The Humboldt Folklife Society’s 46th annual Humboldt Folklife Festival featured a talented mix of performances by local musicians last week (July 22-26) under the sunny, then foggy, then sunny, then foggy … and finally sunny skies on closing day in Blue Lake. It was another successful festival, said longtime Folklife Festival volunteer and emcee Patrick […]
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Humboldt Folklife Draws a Crowd
The Humboldt Folklife Festival delivered its usual week-long supply of Humboldt County musicians and bands to Blue Lake this past Sunday through Saturday, July 14 through July 20. The only problem? How to pick and choose what to attend, given the festival program was competing with what seemed like an unusually packed social calendar countywide. […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, July 18
The Humboldt Folklife Festival rolls on toward its conclusion in a couple of days with another evening in the Dell’Arte amphitheater. Tonight’s theme is “Bluegrass and Beyond,” with performances by Ruby Ruth and Mule Ranch, Elderberry Rust Band and Cadillac Ranch. The bands play in that order, with a 6 p.m. start time and $10 […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, July 17
The Folklife show goes on Under the Stars in the Dell’Arte amphitheater, where a somewhat bigger, full band affair is happening beginning at 6 p.m. ($15, $12 folklife members, $5 kids). Kray Van Kirk, Rise and Bloom and headliners Huckleberry Flint will be playing their sounds from the fade of day into the purple blush […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 16
As I mentioned earlier, music gigs tend to cluster in the Humboldt midsummer, a situation I have adapted to in the past and will again, God willing I am still helming this column in the unforeseen. I have since childhood been around some version of the Humboldt Folklife Festival and am perfectly happy to endorse […]
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Music Today: Sunday, July 14
Summer means a great many things around here. Chief among them is a certain clustering of musical events as the weather hits peak shine, and the population reflects stalwart locals anchored in place amid a steady motion of tourists and newcomers, filling in the void left by departed students. One such cluster is Annie and […]
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Humboldt Folklife Festival Kicks off on Sunday
Ah, the blue, blue grass of home — how we love it! July in Blue Lake is extra sunshiny with the Humboldt Folklife Festival sweetening our days and nights. Taking place this year from July 23-29, the festival features plenty of locally grown bluegrass, folk, country music and more. New this year is the Humboldt Folk School, […]
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Steel (Guitar) Yourselves: Folk Fest is Back!
The Humboldt Folklife Society announced today that the Humboldt Folklife Festival is returning for the first time in three years with the (pre-COVID, traditionally annual) event slated for July 14-16, 2022, at the Dell’Arte Amphitheater in Blue Lake. The event brings back attendee favorites: an evening outdoor show on Thursday, July 14, a Barn Dance […]
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A Folksy Affair (Slideshow)
More than 200 performers participated during eight days of music in the 40th annual Humboldt Folklife Festival across a variety of venues. A week of live music ending in a barn dance on Friday was followed by an all-Saturday free festival in Blue Lake that featured live music on two stages and Folk School workshops, ranging […]
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Scenes from the Folklife Fest
The week-long Humboldt Folklife Festival in its 39th year drew large crowds to its events this year, according to Patrick Cleary, one of the many Humboldt Folklife Society members who organized the event. Cleary said this year’s festival was dedicated to the memory of Susan Anderson, one of the original members of the Humboldt Folklife […]
