The Whispering Beard Folk Festival in Friendship, IN grows a little more with each year. \u00a0With that growth, I am always worried it might lose some of it’s open and laid back personality – somehow it doesn’t. \u00a0Like the name of the city that welcomes the throngs of beardos every summer, it’s the friendliest festival I have ever encountered. \u00a0Where else can you get a few thousand people together in the summer sweltering heat and not even hear an agitated voice?<\/p>\n
This year’s festival was graced by the likes of legends The Fairfield Four, award winning Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Willy Tea Taylor, perennial favorites The Tillers, J.D. Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers, Chicago Farmer, New Orleans’ own Drunken Catfish Ramblers and some of the best Folk\/Americana music to be found. \u00a0After two days of blasting the humid sunshine, mother nature let us all know who was boss on Saturday night with a deluge of rain and lighting. \u00a0What could have been a disaster for a camping festival carried on without a hitch, the festival organizers had a make shift stage and seating ready to go in a neighboring barn, usually utilized by the annual Friendship Flea. \u00a0Hats off to you boys!<\/p>\n
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