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Club Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA.... This concert was one of Doughty's "Question Jar" shows. A glass jar was placed on a stool at the front of the stage and, prior to the performance, audience members were encouraged to write questions down on provided slips of paper. During the show, slips were pulled and questions would be answered. A live broadcast on WYEP for the show's first hour, I acted as MC and special guest question-asker.

WYEP's Rock the Block, Pittsburgh, PA post continues.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Byham Theater, Pittsburgh, PA post continues.... Setlist: 1. Prelude 2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone) 3. A Bower Scene 4. Won't Want for Love 5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All) 6. The Queen's Approach 7. Isn't it a Lovely Night? 8. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid 9. An Interlude 10. The Rake's Song 11. The Abduction of Margaret 12. The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing 13. Annan Water 14. Margaret in Captivity 15. Hazards of Love 3 16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise) 17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Encore Break 18. Oceanside 19. July, July! 20. The Sporting Life 21. Billy Liar 22. Shankill Butchers 23. Down by the Water 24. Dracula's Daughter 25. O Valencia 26. Crazy On You Encore Break #2 27. Summer Comes To...? 28. A Cautionary Song

George Wein's Folk Festival 50, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI post continues.... Setlist: Well May The World Go War Time Blues Walking Down Death Row When the Saints Go Marching In Will the Circle Be Unbroken (led by Del McCoury) Cajun Fever (led by Balfa Toujours)

George Wein's Folk Festival 50, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI post continues.... Setlist: Both Sides Now Someday Soon Anathea Oh, Had I a Golden Thread/Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Weight of the World The Blizzard (Colorado Song) Amazing Grace Diamonds and Rust (duet with Joan Baez)

Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI.... This show was part of George Wein's Folk Festival 50, which was a way for the co-creator of the Newport Folk Festival to stage the 50th anniversary of the storied event without using the original name due to a rights issue. For the milestone anniversary, Wein brought back some legends from past festivals like 90-year-old co-founder Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins, and the delightful Joan Baez. Baez had performed at most of the festival's original run from 1959-1969 (she took part in 1959, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, and 1968; note that the festival didn't take place in '61 and '62) and then after it returned in the 1980s, she was there for another seven years prior to the 50th anniversary edition (she played the festival in 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, and 1998). In fact, as of 2025, Baez has appeared at more years of the Newport Folk Festival than any other artist (with a total of 14 years ...

George Wein's Folk Festival 50, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI post continues.... Setlist: In My Darkest Hour St. James Infirmary Motorcycle Song I Don't Want a Pickle instrumental Alabama Bound Pretty Boy Floyd Times Like These City of New Orleans My Peace

George Wein's Folk Festival 50, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI post continues.... Setlist: Things That Scare Me Sparrow People Got a Lotta Nerve Fever Animal Teenage Feeling Hold On, Hold On Middle Cyclone Pharaohs Tigers Wish I Was the Moon Polar Nettles Red Tide Don't Forget Me This Tornado Loves You Vengeance encore break Train From KC

George Wein's Folk Festival 50, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI post continues.... Setlist: Turn! Turn! Turn! The Midnight Special Blue Skies Des Colores Take It From Dr. King [Pete brought up all of the day's performers on stage for the remainder of the set] The Little Light Guantanamera Worried Man Blues (led by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings) If I Had a Hammer This Land Is Your Land

George Wein's Folk Festival 50, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI post continues.... Setlist: The Crane Wife Pt. 3 We Both Go Down Together Yankee Bayonet Down By the Water Copper Mine Song Isn't It a Lovely Night? The Hazards of Love The Wanting Comes in Waves The Chimbley Sweep Dracula's Daughter O Valencia! A Cautionary Song Sons & Daughters

Thunderbird Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA post continues.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Great Blue Heron Festival, Sherman, NY.... Happy Heron! sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA.... It was the 12st annual WYEP Summer Music Festival, and the second one held in Schenley Plaza.   Sam Roberts setlist: Love at the End of the World With a Bullet Detroit '67 Fixed to Ruin Dead End Hard Road Up Sister Bridge to Nowhere Uprising Down Under The Resistance Brother Down Them Kids encore break Lions of the Kalahari Mind Flood 

This Tent, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

Other Tent, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

What Stage, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

This Tent, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

Other Tent, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

Which Stage, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

That Tent, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA It had been quite a few years since I had last seen Paleface, so I was psyched to catch him live again. post continues.... Listen to The Deep Vibration 's set here. Listen to Heartless Bastards' set here .

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA post continues.... Listen to the Zee Avi set here . Listen to Marshall Crenshaw's set here . Setlists: Zee Avi 1. Poppy 2. Traveler 3. Honey Bee 4. First of the Gang 5. Bitter Heart Marshall Crenshaw 1. Fantastic Planet of Love 2. Live & Learn 3. Someone Told Me 4. There She Goes Again 5. Someday Someway 6. Stormy River 7. Passing Through 8. Right On Time 9. Never Coming Down

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA post continues.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA post continues.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA post continues.... Listen to the Rhett Miller set here . Listen to the Avett Brothers set here . Listen to the Pete Yorn set here . Setlists: Rhett Miller 1. Dance With Me 2. If It's Not Love 3. Question 4. Caroline 5. Rollerskate Skinny 6. Sometimes 7. Come Around 8. I Need To Know Where I Stand 9. Timebomb Avett Brothers 1. Laundry Room 2. Paranoia in B-Flat Major 3. I and Love and You 4. Kick Drum Heart 5. Murder in the City 6. The Perfect Space 7. Bella Donna 8. St. Joseph's Pete Yorn 1. For Nancy 2. Life on a Chain 3. Shotgun 4. Last Summer 5. The Man 6. For Us 7. Bizarre Love Triangle 8. On Your Side 9. Don't Wanna Cry 10. Strange Condition

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA post continues.... Listen to The Derek Trucks Band's performance here . Setlist: 1. I Know 2. Done Got Over 3. Down In The Flood 4. Already Free 5. Get What You Deserve 6. Get Out My Life

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA post continues.... Listen to Hill Country Revue's set here . Listen to Cracker's set here . Setlists: Hill Country Revue 1. Alice Mae 2. Hill Country Revue 3. Georgia Women 4. You Can Make It 5. Growing Up In Mississippi Cracker 1. Turn On Tune In Drop Out With Me 2. Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey 3. Hey Bret (You Know What Time It Is) 4. Friends 5. I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right 6. Happy Birthday 7. Gimme One More Chance

Thunderbird Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA The "Wes" in "Wes and Eugene's Cabinet of Wonders" is John Wesley Harding, touring with his stand-up comedian friend Eugene Mirman in an ad hoc cabaret, with local/regional musicians, comedians, and poets invited to each stop of the festivities. post continues.... JWH began with a poem about the Cabinet (or the "Mini-Cabinet," as he dubbed the club-sized version of the show instead of their usual theater setting), and then he brought the ensemble up on stage and introduced them each in tongue-in-cheek verse. This version of the show included PGH-based poet Terrance Hayes, Chicago singer/songwriter Chris Mills, Rusted Root frontman Michael Glabicki, Philly singer Megan Reilly, PGH garage rockers The Cynics as an acoustic duo. JWH started off the show with a brief solo set, including the terrific "Top of the Bottom," a track off his latest album ( Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead ). Then he began mixing it up, ...