Forecastle Festival day 1 highlighted Outkast, but there were many other outstanding performances

The first day of Forecastle Festival in Louisville offered on and off drizzle and some of the coolest temps one could ever expect to have in July in Kentucky — and it offered some tremendous performances in a glorious setting.

I’ll have more to say about the festival in an upcoming post, and I will have a lot more photos too, including full sets of The Black Lips, Against Me!, Twenty One Pilots, and Outkast.

In addition to those performers, I also caught all or part of energetic, well-attended, great-sounding sets by Benjamin Booker, Foy Vance, Willie Watson, Local Natives, and St. Lucia.

So this is just a sampling of photos from day one.

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AgainstMe!-1

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OutkastPreview-1

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