hosted this afternoon concert in the Birchmere Town Square, featuring many of today's most exciting up-and-coming folk performers.
lead off the show, accompanied by doing several songs, including "The Ballad of John Wayne Bobbit" and "The Last Hobo". | |
Tom then introduced who began his set with two of his own songs, "Icarus by Night", and "Takin' it All to Tennessee". He then put down the guitar, stepped away from the mike, and showed off his very powerful voice on, Al Jarreau's "Could You Believe" (right). Back at the mike he finished his set with his "When Jimmy Falls in Love". | |
then took the stage to sing several of Paul's songs: "The Dark Horse", "Where Do We Go From Here", "Nothing is Bold", and "Chasing the Storm". | |
was next, singing four of his own compositions: "The World Ain't Slowin' Down", "Angel in Manhattan", "She wasn't Listening", and "Translucent Soul". | |
Next up was the duo, They sang "Motherlode", "All My Incarnations" and "There's a Dance" before being joined on stage by to do "Let's Hear It For the Volunteers". | |
After a brief intermission and Tony Sica drew the names of the raffle winners. | |
Tom then introduced to start the second half of the show. They began with a beautiful rendition of Kate Wolf's "Desert Wind", following it with "Put the Weight on Me", "Five Days in May", and finishing up with Bill Monroe and Peter Rowan's "Walls of Time". | |
followed, begining her set with Jean Ritchie's "One I Love" and continuing with her own songs: "Little Train That Could", "I Won't Worry Anymore", and "Lullabies". | |
And as a special bonus, and Dick Kniss finished up the afternoon show with a very special tribute to They sang John's "Goodbye Again", "Dreamland Express" and "Leaving on a Jet Plane", before ending the afternoon show with "Country Roads", written by John, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert. |