith.

Cook's Canterbury connections helped him land prog-rock icons Procol Harum to top Sunday's bill. Some of Cook's chums also are friendly with members of Procol, who were gearing up for a tour of the East Coast and were easily persuaded to build a Western swing around the Progman festival.

It's a similar story with Parsons, who is putting the finishing touches on a new album and was looking for a getaway from the studio grind. When word of that got to Cook, he invited the '60s superproducer and bandleader to headline Saturday's show.

The big-name headliners, Cook said, "should help us draw some different crowds. But whether they're familiar with our music or not, they're going to see a good show."
- Michael C. Moore, Kitsap Sun
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