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CONCERTS: Free events
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Folk Festival, leading the
Community Show on Sunday
mornings for the past five
years, and as staff direc-
tor at the Americana Song
Academy. She’s a bright
light in this world, and we
look forward to sharing her
beautifully crafted songs and
dynamic performances,” said
Brad Tisdel, creative director
of Sisters Folk Festival.
RJ Cowdery is a
Columbus, Ohio-based artist
who has solidified herself as
a standout of the next gen-
eration of performing song-
writers. She performed at
the Sisters Folk Festival in
2013 after winning the Dave
Carter Memorial Songwriting
Contest the year prior.
Cowdery took a circuitous
path to becoming a full-time
artist. She experienced excit-
ing creative breakthroughs
followed by distractions and
obligations that took her away
from her lifelong dream of
being a professional singer/
songwriter. RJ is becoming a
much-sought-after performer
and guitar player, highlighted
in 2015 with her first main-
stage performance at the
Kerrville Folk Festival. She
will be adding her keen song-
writing insight as an instruc-
tor at The Rocky Mountain
Folks Festival this year.
On Saturday, July 23,
Boston-based country folk
quintet The Novel Ideas
will perform. The band is
already booked for the 2016
Sisters Folk Festival, and
this will provide Sisters
Country folks a preview of
this up-and-coming band.
Featuring the voices of three
different songwriters, The
Novel Ideas create a blend
of pastoral, harmony-driven,
and plaintive Americana. In
2014 they released a 10-inch
single, “Lost on the Road,”
featuring two new songs
and marking the band’s first
effort as a quintet. The fol-
lowing couple years have
been spent touring nationally,
writing, and recording as a
band. Their latest release, “St.
Paul Sessions,” was recorded
live in an old church in their
hometown. It features six
unreleased songs and aims to
capture the raw, live energy
of their stage performance.
On Thursday, August 4,
the series will conclude with
the Irish Americana roots and
bluegrass group I Draw Slow.
This Dublin-based band has
been drumming up enthusi-
astic reviews in Ireland since
the release of their top-10
second album, Redhills. Irish
national broadcaster RTE
made Redhills album of the
week, and the album has been
welcomed to the playlists
of stations across the coun-
try. Their impact abroad is
redrawing the map for these
Irish/Americana songwriters.
I Draw Slow’s newest
release and third album, White
Wave Chapel, is a creative
progression for the band. The
sound is rooted in the style of
the Appalachian mountains
and draws on the traditions of
Irish music while incorporat-
ing all that’s great about mod-
ern Americana.
They have been described
in the UK press as “American
top-league equivalents,” des-
tined “to blow the opposition
away,” drawing favorable
comparisons with Gillian
Welsh and Alison Krauss.
The band has played to audi-
ences in the UK, Germany,
Denmark and Belgium, and
started 2012 with a per-
formance with Béla Fleck
and the Flecktones, and an
appearance at the Celtic
Connections Festival in
Glasgow, Scotland.
I Draw Slow is a five-piece
outfit comprising vocals, gui-
tar, fiddle, banjo and double
bass. Holden siblings Dave
(guitar) and Louise (vocals)
have been writing together
for two decades. In 2008, the
pair teamed up with violinist
Adrian Hart, claw-hammer
photo provided
Beth Wood is a festival favorite.
banjo player Colin Derham,
and double-bassist Konrad
Liddy to form the band.
All shows begin at 7 p.m.;
lowback seating is encour-
aged. For more informa-
tion on SFF Presents: Free
Summer Concerts at Fir
Street Park and all 2016
Sisters Folk Festival events,
visit sistersfolkfestival.org.
Fir Street Park is located at
the corner of Main Avenue
and Fir Street in Sisters.
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