Bellingham Folk Festival

About the Event

Schedule :

9:30am-10:20am - Harmony and Ornamentation on Mountain Dulcimer (workshop)
Blue Room - 202 E Holly St. #301, Bellingham, WA 98225
Bring your dulcimer and join Beverly Hoback as she presents a workshop for intermediate mountain dulcimer players who want to make their music more interesting than merely playing chords or melodies. Learn easy techniques for creating harmonies at the same time you play melodies, and learn ornamentations such as hammering on, pulling off, and harmonics. Stick around for the concert immediately after the workshop to see Beverly put those techniques into practice.
free with donations appreciated, all ages

10:30am-11:30am - Grandma Makes You Laugh: family-friendly humor and folk music by Beverly Hoback (concert)
Blue Room - 202 E Holly St. #301, Bellingham, WA 98225
Start your week with a good belly laugh, as Beverly Hoback shares humorous stories, amusing parodies, and folk music on mountain dulcimer and guitar. With originals, parodies, and classic folk music, Beverly shares her joy and love of nature and children. Beverly Hoback joins the Bellingham Folk Festival for her third year, presenting both a workshop for intermediate level mountain dulcimer players and a concert of humor and folk music on guitar and mountain dulcimer. Beverly is a retired public school music teacher with degrees in music education and music composition from Pacific Lutheran University and Cornish College of the Arts. She has performed at the Kindred Gathering Dulcimer Festival every summer for the past 23 years and has presented concerts as a soloist and in the folk group The Arrangement at venues such as Nancy’s Farm, The Firehouse Arts and Events Center, The Western Washington Fair, Roam Coffee House, and Bayview Community Center. This one is for all the early risers and lovers of the mountain dulcimer!
free with donations appreciated, all ages

12:30pm-2pm - Wandering Seas (concert)
Welcome Road Winery - 300 W Champion St, Bellingham, WA 98225
The Wandering Seas is a dynamic folk trio from Bellingham, WA consisting of guitar/whistle (Casey Connor), cello (Clea Johnson), and fiddle (Colleen Freeman). They play mostly original compositions as well as a range of traditional folk styles from Albanian to Brazilian to Irish to Swedish.  Pleasant Bay is their debut album, recorded just before the lockdown in February of 2020. The album includes 17 tracks, 12 of which are original compositions. While several of the Wandering Seas’ feet are planted in traditional dance musics, they inflect all their tunes with the same creative spirit that drives their compositions.
by donation, all ages

1pm-3pm - Morris Dance Workshop (workshop/dance)
BAAY - 1059 N State St. Bellingham, WA 98225
free, all ages

3pm-5pm - Femme in Folk, featuring Serafima and the Shakedowns, Schmid and Guest, Ivy Ficarra (concert)
Blue Room - 202 E Holly St. #301, Bellingham, WA 98225
2pm doors, 3pm show, seated show.
$15 advance here, $20 day-of, all ages

3pm-5pm - Finger Style Guitar Show Feat: Devin Champlin, Tom Bourne, S. Itterly (concert)
Welcome Road Winery - 300 W Champion St, Bellingham, WA 98225
$10-$20 suggested at the door, all ages

3pm-4pm - Pub Sing (jam)
Honey Moon Mead - 1053 N State St, Bellingham, WA 98225 (in the alley)
free, 21+

4:30-7:30pm - Honeymoon Wrap-Up Pan-Celtic Session hosted by the Goods Guild (jam)
Honey Moon Mead - 1053 N State St, Bellingham, WA 98225 (in the alley)
free, 21+

6pm-8pm - Son Jarocho by Primo Lara w/ Steve Jones and Jan Peters - Songs of Central Mexico (concert)
Welcome Road Winery - 300 W Champion St, Bellingham, WA 98225
$10-$20 suggested at the door, all ages

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