Sisters Folk Festival Sept. 2012

Sisters Folk Festival

Sept. 2012

I don’t know what number this was, but Jim ‘n I have been comin’ to Sisters, Oregon for the summer’s end folk festival for a lot a years. Maybe six. Maybe eight. Doesn’t matter. The weekend’s weather was absolutely perfect for this venue and Jim got lucky and found a great camping spot in the Sisters City Park, a short stroll from the five different locations that had musicians playing from six on Friday evening almost non stop through Sunday afternoon.

We always find a few new singer/song writers when we go to the Folk Festival, and that’s the real fun of it. This year Abigail Washburn, Eliza Gilkyson, Sarah Lee Guthrie (Woody’s granddaughter) with husband Johnny Irion, Jude Johnstone (writer of thousands of songs sung by the likes of Emmy Lou and Johnny Cash) and, my very favorite, John Fulbright were the standouts.

John Fulbright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjl2axlvmE

John Fulbright

Jude Johnstone

http://www.bojakrecords.com/

Musicians Playing with Jude Johnstone

Eliza Gilkyson

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/04/149983971/eliza-gilkyson-on-mountain-stage

Abigail Washburn  http://www.ted.com/talks/abigail_washburn_building_us_china_relations_by_banjo.html

Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion