Woodyfest 2018

This writer had only one offi­cial assign­ment (cov­er­ing gritty soul-singer Opal Agafia) at the big out­door stage on fes­ti­val Saturday. Red Dirt leg­end Randy Crouch pre­ceded her. Unfortunately, his set coin­cided with my only chance to eat din­ner before I had to be back

I took the same medium for­mat gear to the Pastures of Plenty back­stage as I had on Thursday and Friday. I’ve already writ­ten about the facil­i­ties improve­ments to the out­door venue. Unless you care to read about them, I

The biggest musi­cal influ­ence in Opal Agafia’s life is her mom. Agafia char­ac­ter­izes her­self as a “life­long seri­ous shower singer,” say­ing that she grew up singing with her mother, DeAnna Smith.

I first met singer-song­writer Ken Pomeroy on New Year’s Eve, 2015. Her father, Skippy, builds rac­ing motor­cy­cles in the large shop behind the fam­ily home and occa­sion­ally hosts con­certs on the small stage inside.

In my sopho­more high school year, my fam­ily moved from the house we had been rent­ing in the sub­urbs to a five-acre home­stead in the coun­try. Whereas pre­vi­ously we had lived within walk­ing dis­tance of pri­mary, mid­dle, and high schools, hence­forth my sib­lings and I would ride the bus.

At first glance, one could be for­given for dis­miss­ing twenty-five-year-old singer-song­writer Josh Okeefe as a mere pas­ticheur. An inter­net image search reveals his pen­chant for dress­ing like a cer­tain Robert Zimmerman (a.k.a. Bob Dylan),

Despite the band name, And Then There Were Two does not com­prise two mem­bers. The band num­bers three: singer Amy Carlin Lee, singer and gui­tarist Austin K. Haworth, and per­cus­sion­ist Chad Varnell.

Members of the Guthrie fam­ily per­formed a musi­cal show­case at Okemah’s St. Paul’s United Methodist Church on Saturday after­noon of the 2018 fes­ti­val. First up was Serena Guthrie, Woody Guthrie’s

Woodyfest held its innau­gural Woodyfest Youth Songwriting/​Showcase Competition in 2018. The show­case fea­tured per­form­ers age six­teen or younger. Master of Ceremonies and reg­u­lar Woodyfest performer

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival has pro­vided a vari­ety of children’s pro­gram­ming over the years. Last year the fes­ti­val expanded from just orga­niz­ing kids’ con­certs to also host­ing youth work­shops. On fes­ti­val Friday, Woodyfest artists Joe Baxter and John Williams