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This week­end, I cel­e­brated my six­ti­eth birth­day sur­rounded by friends and fam­ily. If you had told me I would be ...
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On Valentine's Day, 2021, a mas­sive win­ter storm pushed across the cen­tral and south­ern US plains, plung­ing tem­per­a­tures to record-​breaking ...
Read More about The Valentine’s Day Blizzard, Norman, Oklahoma

Emerging from Baltimore’s folk scene in the late 1980s, Sonia Rutstein formed the folk-​duo Disappear Fear (styl­ized “dis­ap­pear fear”) with ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: SONiA dis­ap­pear fear

As in years past, Woodyfest 14 show­cased three song­writ­ing con­test win­ners. Thursday evening at the Pastures of Plenty Stage kicked ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: 1^st-Place Songwriting Contest Winner Lori Holyfield

By his own rec­ol­lec­tion, Woodyfest reg­u­lar Jared Tyler Frederick began his pro­fes­sional music career around the time he turned four­teen ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Jared Tyler

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: in 2001, a school­teacher on a large Blackfoot reserve in south­ern Alberta ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: John Wort Hannam

In 2013, Lance Canales and his band, the Flood, cov­ered Woody Guthrie’s song “Refugee.” Guthrie wrote the song shortly after ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: Lance Canales & the Flood

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

We wrote about Woodyfest reg­u­lar Sam Baker just over a year ago so we won’t repeat our­selves here. Baker has ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2013: Sam Baker