The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45892   Message #679118
Posted By: SharonA
29-Mar-02 - 07:05 PM
Thread Name: Anyone attend the 40th Philly Folk Fest?
Subject: RE: Anyone attend the 40th Philly Folk Fest?
I attended on Sunday only (day and evening).

The music was fine, though I agree with GUEST's assessment of Judy Collins's performance (stilted and oh-so-slick). Richie Havens was simply amazing.

The smoking ban was still not enforced evenly (better than last year, though, when the volunteers themselves were smoking even with their orange vests on).

As usual, the chairs in the higher-priced seating area near the evening stage were placed SO close together that it was very uncomfortable to sit there. Many of the chairs were empty, which indicates to me that they could remove some of those chairs without losing any money from ticket sales, and create a little elbow room that might ATTRACT more sales!