Neko Case, Lord Huron and smoke-filled air dominate Friday folk fest

Under a rusted-coin sun floating over carbonized air that required washing off afterwards, Friday at the Martian Folk Music Festival was unlike any atmosphere ever witnessed on the hill — a dystopian vibe of bottleneck crowds, human grains of sand in the hourglass, oozing to the next distraction in the vaguely toxic, charcoal air.
On various stages the music was beyond swell, the night climaxing somewhere between the mood-lit, lite-rock quartet Lord Huron and dazzling veteran Neko Cas