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...this year's show, Songstreet Productions brought back the same three acts with equally wonderful results. And the addition of local folksinger Les Sampou, who sang a couple of bluesy tunes as a warm-up act (she sounds just as good on her last album, Sweet Perfume) added a touch of gritty Southern sexiness that was conspicuously missing from the night's main acts...
...addition of Sampou was not all that had changed since last year. While Jake Armerding, age 15, last year joined his dad (mandolist Taylor Armerding) on stage as Northern Light's guest violinist, this year he returned as a full-time band member--his picture is even on the back of NL's great new release, Wrong Highway Blues. And The Seldom Scene have replaced long-time lead singer John Starling with the youngish Moondi Kline...
...show climaxed when the night's performers joined together on stage for two encores. After everyone except Sampou (who was already doing another gig in Somerville) crowded on stage to do the bluegrass classic "John Hardy," a boisterous standing ovation brought them back for one last loose cover of Eric Clapton's "Lay Down Sally...
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