2013 Seattle NW Folklife (Free) Festival Schedule

Posted on May 5, 2013 by admin

Seattle Center, May 24 – 27, 2013

This is the largest free festival of its type in the world and has been held for the past 43 years. “There ain’t nothing else like it in the whole damn country!” -Geoffrey Castle-

There are over 2 dozen stages with hundred of acts scheduled roughly 10-10, Friday through Monday of the Memorial Day weekend. In 2010, on Saturday, there were over 400,000 attendees.

Online Interactive NW Folklife Scheduler

several changes and corrections to the schedule in the past few days, and we’re continuing to update the schedule. Please continue to check back!

Friday, May 24

11:00am

Blue Flags & Black Grass Columbia River H.S. Fiddle Philharmonic Spruce Street School 5th Grade Ensemble Thornton Creek Elementary School Modern Western Square Dancing for Children ages 6-12 Friday Opening Contra

11:40am

11:45am

Brother Noland Kapka Cooperative School Pandemic Steel Band (Columbia River High School)

12:00pm

Capoeira Angola

12:20pm

12:30pm

David Guilbault Band Montlake Elementary School 2nd Grade Singers Maplewood Student Showcase

1:00pm

The Shed Players Bollywood Dance Party Folklife Open Jam

1:15pm

Angela School of Dance Vito and the One Eyed Jacks

1:40pm

Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners

2:00pm

Leikarringen of Leif Erickson Lodge #2-001 Eckstein Middle School Wind Ensemble Sightseer Fabulous French Country Dances Work Stories: Fact & Fiction from the Seattle Public Library

2:20pm

Elise and Evan Snoey

2:40pm

Janelle Bel Isle

2:45pm

Blue Ringer Klez Chaos

3:00pm

Douglas County Daughters Tai Shan The Fogtones VadyaVrinda Whispering Roses

3:30pm

Seattle Waldorf H.S. Jallamollawalla Rhythm Band Sweet Home Immigration and Work in Washington State: Historical Perspectives, Current Realities

3:40pm

Breakers Yard Chris Roe The Gloria Darlings

3:45pm

Aurora Burd High School Swing Dance

4:00pm

Gudochek + Juliana & PAVA Murphy and Middaugh Folklife Open Jam

4:15pm

Baile Glas Irish Dancers Kaze Daiko Weatherside Whiskey Band

4:20pm

Molly & Dan Tenenbaum The Conjugal Visitors The Reynolds Brothers

4:30pm

Karen Iglitzin, Ariana Nelson, and Roger Nelson

4:40pm

Rosalynn De Roos / Choroloco VOLYA

5:00pm

Sunshine from Polynesia The Terrible Lizards Seattle Song Circle Sing Along Seafaring Women – Stories from the Deck to the Engine Room to the Wheelhouse Friday Evening Contra

5:05pm

5:20pm

Newah Organization of America, Seattle (featuring Subhash Prajapati)

5:40pm

Skin Deep Dance The Pinetop Pickers

5:45pm

LoveBomb Go-Go Marching Band of Portland Oregon

5:50pm

Andre Feriante and The Bohemian Entourage Camp Wisdom Olo Kani

6:00pm

Carolan’s Corner Onefourfive Open Drum and Dance Seattle Pub Sing Fin Records Showcase: Sponsored by BECU

6:20pm

Anadolu Youth Dancers Keith Hill

6:30pm

5bit Grupo Medridional Sunshine & Irony 2013 Jack Straw Writers: Readings from the Latest Anthology Groove Train

6:40pm

Sean Connors and Jug of Punch

7:00pm

DuBorziLanza Bollywood Show: Sponsored by NW Asian Weekly Friday Night Gospel Celebration Korean Show Northwest Creative Music Spotlight Rogue Folk Tractor Tavern Urban Square Dance

7:10pm

The Holy Crows Trio Lucero Huasteco

7:20pm

7:40pm

Na Hilahila Boys

7:50pm

Enrique Wetzel and Laura Oviedo

8:00pm

Loch Dhu Friday Cajun Roadhouse

8:20pm

Hank Bradley and Cathie Whitesides

8:30pm

Nu Klezmer Army Randy Bowles

8:45pm

Carrigaline TangoFusion & Diamante Sexytet

9:30pm

Luciterra Fusion Belly Dance The Fire Inside

Saturday, May 25

11:00am

Gather Jamtown John Hayden Knappa Marimba Band Middlemarch Molly Bauckham Peter Ali Toothless Jake (Formerly Artis the Spoonman)Seattle Raging Grannies Beginning Hammer Dulcimer Romanian-=Croatian Fusion Dance Workshop History of Radicalism & Organizing in the Pacific Northwest Global Contra Hamilton Student Showcase Morris Showcase Colors and Cultures of India

11:30am

Journey Through Iran

11:40am

1928 Maggie Bennett North Sea Spanaway Bay The Castaways Maple Folk

11:45am

12:00pm

Pete: The Songs and Times of Pete Seeger Family Jam Parade Folklife Open Jam Irish Traditional Music Session (Jam)Telling Your Entertaining Work stories- Tell & polish that story about the time…Zydeco Dance Lessons

12:20pm

Kate Power & Steve Einhorn Percy Hilo & Friends Songtree Wes Weddell

12:25pm

The Jelly Rollers

12:30pm

Broken Arm Service with a Smile: Unite Here! and UFCW workers’ stories of hotels, restaurants, and retail

12:55pm

1:00pm

Bees in a Box Reilly and Maloney Steer Crazy Wu Ziying Bluegrass Jam Harmony Singing Learn to Play the Ukulele!Salmon Run Drum Story Sing-along with Paul “Mooselips” Dudley Hambo not Mambo English Country Dance World Dance Party Bluegrass: Hot Pickin’ & Harmonies: Sponsored by SunBreak Hey Hendrix: Life and Music of Jimi Hendrix: Sponsored by WA Blues Society Team Up For Nonprofits Presents: Sponsored by BECU

1:15pm

Autumn Electric

1:30pm

Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents: Original Music Inspired by the Wizard of Oz

1:40pm

Les Pamplemousses Paul Anastasio and Juan Barco Pran Real Folk

2:00pm

Levi Fuller and the Library All Ages Drumming Greenwood Family Sing Music Making in the Moment Ta Fare O Tamatoa Sleeping in Seattle: A Bed-Making Contest!Guerilla Morris Dance

2:15pm

Fire & Ice Irish Dance Company

2:20pm

Sabura and Emilie Lauren Blue Hollow Gary Lee Moore Little Jane & the Pistol Whips

2:45pm

3:00pm

Impossible Bird The Wiretappers Learn to Sing by Singing Stanley Greenthal X8 Interactive Drumming Community Jam Leela Kathak Scottish Country Dance A Turning-point in Village Life: the Hungarian Wedding Saturday Afternoon Contra The Storytellers’ Breath Arab Show Maritime Show

3:30pm

The Art Of Dueting ‘Shift Change’ Documentary: Dignified Jobs in a Democratic Workplace Sing Your Roots: Indie Songwriters: Sponsored by BECU

3:40pm

Carl Tosten Rooftop Doggies

4:00pm

The Hi-Liners Musical Theatre Hot Cider String Band Djembe Jam Kathy Vlach NW Cajun Jammers Tango Dance Hot Squares

4:15pm

Soyaya Spirit of Ojah

4:20pm

Fleet Street Klezmer Band Waterbound

4:30pm

Play the Didgeridoo!

4:40pm

Ancora Brian Oberlin – Solo Mandolin

5:00pm

Azanga Marimba Ensemble Los Flacos Elegant Round Singing Hand Drum Basics for Everyone – Congas, Ashikos and Djembes Richard Correll in Context: New Deal Labor Art in Washington State Emerald City Songwriters Circle

5:15pm

5:25pm

Seattle Mandolin Orchestra

5:30pm

DJ Nitty Gritty Slide Guitar Basics

5:40pm

Batucada Yemanja

5:50pm

6:00pm

Beer Garden Chantey Sing Open Drum & Dance Pete Seeger Sing-Along!Vintage Dance Balkan Misfits Party

6:10pm

Sampada Bhalerao

6:30pm

Betty and the Boy Fisher Poets on the Road: Words on Commercial Fishing The Acoustic Lounge The Soul of Seattle

6:55pm

Underground Swing

7:00pm

Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble Ball of Wax Show: Sponsored by BECU Labor Showcase Scandinavian Dance Subdued Stringband Jamboree

7:10pm

A Sudden Tradition The Whiskey Chasers

7:40pm

TusuyPeru Seirm

7:50pm

Barleywine Revue The Sweet Lowdown

8:00pm

Saturday Night Contra Dance

8:15pm

Kariatis Dancers

8:30pm

Science!Spoonshine Jack-A-Napes Comedy Show

8:50pm

Ana Montes and Flamenco Danzarte

9:30pm

Bailadores de Bronce

Sunday, May 26

11:00am

Chiroto Marimba Ensemble Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band Paul Kara Ross Prairie Dog Backfire Talia Toni Marcus & David Locke The Tarantellas Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals Sean-nós Dancing: Irish Dance for Everyone!Labor Video Contest Winners Mod Western Square Dance Dances of the Baltic Sea Guerilla Morris Dance Sunday Morning Contra Youthful at Heart: Family Stories Hawaiian Showcase Shape Note Singing Mini-Convention The Old Sod Session

11:35am

11:40am

Jessica Lynne & the Cousins SoLowLew TOUCHÉ Northwest Fiddle Traditions

11:50am

Northwest Junior Pipe Band Radio Raheem

12:00pm

Encouraging Girls and Women of All Ages to Pick Up an Instrument and Play!Introduction to Irish Fiddle Shaker Workshop with the ‘Shakerman’Explorations in Traditional Indonesian Dance Family Dance All Ages Alternative

12:15pm

12:20pm

Acoustic Couti Cowgirl’s Dream John Palmes

12:30pm

Washington Filmworks: Careers in Film

12:35pm

Blue Lotus Dance Company All Star Opera

12:45pm

Folk, Redefined: Sponsored by BECU

12:55pm

1:00pm

Karsangjamtso “Karjam” Saeji Port August Beginning Bones Playing Beginning Native American Flute Klez Jam Rags and Cakewalks [Music from a Century Ago]Folkvoice Band Contra Dance Country Swing Rockabilly Round-Up: Sponsored by KSER Voices of Vashon Island KBCS Showcase

1:15pm

Peruvian Passion Dance Group

1:20pm

1:35pm

Four Dollar Dog

1:40pm

Seattle Cape Fox Dancers The Billy Novas

2:00pm

Afro-Peruvian Cajón Rhythms Fingerpicking Guitar Round Singing Jam Puget Sound Rosies: Riveting History

2:10pm

Motley Feet Dirty Scientifix

2:15pm

Allison Preisinger

2:20pm

Dave and the Dalmatians Original Potbelly Boys

2:30pm

Balkan Party Dances

2:40pm

Tango Argentino

2:50pm

Fathers, Fiddles, and Sons

2:55pm

Trio Sin Embargo

3:00pm

Mighty Tiny Band Choral Classics Sing-along Klezmer 101 and Jewish Music X8 Interactive Drumming Community Jam Gaelic Crankie Show Guerilla Mod Western Square Dance International Folkdance Party!Bulgarian Show Louisiana Roadhouse 206 Zulu Showcase Ver(a)city Presents

3:10pm

The Timberbound Project

3:20pm

Alchemy Tap Project

3:30pm

Trio Fleur de Lys Indonesian Mask, Dance, and Puppet Workshop: The Monkeys, Kings, Ogres, Queens, and Princes of the Ramayana Bringing Power to the People, The Lineman Way

3:40pm

3:50pm

4:00pm

Bonnie Dundee The Whizpops!Move It & Groove It Old Time Jam Sea Chanteys for Landlubbers Couples Dance of the World: Hosted by Helene Eriksen and Dean Paton Liars’ Contest!Polka Party

4:05pm

Rogue Celtic Experiment

4:15pm

Southeast Seattle Orchestra

4:20pm

Accordions Anonymous

4:30pm

Baby Gramps Dance with Mollie and Bollywood Seattle Indie Strings: Sponsored by BECU

4:40pm

Anadolu Turkish Folk Dance Group Jim Page

4:45pm

5:00pm

Kin to Stars Songs of Tom Lehrer Sing Along YOUniversal Rhythms Follow the Electricity: Union workers electrify Washington State Emerald City Songwriter Circles hosted by Wes Weddell, Nancy K. Dillon, Tai Shan, Mark Iler, Carolyn Cruso, Steve Wacker

5:20pm

Ivan- da- Mar’ya The Smalltime String Band

5:30pm

SmokeWagon West Coast Swing

5:40pm

The Side Project

5:45pm

5:50pm

Mark Graham & WB Reid

6:00pm

Solidarity Notes Labour Choir Guitar Ensemble Open Drum and Dance Sunday Sunset Contra Northwest Stringband Throwdown: Sponsored by KSER

6:15pm

Giddy Up: Country Roots: Sponsored by BECU

6:20pm

The Vaudeville Gallows

6:30pm

Squirrel Butter Working for Labor: Education, Culture, and Politics

6:40pm

Seattle Cello Experiment

6:45pm

Vamos!: A Latin Dance Party

6:50pm

7:00pm

Phantom Folk Balkan Dance Hollow Earth Radio Showcase Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia Passages and Peninsulas of Southeast Asia: Sponsored by the University of Washington Southeast Asia Center and School of Music You Can’t Fake Fresh: NW Live-Band Hip Hop

7:10pm

7:20pm

La Pena Flamenca de Seattle

7:50pm

Dysfunction Junction

8:00pm

Ghost Stories Waltz Dance

8:10pm

8:30pm

Saloma de Panamá

8:50pm

Fields Under Clover

9:30pm

Piper Stock Hill

Monday, May 27

11:00am

Comerford School of Irish Dance Eclectic Cloggers with Moonshine and Turpentine Cathy Britell Memorial Day Flag Ceremony Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifters SUPA/ Seattle Ukulele Players Association The Capital City Syncopators Autoharps! See How Fun and Easy They Are!Flamenco Clapping: Palmas Comprehensive Immigration Reform: The Perspective from Labor and Immigrant Workers Family Dance Barbershop Classics Louisiana Centerhouse Monday Morning Contra Kindiependent Show!: Sponsored by ParentMap

11:30am

Highland Fling Arts of Asia: China, Tibet, Japan: Sponsored by Epoch Times

11:40am

Jacquelina’s Dances of Spain Celt Check!Margo Murphy and John Roberts Nan & Nina Sarungano

12:00pm

Community Jam Fiddle Jam Paul Anastasio’s Mexican Violin Country Waltz Lesson Subversive Square Dance

12:15pm

Ashé Drum and Dance Ensemble

12:20pm

Chale Jaise Hawaien, choreographed by Anitha Ramamoorthy, Performers: Diya, Ria, Viniya, Rishi, Vishwanth Sussefusse International Folk Dance Troupe Misty Mamas Pinniped The RooTsters Jaspar Lepak

12:30pm

American A Capella Vocal Harmony Making the American Dream Real for Everyone

1:00pm

Enzian Schuhplattler Everett Norwegian Male Chorus Klez Katz Didgeridoo for Beginners Humor And Working Work Stories Cuban Salsa with Rumba Northwest English Country Dance Pick a Piper!Forro Dance Wide Open Spaces: Sponsored by BECU

1:05pm

Yang Xu The MoodSwings Jazz Band

1:30pm

The Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1:35pm

1:40pm

Sayaw Dance Troupe Kilmany The Chance Brothers Band

2:00pm

Jazz Underground Choro Music: Brazil’s Oldest New Beat – Demonstration/Workshop Drumming as Creative Expression French Canadian Jam Folkloric Dances of the Middle East, North Africa, and Persia Working Weekends: Stories from the Clergy Irish Country Dance: Sponsored by Celtic Connection

2:15pm

Seattle Irish Dance Company Crow Valley

2:20pm

The Dusty Strings All Guitar Orchestra Flemming Behrend

2:30pm

Seattle Bach Choir Arts Corps Show

3:00pm

Jori Chisholm The Sacred Cow Harmogenizers Community Drum Circle Klapa Singing Workshop Fun with Argentine Tango Monday Afternoon Contra New Voices, New Storytellers Ska Beat Swing Dance K Records & Northern Showcase: Sponsored by BECU

3:30pm

It Takes a Woman (to do a man’s job): Women in the Trades American Standard Time Show: Sponsored by No Depression and BECU

3:35pm

The Radost Folk Ensemble

3:40pm

A Wee Bit Celtic

3:45pm

Hank Bradley, Candy Goldman, Bill Meyer

4:00pm

Community Drum Circle European Diatonic Button Bow Accordion Bharatanatyam- Classical Dance from India

4:20pm

4:25pm

4:30pm

Bluegrass Ryder’s The OK Chorale Mozart Requiem Sing Along with Seattle Peace Chorus

5:00pm

Susan Burke and Bill Boyd Jet City SoundSystem Bottleneck Slide Guitar YOUniversal Rhythms Thai Dance episode I “Ram wong”IWW Little Red Songbook – Inflaming the Fans of Discontent

5:05pm

Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann-Puget Sound Branch Kermet Apio

5:10pm

Starr McMullen and Friends The Madrigals

5:40pm

Seattle Folk Dance Club Magical Strings

5:45pm

5:50pm

Rosin in the Aire Zakuska

6:00pm

Kelli Frances Corrado Tingstad and Rumbel Monday Closing Contra Reggae Rising Party Salsa Dance Open Drum & Dance

6:20pm

Morning Star Korean Cultural Center Joy Mills Band The Montana Sham Rockers

6:25pm

Smoky Mokes Ragtime Ensemble

6:30pm

6:40pm

6:45pm

Daisy Delores & the Dead Orchids

6:55pm

3rd Shift Dance

7:00pm

Seattle Gets the Blues: Sponsored by WA Blues Society

7:20pm

Tarana Tom Colwell & The Southbound Odyssey

7:30pm

Zaphara’s Middle Eastern Dancers The Fabulous Downey Brothers

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