Author: MoST
quote from Valerie June
“A whole lot of magic has to happen to make music. A whole lot of minds have to see something invisible. The act of making music — that could be spiritual. You’re taking something that’s not physically seen and you’re bringing it from nowhere, pulling it from thin air, so people can experience it.”–Valerie June, 2021
message from Tyler Childers
Newport Folk Festival 2020
As described in our “About”page, this blog was born out of the experience that is the Newport Folk Festival. The idea was to spread the festival’s pervasive sense of joy, good will, and community as widely as possible, throughout the year. Of course, this year the “folk family” stayed home. Nevertheless, via social media, the tremendous efforts of the Festival Foundation, Jay Sweet, and numerous other organizers and musicians, we all managed to be together even while apart. Thank you Jay Sweet, Caps, and everyone else for making the weekend happen.
article by Warren Haynes
“No true musician can claim to embrace the music of someone without accepting as equal the human being from which it came. It is impossible to regard the influence of someone else’s creativity as great while judging the person who created it as somehow inferior.” — Warren Haynes, Newsweek, 6/24/2020
David Handelman on coping with the COVID lockdown
“How have you been coping with COVID? If not the illness itself, then the whittled-down existence it has demanded?
I have a suggestion.” –David Handelman
click to read David’s blog post
live music comforts coronavirus patients and caregivers
“I’m hoping to offer a brief moment of comfort or distraction or beauty.” —Michelle Ross, violinist in Manhattan
click here to read the full NY Times article
quote from David Letterman
“I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.” —David Letterman
quote from Patti Smith
“I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations. But in terms of imagination – my imagination is always fertile. I’m always thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.” —Patti Smith
RIP John Prine
“I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you’re not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you. And then you’re this great, awful candy bar, walking around in a pair of shoes.” —John Prine, quoted by Pitchfork, 2018
read rememberances in Rolling Stone and The New York Times