http://www.nationalfolkfestival.com/2009/festivalinfo_performers/BillKirchen.html

Bassist with Bill Kirchen at the National Folk Festival. I can't find his name anywhere... but he was a hoot.

I get it.

BroccoliBird, from Forecastle Festival. wish you could see this in it's true size...but, it's "broccolibird" - which says "straight up freaky! don't panic, just go organic!" and has my face. was funny at the time.

Awesome!  Glad you got to see them.  R and I saw them last year at a vineyard in Owenton, KY.  It was a fantastic show.  They/She is super-talented and it surprises me that they are not better known.  The RP crowd, in particular, would appreciate them.

Post the rest of them, J. They are all great/

Karen Berquist (singer for Over The Rhine) simply outdid herself tonight, doing old 40s ballads, jazzy lounge stuff, OTR standards (both old and new/elec and acoustic) and all with the accompaniment of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in an outdoor amphitheatre in a park overlooking Cincinnati.

(The CSO also did some of Elvis Costello's symphonic works from his opera "Il Sonio."

She did a great cover of The Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This" that was unbelievable!

What a GREAT show.

I made my annual pilgrimage to Manchester, TN last weekend for the Bonnaroo Festival.  I was really looking forward to Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Beastie Boys, Neko Case and Lucinda Williams.  They were all fantastic, as expected.  I also saw Grizzly Bear (good songs from a couple of great singers), Merle Haggard (too cool), Santigold (not my thing, but she had some enthusiastic fans), Nine Inch Nails (who were apparantly playing their last ever US show, and it was really very good), Phish (because all of my friends had to see them), the Yeasayers (a band I had never heard of, but they were frickin awsome), moe (meh), Wilco (I'm more of a Jay Farrar guy.  I was not terribly impressed), Rodrigo y Gabriella (fantastic) and Public Enemy (because you have to see Public Enemy, though you really only need to see them once).  A few of my better photos are below.  Understand that I was roughly 4 miles from the stage for some of these shots (Bruce and the Beasties, especially).

I made my annual pilgrimage to Manchester, TN last weekend for the Bonnaroo Festival.  I was really looking forward to Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Beastie Boys, Neko Case and Lucinda Williams.  They were all fantastic, as expected.  I also saw Grizzly Bear (good songs from a couple of great singers), Merle Haggard (too cool), Santigold (not my thing, but she had some enthusiastic fans), Nine Inch Nails (who were apparantly playing their last ever US show, and it was really very good), Phish (because all of my friends had to see them), the Yeasayers (a band I had never heard of, but they were frickin awsome), moe (meh), Wilco (I'm more of a Jay Farrar guy.  I was not terribly impressed), Rodrigo y Gabriella (fantastic) and Public Enemy (because you have to see Public Enemy, though you really only need to see them once).  A few of my better photos are below.  Understand that I was roughly 4 miles from the stage for some of these shots (Bruce and the Beasties, especially).

 

I made my annual pilgrimage to Manchester, TN last weekend for the Bonnaroo Festival.  I was really looking forward to Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Beastie Boys, Neko Case and Lucinda Williams.  They were all fantastic, as expected.  I also saw Grizzly Bear (good songs from a couple of great singers), Merle Haggard (too cool), Santigold (not my thing, but she had some enthusiastic fans), Nine Inch Nails (who were apparantly playing their last ever US show, and it was really very good), Phish (because all of my friends had to see them), the Yeasayers (a band I had never heard of, but they were frickin awsome), moe (meh), Wilco (I'm more of a Jay Farrar guy.  I was not terribly impressed), Rodrigo y Gabriella (fantastic) and Public Enemy (because you have to see Public Enemy, though you really only need to see them once).  A few of my better photos are below.  Understand that I was roughly 4 miles from the stage for some of these shots (Bruce and the Beasties, especially).