WILMINGTON — Last weekend’s Wilmington performance from lauded bluegrass band Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway packed Greenfield Lake Amphitheater.
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Tuttle has been hailed as the first woman to receive the International Bluegrass Music Association female player of the year, and won the 2022 Grammy for her album “Crooked Tree.”
The band’s album “City of Gold” was produced by bluegrass legend Jerry Douglas, and “Into the Wild” will drop Sept. 20. The six-song EP includes covers of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u,” as well as an alternate version of the “City of Gold” track “Stranger Things.”
The show last Sunday included a few covers, including Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Helpless” and Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit.”
“Y’all have been asking for this one all day long,” Tuttle told the crowd. “Since I came into Yellow Dog Discs this morning.”
Opening was Chatham Rabbits; Sarah and Austin McCombie are well-known in the state for their PBS show “On the Road.” The Americana band has performed at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater before, well-known for mingling with fans before shows.
Tuttle did the same during her visit, particularly meeting with families and kids who have alopecia — a condition she also has, as diagnosed during her youth.
“This month is Alopecia Awareness Month,” she said. “Looking out in the crowd, I see myself, this little bald kid running around, kind of sticking out in the crowd, and a lot of times it made me feel self-conscious. … It took me years to embrace who I was and see this insecurity as really something that made me stronger and made me who I was, and connected me to other people. We all have things that are hard that we deal with and struggle with, but we overcome them eventually.”
To much applause and a standing ovation, she shed her wig and dedicated the song “Crooked Tree” to “all the crooked trees in the audience.”
Below are photos from the show, captured by Tom Dorgan of MoonFrog Media.
Chatham Rabbits
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