CT Folk

Saturday evening, last night, you’ve had a really nice time on a perfect evening at the even-better-than-expected 2011 CT Folk Festival and Green Expo. 

You’re glad that someone else is driving — you just want to talk about how much fun you had and how great the music was — “That Leo Kottke is amazing!” — and you wake up this morning and you realize that you can’t find your keys.  You’ve looked all around the house, you’ve searched the car, even getting your hand down in that tight spot between the passenger seat and the middle-console.  You’re starting to think that the keys must be back at Edgerton Park somewhere. 

If that’s what you’re thinking — well, you’re correct — and the CT Folk organization would like to get them back to you.  So, if you’re the “you” in this post, send an email to ctvolkvols@gmail.com and we’ll work out a way to get you your keys.

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Late last summer I thought it might be fun to volunteer at the New Haven Folk Festival – so I went looking for its website — and discovered that the event had a different name: 

The CT Folk Festival and Green Expo 

OK, that was interesting – I figured the organizers were “broadening their scope,” outside the New Haven area – and that they’d also expanded the crafts-and-vendors area that I remembered visiting “up the hill” on the festival site in previous years when I’d gone to a couple of the Festival’s concerts. 

I’ve got a hand-crafted mug or bowl from one of those vendor-booths here somewhere, I’m pretty sure.

Whatever —

So, I signed up with Carole Weisberg, the Volunteer Coordinator, and showed up at Edgerton Park on Saturday of the Festival’s weekend to help set stuff up  — and:

SURPRISE!

It turned out that the Green Expo was actually a Big Deal – coordinated with the Folk Festival, absolutely – kindred in spirit, definitely — but a unique and distinct and very cool enterprise of its own.

Held on Saturday, from 11 AM through 4 PM, the Expo was spread out through a huge meadow, bordered by tall pines, on the Festival Grounds.  (This area apparently was the south lawn of the sprawling estate that’s now Edgerton Park.)  There were about 75 vendors and exhibitors – each carefully-selected and offering lots of interesting displays — and people explaining them. 

Crafts and food, too – and plenty of Big Fun children’s activities –– all while live music was being performed on the Festival’s stage.

And lots of people came — really, the place was filled with energy and laughing and learning — it was just: well, I was glad to be there…

All-in-all: very very cool – and tightly-themed.  All exhibitors and vendors in tune with the Green Expo’s stated purpose:

The CT Green Expo provides real solutions for people to live better, healthier lives with less impact on the environment.

Anyway, I really enjoyed last year’s Green Expo – and I suspect that this year’s edition, under the direction of the apparently-indefatigable Co Campbell, should be even better! 

Same site: EdgertonPark
(located on New Haven’s Whitney Avenue near the Hamden town line)

Admission:  Free!

Date: this Saturday (September 10^th)

Time: 11 AM until 4 PM

You can get Much More Info, including a listing of exhibitors and children’s activities, by following this link:  http://www.ctfolk.com/ctff/greenexpo.html

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Pretty solid prediction:

“Leo” to hit New Haven next Saturday night…

 Get ready now!!

 …for Leo Kottke, I mean.  He’s the Saturday evening headliner at the CT Folk Festival and Green Expo in New Haven’s Edgerton Park.  

Order tickets for the Saturday, September 10th multi-performer concert — and get much more information about the festival and expo — at:

http://www.ctfolk.com/ctff/index.html

(note:  image of Leo Kottke at the Sausalito Art Festival in 1999, courtesy of Alan Bowker)

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