The Curious Mystery

The Northwest Folklife Festival is this weekend! This is the greatest festival of any kind that this beautiful, wet city has to offer because it’s always free and open to everyone. And thanks in part to the booking prowess of Kelli Faryar there are always lots excellent bands. Here’s the schedule. There’s a lot of information on there and I haven’t read through it all but make sure to check out: the K Records showcases - Friday from 7-11pm at the Indie Roots Stage (we’re on at 10), and Saturday starting at 1:30pm at the Center House Theatre. Also Lonesome Shack (Saturday 2:25pm), Heatwarmer (Sunday 9:25pm), and Shana Cleveland and the Sandcastles (Monday 3:35pm) at the Indie Roots Stage.

The Northwest Folklife Festival is this weekend! This is the greatest festival of any kind that this beautiful, wet city has to offer because it’s always free and open to everyone. And thanks in part to the booking prowess of Kelli Faryar there are always lots excellent bands. Here’s the schedule. There’s a lot of information on there and I haven’t read through it all but make sure to check out: the K Records showcases - Friday from 7-11pm at the Indie Roots Stage (we’re on at 10), and Saturday starting at 1:30pm at the Center House Theatre. Also Lonesome Shack (Saturday 2:25pm), Heatwarmer (Sunday 9:25pm), and Shana Cleveland and the Sandcastles (Monday 3:35pm) at the Indie Roots Stage.

krecs:

Chain & The Gang, live at The Smell in LA (April 2012). Rock’n’roll!

Courtesy of April Novak.

On the road with Lonesome Shack, in Maine and NYC.

Yes Michigan!

Yes Michigan!

Kalamazoo, with Everyone and their Empty Cups

Kalamazoo, with Everyone and their Empty Cups

Big Top flea market in Providence,RI

Big Top flea market in Providence,RI

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Softies

—Sleep Away Your Troubles

This was the first K Record I ever heard (well, besides Beck), bought while lonely wandering around in the dark under the El tracks in Chicago’s South Loop because I liked the cover and listened to over and over again and loved so much. So happy that I’ll get to see them preform this at folklife, it’s like a beautiful dream. -sc

krecs:

The Softies

KLP119 - THE SOFTIES - Holiday In Rhode Island

The perfect record for a rainy spring afternoon in the Pacific Northwest!  Get a chance to see them perform again at this years Folklife Festival in Seattle, Wash. May 25-28!