The WUMB Music Festival (formerly the Boston Folk Fest) takes place at UMass Boston Sunday June 5th.
The breadth of music at this year’s WUMB Music Fest is again as rich as it is diverse.

Amy Black makes her festival debut at 2pm on the Lipke Stage:
For Amy Black, it is all about the story. As she puts it “I may not be telling my own stories, but I’m connecting and empathizing with every character and emotion I’m writing about. Life isn’t always what people hope it’s going to be, and that’s everyone’s reality on some level.” Amy’s own story is an interesting one. Her family is from Alabama, but her father is a preacher and that meant move to Missouri and eventually to Massachusetts. She sang through her teens and fronted bands in college but then stepped away from music for a decade in favor of a career. Her return, an album with her band, was mostly cover songs, but her latest, One Time, reveals her as one of the best storytelling songwriters working today. Amy will be backed by a five-piece band.

Michael Troy makes a return appearance on the Coffeehouse Stage at 1pm:
His songs seem real simply because they are true stories, and the people in them are very real people. Folks he knows from growing up, from working in the mill or from his days as a commercial fisherman. Most of them you can meet in the flesh at one of his concerts. A fellow songwriter described seeing Michael in his home town of Fall River as being “like seeing Dr. John in New Orleans.” You might remember that he was scheduled to perform at last year’s festival, but couldn’t as he was detained in Texas because he won the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival Songwriting Contest.

The complete schedule can be found here