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Mike Doughty

Club Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA post continues.... 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.

Serena Ryder, Ra Ra Riot, Lohio

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!

The Decemberists

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

Pete & Tao Seeger & Friends

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)

Judy Collins

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)

Joan Baez

George Wein's Folk Festival 50, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI post continues.... Setlist: Lily of the West Scarlet Tide God Is God Silver Dagger Love Song to a Stranger Farewell Angelina Gospel Ship Christmas in Washington Joe Hill Forever Young House Carpenter Long Black Veil Don't Think Twice, It's Alright encore break Angel Band

Arlo Guthrie

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

Neko Case

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

Pete & Tao Seeger & Friends

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

The Decemberists

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

Elizabeth & The Catapult

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

Rusted Root, Donna the Buffalo, Sim Redmond Band, The Horseflies

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

WYEP Summer Music Festival

Sam Roberts Band, Dar Williams, The Duhks, Meeting of Important People Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA post continues.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Bonnaroo: Public Enemy

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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!    

Bonnaroo: Femi Kuti & The Positive Force

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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!    

Bonnaroo: Al Green

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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!    

Bonnaroo: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

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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!    

Bonnaroo: Vieux Farka Toure

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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!    

Bonnaroo: Gomez

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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!    

Bonnaroo: Alberta Cross

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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!    

Paleface, The Deep Vibration, Heartless Bastards

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 .

The Black Keys, Jessica Lea Mayfield

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

Zee Avi, Marshall Crenshaw

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

Jessica Lea Mayfield

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!

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, The Revelations

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!

Rhett Miller, The Avett Brothers, Pete Yorn

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

The Derek Trucks Band

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

Hill Country Revue, Cracker

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

Wes & Euguene's Cabinet of Wonders

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, ...