Following my set, I was greeted by a woman who introduced herself simply as ‘Yoda’. She explained that her name was short for ‘Yodamama’ due to her mothering nature and that she is not in fact a Jedi master. Either way, I’m calling her the next time my X-wing gets stuck in a swamp on Degobah. She is seen here holding a guitar that is in the midst of being signed by every performer at the festival in preparation for being raffled off to some lucky winner.
This article appears in Jul 24-30, 2008.