fun day at the Boston Folk Festival

[goddessfarmer]

Saw some artists I already know I like, and now I like them even more: Eliza Gylkison, Kathy Mattea, John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt. Saw David Buskin and Robin Batteau whom I now know I've heard on the radio, but man, they are good. Saw the Jason Spooner Trio whom I'd never heard of before, but I like what I heard. Fun day with James despite the soaking we got just as we got there.

Comments

[unclebooboo.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous- you folks in the northeast don't know how lucky you are to have so many good folk musicians living and working in the area...

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

Some of today's came from pretty far - Eliza is from New Mexico, Kathy Mattea is based in W. Virginia, and one I didn't mention above, Henry Butler, is from New Orleans. but yea, I've heard that Boston is good for folk.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Huh, I don't know any of those.

Which would you most recommend?

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

e-gads. I like all of them. Eliza is perhaps the post political and I have a bunch of her cd's. If I were buying *more* music right now, I'd probably pick up Buskin and Batteau next.

[chocorua.livejournal.com]

I didn't expect to hear a cover of Gimmie Shelter (or at least one I liked a lot) from Kathy Mattea, who was famous in country before (it appears) she crossed that political line that gets you run out of Nashville...