Mountain Music Festival

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Acoustic tunes of tweeful woe provide an effective soundtrack by which to pick up a kinda-hot chick still getting over her freshman-year insecurities. Now imagine being granted a six-hour musical score by which to score. Your bag-a-gal game plan at this year's Mountain Music Festival begins by eschewing the opening act, 22-year-old Matt Hires, whose John Mayer looks (heavy-lidded, tousle-haired) and John Mayer hooks (he actually sings a song called, "Honey, Let Me Sing You A Song") are plainly too much competition for you. Better to start making your moves when doe-eyed L.A. songbird Meiko takes the stage. She'll croon about "Boys With Girlfriends," and you'll insure your target that you are, in fact, single as a dollar bill. (Also, the song's not half bad.) By the time Ingrid Michaelson begins her nighttime set, prepare to seal the deal by gazing into your chosen lady's eyes and lip-syncing along to the chorus of her eponymous Old Navy-ad ditty: "And yoo-ooh-ooh-ooh, take me the way I aaammm..." Headliner David Gray's just there to offer some great make-out music. (It is: we've made out to it before.) ROSE MARTELLI
Sat., Aug. 15, 4 p.m., 2009