REVIEW | Dustbowl Revival brings folk-funk, New Orleans brass to perfect night at Levitt
Sioux Falls group Etta and the Vendetta opens with ‘flower power,’ double-neck guitar
“FLOWER POWER, BABY.”
Etta McKinley had the slogan. The weather, for once, had read the assignment.
Rain had moved through Sioux Falls earlier in the day, leaving behind the kind of August evening people spend the rest of winter lying about. The sun came back out. A breeze hung around and kept the temperature reasonable. By the time music started at Levitt at the Falls, the lawn already held a sizable crowd, unusually healthy for the beginning of an opening set rather than the late-arriving swell before a headliner. The Aug. 15 concert paired Sioux Falls’ Etta and the Vendetta with Los Angeles roots collective Dustbowl Revival as part of Levitt’s free summer concert series.
That crowd would spend the next couple of hours getting progressively less interested in sitting down.
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