We have a folk festival in our region and the past few years we've heard some pretty good music. This year was no exception. This is a photo of the leader of the act we caught that I thought was musically the best during our time at the festival: the Tony Furtado Band. If you really enjoy blues with slide guitar or slide banjo, I heartily suggest you catch them. Like the Grateful Dead, the live offerings of the band far outshine the studio recordings, in our humble estimation. But live, he is not to be missed. Sisters, Oregon; September, 2011.