I Just Read About That…

[ATTENDED: July 27, 2019] Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy was at Newport Folk Festival to read his new book The Golden Thread: A Song for Pete Seeger.  It was announced shortly before the Festival and S and I were super excited to see him.  He was in the kids tent and did a reading in between two bands that played on the main stage.

He came in and chatted with us and then read the book.

While he was reading I noticed that his wife Carson Ellis was in attendance.  Midway through the reading she came over and sat right behind me (!)

After the reading he said he had time for a few songs.  Unfortunately that “few” turned out to be two.  But how cool was it to be with a hundred or so people (and to be so close, sitting on the grass) to hear him play first “Oh, Had I a Golden Thread.”

And then to have him ask us to join him in singing “We Shall Overcome.”

It was a wonderful moment and it was even cooler that we were able to get his autograph (on the last available copy) of his book.

I have to say that on the following night a host of performers joined in for a big rendition of “We Shall Overcome,” but I found Colin’s to be more affecting because of its closeness.