On most evenings of the Alaska Folk Festival, Greg McLaughlin camps out in a corner with his concertina. “It’s good to see the friends again,” he says. “That’s the most magical thing about folk festival, getting together and playing tunes with friends.”
On most evenings of the Alaska Folk Festival, Greg McLaughlin camps out in a corner with his concertina. He says his fingers are a little clumsy at finding the tunes his friends like to play. Since the pandemic, he’s out of practice playing with other people.
“I think COVID has made us realize how important we are to each other — the ability to gather, how important that is to our lives,” said Laura Lucas, who has been coming to the festival since it started almost a half-century ago. The Koski Family Band performed old time favorites Monday night like, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.”
Many performers, like Craig Smith and Kathy Petraborg-Ensor of Juneau, are glad to see this time of enforced isolation come to an end. In their duo, Heartstrings, they sing gentle harmonies, which before the pandemic they shared with many friends who would gather in their living room to enjoy music. But since the pandemic, Smith says, it’s only been the two of them. And now it’s hard getting used to the idea of playing before a big crowd.
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