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The city of Bangor long has been recognized for the beauty of its central and historic waterway, the Penobscot River. Likewise, many in our community appreciate the rich cultural and artistic country we call America. All of this comes together as we welcome the 65th National Folk Festival. Read More
Welcome to the 65th National Folk Festival. This is the 26th time I’ve attended, and you’d think I would know a lot about it. But it is always full of surprises, and I flit about as happy as a Mississippi mockingbird in mating season. You… Read More
It’s 2 in the afternoon, but when Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown answers the phone at his Louisiana home, he sounds sleepy, interrupted, cranky. Was he expecting the call? Yes. Can he talk now? Yes. OK then: What’s it like playing for the National Folk Festival? For… Read More
Having grown up in Bangor, there are many aspects of the city I have come to love. The Kenduskeag Stream Race, Fourth of July celebration and Bangor State Fair are among the many events that make it such an extraordinary city. The National Folk Festival is yet another… Read More
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What do you say about a river that has been a part of your life for 51 years? As long as I can remember, the mighty Penobscot has been like a member of the family, calm and ingratiating at times, turbulent and foreboding at others. Read More
First presented in 1934, the National Folk Festival is the oldest multicultural arts celebration in the nation. This “movable feast” of American heritage has traveled to 27 communities around the country to celebrate traditional music, dance, storytelling, crafts and food. Now entering its 65th year, the festival is… Read More
For children, the National Folk Festival can provide “glimpses of the wider world, in a festive and fun atmosphere.” That’s according to Andrea Stark, organizer for the Children’s Area and executive director at the nearby Maine Discovery Museum. “It’s a view that Maine children often… Read More
The 65th National Folk Festival celebrates the rich traditional folk, ethnic and tribal cultures of the people of Maine and the United States. The nation’s earliest immigrants and settlers brought the music, arts and customs of their countries of origin with them to their new homeland, where they… Read More
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Saturday: noon Two Rivers, 6:30 p.m. Two Rivers; Sunday: 3:30 p.m. Railroad, 5 p.m. Two Rivers Warner Williams is a songster and guitarist from the Washington, D.C., suburb of Gaithersburg, Md., and one of the finest Piedmont-style blues players in the country. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
Friday: 9:30 p.m. Railroad; Saturday: 3 p.m. Railroad, 6:15 p.m. Heritage; Sunday: mariachi traditions 1 p.m. at Two Rivers with Nati Cano and members of Los Camperos Since leader Natividad Cano founded Los Camperos 42 years ago, the group has become one of the most… Read More
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Saturday: noon Penobscot, 9:15 p.m. Penobscot; Sunday: 1:15 p.m. Penobscot Sounds of Korea presents a rich array of Korea’s diverse, ritual-based dances and percussion. The group is part of the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association, a New York-based community organization that works to preserve, cultivate… Read More
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Maine boasts a rich cultural heritage reflected in its food, ranging from the savory buckwheat pancakes, or ployes, prepared in the St. John Valley to the delicate lobster stews served up at churches and Grange halls along the Maine coast. The Pine Tree State’s ethnic population also is… Read More
Friday: 9:15 p.m. Penobscot; Saturday: 1 p.m. Railroad Karan Casey has one of the most instantly recognizable and original voices in Irish music. A former lead vocalist with the Irish supergroup Solas, she exhibits the grace and richness of an old soul. The Wall Street… Read More
Friday: 8:30 p.m. Railroad; Saturday: noon Railroad, 5:15 p.m. Kenduskeag; Sunday: 3:15 p.m. Heritage Five-thirty in the morning is not an hour generally claimed by musicians. While most singers and strummers are dozing on the bus or at the local Motel 6, there is one… Read More
While Maria Baeza was growing up in Brooklyn, there were two constants in her life: beans and rice. Every night, her mother would cook up meat and some combination of the two – either mixed together or served separately. The latter was young Maria’s favorite, because, that way,… Read More
Friday: 8 p.m. Kenduskeag; Saturday: 2:30 p.m. Kenduskeag; Sunday: 12:30 p.m. Kenduskeag Surrounded by local legend and enriched by a multiethnic past, vallenato, the music of Colombia’s coastal region, has become one of the country’s most popular styles. Sensacion Vallenata con Gustavo Nieto, a Maryland-based… Read More
Sunday: 1 p.m. Heritage, 3:45 p.m. Two Rivers The Old Grey Goose is a Maine country dance band that has been playing and singing old-time country music and songs of the Pine Tree State and the Maritime Provinces for more than 20 years. The group… Read More
Saturday: 4:45 p.m. Two Rivers; Sunday: 2:45 p.m. Two Rivers Upon arriving in the United States in 1996, Yang Wei and Betty Xiang were immediately recognized as virtuosos of extraordinary ability, masters of the ancient Chinese pipa (lute) and erhu (violin). This husband-and-wife duet has… Read More
Saturday: 1:45 p.m. Two Rivers; Sunday: noon Heritage The Volskaya Russian Trio, which is about to mark its fifth anniversary as an ensemble, is composed of Tamara Volskaya on domra, Anatoliy Trofimov on bayan and Leonid Bruk on bass balalaika. The group performs a blend… Read More
Saturday: 1 p.m. Heritage Demonstrating Maine’s diverse cultural makeup, the National Folk Festival is proud to present the Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian Middle Eastern Ensemble. Performing Armenian music from the Ottoman tradition, this group’s vibrant dance music is sure to delight festival audiences. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
Saturday: noon Kenduskeag, 9:15 p.m. Kenduskeag; Sunday: 3 p.m. Kenduskeag, 5 p.m. Railroad Emerging from the urban centers of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and remaining popular for more than 50 years, soukous, or “rumba,” has been one of the most globally influential… Read More
Saturday: 5:15 p.m. Heritage; Sunday: noon at Railroad with The Bronx New Heaven Shout Band, 4:15 p.m. Heritage Robert Turner and the Silver Hearts Gospel Singers of Indianapolis have been performing gospel music for more than 40 years. Though its membership has changed, the group… Read More
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Saturday: 4:45 p.m. Penobscot, 7:30 p.m. Railroad; Sunday: 1:30 p.m. Railroad The members of Mountain Heart rank among the finest bluegrass musicians in the nation, so it is no surprise that their new band is sensational. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
Saturday: 1 p.m. Chinese dragon and lion dancers on midway, 3 p.m. Taiwanese folk aboriginal dance at Children’s Area, 4 p.m. Chinese yo-yo exhibition at Children’s Area, 7 p.m. Chinese dragon and lion dancers parade from Heritage to Railroad; Sunday: 1:15 p.m. Chinese dragon and lion dancers at… Read More
Vendors in the National Folk Festival’s Marketplace sell traditional arts. These arts are learned as part of the cultural life of a group of people whose members share a common ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation or culturally united geographic region. Folk and traditional arts are shaped by a… Read More
Sunday: noon Two Rivers Don Roy of Gorham is the dean of Franco-American fiddling in Maine. He learned to play the fiddle from his uncle Lucien Mathieu when he was 15 years old, and later was inspired by the playing of Ben Guillemette, Joe and… Read More
Saturday: 12:45 p.m. Two Rivers, 5:45 p.m. Penobscot; Sunday: 2:30 p.m. Penobscot Kora player and ensemble leader Mamadou Diabate was born in 1975 in Kita, a Malian city known for the arts of the Manding people of West Africa. Diabate is descended from Manding jeli… Read More
Saturday: noon Children’s, 4 p.m. Two Rivers, 5:45 p.m. Two Rivers; Sunday: 2 p.m. Two Rivers, 3:30 p.m. Children’s John Styles is the world’s leading authority on and practitioner of the ancient art of Punch and Judy, the slapstick hand puppetry brought to England from… Read More
For generations, the Wabanaki of Maine – the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot people – have kept alive their heritage in the form of basketry and woodcarving. Traditional artists specialize in crafting baskets from native flora such as brown ash, sweet grass and birch. Finding these materials requires… Read More
Saturday: 2 p.m. Heritage, 8:30 p.m. Railroad; Sunday: 2:30 p.m. Railroad, 5:15 p.m. Heritage The Klezmatics play the soul-stirring Jewish roots music known as klezmer. One of the seminal groups in the klezmer revival, the group was founded in New York City’s East Village in… Read More
Saturday: 1:15 p.m. Kenduskeag, 8 p.m. Kenduskeag; Sunday: 1:45 p.m. Kenduskeag, 4 p.m. Railroad La Bande Feufollet, a sextet of teenagers from the Lafayette, La., region, is carrying on Cajun community and family traditions and is committed to the Louisiana French language and music of… Read More
Special program segments at the National Folk Festival bring together, onstage, a number of festival artists from diverse cultural traditions. The organizing principle might be an instrument, a musical idea, or specific cultural activity (such as a wedding). These are informal, spontaneous sessions ostensibly guided by a moderator. Read More
Saturday: 1:15 p.m. Penobscot, 8:15 p.m. Penobscot; Sunday: 1:45 p.m. Children’s, 3:30 p.m. Penobscot Few families have more long-standing ties to the National Folk Festival than the family of Tom Ware, director of the American Indian Music & Dance Troupe. A Kiowa flute player and… Read More
Friday: 8:15 p.m. Penobscot; Saturday: 2 p.m. Railroad; Sunday: 2:15 p.m. Heritage Springfield Exit is a new band created by three veteran musicians who bring with them a rich variety of experience. Their sound stems from Appalachian roots and combines elements of bluegrass and country. Read More
Friday: 7:30 p.m. Railroad; Saturday: noon Heritage, 4 p.m. Railroad; Sunday: 4:45 p.m. Penobscot Barachois plays traditional Acadian music – a rhythmic, high-voltage style born in the heart of a culture kept alive through 21/2 centuries on Canada’s tiny Prince Edward Island. Music brought from… Read More
Friday: 6 p.m. Heritage; Saturday: 5 p.m. Railroad; Sunday: 4:15 p.m. Kenduskeag Dale Watson was born to, fed on and raised with real country. “This isn’t retro-minded,” Watson asserts. “It’s hopefully a natural progression of what country music would have been if it hadn’t been… Read More
Friday: 7 p.m. parade from Heritage to Railroad; Saturday: 3 p.m. Heritage, 7 p.m. parade from Heritage to Railroad; Sunday: noon at Railroad with Robert Turner and the Silver Hearts Gospel Singers of Indianapolis “Praise him with sound of the trumpet; praise him with the… Read More
Joe Wilson, executive director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts that produces the National Folk Festival, has a story he likes to tell about the time more than 50 years ago when he first saw legendary folk guitarist Doc Watson playing music on the street in… Read More
Friday: 9:15 p.m. Kenduskeag; Saturday: 4 p.m. Kenduskeag, 9:30 p.m. Railroad Louisiana-born, Texas-raised Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown has been dishing up his unique blend of blues, rhythm and blues, country, jazz and Cajun music for more than 50 years. He is an American original whose music… Read More
My boyfriend and I met at the Folk Festival. I guess the location was actually one of the best and selectively few places to meet new and different kinds of people. Rakan is an Arab, beautiful and dark-eyed and still of the Old World impression that treating a… Read More
When Wylie Gustafson takes the stage at the 2003 National Folk Festival, you’ll probably notice a few things about his appearance. He’s a yodeling cowboy. Hence, he wears a cowboy hat, Wrangler jeans and a Western-style jacket that’s more Hollywood than home-on-the-range. What you may not notice are… Read More
The Folk Festival: speaking Spanish for a solid week with visiting entertainers, dancing to salsa til my feet could barely move. These memories are still fresh in my mind and make my heart smile. Born in Puerto Rico and brought up in New York, I moved to Maine… Read More
The defining moment of the Folk Festival, for me, came near the end. I had been tracking the hip-hop group from Manhattan for two days, hoping to see some cool moves to report back to my sons. I was delighted to hear that a decision had been made… Read More
Editor’s Note: The following piece is the first in a series of short stories profiling many of the performers in the National Folk Festival Aug. 22-24 in Bangor. Costumed in contemporary one-piece Korean dresses of vibrant primary shades mixed with pink and greens, the women… Read More
From back porch to center stage Roots music loses intimacy, gains exposure at National Folk Festival
Joe Wilson, executive director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts that produces the National Folk Festival, has a story he likes to tell about the time more than 50 years ago when he first saw legendary folk guitarist Doc Watson playing music on the street in… Read More
When you are a guest at a party, it’s only polite to bring a gift to the host. But when John Rohman, chairman of the National Folk Festival, throws a party at his upscale home in the historic district on Broadway in Bangor, the whole point is to… Read More
BANGOR – Gospel singers and Irish balladeers, Franco fiddlers and a klezmer band, Korean dancers and a Russian trio will join legendary Louisiana bluesman Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown this August at the 65th annual National Folk Festival here. The 80-year-old Brown has been blending blues, country,… Read More
We’re looking ahead to the 2003 National Folk Festival on Aug. 22, 23 and 24, but we would like to invite you to look back – to last year’s festival. If you have a special memory to share with readers, we would like to tell your story in… Read More
We’re looking ahead to the 2003 National Folk Festival on Aug. 22, 23 and 24, but we would like to invite you to look back – to last year’s festival. If you have a special memory to share with readers, we would like to tell your story in… Read More
BANGOR – Remember the sights and sounds of last summer’s National Folk Festival on the waterfront in Bangor? Maybe you marched with the Treme Brass Band and paraded with an old friend you haven’t seen for years. Perhaps you were one of the local Spanish-speaking people who found… Read More
BANGOR – Organizers of the 65th National Folk Festival have announced they are accepting applications for both food and craft vendors at the event, which will be held Aug. 22-24 along the Bangor waterfront. 2003 will be the second year that the National Folk Festival… Read More
Kudos to the National Folk Festival committee and the city of Bangor! When you live in Millinocket and cultural events are rare, it was a wonderful time that my husband and I spent on Saturday. Even with the two-hour traffic jam on the highway, it was well worth… Read More
It seems sad that Bangor only cleans up for company, as per your article (BDN, Aug. 19). It would be nice if they kept it clean for the whole state to enjoy. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
The National Folk Festival – a spiritual awakening, indeed. In a community longing for something like this, you fed our bodies, minds, spirits and souls through the venue of the creative arts awash in the diversity of many cultures, ages and beliefs. Time to visit… Read More
BANGOR – As crews worked along the waterfront Monday morning, breaking down tents after the 64th National Folk Festival, organizers gathered to break down what worked – and what didn’t – at the city’s inaugural staging of the event. “Oh yes, we are all thinking… Read More
After so many years of trying to visualize what it could be, so many years of monitoring its plodding progress and watching more than a few lavish pipe dreams go up in smoke, the people of Bangor finally got to witness a transformation of their waterfront last weekend. Read More
No one knew what to expect. Not the performers. Not the locals. Not the food vendors. Not even the National Council for the Traditional Arts. But when the 64th National Folk Festival rolled into town Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it brought more than 70,000 people… Read More
BANGOR – Though it could be weeks before all the number crunching is done, early reports from businesses handy to the National Folk Festival suggest the economic impact was mixed. While some businesses reported brisk business, the three-day event was not the moneymaker others hoped… Read More
BANGOR – Pickering Square was transformed into a children’s amusement area during the weekend. Tents circled the cobblestone courtyard, where children attending the National Folk Festival could play quiet games, make crafts, listen to stories and music, create paper and do much more. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
BANGOR – A veritable army, this year’s National Folk Festival volunteers were hard to miss in their lime-green T-shirts. It seemed they were everywhere, and to organizers every volunteer assignment was critical to the festival’s success. For some volunteers, the work began while the three-day… Read More
Brian Marshall and His Tex-Slavik Playboys Brian Marshall & His Tex-Slavik Playboys came together to play a distinctive blend of swing, polka and country-western music from all over the cosmos – a universe called Texas, to be precise. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
Two months ago, Tom and Carol Davis of West Deptford, N.J., booked a campsite in Bangor, bought a camper – in that order – and patiently waited for this weekend’s National Folk Festival. Two hours before the opening act took the stage Friday, the couple… Read More
It’s a ceremony their ancestors have performed for more than 500 years, but when the Papantla Flyers started scaling the 90-foot-high pole at the waterfront Friday evening, people in the audience still wondered if they’d pull it off. “Oh my goodness, I can’t believe I’m… Read More
BANGOR – Clara Neptune Keezer of Pleasant Point was presented a 2002 National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment of the Arts on Friday evening. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins presented Keezer with the award as part of the National Folk Festival’s opening ceremonies. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
When I first heard about the National Folk Festival coming to Bangor, I had two thoughts: 1. There goes my vacation; and 2. Here comes an opportunity for shopping. After hearing about the Folk Arts Marketplace, I figured this would be the perfect place to pick up some… Read More
Afghan musician Aziz Herawi was 7 the first time he heard the strings of a dutar being plucked. He talked one of the family servants, who hid it in a blanket, into buying the instrument for him from a shepherd. The boy would wait until his father was… Read More
Manchild raps, sings, writes music and plays the keyboard but nothing flows through him with as much intensity as hip-hop dancing. A professional and self-ascribed team captain of the drum and dance troupe, Nothing But Skill, Tyrone “Manchild” Dawson will appear with teammates at 8:30… Read More
National FOLK Festival. As a twentysomething connoisseur of contemporary music, I hear the word “folk” and I cringe. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length;… Read More
Maine is a very French place. With roughly a quarter of its people having French, French-Canadian or Acadian ancestry, Maine is the most “French” state in New England, census figures show. Franco-Americans in Maine, New England and New York represent the second-largest concentration of… Read More
The music played by the Richard Felt Orchestra doesn’t exactly fall into the category “traditional folk art,” but its members – all of whom are over 70 – firmly believe that when they die, the dance songs they perform will die with them. “Every generation… Read More
For Mary Dysart Hartt, who runs the show at Dysart’s restaurant and truck stop in Hermon, baked beans are a quintessential “Maine” dish. And they were the perfect fit when she was trying to decide what to serve at the National Folk Festival. “I feel… Read More
KINGMAN – New England native Dick Stokes started carving using wood scraps he found in debris created by Hurricane Bob in 1991. “It’s been a hobby mostly,” said Stokes, who will show off some of his creations at the National Folk Festival from 5 to… Read More
Welcome to the 64th National Folk Festival! Whether you’re from the Bangor area, from other parts of Maine, or from “away,” you’ve picked a great time to discover what Bangor has to offer. I know it will turn out to be more than you ever expected. Read More
First presented in 1934, the National Folk Festival is the oldest multicultural arts celebration in the nation. This “movable feast” of American heritage has traveled to 27 communities around the country to celebrate traditional music, dance, storytelling, crafts and food. Now entering its 64th year, the festival is… Read More
When Cherish the Ladies performed this winter at Norumbega Hall in Bangor, the members of the group delivered more than the traditional Irish jigs and contemporary folk tunes that have made them award-winning recording artists over the last 15 years. The Irish-American musicians also had something to say… Read More
Out of consideration for the numbers of attendees and the comfort of pets, the National Folk Festival requests that all pets other than service animals be left at home. Read More
After three days at last year’s National Folk Festival in East Lansing, Mich., my feet hurt from walking back and forth between performance stages, food booths, demonstrations, lemonade stands. It was a good hurt, a happy hurt inspired by the toe-tapping riffs of legendary flat-picking guitarist Doc Watson,… Read More
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The 64th National Folk Festival celebrates the rich traditional folk, ethnic and tribal cultures of the people of Maine and the United States. The nation’s earliest immigrants and settlers brought the music, arts and customs of their countries of origin with them to their new homeland, where they… Read More
Faith can be everything when it comes to the National Folk Festival, and Joe Wilson, executive director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts, is a man of faith. When he visited Bangor more than a year ago, he saw a city he could believe in. Read More
Activities in the children’s area include outdoor games, such as hopscotch, hoop rolling, graces, and “stilt” walking. Quiet Games, including cribbage, jackstraws (pick-up sticks), clapping games, and string games. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
A number of Maine’s cultural and historical organizations are taking part in this year’s National Folk Festival in Bangor, Maine. At one end of the site, next to Pickering Square where the children’s activities are located, the following organizations offer children’s activities and educational materials. The… Read More
While at the festival, you can assist Rollin Thurlow and his team in building the National Folk Festival Canoe, appropriately named the American Beauty. The American Beauty is a smaller version of the popular 171/2-foot Atkinson Traveler. In keeping with its Maine Guide canoe lineage,… Read More
Designed by Cindy Taylor, this quilt is a full-size Maine Sampler Quilt in shades of blue. Raffle tickets to win this quilt are available in advance at the Bangor Visitor & Conventions Bureau on Main Street in Bangor and they will be sold at the festival Aug. 23,… Read More
The National Folk Festival is looking for artists interested in creating art work to be used for promotional material for next year’s event, including – but not limited to – poster, brochure and T-shirt designs. If you would like more information on how you can submit your art… Read More
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The eyes of Clara Neptune Keezer, a Passamaquoddy elder, brighten when she recalls the moment a voice on the other end of the phone announced that the basket maker from Pleasant Point near Perry had been awarded a 2002 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the… Read More
Here’s a test. What kind of music do you expect to see at a folk festival? Chances are you come up with images of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Peter, Paul and Mary. Seems reasonable enough. Leftist leanings. Acoustic guitars. Poetic lyrics about idealism, politics… Read More
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Artist workshops at the festival bring together performers from diverse cultural traditions for informal public discussions about and demonstrations of their music. The organizing principle might be an instrument, a musical idea or specific cultural activity. Typically guided by a moderator, the workshops offer festival-goers the opportunity for… Read More
Have I told you about my vision for Bangor?” John Rohman asks as he walks through the downtown offices of WBRC Architects-Engineers. Rohman, who is the “R” in WBRC, describes this vision like a floor plan. Think of a mall, he says. Any successful mall… Read More