A spectacular blueberry season has been making it difficult to keep up with the blog, but adventures were done and photos taken, so it's time to catch up.
We often go to the New Bedford Folk Festival which is held around the time of our anniversary. This year we went by ourselves.
Here is Paul, early in the day at the Whaling Museum stage.
These two young guys are Sam Gleaves and Tyler Hughes. They come from southwest Virginia, close to where the Carter family is from, and play old-timey Appalachian music. They both studied Appalachian culture and music in college. We talked to Sam and Tyler a bit and enjoyed watching them gain confidence with more established musicians throughout the day as their skills and talents were appreciated. I think they might have been a bit surprised by some of the more out-there performers using strong language and political or racy themes, but they carried on beautifully and got lots of appreciation themselves.
This performance was called "French Canadian
Kitchen Party" and featured Benoit Bourque &
Antoine Pigeon-Bourque, Pete’s Posse, and Yann Falquet &
Pascal Gemme. This was one of my favorite acts of the festival and we had excellent seats too.
We always love to see/hear Vance Gilbert. Here he plays with Seth Glier (second from right). I can't remember the names of the sax player he brought along (who I remember from previous years) or the woman who played and electric double-bass.
Here are Jefferson Hamer, Ry Cavanaugh and Laura Cortese and from Session Americana
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