50th Alaska Folk Festival

Schedule of Events

Dance Band Schedule

7:00pm-7:50pm    
The Outsiders
Pleasant Lake, MI Featuring: John Hatton, Laura Skovlin, Ellie Sharman, Heidi Kristenson, Chuck Dineen, Judy Lungren, Brian Curtiss, Bruce Shwartz, Terry O’Hara, Genavie Thomas
Old time dance band extraordinaire! Musicians from all over the USA except Juneau!

With caller Julie Whatmough

9:00pm-9:50pm    
One Night Stand
Anchorage, AK Featuring: Jim Wolfe, Carol Anne Hogins-Wolfe, Katya Kirsch, Len Feldman
Four friends from Port Townsend and Anchorage playing old time music to swing your partner by.

With caller Guest Caller Suzanne Girardot

10:00pm-10:50pm    
The Simple Sugars
Fairbanks, AK Featuring: Aurora Bowers, Christopher Behnke, Heidi Kristenson, Scott Walter, Amanda Simmons, Ryan Bowers
Old time tunes that go straight to your bloodstream.

With caller Brian DeMarcus

11:00pm-11:50pm    
Definitely Not The Legs of Jake
Anchorage, AK Featuring: Johnse Ostman, Peter Johnson, George Sleichter, Jason Bent, Jeff Snedgen
Ooh ooh ooh we're going to make a big splish splash!

With caller Tom Paul

Performance Schedule

6:30pm    
Juneau Community Chorus
Juneau, AK Featuring: Misuri Smyth, Jacque Farnsworth
Under Artistic Director Misuri (Missouri), Smyth; the Juneau Community Chorus is made up of community members who love to sing.

6:45pm    
SKODEN
Juneau, AK Featuring: Gene Tagabon, Doug Koester
Skoden means “let’s go then” and these two will get you going by mixing contemporary native music, rhythmic drumming and messages from the heart.

7:00pm    
Chris Thompson & Friends
Anchorage, AK Featuring: Chris Thompson, Rolfe Buzzell, Harrison Jennings, Don Rudolph
We perform love and loss songs, along with tunes that uphold the dignity of humanity, and our love for others..

7:15pm    
The Strongbacks
Kodiak, AK Featuring: Evan Coombs, Tim Borden, Brendan Best, John Lauber, Blake Jones
Serving stirring sea shanties sprinkled with scintillating stories sure to satisfy the senses and sooth the sea-starved soul.

7:30pm    
Ellorie McKnight
Whitehorse, YT
Ellorie writes lyrics & melodies that explore the emotional breadth and depth of the individual and collective human experience during these wild times.

7:45pm    
The Heists
Juneau, AK Featuring: Erin Heist, Andrew Heist
Bluegrass and folk duets to crack your heart open like a pretty sparkly geode.

8:00pm    
Rhiannon Giddens with Dirk Powell
GUEST ARTIST

8:45pm    
Marian Call
Juneau, AK
Marian Call is back on the mainstage with more little songs about big feelings.

9:00pm    
Ice Worm Serenaders with Sam & Ella
Pleasant Lake, MI Featuring: John Hatton, Terry O’Hara, Brian Curtis, Bruce Shwartz
Back from the Glacial highlands of the Chugach Mts, the IWS will present more artistic rhapsodies for your enjoyment. Nothing like Sam and Ella to make it go.

9:15pm    
Curley and Slim
Haines, AK Featuring: Burl Sheldon, Nancy Berland
Original tunes and an old favorite from Burl Sheldon and Nancy Berland.

9:30pm    
Fishpickers
Haines, AK Featuring: Mark Carroll, Laurie Mastrella, Gregg Bigsby, Dennis Gudmanson
Old Time, Americana.

9:45pm    
Buried Garden
Victoria, BC Featuring: Emma Grant, Myriam Parent, Arkady Futerman
Friends and neighbors from Vancouver Island bring stories of loss, grief and hope through their strings and voices.

10:00pm
Dennis and Dona Townsend
Tacoma, WA Featuring: Dennis Townsend, Dona Townsend
Pulling a few new tunes out of the hat. Okay, now where's my hat?

10:15pm    
Blind Hogs Redux
Los Alamos, NM Featuring: Patrick Webb, Erin Tilly, Lynn Basham, and Friends
Group of Fairbanksans, from near and far, finding tunes and each other. Even a blind hog will find an acorn.

10:30pm    
Caleb Tomlinson
Whitehorse, YT
Caleb Tomlinson plays indie folk and alt-country rooted in the north and the west coast.