The second annual
"North Coast Folk Festival" will take place at the Ocean Shores Convention
Center on Friday and Saturday, April 18-19, 2008.
You
may purchase your tickets online at the bottom of this page.
This
year's lineup:
County
Joe McDonald
Famed Woodstock performer, County Joe McDonald,
of Country Joe & the Fish will headline the concert on Saturday night. Since
1967, Country Joe has released several dozen recordings and has performed literally
hundreds of concerts all over the United States and abroad. His career began as
an outspoken activist against the conflict in Vietnam and who will forget the
"I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag"? In the past few years, Joe has
been performing a tribute to Woody Guthrie. The "live" album of this
tribute was recorded on May 12, 2007 in San Francisco.
Tom
May
Writing
and playing his own music, sharing through his songs his life and travels with
folks throughout the U.S., Canada and overseas, hosting and performing weekly
on the national radio/TV program River City Folk--that is just a glimpse at Tom
May’s 33 years as a professional folksinger. On twelve and six string guitars,
he accompanies his baritone voice with intricate stylings not often heard in folk
music. Stories, humor, and occasionally even the Irish pennywhistle introduce
the songs featured in his concerts. Tom May has performed in every state in the
Union, as well as Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Belgium. His
performing venues have included prestigious concert halls, small town auditoriums,
and humble coffeehouses--all of which have given him an uncommon rapport with
audiences both large and small. His festival appearances include The Kerrville
Folk Festival; the Napa Valley Music Festival; Sister's Folk Festival; (Oregon)
The Juan De Fuca Festival (Port Angeles, Washington) and dozens more.
Tiller's
Folly
For over a decade, Tiller's Folly has been captivating
audiences with their music, stories and smoking live shows. From the dynamic vocals,
driving acoustic guitar and classic songwriting of Bruce Coughlan, through the
wild, virtuoso layers of creative color added by award-winning multi-instrumentalist,
Nolan Murray, to the solid driving foundation laid down by bassist and vocalist,
Laurence Knight, Tiller's Folly is a high-energy acoustic roots music experience
like no other.
Nancy
K. Dillon
Nancy K. Dillon is an emerging Americana artist
from the Pacific Northwest quickly making a name for herself. “An original
new talent” mining a musical vein akin to Lucinda Williams or Kasey Chambers
says respected UK country music journalist, Alan Cackett (Maverick-UK). Nancy
is a gifted singer, songwriter and recording artist based in Seattle, WA. She
masterfully weaves the textures and rhythms of American folk and country music
into mythic road stories of “small town claustrophobia” and the “surreal
euphoria” of traveling America’s byways. Her songs evoke the vistas
and horizons of the sprawling American West.
Sky
In The Road
Sky In The Road: With their well-crafted originals
these versatile performers have toured throughout the West, from the Oregon Coast
to Billings, Montana, from Monterey to the San Juans. In 2005 they were featured
on the nationally syndicated radio show River City Folk. They have been heard
at numerous concert halls, conferences, coffee houses and festivals including
Seattle Folk Life, Portland's Winterfolk, Rose Festival, Artquake, The Bite, Earth
Day/Procession of the Species, The Yakima Folklife Festival, and many more.
Dick
Weissman
Dick Weissman was a member of the legendary folk
trio the Journeymen, with Scott McKenzie and John Phillips. He has played on hundreds
of recording sessions, produced numerous albums, written two feature film scores,
numerous recoded songs and instrumental pieces, and performed as a soloist and
accompanist in many live and recorded musical contexts. He has also taught many
college classes on music and the music industry, and has written twelve published
books on these subjects.
Michael
Guthrie
Michael Guthrie has a relaxed, folksy style that
incorporates jazz and blues into the mix and his lyrics run from playful to social
to deeply personal. The lyrics are clever and interesting with unique thoughts
and phrasings. Michael is a very talented musician playing acoustic and electric
guitars, fretless and fretted electric bass, lap steels, synthesizers.
Hank
Cramer
Hank Cramer is a traveling folksinger who lives
in Washington State. He is best known for his booming bass voice, accompanied
by vintage flat-top guitar and a wry sense of humor. His repertoire is a mix of
original, traditional, and contemporary folk songs. Most of his songs tell the
stories of cowboys, sailors, soldiers, miners, adventurers and just plain drifters.
That fits with Hank's life story: he has been an underground miner, a professional
soldier, shanty-man on a square-rigged sailing ship, wrangler for a high-country
outfitter, and a world traveler. Those experiences make Hank's music ring with
a special authenticity. Hank's touring circuit has spread wider and wider. He
now has twelve CD's in print and two television sound-tracks to his credit. In
addition to concert engagements, Hank is an avid historian and presents educational
programs which weave together music, history, and cultural traditions.
David
Rea
David Rea has been a integral player in folk, heritage
music and contemporary rip-snortin' string-flashing for more years than Gawhd's
known how to play solitaire.Tthis seasoned guitarist, songwriter, and singer has
toured with, recorded with, and written for an astonishingly diverse assortment
of famous folkies and rockers including Gordon Lightfoot, the Allen-Ward Trio,
Ian Tyson and Sylvia Fricker and Mike Seeger.
Del
Rey
Del Rey started playing classical guitar when she was
four. As a teenager, she met bluesman Sam Chatmon who inspired her to become a
blues queen. Her guitar playing combines country blues, stride piano, classic
jazz and hillbilly boogie through the sensibility of an autodidact trailor-park
esthete. Her live show is full of complex guitar grooves and sly humor.
Prairie Flyer
Prairie Flyer isan eclectic collection of high-powered
musicians who like to travel nonstop across the boundaries of bluegrass, folk
and Americana - all on the same trip. They can move from a Stanley Brothers song
to a Townes Van Zandt, from their own solid bluegrass instrumentals to Steve Earle
to Fred Eaglesmith and back to traditional bluegrass with such ease and grace.
There will be concert sets, workshops and an open mike
for emerging performers and singer songwriters.
All performances
will take place at the Ocean Shores Convention Center or Galway Bay Restaurant
and Pub.
Tickets for the two-day event are $25 if purchased
prior to February 29, 2008 and $35 thereafter. Tickets can be purchased below.
Lodging and ticket packages are also available. The North Coast Folk Festival
is sponsored by the Ocean Shores Chamber of Commerce, Shilo Inn of Ocean Shores,
Quinault Beach Resort & Casino, Galway Bay Pub, Ramada Inn of Ocean Shores,
Dawn Wallace-Cook and other fine local businesses.
For ticket information
or to become a sponsor, call 360-289-2451 or (888) 48-BEACH.
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