2012 Northwest Folklife Festival: Full Schedule

3:15pm PDT

LoveBomb Go-Go

Intergalactic Marching Band

Friday May 25, 2012 3:15pm - 3:45pm PDT
Indie Roots at Broad Street: Sponsored by BECU & 103.7 The Mountain 47.61938, -122.34979

Music Performance, (if applicable)

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Biography LoveBomb Go-Go was formed in Portland Oregon in late 2011. Band leader Mars Ponte gathered players from several Northwest ensembles to create a high energy, horn powered indie brass band featuring vocals and real time performance art.

6:30pm PDT

Geist & the Sacred Ensemble

spirit, mind, ghost

Friday May 25, 2012 6:30pm - 7:00pm PDT
Vera Project/Gallery 47.62309, -122.35359

Music Performance, (if applicable)

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Biography "They convene the forces of original mud black and hooked roots planted deeply around the instruments. From there, traditional green fumaroles rise and the singer raises the arms to the sky while its voice is had by the spirits…" - Delicious Scopitone

7:45pm PDT

Western Hymn

Northwest punk

Friday May 25, 2012 7:45pm - 8:20pm PDT
Indie Roots at Broad Street: Sponsored by BECU & 103.7 The Mountain 47.61938, -122.34979

Music Performance, Playing with Matches: K

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Biography Western Hymn are a three piece punk band from Olympia. They're latest EP, 'Out of The Way', was released on K Records.

8:30pm PDT

Alda

Pantheist Black Metal

Friday May 25, 2012 8:30pm - 9:05pm PDT
Vera Project/Gallery 47.62309, -122.35359

Music Performance, Underground Cascadian Folk: Sponsored by Hex Magazine

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Biography Alda is the musical and ideological coalescence of a group of friends who met and began making music with and amidst each other in the town of Eatonville during the early 2000's. We officially christened our project with the name Alda in the Fall of 2007 after having relocated to the city of Tacoma. Our sound is inspired by a variety of folk music traditions and Black Metal.

9:25pm PDT

Lasher Keen

Medieval Psychedelic Folk

Friday May 25, 2012 9:25pm - 10:00pm PDT
Vera Project/Gallery 47.62309, -122.35359

Music Performance, Underground Cascadian Folk: Sponsored by Hex Magazine

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Biography The fantastical LASHER KEEN, a trio from Nevada City are mashing out their own sounds. Trad folk at its most dark, heathen intensity. Lasher Keen is the combined passions of those based on creating and reinventing myth into music. The tongues they sing in but tempt you to join in Yggdrasil rituals, masked rites, horned beasts, Fire Trolls, and massive kisses. At times the songs become tales, accentuated by the bellowing of horn and the hauntingly nostalgic chime of the Glockenspiel, their roots are deep and strong.

11:40am PDT

Stephany Hazelrigg

Magic

Saturday May 26, 2012 11:40am - 12:00pm PDT
Vera Project/Gallery 47.62309, -122.35359

Music Performance, Ladies First Showcase: Sponsored by Seattle Gay News

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Biography Stephany Koch Hazelrigg is an engaging and empowering creative director, facilitator, cultural worker, and social artist living deeply & directly from her belief in the power of art to create space, healing, and change. Stephany’s disciplines and mediums are as multiple and mixed as her identities. She lives the poetry of her existence out loud; outside genres, disciplines, and binaries. Out of great necessity and with deep humility and gratitude, Stephany has been making poems, prayers, paintings, plays, drawings, dances, journals, stories, songs, beats, movement, rituals, and ceremonies along shorelines and mountaintops all throughout her lifetimes. From engaging and revitalizing keynote speeches and spoken word performances, to imaginative, intentional, and inspiring workshops, Stephany knits her inherent artistry for living and learning into all she creates. She is grateful to be here. In 2005 Stephany dreamed up, directed and co-produced an award-winning interdisciplinary empowerment project The Naked Truth On Stereotypes that artfully weaves popular education, social movement theory, experiential learning, storytelling, and radical praxis for transforming self and community. Stephany currently lives in South Seattle, WA where she inspires and incites creative and collective vision-into-action in her work with Social HeARTistry Educators the grassroots collective of art-for-justice facilitators and creators that sprung from the social justice theater praxis project The Naked Truth On Stereotypes. Stephany is an independently contracted artist, facilitator, consultant, educator, organizer and keynote presenter who works, plays, performs and creates with multiple community organizations and schools in the Pacific Northwest including; The Service Board, Arts Corps, Seattle Public Schools, The Nova Project, Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Ladies First Collective, Voices Rising, WAPI, Solid Ground, YMCA, and Seattle Young People’s Project. Stephany Koch Hazelrigg is an engaging and empowering creative director, facilitator, cultural worker, and social artist living deeply & directly from her belief in the power of art to create space, healing, and change. Stephany’s disciplines and mediums are as multiple and mixed as her identities. She lives the poetry of her existence out loud; outside genres, disciplines, and binaries. Out of great necessity and with deep humility and gratitude, Stephany has been making poems, prayers, paintings, plays, drawings, dances, journals, stories, songs, beats, movement, rituals, and ceremonies along shorelines and mountaintops all throughout her lifetimes. From engaging and revitalizing keynote speeches and spoken word performances, to imaginative, intentional, and inspiring workshops, Stephany knits her inherent artistry for living and learning into all she creates. She is grateful to be here. In 2005 Stephany dreamed up, directed and co-produced an award-winning interdisciplinary empowerment project The Naked Truth On Stereotypes that artfully weaves popular education, social movement theory, experiential learning, storytelling, and radical praxis for transforming self and community. Stephany currently lives in South Seattle, WA where she inspires and incites creative and collective vision-into-action in her work with Social HeARTistry Educators the grassroots collective of art-for-justice facilitators and creators that sprung from the social justice theater praxis project The Naked Truth On Stereotypes. Stephany is an independently contracted artist, facilitator, consultant, educator, organizer and keynote presenter who works, plays, performs and creates with multiple community organizations and schools in the Pacific Northwest including; The Service Board, Arts Corps, Seattle Public Schools, The Nova Project, Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Ladies First Collective, Voices Rising, WAPI, Solid Ground, YMCA, and Seattle Young People’s Project. Stephany Koch Hazelrigg is an engaging and empowering creative director, facilitator, cultural worker, and social artist living deeply & directly from her belief in the power of art to create space, healing, and change. Stephany’s disciplines and mediums are as multiple and mixed as her identities. She lives the poetry of her existence out loud; outside genres, disciplines, and binaries. Out of great necessity and with deep humility and gratitude, Stephany has been making poems, prayers, paintings, plays, drawings, dances, journals, stories, songs, beats, movement, rituals, and ceremonies along shorelines and mountaintops all throughout her lifetimes. From engaging and revitalizing keynote speeches and spoken word performances, to imaginative, intentional, and inspiring workshops, Stephany knits her inherent artistry for living and learning into all she creates. She is grateful to be here. In 2005 Stephany dreamed up, directed and co-produced an award-winning interdisciplinary empowerment project The Naked Truth On Stereotypes that artfully weaves popular education, social movement theory, experiential learning, storytelling, and radical praxis for transforming self and community. Stephany currently lives in South Seattle, WA where she inspires and incites creative and collective vision-into-action in her work with Social HeARTistry Educators the grassroots collective of art-for-justice facilitators and creators that sprung from the social justice theater praxis project The Naked Truth On Stereotypes. Stephany is an independently contracted artist, facilitator, consultant, educator, organizer and keynote presenter who works, plays, performs and creates with multiple community organizations and schools in the Pacific Northwest including; The Service Board, Arts Corps, Seattle Public Schools, The Nova Project, Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Ladies First Collective, Voices Rising, WAPI, Solid Ground, YMCA, and Seattle Young People’s Project.

11:50am PDT

Reggie Garrett & the Snake Oil Peddlers

Urban Acoustic Folk-Soul

Saturday May 26, 2012 11:50am - 12:25pm PDT
Fountain Lawn Stage 47.62314, -122.35246

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Biography Reggie Garrett & the SnakeOil Peddlers are a mostly acoustic ensemble who perform an eclectic mix of music incorporating folk, blues, latin rhythms, gospel, jazz (and just about anything else you can think of). It has been dubbed “urban acoustic folk-soul” by the national music magazine Dirty Linen. The group has wowed audiences across the U.S. and Canada.

1:30pm PDT

Lara Davis

Ladies First

Saturday May 26, 2012 1:30pm - 1:50pm PDT
Vera Project/Gallery 47.62309, -122.35359

Music Performance, Ladies First Showcase: Sponsored by Seattle Gay News

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Biography Lara Davis a Seattle-based musician, singer, and audio documenter. She is currently collaborating with Sam Wilder, an accomplished bass player, and Janet Trares, drummer extraordinaire.

2:40pm PDT

scobot

Live VJ performance

Saturday May 26, 2012 2:40pm - 4:00pm PDT
EMP Sky Church 47.62126, -122.34799

Music Performance, Next 50: VJ and Chiptune

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Biography Professional VJ performing in and around Seattle for past 7 years.

2:50pm PDT

The Softies

K records recording artists

Saturday May 26, 2012 2:50pm - 3:20pm PDT
Center House Theatre: Sponsored by KUOW 47.62170, -122.35049

Music Performance, Our Indoor Campsite: K

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Biography The Softies recorded 3 albums for K records between 1995 and 2000. After an 11 year break we have come together again.

3:25pm PDT

Kids Get Hit by Buses

Hybrid Chiptune Electronica

Saturday May 26, 2012 3:25pm - 4:00pm PDT
EMP Sky Church 47.62126, -122.34799

Music Performance, Next 50: VJ and Chiptune

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Biography Kids Get Hit by Buses (KGHB) is one of four groups selected by Gabe Hayward per request of Celene Ramadan in collaboration with Folklife coordinators Kelli Faryar, Jacob Stone, and Paige Ervin, for the proposed "Chiptune Showcase" in the EMP SkyChurch May 26 from 1pm-4pm. KGHB was a semi-finalist in the EMP Sound Off 2009, performed at Folklife the same year, and helped coordinate the Folklife Chiptune Showcase in the Skychurch in 2010. KGHB has been performing live in venues all over the Pacific Northwest for over 7 years now, and always put on a wild show to get the crowd dancing. They use a hybrid of electronic instruments, live vocals, and retro video game consoles to create a truly unique experience complete with costuming and stage antics!

5:00pm PDT

Open Jam

Saturday May 26, 2012 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Boeing Green 47.62366, -122.35081

Music-Dance Workshop Application, Open Jam

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6:45pm PDT

Kissing Potion

SEA's 1st Ladies of Funk &Soul

Saturday May 26, 2012 6:45pm - 7:15pm PDT
Mural Amphitheatre 47.62057, -122.35049

Music Performance, The Soul of Seattle: Sponsored by TheSunBreak.com

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Biography Echoing the battle cry of Funk Diva Sharon Jones, "You've Got to FEEL it", Kissing Potion brings funk & soul to life, with a full horn section that brings new meaning to the phrase "FUNK YOU!", and a rhythm section whose groove will move you from your soul down to your toes! Kissing Potion has been a long time in the making. The original concept was a ten member strong, all-female funk group, but... then we met a few folks of the male-persuasion and couldn't resist asking them to join our lady-laden lair of FUNK. Dirty, gritty, smooth, pretty....as long as it's funky!

7:05pm PDT

The Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit Show

Spoken Word Blues

Saturday May 26, 2012 7:05pm - 7:30pm PDT
Bagley Wright Theatre: Sponsored by Seattle Channel 47.62342, -122.35358

Music Performance, Labor Program

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Biography Poet and storyteller Chris Chandler is as hilarious and entertaining as he is provocative and rabble-rousing, delivering vignettes about politics and modern culture with the fire of a Baptist Preacher. His appearances are insightful tales of a world gone slightly mad, accompanied by a wide variety of musical styles. He has performed on thousands of stages across North America, working with such legendary figures as Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Mojo Nixon and Ani DiFranco. The late great Utah Phillips called Chris "the best performance poet I have ever seen."

1:00pm PDT

FRET Aid: Town Hall Meeting

With Teresa Taylor

Sunday May 27, 2012 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
EMP Learning Labs 47.62126, -122.34799

Music-Dance Workshop Application, (if applicable)

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Biography As this is a non-profit town meeting, a bio doesn't really apply. I can say, however, that our proposed constituent geography be within the Puget Sound area. Our group was formed following the death of Seattle Folk Musician Teresa Morgan last year. We desire that her loss our group inspires us to create a needed service offering hope and assitence to our community Folk Musicians.

3:00pm PDT

The Castaways

We Play Uke Music

Sunday May 27, 2012 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Center House Theatre: Sponsored by KUOW 47.62170, -122.35049

Music Performance, Ukenalia Showcase

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Biography We play ukulele music, it's not what you think.

4:30pm PDT

Professor Gall

Junkyard Folk and Jazz

Sunday May 27, 2012 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Acoustic Stage (Shaw Room) 47.62296, -122.35508

Music Performance, (if applicable)

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Biography 'A Tincture of Junkyard Folk and Steampunk Jazz'. Professor Gall seeks to uncover the contradictions of an ambiguous and native-less society, 'dreaming the existentialists' dream', while at the same time pleading for individualism, peace, and more fun at funerals. The Portland, Oregon conglomerate starts with Drew Norman on vocals, guitar, percussion stomp box and banjo, who brings his theatrical experience to the musical stage and is responsible for the initial musical and lyrical embellishments. Drew’s recent side roles include the ‘Husband’ in the stage and movie version of Sally Tomato’s TOY ROOM(Severe Enterprises), a rock opera that won accolades from The Heart of England Film Festival, among others. He is also commissioned by other musical luminaries on stage and in the studio from Chris Robley’s Fear of Heights Orchestra (Cutthroat Pop Records) to Jeff Hanson (Kill Rock Stars Records). Scott Johnston heads up the first chair position for the horn section, arranging charts and providing his saxophone alchemy. Rounding out the ensemble is Monte Skillings on trombone, Todd Burba on clarinet and accordion, Sean Hudson on stand-up bass, Jake Pegg on tuba, and Andrew Clarinet on the.…ahem…clarinet. Critical acclaim for their first full length CD ‘Intravenous Delusion’ has enabled Professor Gall to become a regional favorite, sharing the stage with semi-national/national acts like The Devil Makes Three, Eric McFadden Trio, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Billy Nayer Show, Vagabond Opera, the Dandy Warhols and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at venues throughout the West Coast as well as festivals and conventions like the Folklife Festival (Seattle,WA), Gearcon (Portland,OR), Teslacon (Madison,WI) and Steamcon( Bellevue, WA). The band released in March of 2010 their sophomore release entitled ‘The Psychology of Booze and Guilt’ to rave reviews. Professor Gall was recently featured by Seattle’s City Arts Magazine as the Portland, Oregon representative of the National Steampunk Movement, along with the Dresden Dolls (Boston), Abney Park (Seattle) and Unwoman(San Francisco).

4:45pm PDT

Us on Roofs

Ethereal upbeat adventure rock

Sunday May 27, 2012 4:45pm - 5:15pm PDT
EMP Sky Church 47.62126, -122.34799

Music Performance, (if applicable)

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Biography From the seaside town of Gig Harbor, WA, Us on Roofs was formed by three friends with a mutual love for the Pacific Northwest, mid-twentieth century science fiction, and local music. Since forming in 2009, Us on Roofs has worked hard and accomplished a great deal. Their achievements include: participating as a semi-finalist in EMP Sound Off 2010, releasing a seven song EP, releasing a single on Burning Building Recordings’ 2011 compilation, adding a fourth member, releasing another 5 track EP, touring down the west coast, and all the while building a stronger local following. They continue to promote their newest EP as they gear up for a full-length release in 2012.

5:00pm PDT

Open Jam

Sunday May 27, 2012 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Boeing Green 47.62366, -122.35081

Music-Dance Workshop Application, Open Jam

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7:00pm PDT

The Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit Show

Spoken Word Blues

Sunday May 27, 2012 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Intiman Choral Courtyard 47.62372, -122.35242

Music Performance, Voices of Occupy hosted by David Rovics

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Biography Poet and storyteller Chris Chandler is as hilarious and entertaining as he is provocative and rabble-rousing, delivering vignettes about politics and modern culture with the fire of a Baptist Preacher. His appearances are insightful tales of a world gone slightly mad, accompanied by a wide variety of musical styles. He has performed on thousands of stages across North America, working with such legendary figures as Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Mojo Nixon and Ani DiFranco. The late great Utah Phillips called Chris "the best performance poet I have ever seen."

4:30pm PDT

The Skablins

Ska Band

Monday May 28, 2012 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Mural Amphitheatre 47.62057, -122.35049

Music Performance, Ska Beat

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Biography Up tempo, Upbeat, danceable original music Ska band. Together for 5 years, ready to make everyone happy.

5:00pm PDT

DJ Court

reggae roots

Monday May 28, 2012 5:00pm - 5:45pm PDT
Mural Amphitheatre 47.62057, -122.35049

Music Performance, (if applicable)

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5:00pm PDT

Open Jam

Monday May 28, 2012 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Boeing Green 47.62366, -122.35081

Music-Dance Workshop Application, Open Jam

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