August 23, 2024: Unprecedented Folk

The Arcadia Folk Festival kicks off today. Two days of un-amplified fun times celebrating both the great outdoors. So we’ll chat with Jonah Keane , CT River Valley Sanctuaries Director at Mass Audubon, about the Arcadia Sanctuary and the many things it does when it’s not hosting a giant festival, and hear music from some of the folx playing tonight’s Paul Simon tribute and tomorrow at the festival: Heather Maloney, Pamela Means, and Isabella DeHerdt and Isaac Eliot of High Tea.  And speaking of festivals, the DNC has just finished a four-day run in Chicago, but we sent 413 cameras to cover the events happening there, and hear from folx of the commonwealth  and beyond who attended the convention. We’ll talk with photojournalist Barry Goldstein about what he’s seen and heard over the past three days covering the convention for the NEPM series Unprecedented and find out from his experience at both the RNC and the DNC if we are really as divided as it seems