So we sat her on a log in the open air, where she sang 'Holiday' - from her new album Never - while flanked by Raisa Khan and Marc Pell from her band The Shapes. Taking Micachu on a hike into the sun-dappled woods of Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek Park makes as much sense as it would to surround her with modern everyday life.

Micachu is a sore thumb in human form, but there's nothing inauthentic or performative about her outsider status. She identifies herself as a pop singer, but while her songs are catchy enough, they're no one's idea of pop-radio fodder. Micachu, doesn't exactly fit comfortably into her surroundings: She cuts a vaguely otherworldly, not-so-vaguely androgynous figure, and sings strangely pretty, jagged little songs with the aid of odd tunings and a tiny guitar, which dangles from crudely tied twine. For the minutes he played, it was the most beautiful spot around.Įxperimental musician Mica Levi, a.k.a. There, in front of a row of Honey Buckets, the Deer Tick frontman performed 'Main Street,' appropriately one of Divine Providence's morning-after numbers the song exudes regret and loss while remaining brash and defiant. We landed at the opposite end of the spectrum aesthetically - all the way to the sanitation area of the artists' campground. So we drove as far away from the painted landscape as we could in the short time we had to capture this Field Recording. It was a relief, really, because the natural majesty of the surroundings didn't seem at home with Deer Tick's music - especially not the Replacements-esque party attitude of the band's new album, Divine Providence. As Deer Tick's John McCauley stood on the picturesque hillside of the Columbia River Gorge, about to strum the first chord of a song, another band started to blast us from the main stage nearby. Like a ray gun that shoots weaponized gorgeousness, the Vermont trio Mountain Man fit an awful lot of moony harmonies into this all-too-brief performance of 'Sewee Sewee.' As a self-explanatorily named group called The Seeger Clogging Allstars clomped away behind them, Mountain Man's three members - Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath - sang and stared sweetly into each other's faces. Thankfully, we made it out with the footage you see above. Standing amid hundred-year-old rubble as the 2011 Newport Folk Festival clattered merrily in the distance, we were either going to capture two breathtaking minutes of music or get eviscerated by maniacs as part of The Newport Witch Project. As a gaggle of videographers, musicians, industry types and hangers-on stepped gingerly through tall brush to enter a dilapidated section of Fort Adams in Newport, R.I., you couldn't blame us for feeling like unwitting participants in a horror movie.

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