2012 Northwest Folklife Festival: Full Schedule

Tom Lewis

Songs & Humour of Sea & Shore

Saturday May 26, 2012 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Northwest Court Stage 47.62285, -122.35476

Genre MT -- Maritime
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Biography Full-time, professional, international touring performer of songs and stories; often (nut not exclusively) pertaining to the sea, ships and sailors.

The Great Sanger and Didele

Seamen of the Inland Empire

Saturday May 26, 2012 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Northwest Court Stage 47.62285, -122.35476

Genre MT -- Maritime
Biography For over 15 years, the "Tillesquat Two-oh" have been annoying audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest. Famed on both sides of Interstate 84, they represent the best of the worst of the finest of satiric maritime music. And they like Twinkies (tm).

Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat

Canadian Traditional, Shanties

Saturday May 26, 2012 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Northwest Court Stage 47.62285, -122.35476

Spanaway Bay

Songs From the Rocky Shores

Saturday May 26, 2012 4:30pm - 4:55pm PDT
Northwest Court Stage 47.62285, -122.35476

Genre MT -- Maritime
Biography Kent and Carol Mesford have been active members of the maritime music community for over 15 years. They have performed in various different groups, but their first love is the singing of traditional chanties and forebitters both in concert and aboard the schooner Adventuress.

Piper Stock Hill

Folk songs of Newfoundland

Saturday May 26, 2012 5:00pm - 5:25pm PDT
Northwest Court Stage 47.62285, -122.35476

Genre MT -- Maritime
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Biography Ron and Larry have played in many bands over the years, and Kelly is a relative newcomer to the stage. After a return visit to his birthplace of St. John's, Ron began organizing a band to spread the music of the Rock to the Pacific Northwest. Together they have been performing old, new and original folk songs of Newfoundland in the greater Seattle area beginning in early 2011.

Broadside and the Handsome Cabin Boys

Maritime Madness

Saturday May 26, 2012 5:30pm - 5:55pm PDT
Northwest Court Stage 47.62285, -122.35476

Genre MT -- Maritime
Biography With a hundred years of combined experience on stage, the talents of the Phinney Ridge Rum Runners, Spanaway Bay, and Pint & Dale haver converged to bring you maritime madness at it's finest. We'll provide the mayhem, you sing on the chorus!