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oyceter:
Yesterday (after converting the cooler) was a musical day, and not just because this weekend is the Folk Festival. We caught our two favorite local musicians, plus a blues band a former coworker is in (though he couldn't make it that day) with an amazing harmonica player -- as in, he takes the wailing lead guitar part -- and a Brazilian drum ensemble that had half the audience dancing in the aisles.
But we didn't stay for the headline act, because we had tickets for Vienna Teng, touring for her fourth album. Most of the show was new songs, but there were a handful of older favorites, including "Gravity," "Harbor," and "Blue Caravan" (which is a song all fantasy writers should listen to -- and can as it's streaming on her website). No "My Medea," alas. I'm sold on the new album, given "Antebellum," "Stray Italian Greyhound," and especially "Grandmother Song," which was her closing song. Don't know whether I like it as much as Warm Strangers yet, but it's got good stuff on it and seems to hold together better than Dreaming Through the Noise.
As for the open act, he was a singer/songwriter/cellist from Kentucky who apparently is deeply steeped in the surrealist tradition of Appalachian folk music. Um. Yeah.
---L.
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oyceter:Yesterday (after converting the cooler) was a musical day, and not just because this weekend is the Folk Festival. We caught our two favorite local musicians, plus a blues band a former coworker is in (though he couldn't make it that day) with an amazing harmonica player -- as in, he takes the wailing lead guitar part -- and a Brazilian drum ensemble that had half the audience dancing in the aisles.
But we didn't stay for the headline act, because we had tickets for Vienna Teng, touring for her fourth album. Most of the show was new songs, but there were a handful of older favorites, including "Gravity," "Harbor," and "Blue Caravan" (which is a song all fantasy writers should listen to -- and can as it's streaming on her website). No "My Medea," alas. I'm sold on the new album, given "Antebellum," "Stray Italian Greyhound," and especially "Grandmother Song," which was her closing song. Don't know whether I like it as much as Warm Strangers yet, but it's got good stuff on it and seems to hold together better than Dreaming Through the Noise.
As for the open act, he was a singer/songwriter/cellist from Kentucky who apparently is deeply steeped in the surrealist tradition of Appalachian folk music. Um. Yeah.
---L.