Daytrotter Downs Festival: Day Three

Daytrotter Downs closed out with a bang Saturday, February 20. Here’s the final take: Daytrotter founder Sean Moeller is a curatorial genius. This is one of the best festival lineups I’ve ever seen, packed with the next big artists for every musical palette, and completely lacking any filler acts. I left the festival with a fistful of new favorites. Check out the highlights of Day Three below.
Margaret Glaspy
Margaret Glaspy is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter. This folk princess could’ve stepped right off of the prairie in her floor-length floral dress, and the fact that she so clearly was humbly excited to be there had us in her corner even before her killer cover of Lauryn Hill’s “Ex-Factor”. Wielding an electric cream guitar like it was an acoustic, she let loose with a voice that really is an instrument in itself. With a voice like that, the guitar became almost unnecessary – how nice that she nailed both.
Christian Lee Hutson
Christian Lee Hutson just caught us on our blindside, a dreamy quiet crooner turning melancholy into lyrics that are pure poetry. You don’t always get a performer who brings out a hush over the entire room at a music festival. But this man knows how to write a melody, knows how to talk to an audience, and knows how to make us shut up and listen. And be really, really glad we did.