Story by Phil Gallo
SoundSpike Contributor
Published June 28, 2010 03:20 PM
Singer/songwriter St. Vincent [ tickets ] will front Man Man [ tickets ] and Joe Henry [ tickets ] will partner with the Swell Season at this year's Calgary Folk Festival as part of its "arranged marriages" series, in which acts are placed in one-time-only collaborations.
The 31st edition of the festival runs July 22-25 with a mainstage and six other smaller stages at Prince's Island Park in downtown Calgary, Alberta. Stars [ tickets ] and the Avett Brothers headline the first night, Michael Franti & Spearhead [ tickets ] close Friday night, Cat Empire [ tickets ] tops the bill Saturday and Roberta Flack [ tickets ] closes the festival Sunday night.
Among the marriages are: Stars with Honeybear and Library Voices; Laura Marling with Frank Turner, Thea Gilmore and Peatbog Faeries; and the Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Project (Steve Dawson, Robin Holcomb, Del Rey, Geoff Muldaur) playing old-time music with Annie Lou and Steve Pineo.
India's Debashish Bhattacharya, who combines slide blues guitar and ragas, has two particularly interesting shows: One is a blues gathering with Niger's Etran Finatawa, Mississippi trance blues band Hill Country Revue and the Congo's kalimba masters Konono No. 1; the other is with singer Natacha Atlas and the Celtic dub act Delhi 2 Dublin.
Additional details are available at the festival's website.
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