Recap: Danny Gokey at Worship in the Adirondacks

The Worship in the Adirondacks is a two day Christian Music Festival at the Word of Life Ranch in rural Pottersville, New York.  It was also the reunion spot for three longtime Danny Gokey fans:  Maria, Anne Marie and Jan.  While it had been years since we’d all been together (a Carribean Sophia’s Heart cruise?), our friendship was renewed over a Danny Gokey concert — and a good, old fashioned summertime drenching!

On Friday, June 23rd we journeyed to the little town of Pottersville in Upstate New York to attend the Worship in the Adirondacks Christian Festival. We were looking forward to seeing Jasmine Murray, Ryan Stevenson, Unspoken, Steven Curtis Chapman and our fave, Danny Gokey for the 1st day line-up.

Skies were threatening and turned into a full deluge as we had to pull off the highway to wait for better visibility. Fortunately it soon cleared and we arrived at the large, but soggy, festival area.

We unpacked our camp chairs, rain coats and set up for a great night of music. Unfortunately, as we entered the music festival grounds we were told that Jasmine was not going to perform and Unspoken was moved to Day Two. Bummer.  But it could be worse; what if the Danny Gokey Band didn’t make it either?

Fortunately we soon ran into Danny’s guitarist, Miguel Perez and we were assured our trip was not wasted. Just then Danny passed us in a golf cart and he waved back at us as we stood chatting with road manager, Tony Palacios and drummer, Bernard Bell. (Maestro and Eric were keeping a low profile.)

We set up an interview time and place with Bernard Bell for an upcoming feature of “Meet the Danny Gokey Band”!  Sitting down by the lake and interviewing Bernard was so much fun!  (I’ll link the video here once I complete the editing and publish the post.)

Big thanks to @dannygokey‘s drummer #BernardBell for the #MeetTheBand feature coming up next week! pic.twitter.com/TFBZeD5qGB

— Danny Gokey News (@dannygokeynewz) June 23, 2017

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As we stepped into the soggy grounds, we thought about our feet getting wet…  But that soon became the least of our worries.  A full fledge downpour occurred during Ryan Stevenson’s set.  While we were wearing raincoats or a poncho, I could feel the rain as it ran down the side of my friend’s umbrella and it landed on the arm of my raincoat.  It was pooling in the center of my camp chair, under my butt.  Yes, soaked all the way through.  And it was still 3 hours until Danny was scheduled to perform.

Pottersville NY welcomes the @dannygokey at #WorshipintheAdirondacks! pic.twitter.com/3ujihE4o4u

— Danny Gokey News (@dannygokeynewz) June 23, 2017

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I’m glad to report that the wait for Danny was well worth the wet clothes!  In fact by the end of his set of  HIFOM, RISE, The Comeback, MTYTIA, What Love Can Do, Better Than Gold, If You Ain’t In It, Chasing, Long Train Running and TYHTBA  our clothes were dry!

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After the show Danny had a REALLY long line with fans waited to meet him and get an autograph.  We were told that there wasn’t time to take pictures with Danny — but of course we waited in line to say, “Hi”.  I asked Danny to sign his photo and make it out to my husband, Ed:

and we got this photo of Maria, Me, Tony and Anne Marie.  Another awesome Gokey Adventure.  You meet the nicest people when you are a DG fan <3

For some more videos of Danny’s performance, check out David Deihl‘s videos below: