Articles by Chris J. Zähller

By his own rec­ol­lec­tion, Woodyfest reg­u­lar Jared Tyler Frederick began his pro­fes­sional music career around the time he turned four­teen or fifteen

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: in 2001, a school­teacher on a large Blackfoot reserve in south­ern Alberta quit his job to become a folk musi­cian. Ba-doom-pah!

In 2013, Lance Canales and his band, the Flood, cov­ered Woody Guthrie’s song “Refugee.” Guthrie wrote the song shortly after the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos

Two-time chart-top­per Stoll Vaughan made his Woodyfest debut in 2019. Vaughan took the Crystal Theatre stage mid-after­noon on fes­ti­val Friday.

We wrote about Woodyfest reg­u­lar Sam Baker just over a year ago so we won’t repeat our­selves here. Baker has played Woodyfest a total of a dozen times as of 2019.

Forming in 2007 while its mem­bers were in high school, The Myrrors play “a sun-baked, mys­ti­cal form of psy­che­delia informed

Self-described “folk-punk” singer-song­writer Annie Guthrie per­formed a set on the Crystal Theatre stage on fes­ti­val Friday. Guthrie is the middle

As part of Woodyfest’s con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tional out­reach, author Daniel Wolff gave a short talk about his book, Grown Up Anger

When they appeared on the Brick Café stage dur­ing Woodyfest 2013, The Deslondes were still billing them­selves as Sam Doores

Self-described “folky-tonk” duo Pushing Chain made their Woodyfest debut on the Bound for Glory stage on fes­ti­val Friday. The pair