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Newport Folk 2011: David Wax Museum, Live In Concert

David Wax Museum performs at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival.
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David Wax Museum performs at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival.

David Wax Museum performs at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival.
Shantel Mitchell for NPR

David Wax Museum performs at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival.

Set List

  • Persimmon
  • Beatrice
  • Least I Can Do
  • Night was a Car
  • Chuchumbre
  • Look What You've Done to Me
  • When You are Still
  • Yes, Maria
  • Wait for Me
  • Unfruitful
  • Born with a Broken Heart
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July 31, 2011

Last year, Boston's David Wax Museum couldn't play the Newport Folk Festival without first winning a contest. But talk about making the most of an opportunity: The band was everywhere at Newport last year, passing out CDs and signing bands up to its mailing list when it wasn't breaking spontaneously into song every chance it got. Since that breakthrough, the group has found a national audience for its recent album Everything Is Saved, which finds David Wax mixing the roots of American and Mexican folk music while Suz Slezak gives the band's music the percussive edge that can only come from a stick dragged rhythmically against a donkey's jawbone. Hear David Wax Museum perform live at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I.

 

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