festival

I met “Princess of Twang” Nancy Apple in 2013, my first year vol­un­teer­ing to doc­u­ment the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. I had pho­tographed her ear­lier in the day and hap­pened to sit next to her at the com­mu­nal din­ner held back­stage at the Pastures of Plenty.

Wink Burcham will return to Woodyfest for the sev­enth time in 2021. His pre­vi­ous appear­ance was in 2019, which we’ve pre­vi­ously writ­ten about.

Dan Weber is the only song­writer in the his­tory of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival to have pulled off the hat trick of win­ning the first-, sec­ond-, and third-place prizes in the Woody Guthrie Songwriting contest.

Today’s post presents a photo gallery com­pris­ing images I cap­tured in var­i­ous back­stage areas at the 2014 Woody Guthrie Folk

Anna Larson, Dan Weber Take 2nd & 1st Place Satur­day night at Woodyfest 2019 kicked off, as in past years, with a show­case for the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Contest win­ners. The show­case lead with sec­ond-place win­ner Anna Larson per­form­ing her win­ning song “Acting Alone” accom­pa­nied by gui­tarist Jon-Michael Rogers. Anna Larson — “Acting Alone”The Austin-based pianist and singer appeared on… Read More …

As in years past, Woodyfest 14 show­cased three song­writ­ing con­test win­ners. Thursday evening at the Pastures of Plenty Stage kicked off with dr. Lori Holyfield

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.