Left: Patrick Cleary about to tune his banjo; Right: Huckleberry Flint at the 2019 Humboldt Folklife Festival


(AUDIO) Patrick Cleary is Holding Up

Humboldt’s summer of returning joys continues this coming week with the first edition of the Humboldt Folklife Festival to take place out in Blue Lake since the fun-killing pandemic made gathering with community virtually impossible. Starting Thursday, Dell’Arte’s Rooney Amphitheater will again host a collection of the county’s finest musicians. And if you think recent hip replacement surgery is going to stop longtime festival organizer Patrick Cleary from tappin’ his toe (or jumpin’ up on stage), well, you don’t know Patrick. 

On this week’s episode of Humboldt Holding Up — the Lost Coast Outpost’s feisty lo-fi podcast experiment — Cleary shares what it means to him to be able to again offer a forum for local performers to show their stuff and chats about the various acts scheduled to appear this year. We also discuss his time as head of the Humboldt Area Foundation and (full disclosure) LoCO‘s parent company Lost Coast Communications. 

Click the audio player above or head over to Apple Podcasts to hear Patrick gab it up with LoCO’s Stephanie McGeary and Andrew Goff and/or make sure to take a gander at the below list of other locals we’ve convinced to Zoom with us. 

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