Baton Rouge columnist on National Folk Fest
Writing for Baton Rouge’s The Advocate, music critic John Wirt lauds the 69th National Folk Festival with his column, “Hugely successful National Folk Festival included Louisiana music.” The festival’s genre-sweeping schedule of performers included Southwestern Louisiana’s sultry, accordion-pumping Rosie Ledet and her Zydeco Playboys; New Orleans piano maestro Henry Butler; country-Cajun singer-guitarist D.L. Menard and the […]
Writing for Baton Rouge’s The Advocate, music critic John Wirt lauds the 69th National Folk Festival with his column, “Hugely successful National Folk Festival included Louisiana music.”
The festival’s genre-sweeping schedule of performers included Southwestern Louisiana’s sultry, accordion-pumping Rosie Ledet and her Zydeco Playboys; New Orleans piano maestro Henry Butler; country-Cajun singer-guitarist D.L. Menard and the Jambalaya Cajun Band; the Latin-rhythm-and-blues hybrid dance music of Washington, D.C.’s, Junk Yard Band; and dozens more.
Was this the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival? No. What’s more, and something quite different from the huge, two-weekend spring music and cultural event that residents of south Louisiana are so familiar with, admission to the festival in question was free. It happened last weekend in Richmond, Va., site of the 69th annual National Folk Festival.
The name John Wirt sound familar? He used to write for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, some 15 or 20 years ago. Click here to read Wirt’s entire piece.
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