2010 Newport Folk Preview - Part 7: Levon Helm
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 10:00AM The day has arrived - the 2010 Newport Folk Festival starts tomorrow and runs through the weekend. It's not too late - you can still get tickets. If you can't make it to the festival this year, watch visible voice for complete post-festival coverage!
For the past week I've been highlighting some of my favorite artists that are playing Newport this year. And, fittingly, I will wrap things up with the man that will close out the festival on Sunday evening - Levon Helm. My first Newport Folk Festival was 2004, when Levon Helm was on the bill along with Garth Hudson and the Dixie Hummingbirds. However, I didn't hear until I arrived at the festival that Levon had to pull out for health reasons - needelss to say I was bummed. I am beyond excited to finally get a chance to see one of my idols - so much so that I can't really put it into words. I'll just let this video do the talking:
My next goal is to finally motivate myself and come up with the cash to make it out for one of the Midnight Rambles in Woodstock NY. That might have to happen soon.
