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| A crowd is seen enjoying a performance by Ruby Velle and the Soulphonics during the first night of the 2013 Black Swamp Arts Festival. (Photo: Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune) |
"Good music, good food, good family, good friends," she said. "What a festival." PHOTO GALLERY
"We're going to have a hallelujah time in the swamp," Foster declared.
And she and her band of "dreadlocked sisters" from Texas, Samantha Banks on drums and Tanya Richardson on bass, did their part to make that come true.
She talked about visiting blueswoman Jessie Mae Hemphill, before launching into the blues. She turned songs from Patti Griffin and Lucinda Williams and June Carter Cash's "Ring of Fire" to her own gospel-inspired ends.
