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Molly Tuttle: XPoNential Music Festival: River Stage (Wiggins Park, Philadelphia PA, September 20, 2025)

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[ATTENDED: September 20, 2025] Molly Tuttle

We had seen Molly Tuttle at Newport Folk Festival six years ago.  But only for about a minute.  She was playing with Billy Strings on a small stage and we popped in briefly on our way elsewhere.  This year I really liked her song That’s Gonna Leave a Mark and I was interested in seeing her live.

But something has to give when you’re there for so long, and so we decided to get food and merch during Molly’s set.  She sounded great and it was fun hearing her music as we walked around.

Unlike Tune-Yards, someone did keep track of her setlist, but there’s no recording of her set on WXPN–I wonder why.

I associate her with Billy Strings so much but his star has shot to the heavens and hers has gone up a little.  I’d be happy for her if she had more success although I don’t think I’d want to see her live again.

It turns out that she veers more into country than I like.  And while I like bluegrass, I’ve learned that I like instrumental bluegrass a lot more than vocal bluegrass. (more…)

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Newport Folk Festival Recap (Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, July 27 & 28, 2019)

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[ATTENDED: July 27 & 28, 2019] Newport Folk Festival

Back in 1998, I won a radio contest (not through luck, I knew the name of a song and couldn’t believe no one else did!) and scored a ticket to the Newport Folk Festival.  It was in a lull back then and also, I believe there was only one stage (it’s hard to remember).  Now it is at full power, selling out before artists are even announced.

S. and I have talked about going and finally this year I saw when tickets were announced and I bought 4 tickets for us.  I knew that our son wouldn’t want to go, but I decided to make a long vacation out of it–a couple days in Rhode Island and then about a week in Maine.  He couldn’t say no to going to that.

I didn’t get Friday tickets because three days seemed excessive.  Plus, you never know who is going to appear until long after you buy the tickets. and that actually worked out pretty well.   Turned out, there wasn’t anyone I really wanted to see.

So we rolled in for Saturday.  I was told that if you wanted to get the poster you had to get their very early.  We arrived at 12:30 and they were long sold out.  Oh well. (more…)

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