The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95558   Message #1859670
Posted By: Suffet
15-Oct-06 - 05:57 PM
Thread Name: Pete Seeger at Dissident Folk Festival
Subject: RE: Pete Seeger at Dissident Folk Festival
Greetings:

As far as I know there was no recording made for public release. The festival organizer, John Pietaro, may have had the sound engineer make a recording for archival purposes, but I do not know. People in the audience may have made personal recordings, but if they did it was without authorization.

In any case, the round robin jam session could not be captured well with the available setup. There were only four mics on stage plus some jacks for direct inputs, but there were about a dozen musicians with their instruments. Not everyone was near a mic, and that included Pete, who sat with his banjo towards the back of the stage during the jam.

The hall itself was small, with a seating capacity of just 120, and amplification wasn't entirely necessary. In fact, one or two performers did there individual sets without any sound reinforcement.

--- Steve