This was a busy weekend for me. I went out to the NW Folklife Pre-Festival show on Friday, and (after an ill-advised road trip to look at tulips) played a show at the Josephine with Mike Dumovich on Saturday night.
Friday night’s show was great; Kelli and the gang at Folklife did a terrific job of balancing some more traditional folk artists with some of the boundary-pushing acts that will be featured on the Indie Roots stage. The Crow Quill Night Owls, Corespondents, and Led to Sea all put on great performances. Here are a couple videos courtesy The Archiver to give you a taste of the greatness on display:
I really wish I’d had a video camera with me on Saturday night. Pretty much any time I see Mike play is a rare treat, and this was even more thrilling than usual. He had the phenomenally talented Bill Patton backing him up on pedal steel for a set that consisted largely of exquisite new material, and had me very excited for his next album, whenever it should come out. I guess I’ll just have to leave it at “you should have been there,” and share this video for “Which Shirt,” from his excellent recent album The Shiv, created by the mad geniuses at Sospunwespunwest: