MerleFest this weekend was truly relaxing. I got to spend nearly an entire weekend lying on the grass listening to folk music, hanging out with Peace Corps friends and roasting marshmallows over the campfire. Be sure to check out my festival photos.
I heard lots of great bands – Cheick Hamala Diabate on African banjo, The Tony Rice Unit, Slead Cleaves, Gillian Welch, The Grascals, Blue Country Heart, The Waybacks, Nickel Creek, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Doc Watson, Emmylou Harris, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Pete Seeger, Hot Tuna, and the Alison Brown Quartet. MerleFest even put on a Woodie Guthrie Tribute concert that included a strange mix of narration and songs sung by some of the Guthrie grandchildren.
I’m definitely going back there next year.
