Last summer I had a free day and pointed the pick-up toward Iroquois Park in Louisville for a day’s worth of mountain-biking and music at Kentucky Music Weekend. While waiting for Bill Staines and Jean Ritchie to take the stage, I sat back to enjoy a picnic basket of brie and cabernet while taking in the opening acts. That’s where I discovered Wild Carrot. Pamela Temple and Spencer Funk make up this duo from Cincinnati, and they’re both highly talented performers blending jazz vocals with superb fingerstyle guitar.
We really had a blast hosting Pamela and Spencer. I found out that I am not alone in my music instrument obsession, as it turns out Spencer is just as much under the spell of “musical instrument acquisition syndrome” as I am. Why do I keep meeting these people that I want to take guitar lessons from, and they live hours away?