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Wednesday, August 26, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Regional artists featured at concert
PHOTO BY JAY MATHER
Sisters Folk Festival will stage a live event September 11-13, configured
like the successful August 1 Close to Home concert to conform to Phase
2 “Reopening Oregon” protocols.
MUSIC: Event
will follow strict
COVID guidelines
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contractors, vendors, and vol-
unteers. There will only be
190 admissions available for
each day to the public, and
seating will be sold in <pods=
for two- or four-person social
groups.
Attendees will need to
bring their own low festival
chairs and/or blankets for
seating. Only seating in the
back row will accommodate
standard height chairs.
<The SFF organization
has put a lot of thought into
incorporating best practices
to keep this gathering as safe
as possible during COVID-
19,= Tisdel noted.
The venue is configured
with one way in and one way
out. The wearing of masks or
face coverings (properly, over
the nose and mouth) will be
required and enforced when
patrons are outside of their
reserved, socially distanced
seating pods. Concert-goers
will be able to purchase food
and beverages and then take
them back to their seating
area to enjoy. Organizers ask
that all attendees comply vol-
untarily with mask wearing to
help keep yourself and others
safe. If for any reason that is
a hardship, or you anticipate
having difficulty complying
for any reason, organizers
ask that you please stay home
and enjoy the concert via live
stream.
The venue opens at 4 p.m.
on Friday and Saturday, with
music taking place from 5 to
10 p.m. On Sunday, check in
starts at 11 a.m. with perfor-
mances scheduled from noon
to 5 p.m. Sunday. There will
be one or two food vendors,
on-site beer, wine and cider
sales plus bike racks avail-
able, sponsored by Blazin
Saddles. Attendees are
encouraged to bike or walk to
the concert if possible.
Tiered pricing for all seat-
ing pods will be offered start-
ing Friday, August 28 at 10
a.m. For tickets, artist infor-
mation, and a complete list-
ing of the lineup, visit www.
sistersfolkfestival.org.
The Sisters Folk Festival9s
Close to Home 2 event will
feature artists from the Pacific
Northwest and West Coast.
Multi-instrumentalist,
Grammy award winning
vocalist and songwriter Judith
Hill spent the summer and
fall of 2019 touring Europe,
Canada, and the U.S. with her
latest acclaimed studio album
<Golden Child,= released in
November 2018. Hill has
already garnered praise for
her live performances as
opener for the likes of her
former collaborator and men-
tor, Prince, and soul man John
Legend, among many oth-
ers. Hill has been praised by
Rolling Stone for her <stellar
powerhouse vocals.= In addi-
tion to penning and perform-
ing her own material, she has
backed artists such as Stevie
Wonder and the late Michael
Jackson.
John Craigie, a humorous
storyteller and accomplished
lyricist, will return to Sisters
following up his acclaimed
2020 release <Asterisk the
Universe.= On his newest
release, Craigie awkwardly
encounters previous flames,
mistakes a Catholic school
custodian as a saint (and prays
to him anyway), pays tribute
to modern-day revolutionar-
ies, and explores what it all
means to live in the 21st cen-
tury, where infinite possibility
does not necessarily equate
infinite understanding.
Thunderstorm Artis
became a household name in
2020 performing on season
18 of <The Voice,= earning
top three honors and national
recognition. Thunderstorm
is a singer/songwriter born
on the North Shore of Oahu
and learned at a very young
age to play piano, guitar,
harp and percussion from
his father Ron Artis and
mother Victoria. Ron was a
Motown session player who
played keyboards on Michael
Jackson9s Thriller. His mother
Victoria was also a member of
the Motown family, touring as
a vocalist with Lena Horne,
and many other Motown
greats.
Thunderstorm9s music
crosses many genres includ-
ing folk, rock, soul and
country.
AJ Lee and Blue Summit,
a bluegrass band led by singer,
songwriter, and mandolinist,
AJ Lee, has been the darling
of the North Bay, California,
bluegrass scene since their
first appearance in Santa
Cruz. Drawing from influ-
ences such as swing, folk,
blues, jazz, country, soul,
and rock, their undeniable
talent and insatiable passion
for bluegrass hearkens back
to traditional classics while
remaining uniquely modern.
In 2019, AJ Lee and Blue
Summit came out with their
debut album, <Like I Used
To,= which consists entirely
of AJ9s original songs.
Bluegrass-leaning
Americana quartet Kristen
Grainger & True North is
a powerhouse of award-
winning original songs,
lush vocals, and crazy-good
instrumentalists, Dan Wetzel
(guitar), Josh Adkins (bass)
and Martin Stevens (fiddle,
mandolin, octave mandolin).
On stage, the band delivers
Grainger9s storied songwrit-
ing with mind-blowing vocal
harmonies and mad instru-
ment skills of a band deeply
rooted in folk and bluegrass
genres.
When Caleb Klauder &
Reeb Willm sing, their hon-
est incantations leave a swirl-
ing cloud of <magical spar-
kle smoke= around hearts.
Caleb Klauder9s rowdy and
dynamic mandolin playing,
and Reeb Willms9 unwav-
ering rhythm guitar sound
weave a beautiful fabric
around their songs that proves
joyous, timeless, and resilient.
From Waterville, Washington,
and the high desert, Reeb
comes from a salt-of-the-
earth farming family with
a rough-and-tumble appre-
ciation of simplicity and he
sings with a strong-and-quiet
poise that cuts straight to
the heart. Caleb comes from
Orcas Island, in the Salish Sea
in Northwest Washington,
where the wind-blown tall
trees, and salt sea have bur-
nished Klauder9s voice to a
heartbreaking patina.
The two play and tour as
a duo, and can also be found
performing with the Foghorn
Stringband and the Caleb
Klauder Country Band. They
are pillars of the Portland,
Oregon music scene and
carry the torch of their music
around the world.
The Parnells are an
Americana/Country band
from Bend, bringing a sexy,
indie flare to the classic coun-
try sound. Powerful vocals,
tight harmonies and solid gui-
tar playing drive their rootsy
sound. The Parnells will be
performing as an acoustic
duo, with Corey and Whitney
Parnell.
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