Folk Festival represents
range of musical genres
By Milan Zupcic
Of Um kmerald
Eugene residents, get ready to dance and
sing as the 17th Annual Willamette V'alley
Folk Festival gets under way this afternoon on
the EMU east lawn.
The free event, sponsored by the EMU
Cultural Forum and KZAM radio, will con
tinue on through Sunday, featuring a wide
variety of traditional and contemporary folk
and acoustic music performed by more than 20
musicians and groups.
Musical styles ranging from Celtic to Reg
gae, Cajun to blues and bluegrass will be per
formed by local as well as nationally acclaim
ed acts during the three-day event. Apart from
the scheduled stage performances, many of the
featured musicians will be giving workshops
on musical style and technique on Saturday
and Sunday in the EMU.
According to Hill Ullman. Cultural Forum
Ethnic and Folk Music coordinator, "our big
gest goal is to make the Folk Festival a learning
experience and to introduce people to new
cultures and musical styles.
"Hopefully in years to come, with the aid
of grants and national endowments for the
arts, we will be able to expand the number of
performers and bring other well-known names
to the event.” he added.
Among big names performing tms year am
Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco band,
who will take the stage at H p.m. on Saturday.
Ida’s Bon Temps Zydeco band finds its
roots in Zydeco music, which is a blend of the
Creole, Cajun and Black communities of I,oui
siana. Zydeco also incorporates dixieland jazz,
blues, rock and Latin music, which provides a
distinctly unique and diverse sound grounded
in numerous cultures and musical styles.
Queen Ida, the first female band leader in the
Zydeco tradition, is no stranger to Eugene au
diences; however. Saturday marks her first ap
pearance on the Folk Festival stage.
Ida has won a Grammy award and been
nominated two other times. She has performed
at concerts, clubs and festivals throughout
North America and Europe. Along with her
Saturday evening performance. Queen Ida will
be giving a workshop on the Cajun/Creole
culture of Southwestern Louisiana at -t p.m.,
Saturday, in the EMI) Fir Boom
Another well-known musician who will
fie gracing the Folk Festival stage Sunday at H
p m., is Matt "Guitar" Murphy. Over the past
two decades Murphy has performed with vir
tually every great blues artist and has been
heralded as one of the best guitarists in recent
years.
Murphy combines elements of blues, jazz
and rock, which results in an energetic and ap
pealing musical style.
Other blues performances will be provid
ed by the Peter Thorpe Blues Band and a local
favorite, the Eagle Park Slim Band.
Fans of marimba music should look for
Dumi and Minanzi III. who will be performing
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Grammy-winner Queen Ida and her Hon
Temps Zydbco Band will perform at H p.m.
Saturday at the Willamette Valley Folk
Festival on the FMV east lawn.
this evening at H p.m.
Backing up Du ini and his hand will la? the
South African singers Slangie and Theresa.
Dumi will offer a drumming workshop
featuring strictly East African drumming styles
and techniques Saturday at 11:30 a m in the
Fir Boom
Other performing groups include
Eugene's own Keggae All Stars, who will be
performing their high energy reggae sound
Saturday at 5 p m
Traditional folk music will he performed
by Chico Schwall. and Northern Broadcasters
and Fiddlin’ Sue. Uncle T and johnny will
perform old-time string band music: Free Hein
and Uood and Country will play traditional
and progressive bluegruss.
For fans of Celtic music, there are Skye.
Flying Haggis, Dorothy jackson and the
Eugene Highlanders. Hispanic music listeners
will enjoy flamenco guitarist Idrus Shahab,
and salsa music by Sandunga and Caliente
Singer-songwriter john Sirkus will per
form contemporary folk music. Banish Misfor
tune and Threshhold provide new acoustic
music, and Hunter Davis returns to Eugene
with women's music.
All concerts and workshops are free and
open to the general public. People who an: in
terested in attending the various workshops
are encouraged to bring their instruments.
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