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2016 Performer List (alphabetical)

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2 Bit Jug Band – food, love and hilarity
 
A
Alma Brasileira – Brazilian choro
Angus Scot Pipe Band
Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots – mostly traditional Celtic
 
B
Baharat – Middle Eastern folkloric, Bollywood
Sapna Basy – Bollywood demo
Blue Ribbon Tea Company – roots tradition – originals and traditional
Brad Keeler Trio – vintage bluegrass
Bridges Home (Sandpoint, Id) – roots and originals
Broken Whistle – traditional Celtic band
Brown’s Mountain Boys – bluegrass, with flair
Dan Burt – riverboat songs and spirituals
 
C
Campbell River – mostly Celtic
Carter Junction – folk, Celtic and cowboy songs
Celtic Aires – Aires from Scotland and Ireland
Chasing Velvet – Keleren Milham – roots Americana
Cherry Sisters Revival (Moscow, ID) – country to traditional
Children of the Sun – participatory drumming circle
Chuck ‘n Gail (Kellogg, ID) – folk, cowboy, originals
Cimmaron Tribal Belly Dance – American Tribal belly dance
Coeur d’Alene Youth Marimba – African style marimba
Coeurimba (Coeur d’Alene, ID) – southern African style marimbas
Crab Creek Wranglers – folk, country, cowboy
Crawdad Run (Yakima, WA) – old-time and bluegrass
Cultures’ Dance Arts – Spanish influenced and Middle Eastern
Cursive Wires – original songs – Americana
 
D
Dave McRae & Michael Robinson – folkabilly
Dr. Bob – folk and gospel
Ron Doyen – mostly blues
PK Dwyer 
(Des Moines, WA) – cosmic American blues
 
E
East Indian Folk Dance with Sree Nandagopal
Jenny Edgren – songs for kids of all ages
Gary A. Edwards 
– original songs with a focus on Idaho
 
F
Family Dance with Susan Dankovich
Family Dance – easy line, circle and novelty dances
Floating Crowbar – traditional Irish music and song
Lucy D. Ford – original fairy tales
Free Whiskey – finely crafted Celtic folk rock
Dick Frost – magician
James Funke-Loubigniac 
– Celtic/Renaissance played on the hurdy gurdy
 
G
Gefilte Trout – klezmer and Eastern European music
Grant Elementary Drummers and Dancers – traditional African
 
H
Haran Irish Dance – Irish step dance
Kasia Haroldsen – Polish and original songs
Hillyard Belles – tap dance
Hubbardston Nonesuch – a cappella Renaissance
Zach Hval – original folk singer songwriter
 
I
International Folk Dance with Karen Wilson-Bell
Introduction to Western Swing for Guitar Players with Patrice Webb
 
J
Jackie Fox & the Hounds – country, folk, bluegrass
John Elwood and Robin Elwood (Garfield, WA) – mountain dulcimer ballads, squeezebox
 
K
Kaikahi O’ Hula – dance
Benjamin Kardos – originals and folk
Keleren & Michael Millham – folk fusion
Koyasuyo – music of the Andes
 
L
La Patience Band – soukous from Congo
Level Four – vintage music, blues and jazz
 
M
Dan Maher (Pullman, WA) – Celtic and Inland Folk
Mele Polinahe – Hawaiian roots music
Laddie Ray Melvin – singer songwriter
Merry Missives of Moscow (ID) – youth troupe dances, English country and Morris
Meshugga Daddies – Spokane’s newest Klezmer band
Bodhi Bill Miller – singer-songwriter
Truck Mills 
(Ponderay, ID) – original and traditional world music
"Lonesome" Lyle Morse 
– traditional and original blues
Moses Willey – bluegrass folk fusion
Mountain Dew Boys – bluegrass, gospel
Musha Marimba – joyful marimba music from Zimbabwe
 
N
Nah’Joom – American Tribal belly dance
Neema Choir – African gospel youth choir
New England Contra Dance
Nine-Pint Coggies – Scottish fiddle music
Northwest Hula Company – authentic, traditional Hawaiian and Polynesian dance
 
O
Carlton Oakes – solo guitarist
Otis Orchards Malleteers – mallet percussion group 4th-6th graders
 
P
Pages of Harmony – men’s 4-part a cappella harmony chorus
Plaid Cats – doo-wop, swing, country, blues
Planted by Hands – original and classic folk music
Tim Platt – acoustic finger style guitarist
Poor Boy’s Delight – bluegrass and Americana
Portatos – modern accordion band
Primitive Pines – bluegrass
 
R
Red Herring with Ray Polhemus
LaVona Reeves – old-time, laments from grandma’s kitchen
Bob Rice 
– folk rock and blues
Rising Tide – acoustic duo Gary Burris and Jonathan Nicholson
River City Ramblers with Nora Scott
Russian Gypsy Dance by Katya Tsokur
 
S
Sahara Tribe (Hermiston, OR) – American fusion belly dance
Salish School of Spokane – youth sing and drum Salish
Steve Schennum – songs never heard on the radio
Sesitshaya Marimba (Moscow, ID) – sounds of Zimbabwe
Shararat – Middle Eastern dance and Bollywood
Sharp/BrownHawk – Native American flute and song
Sidetrack – Dance Party – come dance
Silver Spurs Youth Folk Dancers – dances from around the world
Sondahl, Hawkins & Thomsen – old-time, bluegrass, blues
Thaddeus Spae (Seattle, WA) – vaudeville, folk, campfire, jazz
Spokane Area Square Dance – demo and audience participation
Spokane Argentine Tango – traditional to contemporary
Spokane Buddhist Temple Bon Odori Dancers – Japanese folk dance
Spokane Chinese Dance Group – traditional
Spokane Community Choir – songs from many cultures
Spokane English – English Country Dance with Mitchel Frey and the Prestwold Players
Spokane Scottish Country Dancers
Spokane Storytellers League – stories from around the world
Spokane Taiko – traditional Japanese drum, dance and martial arts
Spokane Highland Dancers
Stevens County Stompers (Colville, WA) – clogging
Allen Surdez – original folk, country and blues
 
T
Todd Milne & Moksha – contemporary world fusion
Traveler of Home – indie folk rock
Trillium-249 (Humphrey, Hartman & Cameron) (Tri-Cities, WA) – award-winning songwriting – tight harmonies
Tropical Breeze (Tommy Borges) – spirit of Aloha in song
 
U
Ukulele Workshop with Scott Hallett
UPOP - Ukulele Players of the Palouse – standards
 
W
Dick Warwick (Oakesdale, WA) – cowboy poetry
Patrice Webb 
(Sandpoint, ID) – award-winning originals
Western Reunion – old-time cowboy and western swing
The Willows – Peter, Paul and Mary tribute
Reilly Winant – Celtic soul folk rock
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