Journal #5

I went to Adams Avenue Unplugged this weekend. It was pretty awesome. Most of the bands were folk and had serious old time influences throughout their sets. I actually happened to catch John C. Riley by accident and his band was actually really impressive. The demographic of the concerts surprised me because I thought it would be a younger, hipster-like crowd when in fact it was an older crowd, mostly white and a lot of young families. I'm sure this was greatly influenced by the fact that the event was free. Unfortunately, I did not get to see Curt perform because they switched his performance to today instead of yesterday and I already had other obligations. I am still going to email him and hopefully get the chance to pick his brain a bit. The concert was definitely not a waste of time because all of the bands I saw had enough to do with my genre that I plan to write some of the younger bands to see if they will answer a few questions such as "what do you know about the history of the music you perform?" I am anticipating a lot of silence:) One of my favorite bands was the Spirit Family Reunion. The fiddler is amazing. He not only plays the fiddle, but he sings beautifully.

John C Riley:
For some reason blogger wont let me upload this youtube video so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owyuoJDFAKY