Shindig - a good lineup of music

Yesterday, Children's Home Society of WV-Parkersburg held its first ever attempt at an outdoor festival- 8 hours of music (despite early rain distracting us)- with lots of good accolades for the good quality line up of music acts. Andy Tuck opened with a brief solo set- I had asked him just to kick it off, but it was a great opener. Andy probably had to suffer from the rain the worst, but he sang a solid set of good solo acoustic songs from his repretoire- hopefully he got some new fans, despite it being the first act, while the crowd was just gathering. Kathleen Coffee and Evan Olds were next. Kathleen impresses the audience wherever she goes, and has such an enthusiastic and powerful presence on a stage. Next was Mark Spangler and the Minor Prophets (a family band!) They displayed a lot of versatility and captured the audience- they were the "swing" act to move us away from the rain, but it still dampened things a bit during their set. Liecus was up next, and they really rocked the place- they bring a good crew of their own fans, and added some diversity to the days music genres. Nick Barry played next and has a fun relationship with his audience- lots of humor and wry commentary in Nick's songs!
The Greens finished up the night with a powerful and hard driving set- they are going to be on hiatus for a few weeks, so left it all on the stage this night. Lots of requests from the Greens fans present, and lots of boogying down, on into the hot and muggy June night.