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housemaid79 and sabriel75 who sent me birthday treats! housemaid79 sent me a card with DOCTOR WHO drawings on it! Girl, your TARDIS is amazing! And sabriel75 sent me a copy of Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak (OMG, I remember this from childhood! I love it!), some candies, and delicious lipgloss. Thank you, love--you are truly amazing. ♥
Last night I attended the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. It was great fun! There were a lot of fantastic acts, and a few "meh, not for me" acts.
The Notable:
♥ THE AVETT BROTHERS!
♥ Vienna Teng with Alex Wong
♥ Anais Mitchell
♥ The Spring Standards
The Meh
♥ Citizen Cope
♥ The Paper Raincoat
♥ Theo Katzman
(I feel like there was another act, but I can't remember...)
More talk of the show to come, but first:
An Open Message to All the Douchebags Who Insisted On Playing With Their Smartphones Throughout the Show:
COMMON COURTESY! Is there an app for that?!
Anyway, I was very surprised to not like Citizen Cope that much. He has several songs I really like, and I think he's a talented artist! However, I'd never heard his music in a big block before, with him just standing up there singing with his guitar. His songs all sound too much alike, have the same downer tone to them, and explore the same themes. He's much better in smaller doses.
The Paper Raincoat had an awesome final song that involved an intricate hand-clapping game played by the band members as musical accompaniment. Their other songs? Too cutesy; too much xylophone.
Theo Katzman was talented, but I can hardly remember his songs. A little pretentious, dare I say. Not for me.
Anais Mitchell is ADORABLE and quite probably a folk music genius. She's written a folk opera called "Hadestown" based around the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, and I am DESPERATE to see it! She performed this song from it last night:
The Spring Standards had some awesome country/folk-inspired songs full of amazing three-part harmonies. They also ended up with an a capella song that blew the crowd away.
Vienna Teng is, quite frankly, a star. She is FANTASTIC! Her voice is gorgeous, and her piano-playing: flawless! She's also quite charismatic. Just...just listen! Here's the song she opened with last night:
The Avett Brothers kicked major ass and provided a hell of a lot more sound and energy than one expects from a folk festival! I may have a new crush, though I couldn't tell you on which brother...our seats weren't that close, and my eyesight isn't that good. :P
Before the show, we had dinner at one of my favorite Ann Arbor restaurants: The Earthen Jar. It's all vegetarian Indian food, served cafeteria-style: you make your plate, weigh it, and pay by the pound. The restaurant is in an old house, and only has about 6 tables. The walls are covered in posters of Bob Marley and they play reggae music. It is AWESOME! And other than replacing some of the more rickety chairs and moving the buffet to the other wall, it looks just like it did when I lived in Ann Arbor.
After the show, we went out for martinis at The Black Pearl. I had a lychee martini that was delicious!
Tonight, going out for a belated birthday celebration with the girls. As usual, half of the invited guests can't make it/cancelled: it's to be expected when your birthday is in late January and you live in the Frozen North. :P Still, I'm looking forward to a night out: we're going to a new restaurant called Frita Batidos, and it looks delicious!
ETA: Ok, I just made MAJOR edits to this entry. I don't know what the hell I was on when I was writing it. There were major typos everywhere: not to mention several WTF word misplacements that...just made no sense. For example: "late journey" instead of "late January". I don't even know what to call that. 'Typo' seems inadequate for that kind of fail.
Anywho, I had a fun time tonight! Frita Batidos was DELICIOUS: I had a spicy black bean sandwich, churros scented with orange and nutmeg and coated in cinnamon sugar, and a coconut cream batido: basically, a coconut milkshake. YUM!
Then we played pool and went dancing. Good times!
housemaid79 and sabriel75 who sent me birthday treats! housemaid79 sent me a card with DOCTOR WHO drawings on it! Girl, your TARDIS is amazing! And sabriel75 sent me a copy of Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak (OMG, I remember this from childhood! I love it!), some candies, and delicious lipgloss. Thank you, love--you are truly amazing. ♥Last night I attended the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. It was great fun! There were a lot of fantastic acts, and a few "meh, not for me" acts.
The Notable:
♥ THE AVETT BROTHERS!
♥ Vienna Teng with Alex Wong
♥ Anais Mitchell
♥ The Spring Standards
The Meh
♥ Citizen Cope
♥ The Paper Raincoat
♥ Theo Katzman
(I feel like there was another act, but I can't remember...)
More talk of the show to come, but first:
An Open Message to All the Douchebags Who Insisted On Playing With Their Smartphones Throughout the Show:
COMMON COURTESY! Is there an app for that?!
Anyway, I was very surprised to not like Citizen Cope that much. He has several songs I really like, and I think he's a talented artist! However, I'd never heard his music in a big block before, with him just standing up there singing with his guitar. His songs all sound too much alike, have the same downer tone to them, and explore the same themes. He's much better in smaller doses.
The Paper Raincoat had an awesome final song that involved an intricate hand-clapping game played by the band members as musical accompaniment. Their other songs? Too cutesy; too much xylophone.
Theo Katzman was talented, but I can hardly remember his songs. A little pretentious, dare I say. Not for me.
Anais Mitchell is ADORABLE and quite probably a folk music genius. She's written a folk opera called "Hadestown" based around the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, and I am DESPERATE to see it! She performed this song from it last night:
The Spring Standards had some awesome country/folk-inspired songs full of amazing three-part harmonies. They also ended up with an a capella song that blew the crowd away.
Vienna Teng is, quite frankly, a star. She is FANTASTIC! Her voice is gorgeous, and her piano-playing: flawless! She's also quite charismatic. Just...just listen! Here's the song she opened with last night:
The Avett Brothers kicked major ass and provided a hell of a lot more sound and energy than one expects from a folk festival! I may have a new crush, though I couldn't tell you on which brother...our seats weren't that close, and my eyesight isn't that good. :P
Before the show, we had dinner at one of my favorite Ann Arbor restaurants: The Earthen Jar. It's all vegetarian Indian food, served cafeteria-style: you make your plate, weigh it, and pay by the pound. The restaurant is in an old house, and only has about 6 tables. The walls are covered in posters of Bob Marley and they play reggae music. It is AWESOME! And other than replacing some of the more rickety chairs and moving the buffet to the other wall, it looks just like it did when I lived in Ann Arbor.
After the show, we went out for martinis at The Black Pearl. I had a lychee martini that was delicious!
Tonight, going out for a belated birthday celebration with the girls. As usual, half of the invited guests can't make it/cancelled: it's to be expected when your birthday is in late January and you live in the Frozen North. :P Still, I'm looking forward to a night out: we're going to a new restaurant called Frita Batidos, and it looks delicious!
ETA: Ok, I just made MAJOR edits to this entry. I don't know what the hell I was on when I was writing it. There were major typos everywhere: not to mention several WTF word misplacements that...just made no sense. For example: "late journey" instead of "late January". I don't even know what to call that. 'Typo' seems inadequate for that kind of fail.
Anywho, I had a fun time tonight! Frita Batidos was DELICIOUS: I had a spicy black bean sandwich, churros scented with orange and nutmeg and coated in cinnamon sugar, and a coconut cream batido: basically, a coconut milkshake. YUM!
Then we played pool and went dancing. Good times!
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Date: 2011-01-30 06:52 pm (UTC)The folk festival takes place every year as a fund-raiser for a music venue downtown called The Ark: it's a non-profit venue run by volunteers that features a lot of folk music and smaller acts. I've seen several shows there, including Ben Taylor (son of James Taylor and Carly Simon!) All of the acts I saw Friday night have shows coming up at The Ark and I'd love to see some of them, but I'm almost sure they're sold out by now. (It's only a 400 seat venue.)
I'm glad other people have had the same reaction to Citizen Cope. I really wanted to enjoy his set so much more than I did!