Concert & Dance (online) - Washington Folk Festival Favorites

The Folklore Society of Greater Washington and Glen Echo Partnership for Arts and Culture will present a live-streamed music and dance and storytelling event from Glen Echo Park at 7:30 PM on June 6 featuring Washington Folk Festival Favorite Performers. 

The cyber "doors" will open at 7:00 pm, and while you won't need to find a parking place or struggle to get a good seat, you might tune in early to visit with friends and fellow festival-goers.

There will be two concurrent tracks, each in a "zoom room" accessible from the single link; you can go back and forth between the streams as you choose.

 Concert & storytelling stream

• 7.30 Big Howdy Band (Dede Wyland, Randy Barrett, Ira Gitlin, and Tom McLaughlin), progressive bluegrass band.
• 8.15 Storyteller Tim Livengood.
• 8.30 Phil Wiggins and the Chesapeake Sheiks Trio, NEA Heritage Award winning blues harmonica player Phil Wiggins with Matt Kelley and Ian Waters.
• 9.30 Elena Lacayo and Los Fulanos, bilingual Latin folk band.

Dance stream

• 7.30 Janine Smith calls a mix of English and contra dances, music by Liz Donaldson - piano, Becky Ross - fiddle, Ralph Gordon – bass.
• 8.30 Lynn Baumeister teaches and leads a variety of balfolk dances with music by Millevaches (Leslie Barr, Sarah Gowan, and Bill Quern). 
• 9.30 April Blum calls a mix of English and contra dances, music by Trio Con Brio (Elke Baker - fiddle, Paul Oorts - guitar and accordion, Jonathan Jensen - piano).

To register for the Zoom link to the event click on the button in this page.

It's a free festival, as always, but donations are most welcome. Can we suggest $10/person, just like we do at the real festival? Donate Here