Friday evening, Mer and I got together with our colleague Liz, and we headed over to Kent, to the Kent Stage. Mer and Liz both had had the day off because of a snow day, so they both had a jump on the weekend. I had to work, and had gotten up at 5:00 a.m., which is normally fine, but I was still tired from being out Wednesday when we saw Riverdance. That made me a little sleepy as we got to the Kent Stage, to see the folk group Red Horse.

Red Horse is a trio of well-established folk artists – John Gorka, Eliza Gilkyson, and Lucy Kaplansky. They respect each other’s work, and so decided to band together to release an album where they covered each other’s songs and did a few originals. Mer and I are pretty familiar with Gorka’s music, but the other two were new to us. Liz and never heard of any of them, but she was a game soul who wanted to give them a listen-to.

We had seats in the “balcony” of the Kent Stage – it does not really have a balcony in the sense I usually think of. What it does have are a bunch of raised seats at the back center of the house. I was afraid they were not going to be very good seats, but they were not bad. We could see over everyone’s head, even if a person stood up, and we had a ton of leg room.

The concert was quite good, although on some of the mellower songs in the second half I fought off sleep because I was tired. Gorka has a wonderful voice, and he is a very odd but funny man when talking between songs. It was also fun for me to hear the two women sing Gorka’s songs. I think I liked Lucy Kaplansky slightly more than Eliza Gilkyson – she played some very pretty piano songs. The group played two long sets – it was well over two hours, including the intermission. Liz seemed to approve, and Mer especially liked the piano songs that Kaplansky and Gorka played. It was a good time, and a great start to the weekend.