Thursday, November 08, 2007by Lawrence Specker, Entertainment Columnist
"We're back to some sense of whatever normalcy is in this event," says Joe Gilchrist, and that's just what you want to hear when it comes to the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival.
Normalcy was last seen in 2003, the year before Hurricane Ivan laid waste to the stretch of coast where the festival has taken place since the mid-'80s.
In 2004 supporters showed how deep their love for the festival ran, putting it on despite devastation that affected every aspect of the event -- from the condos and homes where fans and performers stayed, to the venues where it took place, to the basic infrastructure tying it all together. Not far from the wreckage of Gilchrist's Flora-Bama Lounge & Package, the epicenter of the festival, participants had to contend with a police checkpoint maintaining a curfew on Perdido Key.
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