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Wednesday, September 7, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
FESTIVAL: Still
chances to catch music
in sold-out event
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offerings through the week-
end. The Fir Street Park venue
is open to the public Saturday
and Sunday, and the Sunday-
morning community show at
the Village Green stage is also
free and open to the public,
though space is limited.
For Tisdel, creating a sense
of community is the high
point of the festival —“week-
long events and coming
together of a community and
Sisters and everything we, as
a nonprofit, bring to the com-
munity… (The three-day fes-
tival) is the capstone to build-
ing a community through
music and the arts.”
The festival is, in fact,
much more than a nationally
renowned three-day party.
Sisters Folk Festival Inc. sup-
ports and promotes several
education outreach programs,
including the Americana
Project and a guitar- and uku-
lele-building program in local
schools. The organization
is closely tied with Sisters’
vibrant visual arts commu-
nity. Artists donate work for a
fundraising art auction in the
spring that is itself a highly
regarded community cultural
event.
And the weeklong run-
up to the festival includes
a much-loved songwriting
camp held at Caldera on Blue
Lake, where festival artists
and patrons work together to
hone the craft of songwriting
and tap the well of inspiration.
The weekend’s festival
incorporates many Sisters
dining establishments as inti-
mate venues for the music.
Tisdel said he is excited to
bring Sisters Saloon back
as a venue this year. With a
renovated patio area and a
new stage, it promises to be
a lively spot for music on
Friday and Saturday nights.
This year marks the return
of festival standout Ruthie
Foster. Legendary guitar-
ist and songwriter Richard
Thompson will play one set at
Sisters Art Works on Saturday
night.
The festival is following
its usual path of bringing in
long-established and beloved
artists as well as up-and-com-
ing musicians who quickly
build a passionate following.
photo provided
ruthie Foster is making a much-anticipated return to Sisters for this year’s festival.
photo provided
richard thompson is a legend in the world of folk music.
The Americans are the
kind of pioneering young
band the festival enjoys intro-
ducing to the Sisters audi-
ence. The Americans perform
original rock & roll with deep
roots in traditional American
music. The legendary T Bone
Burnett places them in the
forefront of a new generation
of artists who are working in
a tradition — and pushing its
boundaries.
“The Americans are part of
this group, these genius 21st-
century musicians that are
reinventing American heri-
tage music for this century.
And it sounds even better this
century.”
That’s actually a pretty
accurate description of what
the festival seeks to do in all
of its offerings, according to
long-time board member and
co-founder Jim Cornelius.
“American music is maybe
our greatest cultural leg-
acy,” he said. “People from
all around the world have
brought their music to these
shores and it all mashes up
together and creates some-
thing new, something that
shifts and evolves all the time.
It’s a beautiful thing, and it
happens right here in Sisters
every year.”
This year, SFF has intro-
duced an app to help patrons
navigate their way around the
Festival. With the app you can
make up your own schedule,
check out the venues, venue
performers, track the shuttle
and more. Search for Sisters
Folk Festival in your app
store.
For ticket informa-
tion and a complete sched-
ule of events, visit www.
sistersfolkfestival.org.
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