07. Joanna Newsom’s Quiet Storm

On Friday night, Björk’s set was cut short as distant lightning approached Union Park. It seems entirely possible Joanna Newsom’s bewitching set lured in the electricity. What made her gentle performance so enchanting was not the weird girl whimsy she infuses into all her music, but that she maintained her sparse arrangements when performing for a crowd whose own noise could have devoured her set. When you can hush a festival crowd at the end of the day, you’re a special kind of badass.