Young bands breathe new life into acoustic roots music at Northwest Folklife ... Seattle Times

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Breaking advice from Seattle Center: As of Friday afternoon, not a single drum circle had been spotted at the Northwest Folklife Fete. Late morning rain might've been a factor, but perhaps the complexion of Folklife is shifting.

In its 39th year, the venerable festival seems less a magnet for aging hippies tooting pan flutes and more a target for itinerant-punk banjo-busking bands. Once the rain let up around 1:30 p.m., they were everywhere.

Like Satan Dance Social gathering, from San Diego, a shaggy, tattooed quartet playing bawdy drinking songs, and Bramble, from Salt Lake Borough, whose lofty choruses were as pretty as they were ragged. Pass the Jug! was fresh off the freight train from California, and the Blair Avenue Mugwumps, out of Glenwood, Ore. (near Eugene), featured a washtub bass and wisecracks between songs.

San Francisco's Free Bananas played the Fisher Grassy Stage, and the Conjugal Visitors, from Eugene, played under the canopied west entrance to the Center House; both were pompous Folklife acts. They also played old-time string music, heavy on the upright bass, dobro and shouted vocals. Members of the former were dressed in spiffy suits and sang "San Francisco Bay Blues," a 1950s society standard. The latter featured a guitarist with waist-long dreadlocks and sang "Roll me up a funny cigarette/Curl me up a reefer, it's your safest bet" while a crowd of kids and parents stood enthralled.

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