First Person: Remembering Folk’nA musician Mac Cole
Joe Fusco Jr.
We lost my good friend Mac Cole Sunday. I hadn’t seen him since COVID-19 hit, but we still talked on the phone occasionally. He was unique.
Mac and I were part of the original Folk’nA crew that populated Mike Duffy’s open mike at Gilrein’s on Main Street. It was an eclectic bunch: musicians, poets, puppeteers, inflatable instruments, and even a left-handed guitar player.
At the end of the open mike, Duffy would raffle off discards that the crowd would donate: scratched lottery tickets, unwound cassettes, the third cake-cutter from your second wedding, etc.