2012 Northwest Folklife Festival: Full Schedule

1:30pm PDT

Katie and The Lichen

Pop-verisimilitudes/sister/pop

Saturday May 26, 2012 1:30pm - 2:00pm PDT
Center House Theatre: Sponsored by KUOW 47.62170, -122.35049

Music Performance, Our Indoor Campsite: K

Genre CFMI -- Contemporary Folk Music - Indie
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Biography A 5 piece pop-verisimilitudes/sister/pop-verite, all female band. Playing ukes, and melodicas, guitars and drums, and more, they focus on the anti-pop-anti-folk aspects of the lo-fi music universe, this includes crunching class divisions and endorsing and eating feminism. They are unladylike. They are encouragable, endearing and effing adorable. katieandthelichen.bandcamp.com

2:10pm PDT

Kendl Winter

Contemporary Folk

Saturday May 26, 2012 2:10pm - 2:40pm PDT
Center House Theatre: Sponsored by KUOW 47.62170, -122.35049

Music Performance, Our Indoor Campsite: K

Genre CFMA -- Contemporary Folk Music - Americana
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Biography Kendl Winter is a dreamer of dark clouds, has a drawer stuffed full of stolen socks, and picks banjo and guitar like a hillbilly in the Ozarks. Born in Arkansas and based in Olympia, Washington, Kendl performs as a solo artist with a loop pedal, guitars, banjos. She twists those instruments into captivating melodies, crossing into the realm of country music. Kendl writes and plays with various touring bands from the Pacific Northwest, including the Blackberry Bushes, the Pasties, Southern Skies and It’s All Gotta Go.

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

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

3:30pm PDT

The Hive Dwellers

Contemporary Music

Saturday May 26, 2012 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
Center House Theatre: Sponsored by KUOW 47.62170, -122.35049

Music Performance, Our Indoor Campsite: K

Genre CFM -- Contemporary Folk Music
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Biography Artists HIVE DWELLERS, THE Biography Photos Tour Press A biographical sketch: The streets of Olympia ring with that boot heels-on-cobblestone sound as the Hive Dwellers traverse the township east to west on way to their next musical adventure. Spawned in the late double-O decade by Calvin Johnson at the Dub Narcotic Studio, the Hive Dwellers is a band, a combo (as in combination) of disparate individuals who share a common love of rock’n’roll, library cards and railroad travel. The assorted cacophony of membership slides around, and currently includes Gabriel Will and Evan Hashi. Past members have included K.E. Sixx (The Vibrarians), Brian Weber (Dub Narcotic Sound System), Faustine Hudson (The Curious Mystery), Spencer Kelley (Wallpaper, Basemint), Karl Blau, Brett Lyman, Fred Thomas (City Center, Saturday Looks Good to Me), and Michelle Mae. When they emerge from the froth and frumble of their active bicycle-powered lives to make music, the Hive Dwellers emit a pelt of bright, shiny (NOW) with a love of pop music underground and it’s more vacuous mainstream distant cousins. Dance. Smile when you say that. Raw freedom dance. In 2009, the Hive Dwellers launched an expansive Pan-American tour seeing for themselves how it is to be a slave to the rhythm hive active; 2010 saw the release of “Get In” (KLP223). As the future unfolds into the conscious mind and continues to fade gently into the past, the Hive Dwellers are present tense, bearing witness to the maraca wilderness of the modern Basement State.