The 36th Annual Anchorage Folk Festival! featuring Guest Artists AJ Lee and Blue Summit and Corey Ledet Zydeco!
The full festival schedule will be posted here shortly. In the meantime, please consult the following pages for schedules of Main Stage and Folk Week performance sets at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium and at venues around Anchorage as well as Workshops held at the Wendy. All events listed here are free and open to the public!
Schedule Of Events
Main Stage
Thunderbird Ukulele 7:00 pm
This ukulele ensemble from Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School performs orchestral arrangements of pop songs we all know and love. They perform throughout the school year at different festivals and events and are looking forward to returning to Hawaii again in March this year to tour the island of Oahu. In Hawaii they will be performing and working with schools there to share their special brand of ukulele music. All the performers in Thunderbird Ukulele are students from East High, and they are directed by their teacher Kiel Schweizer. The group has seven kinds of ukuleles along with a drummer, and one of the students even mixes the sound levels during the show.
Chris Thompson and Friends 7:15 pm
Artfully presented, melodically and lyrically, our music probes themes of love and lost love. Current social issues that bring tears to our eyes as we sing them. All in all, our fine group of musical professionals will tickle your ears artfully. Chris Thompson – vocals and guitar; Rolfe Buzzell – harmonica and banjo; Harrison Jennings – mandolin and fiddle; Rebecca Bingham – vocals; Bruno Zino – percussion
Wings to Fly 7:30 pm
High-flying harmonies. Shonti Elder – fiddle; Elsa Aegerter – guitar; Karl Wilhelmi – mandolin
Spit City Slickers 7:45 pm
Old-time country music from way down south in Homer. Willy Dunne – bass; Colin McGovern – guitar; Kate Meyer – banjo; Scott Meyer – fiddle
Stephen Hendricks 8:00 pm
Stephen plays music, sometimes with abandon and other times with clear focus, but always with higher purpose of making notes sing and tell tales of life’s songs, sadness, and joy.
Adam Stewart 8:15 pm
Adam Stewart is a multi-instrumental performer (fiddle, guitar, bass, cello, mandolin, drums, didgeridoo), vocalist, and music-educator in Anchorage. Adam creates a full-band sound by looping his fiddle and performs multiple styles of music spanning from Bluegrass, Blues, and Bach to Reggae and Rock. Adam Stewart – fiddle and vocals
Bluestockings 8:30 pm
Good friends offering a musical feast of favorites. Marianne See, guitar; Shonti Elder – fiddle; Suzanne Little – bass; Karl Wilhelmi – mandolin
LuLu Small 8:45 pm
LuLu has been known as Alaska’s first lady of entertainment for over 46 years. Her original music can be heard on local radio stations in the valley and live performances. She is also a popular featured performer yearly at the state fair.
Corey Ledet Zydeco 9:00 pm
Bill Wilson, writing for Reflections in Blue, says "Corey Ledet merges pop, funk, RandB, gospel, reggae, and zydeco for a sound that is totally today, aimed at a younger generation, upbeat, completely danceable and yet, somehow tied to his roots in such a way that the blues related aspects are not completely lost on the shuffle…." Come dance to the rich-in-traditions musical experience of this twice-Grammy-nominated artist to end the first night of Week 2 of the festival at the Wendy!
Click Here To Folk Week performance
Click Here To Workshops
