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For folk music fans, fall's wafting leaves and cooler air mean things are about to heat up, because the 2010 CT Folk Festival and Green Expo are on their way. Kathy Mattea, Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Red Molly, The Kerry Boys, Marc Von Em, and others, headline. There are solo performances and take-it-as-it-comes multi-performer jam sessions. Drop by on Friday, at 7:30 p.m., for both at the Festival's Grassy Hill Song Circle. Indie/Americana scene stars, Trina Hamlin, Reed Waddle, Seth Glier and Marc Von Em, show off on stage, indiidvually, and then combine forces for a high-spirited, free-form folk music mashup.
On Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., New Haven's Edgerton Park sets up for a free Green Expo. Seventy-five exhibitors, educators and vendors provide resources for upgrading your environmental efforts. Workshops on solar ovens, composting, gardening, and how to make your home, body and food greener, run throughout the day. Kids have their own how-to environmental sessions, with names that say it all: "Wonderful Worms," "Recycling is Magic," "Making Art from Just About Anything" and more. A family concert takes place as well.
On Satuday night, Music Under the Stars features Kathy Mattea, Lara Herscovitch, the Kerry Boys and others, performing from 5-10 p.m. Sunday come back for a large scale hootenanny, from 1-4 p.m. If you love to play your own folk music or sing along, show up for the Dava Hoot, hosted by Pierce Campbell.
The CT Folk Festival is the offspring of the Eli Whitney Folk Festival which ran from 1989-2002. It was followed by the New Haven Folk Festival, 2003-2007. New Haven Folk, Inc., the CT Folk Festival's parent company, is an all volunteer non-profit organization that cherishes folk music as part of our American heritage and works to bring it to new audiences. Tickets are $15-$40. For more information, visit the Folk Festival's website.
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