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| 7:00 | Juneau Pride Chorus • Juneau A chorus of mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers and grandmothers bonded by a lover of singing and desire to celebrate diversity. |
| 7:15 | Nelson, Nelson & Nelson • Juneau Steve Nelson, Alex Nelson, Haley Nelson |
| 7:30 | Kray Van Kirk • Juneau Singer-songwriter: I'll meet you in Ireland. |
| 7:45 | Dzantiki Heeni Middle School 8th grade orchestra • Juneau Dzantiki Heeni 8th grade orchestra directed by John Unzicker Orchestra music for violin, viola, cello and bass. |
| 8:00 | Gotta Laugh or You'll Cry • Juneau Ben Krall, Cindy Boesser Songs of political satire and humorous retrospectives. |
| 8:15 | DeFreest Trio • Juneau Martha DeFreest, James Bibb, Rob Muller Singer/song-writer with two of Juneau's finest. |
| 8:30 | Naomi Hooley • Juneau Naomi Hooley, Josh Lockhart Original compositions--piano, vocal, guitar. |
| 8:45 | Rod Crist and Darin Jensen • Juneau Rod Crist, Darrin Jensen Acoustic guitar and mandolin. Contemporary American folk songs. |
| 9:00 | The Chosen & Frozen (Hannah & friends) • Fairbanks Hannah Corral, Gabe & Leah Hill Lullaby gospely jug band sounds to rock your baby or socks to. |
| 9:15 | Don't Go, Stey • Juneau Jim Stey, Martha Stey |
| 9:30 | The Invisible Circus • Juneau Brian Sullivan The sound of one hand clapping. |
| 9:45 | Sonny Chandler • Auke Bay Acoustic guitar--songwriter. |
| 10:00 | The Vaporizers • Douglas Sammy Burrous, Sean Tracey, C. Scotty Fry, Dale McFarlane The more lonesome it is the better it makes you feel. |
| 10:15 | Sergei and the 2x4's • Juneau Sergei Moroson, guest guitar, guest banjo, guest Rough cut lumber, hand hewn nails and a bubble off plumb. |
| 10:30 | The Studebakers • Homer Leta Simons, Sunrise Sjoberg, Mary Jane Shows, Kim Andrews, Mary Jackson Four women from the cosmic hamlet by the sea (aka Homer) bringing some harmony to Juneau. |
Emcee: Grace Elliot
Stage Manager: Valerie Synder
| 7:00 | Alaska Youth Choir • Juneau Non-profit Juneau children's community choir. |
| 7:15 | Kelli & Bill • Juneau Kelli Childers, Bill Childers Father/daughter team return for another 15 minutes of fun. |
| 7:30 | Mark Staley • Arcata, CA Solo acoustic act with tales of heartbreak, religion, and good old-fashioned fun. |
| 7:45 | Laurie Stiers • Louisville, KY Voice (soprano) & guitar--folk, jazz, blues (slide also)--rhythm, fingerstyle, lead, original & everybody else's stuff too. |
| 8:00 | Dave Stancliff & friends • Tok Dave Stancliff, Mary Jackson, Mary Jane Shows, Luke Nelson, Connie Nelson, Bryce Edgmon Tunes a' la Twang. |
| 8:15 | Escape From Brooklyn • Juneau Beth Leibowitz, Jacque Farnsworth Muskeg klezmer, Jewish and Eastern European music--it's happy, then it's tear-jerking, then it's happy again. |
| 8:30 | Charli and Aldyn • Juneau Aldyn Brudie, Charli Childers Two girls, two instruments, one sweet set. |
| 8:45 | Eric McDowell • Juneau Family tree. |
| 9:00 | Bandtogethere--for the real country sound • Juneau Rainee Godwin, June Hall, Paul Disdier, Albert McDonnell, Melissa Zehasky |
| 9:15 | College Bound • Juneau Hannah Wilson, Megan Behnke, Quinn Zahasky, Auri Clark, Guy Unzicker, Lindsay Clark, Laura Zahasky Six bluegrass players and a clogging duck. |
| 9:30 | Ken Burch • Douglas Original songs and Rosselsongs |
| 9:45 | Cast and band of The Who's Tommy • Douglas Sammy Burrous, Michael Maas, Dale McFarlin, Jill Taylor, Simon Taylor, Ian Andrews, Enrique Bravo, Ben Brown, Zachary Clause, Salissa Cooper, Junior Davidson, Brandon Demery , Jerry Demmert, Jason Gaffney, Lisa Kay Jennings, Darin Jensen, Kelly Knight, Ericka Lee, Flordelino Lagundino, Jennifer Lagundino, Rachel Landon, Damian Norfleet, Eliza Soule Evans, Cody Michael Shope, Rory Stitt, Quinn White, Akilah Williams The cast and band of the Perseverance Theatre's production of The Who's Tommy perform a selection of songs from the award-winning rock opera. |
| 10:00 | Pat Henry • Juneau Songs from Jeanie's kitchen. |
| 10:15 | Brooke and the North Douglas Folkin' A's • Juneau Brooke Morgan, Wade Panzig, Allan Nichols, Buzz Magnum Original mellow folk music to warm your soul. |
| 10:30 | Ray Frank & Jane McKendry • Davis, CA Ray Frank, Jane McKendry Dobro and guitar...It's not just for bluegrass any more! |
Emcee: Scott Burton
Stage Manager: Ellen Ferguson
| 7:00 | Alaskan Travelers • Juneau Max Blust, Elias Antaya, Robert Newman Songs and stories of regret, loss and sorrow from three folk festival veterans (all age 9). |
| 7:15 | 70% Loco • Dawson City, YT Simon Crelli, Aaron Burnie Working hard and living in the Klondike playing music to the silent wilderness that surrounds us. |
| 7:30 | Bryce Edgmon • Juneau Original music. |
| 7:45 | Return of the Green Toaster • Anchorage Graham Siebe The toe-tapping kitchen appliance strikes again with high energy Irish tunes. |
| 8:00 | Maine Observers • Orono, ME Ian Beeuwkes, Sean Collins, Daniel Pierce, Will Seyffer, Alex Gross, Megan Soderberg, David Nickerson, Ian Larson, Luke Abbot, Dillon Bates We are a documentary film class from the University of Maine; we'll be wandering around the festival all week. We figured that if we were going to document musicians we should know what it feels like to be one! |
| 8:15 | Kate Herring • Juneau Drawing from influences like Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell (thanks mom and dad!), Kate brings New England sensibility to her folky tunes, whether she's performing in the pubs of Edinburgh, D.C. or Juneau. |
| 8:30 | Denae Edwards • Newcastle, NSW, Australia Denae Edwards, Chad Edwards An assortment of acoustic songs from a few of Australia's finest country & folk songwriters. |
| 8:45 | The Bobb Family Band • Juneau Riley Woodford, Maridon Boario, Albert McDonnell, Clay Good, Jason Caputo Three great songs for the 33rd Folk Fest! |
| 9:00 | Mark and Scott with a whole lot of help • Juneau Mark A. Bush, C. Scott Fry, Jeremy (Jr.) Kane, Andrew Heist (Rainbow), Sean Tracey Acoustic bluegrassy kind of stuff. |
| 9:15 | Frankie and Odin • Juneau Odin Brudie, Frankie Pillifant Songs from the salt mines. |
| 9:30 | The Wedding Party • Carrol Oldenburg, Coney Oldenburg (aka Danitz) Straight from the marriage ceremony. Can a Canadian mandolin player from Vancouver find harmony with an Alaskan bass player? |
| 9:45 | SpectAngela & Ron Ecklund • Juneau Slinky vocal stylings, combined with retro-mod accompaniment equate to a musical time bomb just waiting to go off. |
| 10:00 | Louie Urban Kohler • Ashland, OR Folksinger-songwriter. |
| 10:15 | The Blue-Js • Juneau John Ingalls, James Havens, John Lager Adventures in Jayry. |
| 10:30 | Russ and Ruby--The Treadwell Two • Juneau Russ Kelly, Ruby Fresh from the Treadwell Trail and digging for more. |
Emcee: Collette Costa
Stage Manager: Maine observer
| 7:00 | Scott Miller • Juneau Original songs by, for and about English majors. |
| 7:15 | Costa's Holy Roamin' Empire • Juneau Alberto Maximus, Roberto Septimus, Colletticus the Elder We're all just wondering how long we have to do this until we get to be famous? |
| 7:30 | Flattland's • Juneau Frank Delaplain, Steve Wilde Slide songs from the heart. |
| 7:45 | Rural Delivery Remainders • Fairbanks Ken Brown, Tye Menser Assorted members of the Fairbanks bluegrass, alt-country, and hillbilly jazz band Rural Delivery, i.e., "the ones with real jobs." |
| 8:00 | CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS • Carolinas Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson, Dom Flemons and Sule Greg Wilson. Guest Artists for the 33rd Annual Alaska Folk Festival |
| 8:45 | Mudlark • Davis, CA Katie Henry, Ray Frank, Laura Sandage Delightful. Delicious. Down home. Devilish. Damn! CD still in D oven. |
| 9:00 | Mandopianika • Fairbanks Charlie Hunt, Brendan Cox, Nancy Bayer Music for mandolins and piano. |
| 9:15 | Coyote Angel Band/Alaska Wing • Juneau Bart Koehler, Rachel Sanders, Katya Kirsch, Anissa Berry-Frick Having gone south for 7 years, they are back--singing & playing Alaska songs for the wild ones. |
| 9:30 | Teri Tibbet and Alex Nelson • Juneau (description coming) |
| 9:45 | The Wild Pioneers • Juneau Gerald Fiscus, Paul Disdier, George Trani, Kirk McBride, Virgil Fredenberg We would like to dedicate our performance to the memory of Don Drew. Throughout his many years as a part of the Juneau community, Don entertained young and old with musical performances laced with his legendary knowledge of country & western music history. Happy Trails to you, Don. |
| 10:00 | Mary DeSmet & Greg Burger • Juneau Full Circle, songs to share. |
| 10:15 | Green Wood • Haines Lindy Jones, Kris Jones Songs I made up while riding a mule. |
| 10:30 | Scatter Creek • Tacoma, WA Kevin Cavanagh and Carolyn Arnold Old time: fiddle, banjo, voice. |
Emcee: Riley Woodford
Stage Manager: Rachel Beck and Greg Beck
| 7:00 | The Fiddleheads • Petersburg Brooke Cummins, Stephanie Pfundt, Hannah Pfundt, Paige Eddy, Kayleigh Eddy, Elinor Thynes, Olivia Martinson, Dan Sullivan, Ty Cummins Not the restaurant or the fern but 7 kids playin old time and Irish fiddle tunes. |
| 7:15 | Willis Fireball • Fairbanks Acoustic guitar performance--original songs. |
| 7:30 | The North Sea • Ketchikan Patrick Troll, Alejandro Chavarria, Sean Houik, Alex Nelson Southeast teens on a mission to folk-i-fy and funk-i-fy your world. |
| 7:45 | Alaska Fiddlers' Convention & Ron Klein Panoramic Photograph • Get ready to smile and say "cheese" to tunes like Whiskey before Breakfast and Angeline the Baker played by fiddlers from all around Alaska and beyond. |
| 8:00 | Outbound • Fairbanks Ryan Bowers, Nate MacDonald, and a Mystery Musician Fresh and lively progressive bluegrass with a twist of folk. |
| 8:15 | Booth Family Bluegrass • Anchorage Dan Booth, Greg Booth, Mandy Booth These Booths are made for walkin'? |
| 8:30 | Christopher Behnke and his Uilleann Pipes • Juneau Irish traditional music on pipes. The strange old stuff, with friends. |
| 8:45 | Sonny Ogle and Adam Segura • Kenai I'm an experienced singer/songwriter with 80+ gigs all over Alaska in the last year. I just want to play. |
| 9:00 | Brenda Berezan • Haines Junction, YT Original music inspired by life beside Canada's tallest mountains. (brendaberezan.com) |
| 9:15 | Bluegrass 101 • Douglas Scott Burton, Andrew Heist, Jeremy Kane, Brooke Munro, Joe Baxter Hard driving bluegrass in the Stanley tradition. Dr. Ralph Stanley for President! |
| 9:30 | The Bluescast • Juneau J. Althea, Ron Clarke, Laury Roberts Scandling, Mo Hicks, Jeff Brown News of the North. |
| 9:45 | Jeff Kanzler & The Growlers • Ester Jeff Kanzler, George Gianoukopolis, Kliff Hopson, Eric Graves, Alan Bent All original twisted alt-country from the Alaskan interior. |
| 10:00 | Buffleheads • Juneau Cheryl Cook, Corin Whittemore, Gani et se, Jill Sandleben, Kathy Hocker We'll make some good music. Perhaps a Bufflehead rhapsody in quack minor to quack you up a bit. |
| 10:15 | Buckley Women • Juneau Linda Buckley, Cadie Buckley Acapella originals. |
| 10:30 | Cliffy D • Fairbanks gwriter--original acoustic soul/rock. Myspace.com/cliffydmusic. |
| 10:45 | The Pilot Cracker Playboys • Anchorage Nate Williamson, Jeff Day, Brendan Bonnett, Mike Loso, Karen Loso Southcentral string band. |
| 11:00 | The Halfmoans • Fairbanks Sherri Hadley, Kate Bull Old timey at its simplest--half of Fairbanks' own "Raging Hormoans" visit Juneau to share their personal holidays in the tropics. |
Emcee: Michael Levine
Stage Manager: Kim Hastings
| 12:00 | The Blue Troop • Juneau David Miller, Toby Ortega, Katie Carlile Middle school aged string band. |
| 12:15 | Art Johns and Friends • Tagish Old-time Music |
| 12:30 | Melanie Joy Hall • Portland, OR Sweet & sultry singin' over acoustic guitar. Mel's spent the past 5 years acting & singing with theater companies from New York City to Denali, AK. New CD, "Falling to the Moon", available now! |
| 12:45 | Seward Family • Auke Bay Rob Seward, Anna Seward, Marian Seward Something old, something new. |
| 1:00 | Buddah vs the Gigaphlops • Juneau Me, my computer and whoever I can get Banjo hiphop. |
| 1:15 | Jim Adams • Anchorage Singer/songwriter still claiming he's not sensitive. |
| 1:30 | Wayne Alex and the Ol' Timey Guitar Factory • Juneau Wayne Alex, Ramona Alex, Samantha Alex Folk music, vocal and guitar |
| 1:45 | Cheryl Branz • Spokane, WA Singer/songwriter performing original acoustic folk-pop! Flip Flops Rule! www. cherylbranz.com. |
| 2:00 | Return of the Pigott's • Clinton, WA Julie Pigott, Lela Pigott A blend of teenaged, mid-life harmonies. |
| 2:15 | Luke Abbot • Holden, ME A Mainer's twist on some acoustic stories. |
| 2:30 | Laura Sandage • Davis, CA Laura Sandage (Ray Frank might join in on guitar) Melt-in-your-mouth string bass and song lyrics with a flaky, golden crust. |
| 2:45 | Batter Brown • Soldotna, AK Batter Brown |
| 3:00 | Kit • Auke Bay Marie Kit Petersen, Sean Tracey, Maridon Boario, Kari Groven, Steve Wilde |
| 3:15 | Family Tradition • Douglas Debbie Burrous, Jamie Burrous, Sammy Burrous, Dale McFarlin Burrous family Debbie, Jamie and Sam bring a BRUTAL set of family love |
| 3:30 | Simple Messengers • Whitehorse, YT Pete Beattie, Mary Beattie, Marg Tatum Fortified by moosemeat. |
| 3:45 | Chuck Norris and the Texas Rangers • Anchorage Jason "The Chuck" Norris, Kate Hamre, Angela Oudean, friends Watch Chuck Norris sing harmony to himself! |
Emcee: Glenn Merrill
Stage Manager: Genevieve Smith
| 7:00 | Ursa Minor • Juneau Asia Moreno-Goodwin, Calder Otsea, Denali Murray-Shapland, Elias Antaya, Finn Sinclair, Ethan Seid, Forest Kobayashi, Kevin Sigler, Nico Glocke We are an enthusiastic string ensemble playing a mix of classical and fiddle tunes under the direction of Guo Hua Xia. |
| 7:15 | Tetrafiddles • Fairbanks Alyna Atkinson, Brendan Cox, Eliza Rorabaugh, Scott Darter, Susie Hallinan, Marisa Rorabaugh, Nina Ruckhaus, Becca Rorabaugh Tall tales about fiddling bears. |
| 7:30 | Nicole Bauberger & Andrea McColeman • Whitehorse, YT I promise to tell you a story about an accordion player? |
| 7:45 | Empty Oil Barrel Band • Douglas Ed Schoenfeld, Elizabeth Schoenfeld, Maggie Schoenfeld, Robert Cohen It's time once more to make fun of governors, legislation, contemporary issues, state ferries...and maybe dogs and Douglas. |
| 8:00 | The Simpletones • Talkeetna Kim Hutchings, Paul Hatfield, Jim Stefanowski, Brendon Bonnet, Holly Hill, Murray Nash Old-timey music from Talkeetna. |
| 8:15 | Twisted Leprechauns • Juneau Henry Hopkins Irish instrumental music on traditional instruments. |
| 8:30 | Irene Muller • Tukwila, WA There's no place like home. |
| 8:45 | Vincent Chmielarazyk • Bethel Songs. |
| 9:00 | Northern River Bluegrass • Fairbanks Dan Ison, Matt Johnson, Danny Berberich, Luke Hoffman, Carl Hoffman Alaskan-style traditional bluegrass. |
| 9:15 | Fiddling With Wolfes • Anchorage Jim Wolfe, Carol Anne Wolfe, Megan Wolfe The Wolfe pack regroups in Juneau for some fine fiddling. |
| 9:30 | Joe Bishop • Whitehorse, YT Original northern songs to spawn to. |
| 9:45 | Burl Sheldon & friends • Haines Original songs & acoustic music from our new killer CD. |
| 10:00 | Michael Truax • Juneau |
| 10:15 | The Ruby Rangers • Haines Junction, YT Boyd Campbell, Richard Godson, Elsabe Kloppers, Peter Upton, Bob Hayes More Canadian folk/bluegrass from the dry side of the beautiful Haines Road. |
| 10:30 | Joe Page • Anchorage Joe Page, Joel Kadarauch, Greg Booth, Dan Booth, Angela Oudean Joe Page celebrates 30 years at the Alaska Folk Festival with a new CD release "Alaska Mando." |
| 10:45 | Western Hemlock Society • Petersburg Scott Hursey, Carin Christensen, Nicole Clowery, Justin Anderson, Chris Marshall, Dan Sullivan Despite being separated by thousands of miles across several states, we're back for a reunion to serve up our brew of rainforest tunes. |
| 11:00 | The Retreadwells (last year's Fairweather Fools) • Douglas Heidi Johnson, Bobby Jones, Jamie Marks, Tania Lewis, Shawn Knoedler A collection of old timey bluegrass classics to salve the soul. |
| 11:15 | Post Concert Dance • by the guest artists Carolina Chocolate Drops Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson, Dom Flemons and Sule Greg Wilson. |
Emcee: Dennis Townsend
Stage Manager: the Buckley women
| 12:00 | Phil Riddle & Friends • Gustavus Phil Riddle, Amy Youmanns, Tonia Lewis, Bonnie Harris Original music about the world and our environment. |
| 12:15 | Little Otik • Juneau Cristina Reitz, Andrew Krueger An eclectic blend of folk, contemporary and little children with feverish appetites. |
| 12:30 | Callie and Maggie • Juneau Callie Conerton, Maggie Elliott, Bryce Edgmon 2 best friends singing sweet songs |
| 12:45 | The Petroglyphs • Juneu Ross Soboleff, Rik Romerein Ancient messages hammered into stone by people from the future. |
| 1:00 | Ed Hargadine • Stevenson, WA Ed Hargadine, (barring the unforeseen) Coney Danitz, Carrol Oldenberg, possibly Jerry Fiscus if I can recruit him after reaching Juneau Guitarist/singer in 55th year of musical performance, accompanists to be announced |
| 1:15 | Uncle Charlie and the J.A.Y.S Band • Juneau Dave Pierce, Kyle Wales, Adrian Laguidau, Adam Axmaker, Kimmy Laboca, Jordan Laboca, Miguel Reina Contemporary Christian Music |
| 1:30 | Ryan Bundy • Missoula, MT Folk, country, blues player--sweet bluesy guitar player, evocative storyteller. |
| 1:45 | John Palmes • Juneau A message from the IRS of love. |
| 2:00 | David Roy Parsons • Vancouver, BC Original songs, acoustic. |
| 2:15 | Nuclear Elvis • Juneau Nikki Skeek, Scott Crass, David Pichard, James Moody, Drew Elmington Funk/soul with a little of this and a little of that. Nuclear Elvis: b/c we all have at least one atom of Elvis in each of us! |
| 2:30 | Sugar Pickin' • Juneau Matthew Coppick Solo artist for Celtic, bluegrass , and blues music. |
| 2:45 | Dan "Dirty D" Pascucci • Kenai Dan Pascucci They'll let anyone play at this thing. Here's proof. |
| 3:00 | By: Daniel • Seattle, WA Mike McCarthy, Stephen Filla Singer Songwriter acoustic set. |
| 3:15 | Skagway Beach Picnic • Skagway Barbara Kalen, Pete Beattie, Mary Beattie, Martha Stey, Coney Danitz Good old stuff |
| 3:30 | Natalie Thingval • Juneau 12 year old singer, songwriter and acoustic guitarist. |
Emcee: John Emmerling & Dillon Bates
Stage Manager: Maine Observers
| 7:00 | Vu-Mountain Stringband • Anchorage Kim Vu-Dinh, George Schleicter, Andy Klein, Danny Consenstein, Jay Marvin The artists formerly known as "Fiddlin' Wolf For Governor" are back!! This time, with a cameo appearance from NYC's Andy Klein the Baker! |
| 7:15 | The Preserves Festival Band • Juneau Tony Tengs, Albert McDonnell, George Wallace, Jamison Paul, Bill Glude, Joyce Levine, Greg Pease, Bonnie Herbold, Andrea Mogil More carbonated folk pop from the usual suspects. |
| 7:30 | Ray Troll and the Ratfish Wranglers • Ketchikan Ray Troll, Shuana Lee, Dave Rubin, Amos Hopkins, Craig Koch, Patrick Troll, Alejandro Chavarria, Bob Banghart, Forrest Gibson Where the fins meet the frets. Music, ichthyology and chicanery. |
| 7:45 | Will Putman • Fairbanks More songs from the edge of the middle of nowhere. |
| 8:00 | Buddy Tabor • Juneau The singing house painter. Call me for a free estimate--364-2280. |
| 8:15 | Frostfire • Fairbanks Scott Darter, Susie Hallinan Unraveling Celtic knots. |
| 8:30 | Natalie Edelson • Whitehorse, YT Songs from the marsh. www.mcleanlake.org, www.myspace.com/natalieedelson. |
| 8:45 | Wellstrung • Anchorage Todd Grebe, Angela Oudean, Conor McManimin, Dan Booth, Greg Booth A traditional bluegrass band playing all originals that's on their best behavior. |
| 9:00 | CAROLINA CHOCOATE DROPS • Carolinas Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson, Dom Flemons and Sule Greg Wilson. Guest Artists for the 33rd Annual Alaska Folk Festival |
Emcee: Jeff Brown
Stage Manager: Linda Frame