On my personal site, I posted 30-second video of some acts from the 2006 Vancouver Folk Music Festival that happened last weekend. I only attended the Saturday, and only for about 3 hours, but I saw Feist, danced to reggae, and enjoyed bhangra. I only saw one naked person there, a girl who walked the festival grounds topless. To be honest, I thought a lot more people would be 'free and easy'.
We—being myself and the Goddess—caught the last two acts of the Vancouver Folk Festival, one being Buck 65, who is the first hip-hip performer I've seen who DJs for himself, and who's a fine story-teller both in song and in between songs. The other artist was Feist, who put on a set with a beautiful two guitar rendition of "Inside Out", a rockin' version of "Mushaboom" and a sweet "Secret Heart", the highlight of the set. She didn't do "Leisure Suite" as I had expected, but that's possible because two electric guitars wouldn't suit a song with "undo my back zip". If they roll thorugh your town, I recommended seeing both artists (Buck 65 also plays at the festival on Saturday), though I imagine they would be a lot more comfortable shine in a smaller club atmosphere.
At this juncture I'm supposed to mention that Feist, during her set, mentioned that she and Buck 65 did a dance in one of her music videos, and had she known that he would be performing right before her, would have done a dance with him. Actually, she told us that we were to report that she did dance with him on stage, so therefore that's indeed what happened.
