Philly Folk Fest Tales with Who? What? When? Why? & Werewolves and the 2021 Philly Folk Fest.
This week, there is very bad news and very good news when it comes to all things locally folksy – indie-folk, traditional folk, NÜGRASS, old grass. Pulling the bad news off like a stuck bloody Band-Aid, the live and in-person portion of the 2021 planned “Pocket-Sized” Philly Folk Fest weekend at Spring Mountain has been canceled due to the rising cases of Delta variant infection. The Philadelphia Folksong Society took care of this late last night, while announcing plans to present another virtual festival as it did during the height of Covid 2020.
In a prepared statement, the prevailing heads of the PFF’s presenters, the Philly Folksong Society, wrote:
“Since March 2020, the Philadelphia Folksong Society has followed the science, consulting with local and national infectious disease experts to ensure the safety of our folk community in pursuit of their mission to preserve the past, promote the present, and secure the future of folk music and related forms of expression. With health guidelines changing daily and the rise in COVID infections to their highest in months, coupled with the fact that PFF is a family event and that children are not able to be vaccinated, we have made the decision to cancel the in-person portion of the Festival.”
As for the 2021 virtual Philadelphia Folk Fest, it will be presented online August 21 and 22, with tickets and available acts accessible HERE…
Expect this cancellation to not be the first and only one.
On the good and great side of the Philly folk ledger, high plains drifters and wack indie-folk local duo, Who? What? When? Why? & Werewolves, are not only releasing their full-length, sophomore album “Hard Feelings” on August 13, with a genuinely spooky, doll-laden video of the LP’s title track this week (co-directed by Big Howl and Paul Triggiani with toys from the latter’s mom’s personal doll collection). WWWW&W’s Andrew Fullerton (vocals, guitar) and Matt Orlando (vocals, banjo) will play an actual live show, for free, on Thursday, August 26 at 118 North (118 N. Ave Wayne PA) from 2-4 pm. Pretend this afternoon with the WWWWerewolves is your live Philly Folk Fest all rolled into one hardcore camping, smoking, drinking and folking experience and let it all hang out.
If their live show is half as creepy and bugged out as the “Hard Feelings” album and, or video, prepare for a damn dramatic good, weird time.
In a personal rant to dosage MAGAZINE and I, singer and git boxer Andrew Fullerton claimed that, “Hard Feelings might be the first of its kind – a folk record about doing Molly in L.A., getting your oil changed at vo-tech, backyard wrestling, rehab, mermaids, getting punched by your partner, getting punched by your partner’s dad, quitting your job and relationship, being a fancy boy. It’s like Loudon Wainwright for people who eat hoagies off of trash cans.”
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