My very earliest memory of being in Wellesley is from the 1980s, when a friend and I traveled all the way from Boston to attend a concert by the Violent Femmes at Wellesley College, where my friend’s girlfriend went to school. I recall the show being “Blister in the Sun” fun and the female-to-male ratio at the show being none too shabby either. (I’ve reached out to the Femmes to verify the details of this event and will update post if they’re able to dig this up for me.)
Memories of that show came flooding back this weekend when Mr. & Mrs. Swellesley caught the Femmes strutting their stuff at the Newport Folk Festival.
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