It was an evening of folk songs with a retro feel.
While sometimes that's enough to put a chill down your humble blogger's back, Saturday night's show kept all the chills away, as your blogger and the audience were charmed by the musicality of The Kennedys and Mary Lee's Corvette. Both groups had never played the Narrows. We hope they will in the future.
First up were The Kennedys, fairly well known to the WUMB radio crowd (Barnes Newberry from the station was at the show). Maura Kennedy's smile lit up the room (maybe that's not politically correct to say, but it's true), and sang with a voice clear as a bell, with warmth and sincerity. Her husband Pete showed licks one normally doesn't expect in a folkie show, playing electric and acoustic guitar, ukelele, and some string instrument that looked like a cousin of the mandolin.
The Kennedys and Mary Lee Kortes, of Mary Lee's Corvette, performed together at the end of the Kennedys' set.
Mary Lee's Corvette rose to national fame with their live in-concert song-by-song cover of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks album. While Mary Lee and her band did several from the old master, they also performed originals.
If you have photos from the show you'd like to share with blog readers, email me at slouishug@comcast.net.
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