The 36th Annual Anchorage Folk Festival! featuring Guest Artists AJ Lee and Blue Summit and Corey Ledet Zydeco!

The full festival schedule will be posted here shortly. In the meantime, please consult the following pages for schedules of Main Stage and Folk Week performance sets at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium and at venues around Anchorage as well as Workshops held at the Wendy. All events listed here are free and open to the public!

Schedule Of Events

Main Stage

JJ and Friends 7:00 pm
JJ and Friends plays originals and covers comprised of classics and modern hits spanning from the ’60s to today. JJ Shockley – guitar and vocals; Donnie – cajón and vocals; Jerry Cochran – guitar

Justin Cano 7:15 pm
Justin’s original songs reflect his experiences and lessons learned growing up in the Pacific Northwest and living with his family in Alaska. Justin Cano – guitar

The Midnight Sons Chorus 7:30 pm
The Anchorage Midnight Sons A Cappella Chorus has been entertaining audiences since 1967 and represents Anchorage as a member chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS). With a mission to spread harmony and joy to the community, we offer a wide variety of fun a cappella arrangements, free voice lessons, coaching from some of the nation’s best vocal coaches and surrounded by the nicest Alaskans you’ll ever meet! Our philosophy is to share harmony in our community while improving musically ourselves and have fun! Phil Cheasebro, Director; Jacob Marsh – Assistant Director; Tim Tillman – President

Na Mná agus Fear Amháin 7:45 pm
Traditional Irish music on flute and button accordion, from na mná (the women) agus fear amháin (and one man). Lisa Maloney, Willow Feighery, and one gentleman musician (probably)

The Roland Roberts Band 8:00 pm
The Roland Roberts Band is a nationally touring Alt Country act out of Hatcher Pass, Alaska. Roland Roberts – guitar; Matt Faubion – guitar, mandolin; Garrett Monroe – bass; Matthew "Wally" Wallace – drums/percussion

Robin Hopper 8:15 pm
Award-winning songwriter from Chugiak. The ADN called Robin’s music "as warm and comforting as a favorite sweater." Robin Hopper – vocals and guitar

The Hot Club of Nunaka 8:30 pm
This year the Hot Club of Nunaka will be playing a small set of some of the more unusual compositions of Django Reinhardt. With references to Debussy, Monet, Mozart and the use of augmented and unitonic motifs, we hope you find this music as interesting (not to mention challenging) as we do. Adam Bartlett – guitar; Nathan Levine – bass; Derek Christianson – guitar

Mike and Matt 8:45 pm
Father-son duo returns with something folky, something swingy, something original. Family harmony and fancy picking. Michael Faubion – guitar and vocal; Matt Faubion – guitar and vocal

Guest Artists: AJ Lee and Blue Summit 8:45 pm
AJ Lee and Blue Summit are an award-winning energetic, charming, and technically jaw-dropping band quickly rising on the national roots-music scene. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the group met as teenagers, picking and jamming together as kids at local music festivals and jams. Currently made up of AJ Lee on mandolin, fiddler Jan Purat, and guitarists Scott Gates and Sullivan Tuttle, the band carries that youthful, festival-parking-lot energy with them still today, but at the same time there’s a genuine ease and confidence to their music-making.

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