We still have several artists that we filmed during the Spring Music Fog Marathon that have yet to see light of day on our pages. Ya gotta know that it is so hard to sort all this out, and by no means are the last any lesser than the first. We just have to work through the process - curating 44 bands and countless songs. Quite frankly, we wouldn’t have booked the folks we did, if we didn’t want them ALL. As you know, we only scratch the surface, as we would love to do even more acts during our marathons, but we have to sleep at least a little bit. So, in answer to a post on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, it is time for some Midnight River Choir!
We first encountered MRC during MusicFest at Steamboat Springs in January of 2011. We loved having them. This year at MusicFest, I did video webcast of the sets from the "big tent." As this time the Fog production team didn’t make the trip. That left me to see music and hang out, and I got to catch up with a whole lot of folks that I know and love. Among them, the MRC guys. Since Music Fog was not in attendance in 2012 for MusicFest or for Folk Alliance, that made for a bit of a scramble in making sure we had all the musical ‘constituencies’ covered during our Spring event at Threadgill’s in March. On that roster was Midnight River Choir, and we were all super impressed with how much they have grown as a band since we saw them last. We are talking your fined tuned machine! Mitchell Pyeatt, Bobby Drivel III, Justin Nelson, and Eric Middleton played a bunch of tunes for us from their Welcome To Delirium? album. Why is there a question mark at the end of the album title? You can ask them when you see them.
-Jessie Scott
