The CT Folkfest is underwater. Not figuratively, but literally. Back in the day, the Doppler was a Gomer Pylish Hilton Kaderli predicting a “gulleywhomper “ of a storm happening sometime between May and March. In today’s world, when the Doppler says it’s gonna rain at 5pm, it pretty much rains at 5. So what to do about a lineup that gets cooking at 5? Go at 5 and hope Kaderli is driving the low pressure system. We know how this ends, show up at 5, see a few tunes by 83 year old folk royalty Tom Rush, who gets flooded from the stage by said gulleywhomper. I mean it rained sideways. We took shelter in the beer tent before surrendering for the day. This festival has some great memories for me: Steve Earle, Mary Gauthier and Greg Brown with recent highlights of Donna the Buffalo, Maria Muldaur, and Oliver Wood. It’s sad to report that today’s headliner Leyla McCalla and warmup act Kaleta and the Super Yamba Band were scratched due to rain. Kaleta has lineage to the afrobeat progenitor Fela. Ive seen him a couple of times and it was truly enjoyable. Don’t know much of McCalla, but she’s billed as a Haitian guitarist, cellist, activist. We can only imagine how this show would have been because Mother Nature had other plans. It’s doubly sad to realize that climate change has affected our way of talking about the weather. Instead of “April showers bring May flowers”, we are left with “September deluge brings beer tent refuge”, which just seems wrong on so many levels.
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