Heard one gaffe so far: something about making yourself homely.
Danny Paisley and Southern Grass didn't remind me much of his
father's band. His singing is more shrill.
Mix is good. In the Ethiopan set, some of the women are off-mic. Not
sure if they don't have mics or if the sound man/woman is missing
them.
Hosts are listenable. Other than that one gaffe, nothing too
embarrassing. These DJs have presence of mind so they don't say
stupid things. They also are not breaking in every other moment to ID
the station. This is the first ID I've heard during the music,
between songs, today, at 1:37.
It is flowing nicely. No bad communication between on-air DJ and the
stage. Isn't that nice!
1:54 pm Station ID
"And you are listening to the live broadcast of American Folk
Festival..." should be THE American Folk Festival...
Only outright negative: There must be a generator near the ERU booth.
We can hear a low hum. (Was also hearing some echo on the DJ mic
right now but it stopped.)
An intelligent discussion with the Ethiopian band. Credit goes to an
intelligent DJ and it didn't hurt to have a Harvard professor added
in. The Ethiopian is a little off-mic sometimes but it isn't too hard
to hear him.
Gadelle starting up, doing their soundcheck. Good timing, just as the
interview ends. Need to turn down the stage feed while they do the
sound check.
Go to the stage. Flawless. Good mic-ing of feet! Levels going up and down.
Hunh? The sound goes dead and then we a hear a bluegrass CD. Then
back to the stage. OK. Vocals too low. Fiddle out of the mix. Oh well.
Some innovation on foot percussion rhythms! And then they run it
through an efx box. Nice.
Les Charbonniers de L'Enfer are on. Lead singer is not in mix. Can
hear him in the monitor. We hear the mix change, singers sound
closer, but the lead singer gets more out of it. Crowd is mic'd out
of it.
Next tune. Lead's level goes up too high then ok.
Overall, nice.
Now on to Terry "harmonica" Bean.
His vocal is way low.
Johsua Nelson on at 5:30. I fall asleep for most of it. Funny to hear
a black gospel group sing about being a good jew. This music could
sell anything.
It gets livelier toward the end.
So, it's over now. The best for me, Les Charbonniers de L'Enfer .
