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Patsy’s Daydream will perform Saturday at Becktober Fall Folk Fest at the Palatka riverfront. -
Positively Putnam FL
A popular festival will return this weekend with a new name but the same family-friendly fun people have come to enjoy.
The Becktober Fall Folk Fest will start at 10 a.m. at the Palatka riverfront and will feature 11 musicians playing until 8 p.m. Formerly known as the Fall Folk Fest, organizers decided to rename the festivities this year.
“We’ve helped put on various events in downtown Palatka, and they never disappoint,” said Jeanetta Cebollero, co-owner of Ancient City Entertainment, one of the festival sponsors. “The riverfront is such a special spot that brings people back to the hometown feel of old Florida.”
Cebollero, who has also organized Palatka’s Blue Crab Festival in recent years, said Saturday’s event will combine family-friendly fun with great bands and Oktoberfest celebrations.
Saturday headliners include “some of North Florida’s finest folk and country music” with headliners including The Gatorbone Trio, Patsy’s Daydream, and Dean Winter and The Heat, organizers stated.
Becktober will have food trucks, arts and crafts, and a special section where kids can play, including a bounce house. People are invited to bring their lawn chairs and their leashed pets to enjoy the music.
Chris Underdal, a bass player for Patsy’s Daydream, said the band has performed at Blue Crab before and he makes music his full-time profession.
Patsy’s Daydream, a Patsy Cline tribute band, will take to the stage at 7 p.m., and he can’t wait to play for the crowd. Underal, 28, said the band plays Cline’s biggest hits, like “Crazy” and “Lovesick Blues.”
“These are the kind of things we like to play,” Underal said. “People come to check out the music and see it. We kind of give them the fan favorites.”
The five band members also write their own music but keep those songs within the same old-school country style, Underal added. He said Cline inspired Daydream’s original music. While the band may play a few of their own songs, he said, Saturday’s performance will consist of 85% of Cline’s songs.
He said he is friends with Dean Winter and The Heat, the Jacksonville-based band known for its “honkey tonk” music, according to the band’s website. Dean Winter and the Heat will close out the fall festival at 8 p.m.
Playing festivals with fellow musicians is one of Daydreams’s favorite types of events, Underal said, because of the camaraderie the events provide.
“We get to come see our friends play. They get to see us,” Underal said. “Then the people that are out there, they came to see music and have a good time. So they’re always a more attentive crowd. So, it’s kind of just like the best of both worlds when we come out and play something like this.”
The musician lineup:
10 a.m. Dan Raymond
10:30 a.m. Emmett Carlisle
11 a.m. Jackson Creek
Noon Chuck Hardwicke
1 p.m. The Connors Project
2 p.m. Sweet William Trio
3 p.m. The Dunehoppers
4 p.m. John French Band
5 p.m. The Gatorbone Trio
6 p.m. Patsy’s Daydream
7 p.m. Dean Winter and The Heat