The Sisters Folk Festival kicks off Friday evening, and tomorrow’s GO! Magazine is going to have it covered from top to bottom. Pick up a copy of The Bulletin or check back here in the morning for feature stories on Peter Rowan, Blind Pilot and Anastacia Beth Scott, plus blurbs on a few other artists, the festival schedule, and just about everything else you need to know.
But that’s tomorrow. Today, it’s time to dive into the music. And guess what? You’re diving into the deep end. Just look at this schedule. All those boxes containing all those names; unless you’re the world’s biggest folk fan with all kinds of time on your hands, chances are you haven’t heard all — maybe even most — of those artists.
Frequency is here to help. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks checking out these acts, picking some of my favorites, and compiling a digital mixtape featuring artists who are playing the festival. It’s wide-ranging, stretching from the big names at the top of the poster to the small names at the bottom, and from straight folk to indie-pop-folk to Latin-flavored folk and back again. Artists include out-of-towners Alison Brown, Blind Pilot, The Belleville Outfit, Susan Werner, Kelly Joe Phelps, Joe Craven, Danny Schmidt, Antje Duvekot, Lincoln Crockett, Pancake Breakfast, Tremoloco, Ellis, Rick Shea and City Folk, plus locals Anastacia Beth Scott, Deb Yager and Bo Reynolds.
Click right here to get the mix. (It might take a couple minutes to download, so be patient.)
Once you have it, you’ll have all 17 MP3s, plus a document with a list of the tracks and links to the artists’ Web sites.
One note: The Blind Pilot song will only be available in this download for two weeks. After two weeks is over, I’ll keep the rest of the files in place, but the Blind Pilot song will come out. There’s your motivation to go ahead and snag this now.
And hey, after you take these tunes for a spin, come back here to Frequency and let me know in the comments if you’ve discovered a new fave.
Tags: festival, Sisters Folk Festival
