Yup … that’s Diana Costello and myself at the Pleasantville Music Festival last weekend, where we helped handout the Listening Room compilation CD and glad handed the crowd.

It was great.

Diana and I helped pass out about 900 discs and got a great response. The thing I thought was interesting was how many people knew artists from our show but had never heard of us. (Boo)

Hopefully that will change with this awesome blog space!! Where Diana and I will try to add a little community to The Listening Room … especially now that we have our new player from mama Gannett.

(I also got generally abused by the crowd about my Sox cap.)

In case you were wondering which artists had the most street cred with the people at the fest, here’s my informal Top 5:

1) Red Molly — Everyone knew the ladies with the sweet Americana sound.

2) Gandalf Murphy — A lot of people told me that they’d just seen there show at the Tarrytown Music Hall a month or so prior.

3) Marc Von Em — This guy’s one of my favorite show’s because he was so good and I just can’rt get his tracks out of my head (This is where I plug out podcast page GO AHEAD AND DOWNLOAD ALREADY!

4) Geoff Hartwell — Dude, I met your girlfriend’s best friend … she was this cute red head working the both nextdoor. She has a disc for you.

5) Jen Bloom — Hey, she’s a Lucy’s Lounge regular.

Funny story about that Peak T-shirt (above), Liz Johnson of Small Bites fame had to beg it from her contacts at The Peak radio station for me, because I had sweated through my own setting up our booth.

Check it out, I look worked! (Shortly after this Liz and I were in the Captain Lawrence beer tent, which explains my better mood in the photo at top.)

Thanks to Mark Vergari for the snaps.