![]() But in addition to the aforementioned headliners, Saturday’s slate alone also featured bluegrass legends Del McCoury and Peter Rowan, eclectic roots acts Elephant Revival and the Lone Bellow, and Americana’s ballsiest new “It” girl in years, Nikki Lane. Saturday was the only day I caught this year (the festival’s 30th, and 15th held at the Salt Lick Pavilion in Driftwood, right outside of Austin), which means I missed not only Friday night draws like Shakey Graves, Sam Bush, and Reckless Kelly - who were joined by Robert Earl Keen guitarist Rich Brotherton for yet another apparently stellar Prince cover, “Purple Rain” - but also all of the Thursday night and Sunday morning/afternoon performances at the satellite Campground Stage across the street at Camp Ben McCullough (including a second turn by Shinyribs). Surveying the full lineup on paper or screen, it’s easy to curse the inevitable scheduling conflicts pitting one must- or at least really should-see act against another to keep the crowd evenly dispersed, but most all of the matchups at Old Settler’s this weekend were very much of the win-win variety. Such are the kind of choices one often has to make at any festival big enough to feature continuous music on more than one stage - even (or especially) when the festival in question is only just big enough for two stages. Longtime Old Settler’s Music Festival favorite Peter Rowan on the Bluebonnet Stage. Conversely, by the time Austin’s Shinyribs hit the Bluebonnet an hour later, I was entrenched over at the Hill Country Stage grooving to Los Lobos - and it would have taken an actual pack of rabid wolves to chase me away from that. That’s because while Jarosz, the Wimberley wunderkind who got her start at Old Settler’s playing the festival’s Youth Talent Competition 15 years ago, was no doubt enchanting her crowd over at the main Hill Country Stage, I was over at the slightly smaller Bluebonnet Stage, happily rocking out to the Old 97’s - aka still the best “alt-country/(whatever that is)” band of the last quarter century. ![]() But damned if I didn’t miss them both, and I’m not even kicking myself. Can’t Make This Stuff Up.I wish I could say who served up the better cover of Prince’s “When Dove’s Cry” at the Old Settler’s Music Festival one Saturday night, one year (and a day) after the Purple One’s passing: Sarah Jarosz on mandolin accompanied by her stand-up bass player, or the incomparable Kevin Russell reportedly using every formidable weapon in his Shinyribs arsenal. The San Diego Memoir Showcase is produced by San Diego Writers, Ink and the San Diego Memoir Association, in association with producers Marni Freedman and Tracy Jones. These winning entries are professionally directed and acted out on stage at North Coast Repertory in front of a live audience. The top eleven pieces were selected as winning entries. How it works: Hundreds of short memoir pieces were submitted to the 2017 Memoir Showcase competition. Experience life lived growing up in a traveling carnival, life as the daughter of a sheriff with a jail attached to your home or taking your parents to court and successfully emancipating at age sixteen. Join us: for a night of rich, dramatic & funny stories filled with surprising life experiences that show us our colletive humanity. IF THERE ARE ANY NO SHOWS AND EMPTY SEATS, WE WILL SEAT ACCORDING TO THAT WAIT LIST BUT THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL HAVE A SEAT AND BE ABLE TO JOIN US. YOU ARE WELCOME TO USE THE BUY NOW BUTTON TO PUT YOURSELF ON A WAIT LIST AND THEN SHOW UP TO EVENT.
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