Wes Weddell
Location Concert: None Stages: More Singer/Songwriters Workshop: None Links Venmo: WesleyWeddell PayPal: wesweddel Website: WesWeddell.com For the past twenty years, Wes Weddell has worked multiple shifts in the engine room of Seattle’s roots music scene as frontman, sideman, writer, teacher, and community-builder. He has been an emcee for the Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest for […]
Watch the Sky!
Location Concert: None Stages: Delightful Duos: Delicious Duets Workshop: Chris Glanister gives Workshop #11 “Livestreaming and live performance past COVID” Links PayPal: Donation to 3RFS Watch the Sky is the husband and wife duo Chris and Jan Glanister. They have played for over 20 years as a trio with Joe Wagner, but now it is just […]
Uncle Bonsai
Location Concert: None Stages: North Stage Workshop: None Links PayPal: yellowtailrecords Seattle super-harmonizers Uncle Bonsai are the Tim Burtons of folk music – dark and hilarious, but with moments of great insight and beauty. With three voices and a guitar, they present an often dizzying vocal array of intricate harmony. The trio aligns itself with […]
Tom Rawson
Location Concert: Sunday Night Concert Stages: River Stage Workshop: None Links Website: tomrawson.com PayPal: Donation to 3RFS Tom Rawson, folksinger and storyteller from Orcas Island, Washington is the Northwest’s very own version of Pete Seeger. Armed with longneck banjo and other weapons of mass delight, Tom is a master of warmth and wit who loves to […]
The Whateverly Brothers
Location Concert: None Stages: North Stage; The Songs of Alice Winship – A Tribute Workshop: Chris Glanister gives Workshop #11 “Livestreaming and live performance past COVID” Links Website: www.thewhateverlybrothers.com Facebook: whateverlybrothers PayPal: Donation to 3RFS Just when you thought it was safe for folk music, The Whateverly Brothers return as a duo with their own […]
The Silver Darlings
Location Concert: None Stages: South Stage Workshop: None Links PayPal: thesilverdarlings The Silver Darlings are a 6-piece, all-female shanty crew from South East England, singing a capella. They weave traditional shanties with beautiful harmonies, and their enthusiastic and interactive performances mean that they always bring the shanty party to any festival.
The Sillertides
Location Concert: None Stages: South Stage Workshop: Workshop #1 “An clò airgid (The Silver Cloth);” Workshop #3 “Shared Singing Over Zoom” Links Website: www.linnphippsfolk.co.uk Email: LLPhipps@aol.com PayPal: Donation to 3RFS The Sillertides bios Linn Phipps – full biography – April 2021 Linn Phipps is a UK-based traditional folk singer in Scottish Gaelic and English. She sings […]
The Shed Players
Location Concert: None Stages: Community Center Stage Workshop: None Links Website: www.theshedplayers.com Facebook: theshedplayers PayPal: Donation to 3RFS The Shed Players are a group of folks who love playing rootsy old-time folk music. It’s all directly from “The Shed,” in historic Snohomish, Washington. They play toe-tapping tunes at fairs, festivals and farmers markets throughout Western […]
The Blow-Ins
Location Concert: None Stages: Delightful Duos: Delicious Duets Workshop: None Links Facebook: theblowins Website: theblowins.com PayPal: theblowins Beginning their musical journeys thousands of miles apart and coming from different musical places, Dave and Tom, the two Blow-Ins, found common ground when they met in Dingle, Ireland, in 2006 (it was in an Irish pub, by […]
Thaddeus Spae
Location Concert: None Stages: Community Center Stage; Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest Finalist Workshop: None Links PayPal: ThaddeusSpae Website: tspae.com/tips.html Thaddeus Spae: A forty-year veteran of the folk wars, award-winning singer/songwriter Thaddeus Spae is an innovative, eclectic entertainer who mixes unreliable narratives with songs ranging from humorous and deftly satiric to inspirational, literate and allusive. […]