Sound Fest

Kathleen Edwards took the Mural Amphitheatre stage at 3:15 p.m. She’s a Canadian singer/songrwriter who’s been at Bumbershoot two to three times in the last five years. She played guitar and there was a keyboardist with her. It was a nice acoustic change of pace for amphitheatre stage.

I caught the first part of the Shackeltons. The part I saw wasn’t all that good (though Angela, who saw the second half disagrees). Maybe I convinced myself that since I could only stayed for a little while that they can’t be that good or I’d want to stay.

Manooghi Hi on the Fisher Green stage started off like quaint ethnic band, but when I went back by there later, they’d switched into full riff-rock mode. I should have known because when they were sound-checking the bass with the riff from “Dazed and Confused.”

Now I’m headed off to Bremerton and the Blackberry Festival.

I think Black Keys is going to be a key shows in the festival this year and with Stone Temple Pilots coming on right behind them, I think they compliment each other really well.

Tomorrow, I’m going to try to start off with Paramore, and I will just hang tough at Bumebrshoot all day long …

- Michael Moore