2012 Northwest Folklife Festival: Full Schedule

Vradiazei

Beckoning Nightfall

Friday May 25, 2012 7:35pm - 8:10pm PDT
Vera Project/Gallery 47.62309, -122.35359

Genre MI -- Misc Instrumentals
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Biography The realization that the darkest days are yet to come inspired us to abandon the use of electricity in our music. We express the anguish of the past, the desperation of the present, and the uncertainty of the future without it. When the world is left in ruin our sound will echo in the empty streets.

Alda

Pantheist Black Metal

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

Genre ZZZ -- Uncategorized
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.

Lasher Keen

Medieval Psychedelic Folk

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

Genre ZZZ -- Uncategorized
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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.