WELLFLEET – The second day of the Outer Cape Music Festival featured some of our favorite Cape bands, and they each delivered great performances.
Unfortunately, we arrived a little late to see the first act, the very popular young band, Watch Your Step. (To read the origin story of Watch Your Step, and profile of the music teacher who put them together, see our Longform story, “Making Dreams Come True At Mark’s Music”
We were thrilled with the second act of the day, Kami Lyle & Friends, which featured Johnny and Joey Spampinato. Joey is a founding member of NRBQ and Johnny is a founding member of The Incredible Casuals. We had not seen Joey perform in more than a decade, as he has had a long battle with cancer. It was great to see him looking healthy and playing music again. He sounded fantastic, especially harmonizing with Johnny. And, we were excited to hear Kami Lyle sing her original composition, one of the best Cape songs ever, “Sharks Don’t Bite, They Just Want To Kiss You.”
The Barmaids were next. Damon Gorman on lead vocals and guitar put on a fantastic musically tight show. This new band, The Barmaids, has quickly become one of my favorites.
Then came The Soul Poets, which is an offshoot of The Groovalottos. (See our Longform profile of “Mwalim, Da Phunkee Professor”) In this video, The ZYG 808 performed a rap song about his name, and then Mwalim played his great catchy song, “Do You Mind…?”
The show ended with Falmouth’s Crooked Coast, who took their catchy rap/ska/rock original poetic music to the Outer Cape. It was great to see one of the Upper Cape’s most popular bands playing on the Outer Cape. The commute, especially in the summer, is challenging, but I would love to see more collaboration between the various geographical parts of the Cape’s musical scene.
It’s a rich scene and although I’d tweak this list linked here, I’ve long dreamed of a benefit concert linking the various geographical scenes into one special day. The Outer Cape Music Festival showed what that dream looks like in real time. It was an awesome day. The young festival will surely keep growing, as word spreads each year. After all, a late summer concert on the Wellfleet Pier is pretty difficult to top.
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