50th Alaska Folk Festival

Schedule of Events

Performance Schedule

Performance Schedule

6:30pm    
Queens
Juneau, AK Featuring: Andria Budbill, Taylor Vidic, Cate Ross, Kelsey Riker, Margeaux Ljungberg, Ella Kelly, Elizabeth Ekins, Marian Call, Wendy Byrnes, Allison Waid Singing a wide range of songs spanning the past 50 years, the QUEENS are back and ready to take the stage to rejoin the Folk Fest community. Here we go!

6:45pm    
The White Hots
Juneau, AK Featuring: Annie Bartholomew, Dylan Proudfoot, Nicole Lantz
Mountain music from Juneau, Alaska.

7:00pm    
Ice Jam
Fairbanks, AK Featuring: Seth Danielson, Sarah Garland, Skip Nodler, Kayt Sunwood
Ice Jam: a Fairbanks-based musical pileup found at festivals, contradances and beyond. Jumbled jamming in one configuration or another since 1997.

7:15pm    
Moccasin String Band
Whitehorse, YT Featuring: Johnny Mackenzie, Simon Crelli
Moccasin String Band is a traditional fiddle band that plays up beat jigs, ballads and reels.

7:30pm    
A Quiet Light
Juneau, AK Featuring: Nora DeSloover, Dan DeSloover, Sarah Shaddy-Farnsworth
Through darkness to the light. Original songs from an intergenerational ensemble.

7:45pm    
Full Circle
Juneau, AK Featuring: Greg Burger, Mary DeSmet, Don Rudolph
Soaring harmonies, hot licks, and great tunes artfully selected from folk, country, and roots music.

8:00pm    
Costa's Silver Jubilee
Juneau, AK Featuring: Collette Costa
Trying to figure out how to do 50 songs in 15 minutes...

8:15pm    
Grayscale
Cordova, AK Featuring: Amy O’Nell Houck, John Ingalls, John Lager
Old musicians and older tunes. Mostly unplugged renditions of not so classic tunes from around the twenties and thirties.

8:30pm    
The Jig's Up
Juneau, AK Featuring: Heather Parker, Carl Schrader, Tony Yorba, Chris Meade
With catchy tunes and a driving beat, The Jig’s Up is bound to make you smile!

8:45pm    
Dara Rilatos
Juneau, AK
Experience profound emotion and humor with singer-songwriter and lifelong Alaskan, Dara Rilatos.

9:00pm    
Reeb Willms & Caleb Klauder
Eastsound, WA
Original country and bluegrass songs performed with mandolin, guitar and vocals.

9:15pm    
Sunny Porch
Juneau, AK Featuring: Melanie Brown, Marcus Beckmann
Acoustic guitar and bass duo play originals and beloved songs.

9:30pm    
Muskeg Roots & Xtratuf Boots
Juneau, AK Featuring: Douglas Badilla, Susanne Carter Badilla, Mary Jane Tenny, Karen Larson
Former 'Pelicanites' (fishers, teachers, & cold storage workers), including performers at the 10th Fest, and individually for 40 years, reunite for song.

9:45pm    
The PEACESTERS
Juneau, AK Featuring: Dave Nichols, John Lager, Allan Nichols
Clever original ditties.

10:00pm    
Tramwreck
Gustavus, AK Featuring: Tania Lewis, Jamie Marks, Dave Kovach, TJ Lazar, Sergei Morosan, Colin Osterhaut, Heidi Johnson
Folkfest is fifty and Tramwreck is twenty so get on the bus for a brand new batch of jam.