the fair was @ the intersection of bardstown road & baxter avenue in the original highlands neighborhood. a great old neighborhood full of shotgun houses, local bars, funky used clothing stores and inhabited by old hippie types, bikers, students, artists and young professionals starting families…in other words, a great mix of people and nice place to hang out.
there was a full day of local music highlighted by the likes of peter searcy, brigid kaelin and others, tift was the headliner closing out the evening. and my god, she rocked.
first, it was the night before the aftermath of ike hit lousiville, bringing in 80 MPH winds, much destruction and cooler weather. it was still around 85 degrees @ 8PM when tift took the stage. about 4 or 5 songs into the show after tift had strapped on her electric, she said “it’s hot” and just decided to leave it on for the rest of the show and rock the huge crowd filling the street and sidewalks of baxter avenue. i usually avoid street festivals knowing that the crowd will generally be rude, loud, drunk and unfamiliar with the music. basically, there to party not listen…not the case saturday night, she had the crowd in the palm of her hand, quiet and behaved during the music and loud and appreciative in between, along with more than a few “i love you tift” shouts coming from the audience. most getting a blushing “i love you too” responses back from tift.
i got to talk to her for a few minutes afterwards, she was sweet, charming and gracious as always. when i told her that i’d seen her six or seven times and while she blew me away the first time… i swore that she got better and better every time i’ve seen her since. that got an “awww, you’re so sweet, thank you so much” followed by a nice hug.
the show was amazing. so was the hug.
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