South Florida Folk & Acoustic Music Festival

All of the activities at the festival are held UNDER A COVER! Don’t worry about rainy weather!

Schedule of Events

Friday Jan. 31, 2025

3:00-5:00 pm - Song swap

5:00 pm - Little Mercies

5:45 pm - Nora Bear

6:15 pm - Corey Hall

6:45 pm - Unquiet Grave

7:15 pm - Mare Wakefield & Nomad

8:00 pm - David Roth

Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025

Songwriter Competition Gator Stage

10 am-12 pm

Rebecca Berlin

Roger Mason

Jesse James DeConto

Charlie Pace

Kala Farnham

Arielle Silver

Jacob George

Paul Smithson

Sue Horowitz

Sara Trunzo

Lynn Hollyfield

Ezra Vancil

Michael Stock, Bob Lind, Susan Moss will be the final judges. The Winners will be announced 5:15 pm.

Preliminary Judges: Bruce Feldman, Jo Hoffman, Nick Annis

Will McLean Stage

Fabulous Florida Artists

12:00 pm - Suzuki Jamboree

12:45 pm - Soulshine Trio

1:15 pm - BlueBird

1:45 pm - Doug Spears

2:15 pm - Christopher Ray

2:45 pm - Jane Fallon

3:15 pm - Folk Weasels with Michael Weiskopf

3:45 pm - Keysel

4:15 pm - Quinn Olson 

(round) - Quiana Major

Kiah

Gator Stage

12:00 pm - Lynn Biddick

12:30 pm - Jason Baker

1:00 pm - Crowes Pasture

1:30 pm - Carla Sciaky

2:00 pm - Daniel Neihoff

2:30 pm - Carla Ulbrich

3:00 pm - Hank Woji

3:30 pm - Rachael Sage

4:00 pm - Jason Colannino

4:30 pm - The Killbillies

5:00 pm - Raffles, Singer Songwriter Winners

5:15 pm - Anne Hills

6:00 pm - Jacob Johnson

6:45 pm - Jack and the Vox

7:30 pm - Joe Jencks

8:30 pm - Mad Agnes

Workshops and Jams

Jam Tent

12pm – Rachael Sage – “Under the Canopy with Rachael Sage – Share Your Original Songs”

1pm – John Palmer (of Open Road) – “Cry in Your Beer”

2pm – Killbillies – “Traditional Irish Jam”

3pm – Dan & Faith Senie – “Telling Stories that Matter: Songs for Our Times”

4pm – Victoria Vox – “Ukulele Hootenanny”

Folk Club Workshops

12pm – Keysel-South American Medicine Guitar

1pm – Jason Colannino – “Uke Workshop – Island Style”

2pm – David Roth – “Songwriting 101 (for all levels)”

3pm – Christin Allyn – “The Business of Being an Independent Artist”

4pm – Kiya Heartwood – “Joy is Resistance – Community Singing (all ages, no music reading required)”

Lesson Pros Workshops

Lesson Pros will be coming to our festival and sharing their expertise with our attendees. 

1:00p.m. to 2:00p.m. – Mandolin

2:00p.m. to 3:00p.m. – Let’s Talk Music – Open Discussion

3:00p.m. to 4:00p.m. – All Ages Open Mic

Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025 

Will McLean Stage

Fabulous Florida Artist

11:30 am - JECC-Jazz Education Community Coalition

12:30 pm - Darrell Arnold Band

1:00 pm - Sundown Sound

1:30 pm - Vinnie Del Basso & Bill Ackerman

2:00 pm - Acoustic Soul

2:30 pm - Sarah McCulloch & Raiford Stark

3:00 pm - Grant Livingston

3:30 pm - Christin Alynn

4:00 pm - Mike Fuller

4:30 pm - Rebecca Marie

(round) - Carlie & Sebastien

Gator Stage

11:45 am - Robin Greenstein

12:15 pm - Karyn Oliver

12:45 pm - Songwriter Winner Round

1:30 pm - Violeta de la Guardia

2:00 pm - Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt

2:30 pm - Dan and Faith

3:00 pm - Open Road

3:30 pm - Rod MacDonald

4:15 pm - Kiya Heartwood

4:45 pm - Raffles, announcements

5:00 pm - Holt & Cabe

5:45 pm - Deidre McCalla

6:30 pm - Jack Williams

7:30 pm - Sarah Lee Guthrie

8:30 pm - Raffles

Workshops and Jams

Jam Tent

12pm – Bob Perfetto (of Bluebird) – “Slim Junior’s Blues Jam”

1pm – Folk Weasels and friends: Songs of the 60s and 70s

2pm – Carla Ulrich – “Funny Songs Jam”

3pm – OPEN JAM

4pm – Hank Woji – “Social and Political Consciousness and Activism Jam”

Folk Club Workshops

12pm – Joe Jencks

1pm – Rod MacDonald – “America:  The Musical”

2pm – Jack Williams-Songwriting Critique- bring a copy of the lyrics to share with the group (5 copies)

3pm – Tarra Guerra (of Suzuki Jamboree) – “Wanna Jam?  Tricks of the Trade”

4pm – Gary Frost – Learning to create melodic guitar solos over 1-4-5 chord progressions with major pentatonic scales using “chord chasing” and “target note techniques”

Lesson Pros Workshops

Lesson Pros will be coming to our festival and sharing their expertise with our attendees. 

10:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. – FREE 15 Minute Private Lessons Available

Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle, Bass

(Be sure to sign up by emailing [email protected])

1:00p.m. to 2:00p.m. – Fiddle

2:00p.m. to 3:00p.m. – Guitar

3:00p.m. to 4:00p.m. – Youth Open Mic 

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Date: Jan. 31- Feb. 2, 2025

Location: Bergeron Rodeo Grounds

4201 SW 65th Way, Davie, FL 33314

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