One of my favourite percussionists – we met Annie Wenz last year while we were on stage together with Girlyman. She sat in with us on a couple of tunes and she and Rowan played off one another beautifully. She’s a monster all her own and even does fun kids’ music. Above, this is the Elvis she beats when she needs a good metal-on-brush sound! (At Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Hillsdale, NY). Meetin’ up with Ethan Baird of the Lounge Stage and Pesky J Nixon. Vance Gilbert in the house! For all that it’s still an unofficial part of Falcon Ridge, some of my favourite moments happened at the Lounge Stage. Above – Eric Lee plays violin with Vance Gilbert. This turned into an absolutely hilarious back-and-forth between the two of them as Eric followed Vance’s vocals through weirder and weirder contortions. Behind them is Ethan and Jake of Pesky J. Nixon trying not to crack up and to the right you can see Tall Heights wondering how the HELL they’re going to follow such a strange performance Red Molly.
