2016 Schedule of Performances & Events |
Notes: 1. A 15-minute break is provided between most acts.
2. The Fall Folk Festival schedule is subject to change. We will attempt to keep the schedule that appears on
this page up to date. However, last-minute changes will only be posted at the Festival.
2. The Fall Folk Festival schedule is subject to change. We will attempt to keep the schedule that appears on
this page up to date. However, last-minute changes will only be posted at the Festival.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2016
LAIR AUDITORIUM
11:00 – 1:00 KPBX FM 91.1 Live Radio Show – Audience Welcome
Brown’s Mountain Boys, Dr. Bob, Free Whiskey, Keleren & Michael Millham, Truck Mills, Reilly Winant
1:30 Coeur d’Alene Youth Marimbas – southern African-style
2:30 La Patience Band – Soukous (Congo) gospel
3:30 Free Whiskey – finely crafted Celtic rock
4:30 Coeurimba – marimba music from southern Africa
5:45 – 7:00 Haran Irish Dancers and Floating Crowbar – traditional and contemporary Irish step dance with
high-energy Irish music
SASQUATCH ROOM
11:00 – 11:30 Plaid Cats – Doo wop, blues, swing, country
11:45 – 12:15 Bridges Home – roots & originals
12:30 – 1:00 Western Reunion – cowboy songs and western swing
1:15 – 1:45 Dick Warwick – cowboy poetry
2:00 – 2:30 Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots – Celtic
2:45 – 3:15 Salish School of Spokane – youth sing and drum in Salish
3:30 – 4:00 2 Bit Jug Band – love, food and hilarity
4:15 – 4:45 “Lonesome” Lyle Morse – traditional and original blues
5:00 – 5:30 Trillium- 239 – complex melodies quirky lyrics
5:45 – 6:15 Gefilte Trout – klezmer, Eastern European folk music
6:30 – 7:00 Portatos Accordion Band – modern accordion
7:15 – 7:45 Hubbardston Nonesuch – Renaissance madrigals
CONFERENCE ROOM
1:30 – 2:00 Bob Rice – folk, rock, blues
2:15 – 2:45 LaVona Reeves – folklorist and singer
3:00 – 3:30 Dr. Bob – folk and gospel originals
3:45 – 4:15 Bodhi Bill Miller – singer songwriter acoustic guitar
MUSIC WORKSHOP
4:30 – 5:45 Western Swing for Guitar Players with Patrice Webb
THE UNDERGROUND (Hint: It's downstairs in the Lair.)
11:30 – Noon Kasia Haroldsen – Polish tunes and originals
12:15 – 12:45 Rising Tide – acoustic guitar duo
1:00 – 1:30 Patrice Webb – award winning originals
1:45 – 2:15 Chuck ‘n Gail – folk, cowboy, originals
2:30 – 3:00 Celtic Aires – vocal ensemble
3:15 – 3:45 Reilly Winant and friends – Celtic soul folk rock
4:00 – 4:30 James Funke-Loubigniac – music on the hurdy gurdy
4:45 – 5:15 Sharp/BrownHawk – Native American flute and song
5:30 – 6:00 Tropical Blend – spirit of Aloha
6:15 – 6:30 Traveler of Home – indie folk rock
6:45 – 7:15 Cursive Wires – original songs, Americana
BISTRO STAGE (Bluegrass)
11:30 – Noon Mountain Dew Boys – fine bluegrass
12:15 – 12:45 Poor Boy’s Delight – Americana and bluegrass
1:00 – 1:30 Jackie Fox & the Hounds – a “howling” goodtime
1:45 – 2:15 Sondahl, Hawkins & Thomsen – bluegrass, old-time
2:30 – 3:00 Brown’s Mountain Boys – bluegrass with a flair
3:15 – 3:45 Crawdad Run – bluegrass and old-time
4:00 – 4:30 Brad Keeler Trio – vintage bluegrass
4:45 – 5:15 Primitive Pines – bluegrass Appalachian styling
5:30 – 6:00 Moses Willey – bluegrass folk fusion
CAFETERIA STAGE
11:00 – 11:30 Stevens County Stompers – clogging
11:45 – 12:15 Spokane Argentine Tango – demo of various styles
12:30 – 1:15 East Indian Folk Dance with Sree Nandagopal
1:15 – 1:30 Bollywood Demo with Sapna Basy
1:45 – 2:15 Silver Spurs Youth Folk Dancers – multicultural dance
2:15 – 3:00 Family Dance – old fashioned barn dance
3:00 – 3:30 Russian Gypsy Dance with Katya Tsokur
3:30 – 4:15 International Folk Dance with Karen Wilson-Bell – easy folk
4:30 – 5:00 Nine-Pint Coggies – Scottish fiddle music
5:15 – 5:45 Pages of Harmony – men’s acapella harmony chorus
6:00 – 6:45 Sidetrack – dance party – come dance
6:45 – 7:15 set up & sound check
DANCE WORKSHOP
7:15 – 7:45 Introduction to Contra Dance with Nora Scott
7:45 – 8:45 Contra Dance with The River City Ramblers and Nora Scott
9:00 – 10:00 Contra Dance with Red Herring and Ray Polhemus
FAMILY STAGE (Building 5)
12:30 – 1:15 Jenny Edgren – songs for kids of all ages
1:30 – 2:45 Spokane Storytelling League – stories for young and young-at-heart
3:00 – 5:00 Dick Frost – magic show for all ages
SMALL GYM (Building 5)
11:30 – 12:30 Scottish Pipers, Highland and Country Dancers
12:45 – 1:15 Grant Elementary Drummers & Dancers – traditional African
1:30 – 2:00 Northwest Hula Company – traditional Hawaiian and Polynesian dances
2:15 – 2:45 Sahara Tribe – American fusion belly dance
3:00 – 3:30 Musha Marimba – marimba music from Zimbabwe
3:45 – 4:15 Otis Orchards Malleteers – youth mallet percussion group
4:30 – 5:00 Merry Missives of Moscow – youth Morris and English country dance
5:15 – 5:45 Nah‘Joom – American belly dance
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
LAIR AUDITORIUM
11:00 Meshugga Daddies – Spokane’s newest klezmer band
12:00 Broken Whistle – traditional Celtic band
1:00 Cultures’ Dance Arts – Spanish influence dances, Middle eastern
2:00 Sesitshaya Marimba – African sounds of Zimbabwe
3:00 Spokane Taiko – traditional
4:00 Alma Brasileira – Brazilian choro
SASQUATCH ROOM
11:00 - 11:30 Michael & Keleren Millham – fusion folk
11:45 - 12:15 Laddie Ray Melvin – singer songwriter/folksinger
12:30 - 1:00 John Elwood and Robin Elwood – mountain dulcimer, squeeze box, ballads
1:15 - 1:45 Dan Maher – host of Inland Folk
2:00 - 2:30 Level Four – blues and jazz
2:45 - 3:15 Spokane Community Choir – songs from many cultures
3:30 - 4:00 PK Dwyer – cosmic American blues
4:15 - 4:45 Todd Milne & Moksha – world fusion
CONFERENCE ROOM
11:00 - 11:30 Planted by Hands – American folk
11:45 - 12:15 Dan Burt – riverboat songs and spirituals
12:30 - 1:00 Carlton Oakes – solo guitar
1:15 - 1:45 Benjamon Kardos – singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist
2:00 - 2:30 Zach Hval – original compositions
2:45 - 3:15 Ron Doyen – mostly blues
MUSIC WORKSHOP
3:30 - 5:00 Introduction to Ukulele with Scott Hallett
THE UNDERGROUND (Hint: It's downstairs in the Lair.)
11:00 - 11:30 Truck Mills – world music
11:45 - 12:15 Alan Surdez – singer/songwriter
12:30 - 1:00 Koyasuyo – music from the Andes
1:15 - 1:45 Chasing Velvet – American roots
2:00 - 2:30 UPOP – Ukulele Players of the Palouse
2:45 - 3:15 Campbell River – mostly Celtic
3:30 - 4:00 Gary Edwards – original songs with a focus on Idaho
4:15 - 4:45 Tim Platt – fingerstyle guitar
BISTRO STAGE (Americana)
11:00 – 11:30 Dave McRae & Michael Robinson – folkabilly
11:45 – 12:15 Cherry Sisters Revival – silly string band
12:30 – 1:00 The Willows – tribute to Peter, Paul and Mary
1:15 – 1:45 Thaddeus Spae - campfire jazz, vaudeville folk
2:00 – 2:30 Blue Ribbon Tea Company – roots tradition
2:45 – 3:15 Carter Junction – folk, Celtic, cowboy
3:30 – 4:00 Steve Schennum – songs not heard on the radio
4:15 – 4:45 Crab Creek Wranglers – songs of the old West
CAFETERIA STAGE
11:00 – 11:30 Neema Choir – African youth choir
11:45 – 12:15 Mele Polinahe & Kiakahi O’Hula – music and dance of Hawaii
12:30 Spokane English – participatory country dance with the Prestwold Players and caller Mitchell Frey
1:30 Spokane Area Square Dancers with caller Doug Davis
2:30 – 3:00 Hillyard Belles and the Trainmen – roaring twenties tap dance
3:00 – 3:30 set up
DANCE WORKSHOP
3:30 – 3:45 Introduction to Contra Dance with Mitchell Frey
3:45 – 5:00 Contra Dance with Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots and caller Mitchell Frey
FAMILY STAGE - (Building 5 Classroom)
MUSIC WORKSHOP
11:00 – 12:15 Washtub Bass with Michael Gifford (suitable for teens and older)
FAMILY ACTIVITIES
12:30 – 1:45 Spokane Storytelling League – stories for young and young-at-heart
2:00 – 2:45 Lucy D. Ford – original fairy tales
3:00 – 5:00 Dick Frost – magic show for all ages
SMALL GYM (Building 5)
11:30 – Noon Baharat!! Dance Company – Middle East folkloric, Bollywood
12:15 – 12:30 Bollywood performed by Sapna Basy
12:45 – 1:30 Spokane Buddhist Temple Bon Odori – participatory Japanese folk dance
1:45 – 2:15 Spokane Chinese Dancers – traditional
2:30 – 3:00 Shararat – Middle Eastern and Bollywood dance
3:15 – 3:45 Cimmaron Tribal Belly Dance – American tribal style
3:45 – 5:00 Children of the Sun – participatory drum circle
LAIR AUDITORIUM
11:00 – 1:00 KPBX FM 91.1 Live Radio Show – Audience Welcome
Brown’s Mountain Boys, Dr. Bob, Free Whiskey, Keleren & Michael Millham, Truck Mills, Reilly Winant
1:30 Coeur d’Alene Youth Marimbas – southern African-style
2:30 La Patience Band – Soukous (Congo) gospel
3:30 Free Whiskey – finely crafted Celtic rock
4:30 Coeurimba – marimba music from southern Africa
5:45 – 7:00 Haran Irish Dancers and Floating Crowbar – traditional and contemporary Irish step dance with
high-energy Irish music
SASQUATCH ROOM
11:00 – 11:30 Plaid Cats – Doo wop, blues, swing, country
11:45 – 12:15 Bridges Home – roots & originals
12:30 – 1:00 Western Reunion – cowboy songs and western swing
1:15 – 1:45 Dick Warwick – cowboy poetry
2:00 – 2:30 Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots – Celtic
2:45 – 3:15 Salish School of Spokane – youth sing and drum in Salish
3:30 – 4:00 2 Bit Jug Band – love, food and hilarity
4:15 – 4:45 “Lonesome” Lyle Morse – traditional and original blues
5:00 – 5:30 Trillium- 239 – complex melodies quirky lyrics
5:45 – 6:15 Gefilte Trout – klezmer, Eastern European folk music
6:30 – 7:00 Portatos Accordion Band – modern accordion
7:15 – 7:45 Hubbardston Nonesuch – Renaissance madrigals
CONFERENCE ROOM
1:30 – 2:00 Bob Rice – folk, rock, blues
2:15 – 2:45 LaVona Reeves – folklorist and singer
3:00 – 3:30 Dr. Bob – folk and gospel originals
3:45 – 4:15 Bodhi Bill Miller – singer songwriter acoustic guitar
MUSIC WORKSHOP
4:30 – 5:45 Western Swing for Guitar Players with Patrice Webb
THE UNDERGROUND (Hint: It's downstairs in the Lair.)
11:30 – Noon Kasia Haroldsen – Polish tunes and originals
12:15 – 12:45 Rising Tide – acoustic guitar duo
1:00 – 1:30 Patrice Webb – award winning originals
1:45 – 2:15 Chuck ‘n Gail – folk, cowboy, originals
2:30 – 3:00 Celtic Aires – vocal ensemble
3:15 – 3:45 Reilly Winant and friends – Celtic soul folk rock
4:00 – 4:30 James Funke-Loubigniac – music on the hurdy gurdy
4:45 – 5:15 Sharp/BrownHawk – Native American flute and song
5:30 – 6:00 Tropical Blend – spirit of Aloha
6:15 – 6:30 Traveler of Home – indie folk rock
6:45 – 7:15 Cursive Wires – original songs, Americana
BISTRO STAGE (Bluegrass)
11:30 – Noon Mountain Dew Boys – fine bluegrass
12:15 – 12:45 Poor Boy’s Delight – Americana and bluegrass
1:00 – 1:30 Jackie Fox & the Hounds – a “howling” goodtime
1:45 – 2:15 Sondahl, Hawkins & Thomsen – bluegrass, old-time
2:30 – 3:00 Brown’s Mountain Boys – bluegrass with a flair
3:15 – 3:45 Crawdad Run – bluegrass and old-time
4:00 – 4:30 Brad Keeler Trio – vintage bluegrass
4:45 – 5:15 Primitive Pines – bluegrass Appalachian styling
5:30 – 6:00 Moses Willey – bluegrass folk fusion
CAFETERIA STAGE
11:00 – 11:30 Stevens County Stompers – clogging
11:45 – 12:15 Spokane Argentine Tango – demo of various styles
12:30 – 1:15 East Indian Folk Dance with Sree Nandagopal
1:15 – 1:30 Bollywood Demo with Sapna Basy
1:45 – 2:15 Silver Spurs Youth Folk Dancers – multicultural dance
2:15 – 3:00 Family Dance – old fashioned barn dance
3:00 – 3:30 Russian Gypsy Dance with Katya Tsokur
3:30 – 4:15 International Folk Dance with Karen Wilson-Bell – easy folk
4:30 – 5:00 Nine-Pint Coggies – Scottish fiddle music
5:15 – 5:45 Pages of Harmony – men’s acapella harmony chorus
6:00 – 6:45 Sidetrack – dance party – come dance
6:45 – 7:15 set up & sound check
DANCE WORKSHOP
7:15 – 7:45 Introduction to Contra Dance with Nora Scott
7:45 – 8:45 Contra Dance with The River City Ramblers and Nora Scott
9:00 – 10:00 Contra Dance with Red Herring and Ray Polhemus
FAMILY STAGE (Building 5)
12:30 – 1:15 Jenny Edgren – songs for kids of all ages
1:30 – 2:45 Spokane Storytelling League – stories for young and young-at-heart
3:00 – 5:00 Dick Frost – magic show for all ages
SMALL GYM (Building 5)
11:30 – 12:30 Scottish Pipers, Highland and Country Dancers
12:45 – 1:15 Grant Elementary Drummers & Dancers – traditional African
1:30 – 2:00 Northwest Hula Company – traditional Hawaiian and Polynesian dances
2:15 – 2:45 Sahara Tribe – American fusion belly dance
3:00 – 3:30 Musha Marimba – marimba music from Zimbabwe
3:45 – 4:15 Otis Orchards Malleteers – youth mallet percussion group
4:30 – 5:00 Merry Missives of Moscow – youth Morris and English country dance
5:15 – 5:45 Nah‘Joom – American belly dance
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
LAIR AUDITORIUM
11:00 Meshugga Daddies – Spokane’s newest klezmer band
12:00 Broken Whistle – traditional Celtic band
1:00 Cultures’ Dance Arts – Spanish influence dances, Middle eastern
2:00 Sesitshaya Marimba – African sounds of Zimbabwe
3:00 Spokane Taiko – traditional
4:00 Alma Brasileira – Brazilian choro
SASQUATCH ROOM
11:00 - 11:30 Michael & Keleren Millham – fusion folk
11:45 - 12:15 Laddie Ray Melvin – singer songwriter/folksinger
12:30 - 1:00 John Elwood and Robin Elwood – mountain dulcimer, squeeze box, ballads
1:15 - 1:45 Dan Maher – host of Inland Folk
2:00 - 2:30 Level Four – blues and jazz
2:45 - 3:15 Spokane Community Choir – songs from many cultures
3:30 - 4:00 PK Dwyer – cosmic American blues
4:15 - 4:45 Todd Milne & Moksha – world fusion
CONFERENCE ROOM
11:00 - 11:30 Planted by Hands – American folk
11:45 - 12:15 Dan Burt – riverboat songs and spirituals
12:30 - 1:00 Carlton Oakes – solo guitar
1:15 - 1:45 Benjamon Kardos – singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist
2:00 - 2:30 Zach Hval – original compositions
2:45 - 3:15 Ron Doyen – mostly blues
MUSIC WORKSHOP
3:30 - 5:00 Introduction to Ukulele with Scott Hallett
THE UNDERGROUND (Hint: It's downstairs in the Lair.)
11:00 - 11:30 Truck Mills – world music
11:45 - 12:15 Alan Surdez – singer/songwriter
12:30 - 1:00 Koyasuyo – music from the Andes
1:15 - 1:45 Chasing Velvet – American roots
2:00 - 2:30 UPOP – Ukulele Players of the Palouse
2:45 - 3:15 Campbell River – mostly Celtic
3:30 - 4:00 Gary Edwards – original songs with a focus on Idaho
4:15 - 4:45 Tim Platt – fingerstyle guitar
BISTRO STAGE (Americana)
11:00 – 11:30 Dave McRae & Michael Robinson – folkabilly
11:45 – 12:15 Cherry Sisters Revival – silly string band
12:30 – 1:00 The Willows – tribute to Peter, Paul and Mary
1:15 – 1:45 Thaddeus Spae - campfire jazz, vaudeville folk
2:00 – 2:30 Blue Ribbon Tea Company – roots tradition
2:45 – 3:15 Carter Junction – folk, Celtic, cowboy
3:30 – 4:00 Steve Schennum – songs not heard on the radio
4:15 – 4:45 Crab Creek Wranglers – songs of the old West
CAFETERIA STAGE
11:00 – 11:30 Neema Choir – African youth choir
11:45 – 12:15 Mele Polinahe & Kiakahi O’Hula – music and dance of Hawaii
12:30 Spokane English – participatory country dance with the Prestwold Players and caller Mitchell Frey
1:30 Spokane Area Square Dancers with caller Doug Davis
2:30 – 3:00 Hillyard Belles and the Trainmen – roaring twenties tap dance
3:00 – 3:30 set up
DANCE WORKSHOP
3:30 – 3:45 Introduction to Contra Dance with Mitchell Frey
3:45 – 5:00 Contra Dance with Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots and caller Mitchell Frey
FAMILY STAGE - (Building 5 Classroom)
MUSIC WORKSHOP
11:00 – 12:15 Washtub Bass with Michael Gifford (suitable for teens and older)
FAMILY ACTIVITIES
12:30 – 1:45 Spokane Storytelling League – stories for young and young-at-heart
2:00 – 2:45 Lucy D. Ford – original fairy tales
3:00 – 5:00 Dick Frost – magic show for all ages
SMALL GYM (Building 5)
11:30 – Noon Baharat!! Dance Company – Middle East folkloric, Bollywood
12:15 – 12:30 Bollywood performed by Sapna Basy
12:45 – 1:30 Spokane Buddhist Temple Bon Odori – participatory Japanese folk dance
1:45 – 2:15 Spokane Chinese Dancers – traditional
2:30 – 3:00 Shararat – Middle Eastern and Bollywood dance
3:15 – 3:45 Cimmaron Tribal Belly Dance – American tribal style
3:45 – 5:00 Children of the Sun – participatory drum circle
