Alma Brasiliera
Eugene Jablonsky, Liz Dreisbachon and Dan Gore
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Alma Brasileira is a group comprised of Dan Gore, Eugene Jablonsky and Liz Dreisbachon. Their playlist is made up of primarily Brazilian Choro music.
Contact Dan Gore at danielcgore@msncom. |
Hubbardston Nonesuch
Hubbardston Nonesuch
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Hubbardston Nonesuch performs madrigals, ancient Western European music. We sing without instruments, art songs, folksongs, sacred music, and tavern tunes of 500 years ago.
Contact David Liezen at [email protected]. |
Heidi Muller and Bob Webb
Heidi Muller and Bob Webb
Heidi Muller and Bob Webb play tunes from the Pacific Northwest to Appalachian Mountains. They cross the musical boundaries between original songs and traditional tunes, blending each other’s influences from the Pacific Northwest to the Appalachian Mountains. Their songs feature Heidi’s crystalline vocals backed by Appalachian dulcimers, guitars, mandolin, and electric cello. They have recorded four albums together and Heidi’s five previous solo CDs.
Described as “arguably Seattle’s most beloved folk singer/songwriter” in the 1990s by Heritage Music Review, Heidi performed in the Northwest folk scene for two decades. Her song “Good Road” was the theme song of the Inland Folk show heard on Northwest Public Radio for 30 years. Two of her songs were published in Rise Again, the sequel to the legendary songbook Rise Up Singing. She toured nationally, performing at venues from coffeehouses to the Kerrville Folk Festival before she moved back East, where she became a popular mountain dulcimer instructor and performer. Heidi headlined events like Kentucky Music Week, Dulcimer Chautauqua on the Wabash, Vermont Dulcimer Daze, and the Great American Dulcimer Convention. During the pandemic, she has taught for virtual festivals, including QuaranTune, North Georgia Foothills, and the Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering. Heidi has also published eight dulcimer songbooks and one of the original songs. Other artists have recorded her songs in compilation albums, and her original waltz, “Leaving the Methow,” was featured on the Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer, Volume Two recording.
In 2003, Heidi formed a duo with Bob Webb in Charleston, West Virginia. Bob is a multi-instrumentalist who has played cello and guitar since childhood and mandolin and mountain dulcimer for over 40 years. He performed with the bluegrass group Swamp Grass, based in New Orleans, on the last USO tour of Vietnam in December 1972. Bob has worked since the 1970s as an accompanist, from his nine years in the band Stark Raven to going on the road with WV artists Kate Long and Dave Haas. Stark Raven became the house band for NPR’s Mountain Stage live performance radio show, where he accompanied artists such as Odetta, Tom Paxton, Shawn Colvin, Bill Staines, Peggy Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie.
Upon leaving the band, Bob became a school music teacher in Charleston and directed children’s arts and science camps. He taught over 700 children and adults to make and play his design of cardboard box dulcimer. Bob once taught dulcimer to all of the students, teachers, and office staff of Hamlin Middle School in southern WV. Bob became a recording engineer and opened his studio in 2001, where he recorded dozens of projects for West Virginia musicians, oral history programs, and radio broadcasts. He engineered, produced, and co-produced public radio documentaries, including the award-winning In Their Own Country and Passing It On: The Rebirth of Old-Time Music in Pocahontas County, WV.
From 2005-2012, he and Heidi directed the Music Mentors after-school program that taught music to at-risk children in Charleston, and he taught in schools and after-schools in the southern coalfields. Besides producing CDs of their music, Heidi and Bob created original and traditional film music for the Legacy of the Land documentary produced in West Virginia that recently aired on PBS. Bob has also published instruction books for dulcimer, guitar, and mandolin and taught for festivals, including Kentucky Music Week, Ohio Valley Gathering, Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering, and the Wallowa Fiddle Tunes Camp.
Heidi and Bob now live in Joseph, OR, at the foot of the Wallowa Mountains. Since the start of the pandemic, they have livestreamed performances, provided music videos, and taught online. Bob’s Mountain View Recording Studio now records northeast Oregon musicians and offers a wide range of audio and video services. Heidi and Bob also host an annual adult music camp, Dulcimer Week, in the Wallowas, which will enter its tenth year in 2022. For more information, please visit www.heidimuller.com.
Described as “arguably Seattle’s most beloved folk singer/songwriter” in the 1990s by Heritage Music Review, Heidi performed in the Northwest folk scene for two decades. Her song “Good Road” was the theme song of the Inland Folk show heard on Northwest Public Radio for 30 years. Two of her songs were published in Rise Again, the sequel to the legendary songbook Rise Up Singing. She toured nationally, performing at venues from coffeehouses to the Kerrville Folk Festival before she moved back East, where she became a popular mountain dulcimer instructor and performer. Heidi headlined events like Kentucky Music Week, Dulcimer Chautauqua on the Wabash, Vermont Dulcimer Daze, and the Great American Dulcimer Convention. During the pandemic, she has taught for virtual festivals, including QuaranTune, North Georgia Foothills, and the Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering. Heidi has also published eight dulcimer songbooks and one of the original songs. Other artists have recorded her songs in compilation albums, and her original waltz, “Leaving the Methow,” was featured on the Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer, Volume Two recording.
In 2003, Heidi formed a duo with Bob Webb in Charleston, West Virginia. Bob is a multi-instrumentalist who has played cello and guitar since childhood and mandolin and mountain dulcimer for over 40 years. He performed with the bluegrass group Swamp Grass, based in New Orleans, on the last USO tour of Vietnam in December 1972. Bob has worked since the 1970s as an accompanist, from his nine years in the band Stark Raven to going on the road with WV artists Kate Long and Dave Haas. Stark Raven became the house band for NPR’s Mountain Stage live performance radio show, where he accompanied artists such as Odetta, Tom Paxton, Shawn Colvin, Bill Staines, Peggy Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie.
Upon leaving the band, Bob became a school music teacher in Charleston and directed children’s arts and science camps. He taught over 700 children and adults to make and play his design of cardboard box dulcimer. Bob once taught dulcimer to all of the students, teachers, and office staff of Hamlin Middle School in southern WV. Bob became a recording engineer and opened his studio in 2001, where he recorded dozens of projects for West Virginia musicians, oral history programs, and radio broadcasts. He engineered, produced, and co-produced public radio documentaries, including the award-winning In Their Own Country and Passing It On: The Rebirth of Old-Time Music in Pocahontas County, WV.
From 2005-2012, he and Heidi directed the Music Mentors after-school program that taught music to at-risk children in Charleston, and he taught in schools and after-schools in the southern coalfields. Besides producing CDs of their music, Heidi and Bob created original and traditional film music for the Legacy of the Land documentary produced in West Virginia that recently aired on PBS. Bob has also published instruction books for dulcimer, guitar, and mandolin and taught for festivals, including Kentucky Music Week, Ohio Valley Gathering, Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering, and the Wallowa Fiddle Tunes Camp.
Heidi and Bob now live in Joseph, OR, at the foot of the Wallowa Mountains. Since the start of the pandemic, they have livestreamed performances, provided music videos, and taught online. Bob’s Mountain View Recording Studio now records northeast Oregon musicians and offers a wide range of audio and video services. Heidi and Bob also host an annual adult music camp, Dulcimer Week, in the Wallowas, which will enter its tenth year in 2022. For more information, please visit www.heidimuller.com.
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Brad Sondahl
Brad Sondahl
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Brad Sondahl has been making music and pottery for over 50 years and has had his pottery studio and store in Spirit Lake, Idaho, since 1983. Beginning in the year 2000, he started coming to the Fall Folk Festival (at that time, it was still at Glover Elementary School). Jamming in the halls there led him to the Spokane bluegrass community, which he's associated with ever since, helping with sound and performing. Currently, he is president of the Inland Northwest Bluegrass Music Association. For many years, he had a sales booth at the Festival for his pottery. He got into digital photography and started taking photos of the Fall Folk Festival for his webpage sondahl.com, which led to becoming the Festival's chief photographer and running the Spokane Folklore Society webpage for many years. (You can view the old Fall Folk Festival photos on our Festival Photo Archive page.) Brad also programmed four hours per week of folk music for an NPR radio station in Minnesota.
In 1972, he started hopping freight trains, only three times in total, and has traveled thousands of miles. One of the trips took him from Minnesota to his first time in Spokane. Brad will interlace some of the stories from these adventures with songs about hopping freight trains when he performs in the underground at 4:45 on Saturday at the Fall Folk Festival. |
South Asia Cultural Association
South Asia Cultural Association
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South Asia Cultural Association's (SACA) mission is to promote and educate the citizenry of Spokane and the outlying areas about South Asia's rich heritage, traditions, and cultures, specifically the Indian sub-continent, thus bringing a diversity of cultures into the Spokane area. SACA has brought such diverse programs to Spokane for 30 years. They will present folksongs and folk dances from India at the Fall Folk Festival. They will request audience participation.
Contact Sreedharani Nandagopal at [email protected]. |
Spokane Dulcimer Guild
Spokane Dulcimer Guild
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Spokane Dulcimer Guild is comprised of amateur musicians who play and build the Mountain Dulcimer, Lap Dulcimer and Plucked Dulcimer. If you are familiar with the instrument, you will know that all three types are identical! We welcome any stringed instrument to our group, as the addition of hammered Dulcimer, guitar, bass or fiddle, mandolin, and banjo adds to the richness of all the tunes we play. Anyone is welcome to our jams! We usually get together twice a month on the first and third Fridays. At the Fall Folk Festival, come and experience the sweet music of the mountain dulcimer and hear a brief history of this folk instrument.
More information is available at spokanedulcimerguild.net. Contact Joanne Heinz at [email protected]. |
Trillium-239
Trillium-239
Trillium-239 has been described as the harmonic equivalent of peanut butter and jelly: distinctly different and perfectly complementary. Playing guitars, banjo, and cello, their original songs and intricate harmonies have been enticing audiences across the Northwest. Humphrey and Hartman, both performers in their own right, joined forces in the mid 90's. Cellist Michelle Cameron joined them in 2003. Solid vocals and tight harmonies remain the signature of their high-energy performances.
Playing primarily original material, Janet and Mary's writing styles are diverse; their lyrics are gloriously unique and wrapped in silky harmony. Adding Michelle Cameron to the group brings a dynamic range and a new focus on unique and complex arrangements.
The acoustic trio Trillium-239 brings award-winning performances to audiences in the Pacific Northwest. Complex melodic lines and quirky lyrics are highlighted with masterful arrangements on various instruments. Cello, guitars, and banjo provide thoughtful support for tight vocal harmonies, and first-rate T-239 songs are steady fare at concerts, festivals, and special events. Together, Trillium-239 mixes a scintillating musical cocktail that’s creating a buzz.
The name “Trillium-239” is the fusion of the lovely 3-petaled woodland flower and the atomic mass of a plutonium isotope. The latter is a nod to the Hanford nuclear site, home to the world’s first full-scale atomic reactor during WWII. The Hanford Site directly or indirectly drew the three members of Trillium-239 to Richland, Washington.
Sporting double-digit-sized shoes and soaring vocals, Trillium-239 has been dubbed their hometown’s divas. Their original writing and harmonic style reflect the influences of Bach, Shawn Colvin, and Mississippi John Hurt. Tight vocal arrangements have been called “Ear Candy.” High-energy performances are a Trio signature.
Contact Trillium-239 at (509) 531-2805 or [email protected]. Website: http://trillium239.com/
Playing primarily original material, Janet and Mary's writing styles are diverse; their lyrics are gloriously unique and wrapped in silky harmony. Adding Michelle Cameron to the group brings a dynamic range and a new focus on unique and complex arrangements.
The acoustic trio Trillium-239 brings award-winning performances to audiences in the Pacific Northwest. Complex melodic lines and quirky lyrics are highlighted with masterful arrangements on various instruments. Cello, guitars, and banjo provide thoughtful support for tight vocal harmonies, and first-rate T-239 songs are steady fare at concerts, festivals, and special events. Together, Trillium-239 mixes a scintillating musical cocktail that’s creating a buzz.
The name “Trillium-239” is the fusion of the lovely 3-petaled woodland flower and the atomic mass of a plutonium isotope. The latter is a nod to the Hanford nuclear site, home to the world’s first full-scale atomic reactor during WWII. The Hanford Site directly or indirectly drew the three members of Trillium-239 to Richland, Washington.
Sporting double-digit-sized shoes and soaring vocals, Trillium-239 has been dubbed their hometown’s divas. Their original writing and harmonic style reflect the influences of Bach, Shawn Colvin, and Mississippi John Hurt. Tight vocal arrangements have been called “Ear Candy.” High-energy performances are a Trio signature.
Contact Trillium-239 at (509) 531-2805 or [email protected]. Website: http://trillium239.com/
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