About Multibird:

Seth Faergolzia’s Multibird – Rochester based experimental folk rock quartet. An incredible, prophetic artist and redonkulous singer. Not to be missed!

https://soundcloud.com/multibird

Seth is well known for subtly harmonic, experimental lyricism, dynamic song structures, and “whip-crack-acrobatic” vocals. Celebrated as a vibrant example of what happens when a musician turns a genre like folk upside down and inside out, over time Faergolzia has come to represent something of a genre unto himself oft times nowhere near the folk aesthetic.

The freak-folk group will be performing a full and varied cross-section of the peerless oddball music that has delighted and baffled audiences, collaborators, and critics alike for over 2 decades.

About the festival:

The festival was created in 1996 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Dr. Henry Foster’s sanitarium, now the Spa Apartments.

The water cure — largely centered on bathing in the village’s highly sulphured water — was popular with the rich and famous for many years, bringing the village more wealth than it would have had otherwise.

Because that prosperity occurred during the Victorian Era — marked by respectability and named for England’s Queen Victoria, who ruled from 1837 to 1901 — volunteers dress in period costumes and participate in the parade and fashion show.