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Folkin’ around in Sisters The Sisters Folk Festival has been bringing the best of American roots music to Sisters for the past 15 years. The festival has established a nationwide reputation for outstanding performances in an intimate and beautiful setting. The festival is set for September 10-12, 2010. This year may be the Sisters Folk Festival’s best offering yet, with a variety of performers that explore every aspect of the world of folk music — from singer-songwriters to one of the world’s greatest Celtic bands. Artists draw on ancient traditions and explore the most contemporary of themes. The festival will bring blues master John Hammond to town, offering his soulful, rootsy music, which has earned him Grammy nominations and iconic status. “He’s a great force of nature,” says Tom Waits. “John sounds like a big train coming. He chops them all down.” Speaking of folk music legends, Geoff Muldaur and Jim Kweskin are joining the lineup at the Sisters Folk Festival this year. Forming the vanguard of a folk, blues and folk-rock explosion in the 1960s and ’70s with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, the duo reunited last year with the late Stephen Bruton to record “Texas Sheiks,” which took the Americana music world by storm. The Sisters Folk Festival is bringing a big chunk of Texas north this year. Austin singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves is back at the festival by popular demand. He’s one of the festival’s most acclaimed performers. Fellow Texan and outlaw music icon Ray Wylie Hubbard will also be on hand to deliver his edgy and slightly dangerous music and the wonderful Austin-based swing band Hot Club of Cowtown will round out the Texas delegation. The Celtic diaspora is well-represented with one of the most beloved Celtic folk bands in the world, Solas. Riding on their brilliant new CD, “The Turning Tide,” Solas brings aching melodies and stirring lyrics along with foot-stomping excitement to the stage. These are just a few of the artists who will take the stage in Sisters, along with Martyn Joseph, the Eilen Jewell Band, Martha Scanlan, Peter Mulvey and the finest local and regional acts the Northwest has to offer. The festival offers workshops; the Dave Carter Memorial Song writing Contest; a song academy and more. For more information visit www.sistersfolkfestival.org.
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