Folk Festival Countdown: The Deep Dark Woods

The show is getting close to starting, but here's a last-minute Folk Festival Countdown.



Using a Pitchfork review as a gauge of success is kinda lame, but all the same, when a band gets a 7.3 review, it's a cause for celebration. That's not the only victory the Deep Dark Woods have scored recently. The Saskatoon-based alt-country band's third album, Winter Hours, was just as well received as their previous two, and they've topped that off with a jaunt on the festival circuit this summer. That's the perfect place for them: they can be the rollicking party band or the quiet, lilting folk band in one set and draw people in with both.

The Deep Dark Woods are playing a full concert Saturday at 4:30 p.m., as well as a couple of sessions before then.