WYEP "Raise the Roof" party: The Damnwells, Amy Correia
Bedford Square & the unfinished WYEP Community Broadcast Center sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
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Johnny A, The Damnwells, Ari Hest
Millennium Harvest House Hotel, Boulder, CO..... This was a lunchtime showcase performance for a radio convention. Guitarist Johnny A had his second album Get Inside out, another great set of memorable instrumentals. Always fun to see live. The Damnwells had just played WYEP's Summer Music Festival , so I had hung out with those guys a little bit about five weeks previous. Also a good live band. I was not an Ari Hest fan.
Cowboy Junkies, Catie Curtis, Angela McCluskey, Mark Geary, The Damnwells, Mark Erelli
Allegheny Landing Park, Pittsburgh, PA.... The 7th annual WYEP Summer Music Festival. One behind-the-scenes component of this SMF was constructions taking place on the Parkway West. That's the stretch of road between down and the airport, and the construction delays caused some real headaches. Prior to the event my co-workers told some stories about Angela McCluskey, who had performed at the 3rd SMF in 2000 as a member of the Wild Colonials. She was a very direct person and she did not suffer fools, I was told. Someone from the station had to pick her up from the airport and bring her to her hotel the day before the festival, and everyone who might have done it backed away into the shrubbery, Homer- Simpson-like, when the subject came up. I volunteered to do it. Everyone else was afraid of her, I thought, but not me. She flew in late on Friday, June 25th, and as it turned out she was very pleasant. Even when we hit an extended traffic slowdown on the Parkway, she was a delightful ...