Well, festival day one is less than 24 hours away. I’m barely awake right now, having been working on a documentary for the National Civil Rights Museum this weekend, and I’ve started to go through my inbox of Folk Alliance information. If you’re a fan of folk music, names like Belle & Sebastian, Peter, Bjorn and John, Loney, Dear, Joanna Newsom, or Devendra Banhart, you couldn’t help but be familiar with the artists whose influences are whispered into theirs. Dotted in amongst those showcasing are a younger generation of up and coming performers whose advance word-of-mouth has me excited — folks like Raina Rose, Anthony da Costa and Colin Spring are names that weren’t immediately familiar to me, but in their company are folks such as legendary songwriter and storyteller James Lee Stanley, Belfast poet and songwriter Andy White and Britain’s legendary folk-pop troubadours Chad and Jeremy, whose music serves as an inspiration and a blueprint for the modern folk-pop experience.
The window of opportunity for master musicians and legends of the craft to come together with a forward-moving, fast-coming younger generation of folk artists closes a little bit more each year. I hope you’ll be able to come and enjoy some of the wonderful performances, spend one-on-one time with these folks and enjoy the great music.
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