Brian at WEVL had already asked if I could come in live today and host a couple of the visiting acts on air. So Eilen Jewell and her fine band came in and talked and sang a couple of tunes. They sounded great even with the tight quarters, fitting her, a guitar player, an upright bass player and a drummer was a squeeze in the studio. Then Caroline Herring came on and did a short acoustic set and talked some talk. They were all very nice and sounded great even though they had already done several performances at the conference and more to come.
Later Judy and i went to get something to eat at Rio Loco. My first time there, a pretty good Mexican restaurant on Union. Then we headed over to the Convention Center, got our passes and goodie bags with schedules and started walking.
There are so many artists there that it was rather overwhelming. We went and saw locals, The Dan Montgomery Trio, great set and the famous fan, Beatle Bob was there dancing away. He really liked the trio. Then we saw a little of Nancy Apple, stopped in and caught Tony Furtado (amazing guitar player multi instrumentalist). We walked over and caught some of Garrison Starr too. We wandered upstairs to see if any of the shows in private rooms had started. None of them started until around 11 pm and they went on until 2 in the morning. Not tonight for us. We went back downstairs and caught Peter Case which was very crowded. But he was very entertaining.
The Conference goes on through Sunday with music, dance and panels. There are also some things going on around town for the public at places like The Center for Southern Folklore. You can check the Folk Alliance website for information.
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Wow, I've never seen or heard ANYTHING about The Folkies. How's that?
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