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Newport Folk Festival 2011: David Wax Museum In Concert

Series: Newport Folk Festival 2011
From: NPR Music
Length: 00:54:53

The exuberant Boston duo performed at the Newport Folk Festival on July 30. This is an unhosted music-only set. If you use it, please credit NPR Music for the recording. Available for free to NPR member stations. If you're not an NPR member station, contact programservices@npr.org. Read the full description.

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The following text is from the concert's story page on NPR Music:

Last year, Boston's David Wax Museum couldn't play the Newport Folk Festival without first winning a contest. But talk about making the most of an opportunity: The band was everywhere at Newport last year, passing out CDs and signing bands up to its mailing list when it wasn't breaking spontaneously into song every chance it got. Since that breakthrough, the group has found a national audience for its recent album Everything Is Saved, which finds David Wax mixing the roots of American and Mexican folk music while Suz Slezak gives the band's music the percussive edge that can only come from a stick dragged rhythmically against a donkey's jawbone. Hear David Wax Museum perform live at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I.

Set List:

  • Persimmon
  • Beatrice
  • Least I Can Do
  • Night was a Car
  • Chuchumbre
  • Look What You've Done to Me
  • When You are Still
  • Yes, Maria
  • Wait for Me
  • Unfruitful
  • Born with a Broken Heart

Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival on Saturday, July 31.

Available for free to NPR member stations for broadcast, up to 2 times in 3 years. If you're not an NPR member station, contact programservices@npr.org.

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The following text is from the concert's story page on NPR Music:

Last year, Boston's David Wax Museum couldn't play the Newport Folk Festival without first winning a contest. But talk about making the most of an opportunity: The band was everywhere at Newport last year, passing out CDs and signing bands up to its mailing list when it wasn't breaking spontaneously into song every chance it got. Since that breakthrough, the group has found a national audience for its recent album Everything Is Saved, which finds David Wax mixing the roots of American and Mexican folk music while Suz Slezak gives the band's music the percussive edge that can only come from a stick dragged rhythmically against a donkey's jawbone. Hear David Wax Museum perform live at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I.

Set List:

  • Persimmon
  • Beatrice
  • Least I Can Do
  • Night was a Car
  • Chuchumbre
  • Look What You've Done to Me
  • When You are Still
  • Yes, Maria
  • Wait for Me
  • Unfruitful
  • Born with a Broken Heart

Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival on Saturday, July 31.

Available for free to NPR member stations for broadcast, up to 2 times in 3 years. If you're not an NPR member station, contact programservices@npr.org.

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