The two-day music festival Railbird at Lexington surely had on-again and off-again moments with the rain, but the performances shone brighter than the sun!
The Lexington music festival Railbird took place on June 1-2, at the Infield at Red Mile in Lexington, KY. This two-day music festival saw over 45,000 people in attendance who rocked in the field to the dynamic music of this year’s even more dynamic lineup. Although the festival had on-and-off moments with the rain, the music and unique collaborations on stage shone brighter than anything, making it worth it. This year’s lineup included Chris Stapleton, Noah Kahan, Wynonna, Elle King, Counting Crows, and Hozier, and they gave us some exceedingly memorable moments of music and celebration.
A memorable cheeky moment
A sweet and kind of weird moment with a fan happened during Chris Stapleton’s set at the Railbird on Sunday night. Before the musician’s performance of “Parachute”, his attention was caught by a young fan present in the crowd.
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The Lexington-born singer spotted a fan who would just graduate from his alma mater, Johnson Central High School in Paintsville, riding the rail. This sweet young fan brought his diploma with him for Stapleton to sign. “Sign your JCHS diploma? Did you bring your high school diploma to a festival?” said Stapleton. “Hell yeah, I’ll sign it. That’s too weird man, thank you!”
Rain made its debut!
At the fourth iteration of the festival, second at the Red Mile, the most notable debutante was the rain. At Saturday’s action, a persistent drizzle loomed all over, but afternoon showers came straight for Sunday, making the attendees run for cover. The first wave of the rain came in the middle of a fiery performance from bluegrass mainstays the Infamous Stringdusters. Ironically, the band had just begun their set beckoning for the sun to break through the cloudy skies with “Rise Sun.”
Cut set for Dwight Yoakam
Pikeville native musician Dwight Yoakam’s set started late and was cut short at the Railbird Music Festival due to heat exhaustion. Yoakam, 67, said he was overheated and dehydrated. However, he returned a few minutes later on stage and performed two more songs, ending his set early. He said on the mic, “They gave me a shot of some Kentucky bourbon and I’m better now. I said, ‘Man oh man.’ I kept looking at that storm cloud and I started seeing images of things coming out of it and I was like, ‘This is not right.’ But thank you for your patience, and sorry about that. It is historic for me, that’s only the second time in my entire career, about 38 years now, that I ever started to pass out on stage. Except for just, you know, the vapors at how good I might have thought I was at one time.”
Stage surprises
Besides the rain, the other surprises for the weekend were definitely the unexpected collaborations on the stage. Kentucky legend Wynonna welcomed Turnpike Troubadours’ frontman Evan Felker to add harmonica on “Ain’t No Thing” and Marcus King for a set-closing “No One Else On Earth.” King also kept the surprises rolling as he Nashville by way of Sandy Hook, Ky., native Leah Blevins for the gospel-infused “Down In The River To Pray.” However, the biggest surprising collaboration was from Noah Kahan who brought out Counting Crows’ singer Adam Duritz to perform the band’s “A Long December”. But that is not all, the crowd also witnessed him welcome Hozier ahead of his Sunday set for “Northern Attitude.”
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