Rest in Peace Frank Mrocka:  1927 - 2018 

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Rest in Peace Frank Mrocka:  1927 - 2018 

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Paul Mrocka and his family after his father Frank passed away earlier this week. Paul is the founder of the Schroon based Paradox Brewery. His dad loved this area, in particular Paradox Lake. It was their Frank saw his son turn his passion for home brewing into what has become one fastest growing and popular craft breweries on the east coast.

In recent years he was the guy with a big smile and baseball hat enjoying  a cold ale under the beer tent at the Paradox Brewery.

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Meet Cricket Blue: Performing This Sunday at the Folk Fest

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Vermont-based folk duo Cricket Blue takes the stage on Sunday as part of the stellar lineup of this year's Folk Festival.

From the bio of Cricket Blue:

"The duo is inspired by diverse aspects of the American folk tradition: old and current, popular and obscure. Laura Heaberlin and Taylor Smith write songs marked by close-knit harmonies and words about myth, confusion, love, and the ends of things. 

Heaberlin’s and Smith’s sometimes mingled, sometimes markedly contrasting imaginations form the bones of Cricket Blue's sound. Heaberlin’s perceptive lyrical voice elevates everyday mundanities and makes the sublime pocket-sized. Smith threads images and characters into narratives that flicker between enigmatic and nakedly honest. They count songwriters like Jeff Mangum, Joanna Newsom, Laura Marling, and Anaïs Mitchell among their influences, as well as poets and storytellers like Dylan Thomas, Alice Munro, and Angela Carter. 

Heaberlin and Smith became friends at Middlebury College, where they studied philosophy and literature".