Recalling when the magic happened at Presto Records
Short-lived but celebrated Boston label is reissuing its catalog on digital platforms
By James Sullivan Globe correspondent,Updated April 29, 2021, 2:14 p.m.
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Presto Records founder Chris PorterHayley Young
For more than two decades, Lowell native Chris Porter has made the West Coast his home. He moved to Seattle in the late 1990s to work for the production company behind that cityâs annual music and arts festival, Bumbershoot. A few years ago, he took over the role of talent buyer for San Franciscoâs Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, a huge free annual festival in Golden Gate Park.