MUSIC: 2012 Philadelphia Folk Festival

(Cedric Burnside. Photo: Thomas V. Hartmann)

Over the course of its 51-year history, The Philadelphia Folk Festival Festival has evolved to become a showcase for a wide range of contemporary music, from traditional American folk and other roots music to bluegrass, alt-country, world, and blues, as well as music that isn’t so easy to categorize, like the jazz-soul-funk fusion of this year’s headliner, Trombone Shorty. See the full PFF lineup HERE.

(Lucinda Williams. Photo: Thomas V. Hartmann)

Photographer Michael Bodapati and I spent two days shooting the Festival, highlights of which included sets by Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and the Dukes, City and Color, Big George Brock, and The Cedric Burnside Project, who we’ll be featuring in a stated interview coming soon.

(Steve Earle. Photo: Thomas V. Hartmann)

(Big George Brock. Photo: Thomas V. Hartmann)