The 43d Annual Folk Festival

General Information

The 43rd Annual Folk Festival
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See What it Was All About!

The 43rd Annual Ashland Folk Festival will be hosted at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. Most performances will be held in the Alvord Theatre in the Ponzio Campus Center at Northland (see campus map for detailed location), unless otherwise noted.

Tickets will be sold at the door on the day of the performance. A three day pass will be $15, one day pass $8, and all Northland Students and Alumni enter FREE.

Folk Fest T-Shirts will be sold at each event. There will be two designs of the shirt. Prices are unknown at this time.

For questions regarding The 43d Annual Ashland Folk Festival, please contact the NCSA Special Events Coordinator at NCSA@northland.edu. You may also submit your comments on the Contact page located above in the navigation bar.

Print off your own Offical Folk Fest Poster here!

Schedule of Events

This is the schedule of events for the 43d Annual Ashland Folk Festival. Continue looking on this page for new informaiton regarding this year’s Folk Fest. Click on artists’ links to find out more information and to hear sample music. If you have any questions or comments, please contact the Special Events Coordinator on the Contact page in the upper navigation bar.

Thursday April 8th

• 12 – 1 pm – Workshop with Pop Wagner and Tom Draughon
  • Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop
    
• Performances:
  • 6:30 pm – Amanda Geary
    
  • 7:15 pm - Pop Wagner
  • 8:10 pm – Tom Draughon
  • 8:55 pm – Paul Sveum
  • 9:40 pm – Red Fish Blue Fish
  • 10:30 pm -  The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank

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Friday April 9th

• 12 – 1 pm – Workshop with Dana and Susan Robinson
  • “Attaining the Groove” – Old Time Fiddle and Banjo Workshop
    
    • Guitars and Acoustic Bases Welcome
      
• 6-7:30 pm – Movie Showing
  
  • “A Mighty Wind”
    
• Performances:
  • 8 pm - Cooker John
  • 8:45 pm – Dana & Susan Robinson
  • 9:45 pm - Eddie Biebel and AJ Srubas
  •  10:55 pm - The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra

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Saturday April 10th

• 12 pm – Local Vendors
• 12 – 1 pm – Workshop with Gordon Thorne
  • Country Blues Fingersyle Guitar Workshop
    
• 3 – 5 pm – Open Mic
• 6 – 7 pm Story Telling with Tracy Chipman
  
• Performances:
  •  7 pm - Nathan Parent
  • 7:45 pm – Just Evan
    
  • 8:30 pm – Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes
  • 9:15 pm – Bingham and Thorne
    
  • 10:30 pm – Moosebeard