folk festival
The annual tour of the grizzled folkie singer-songwriter luminaries came to the Freight yesterday. Last year I went because my beloved Christine Lavin was among their number. She wasn't there this year, but the other three were the same, and I had enjoyed them too, and the fourth was an equal luminary. Very popular show, biggest crowd I've seen at the Freight in quite a while. (Also the only time in quite a while that I've run into somebody I knew at a folk concert there.)
So: Patty Larkin, Lucy Kaplansky, John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt. They performed some of the same songs they did last year - same format: a few solos from each, then all in a row they took turns, backing up each other on vocals or guitar - but as I don't have any of their albums I wasn't familiar with the other songs they did. But I enjoyed it all.
Here's studio recordings of two of the songs I heard:
So: Patty Larkin, Lucy Kaplansky, John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt. They performed some of the same songs they did last year - same format: a few solos from each, then all in a row they took turns, backing up each other on vocals or guitar - but as I don't have any of their albums I wasn't familiar with the other songs they did. But I enjoyed it all.
Here's studio recordings of two of the songs I heard:
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