Hackey sacks, nude dancers and hula hoops
■ Music, dancing and food,
as well as innovative recycling
methods, are just the beginning
for the Folk Festival this year
By Alix Kerl
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Willamette Valley Folk Fes
tival is not just about folk music,
but the music of the folk in the
community, said Amy Bowers, the
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UO Cultural Forum.
“The beauty is that we combined
national artists with local artists; in
ternational and community artists
are playing together,” Bowers said.
Bowers and co-coordinator
Kurt Catlin spent the entire year
organizing the event, which at
tracts almost 15,000 people over
three days.
The Folk Fest, which runs today
through Sunday, is an outdoor mu
sic event with seven stages. It is not
only known for three days of eclec
tic folk music, but also for those
who take advantage of the Eugene
ordinance allowing public nudity.
“I love it when all of the crazy
Eugeneans come out of the wood
work,” said senior George Pryor,
who will volunteer at this year’s
festival. “There are even old guys
doing the hula hoop. You’ve got a
great eclectic group of people.”
Besides nude dancing and hula
hoops, there will be a crafts area for
children and music and dance
workshops in the Fir and Ben Lin
der Rooms of the EMU. KLCC will
broadcast the festival’s main stage
acts from the University campus
beginning at noon Friday and con
tinuing through the weekend.
Music
The headliners this year include
Tony Coleman on on Friday, The
Mystical Arts of Tibet and The Sug
ar Beets on Saturday and Toshi
Reagon on Sunday.
Friday, the music begins at
noon and ends at 10 p.m. On both
Saturday and Sunday, the music
runs from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m.
Coleman was B.B. King’s drum
mer for 10 years and has toured
and worked with Etta James,
James Brown and Ray Charles.
The Mystical Arts is a group of
Buddhist monks who perform tra
ditional temple music. The Sugar
Beets is a homegrown band who
met in University residence halls
and have been playing together
since 1992. Reagon, who plays
lead guitar, is the daughter of
Sweet Honey in the Rock founder
Bernice Johnson.
Organizers said that the monks
are one of the most unique attrac
tions this year. Bowers has two of
the monks staying at her house,
and she said they are wonderful
houseguests.
“They are just great,” Bowers
said. “They keep giggling and
laughing.”
Other groups include the Deb
Cleveland Band, the UO Gospel En
semble, Babes With Axes and
Hanuman, a folky funk band. Uni
versity student Max Sassenfeld saw
Hanuman at last summer’s Oregon
Country Fair and at Bumbershoot
Festival in Seattle and can’t wait to
see them play on Friday evening.
“Hanuman rock the dome,”
he said.
Sassenfeld said that the group
utilizes whale vertebrae, shell, bells
and hand drums to create their
unique percussion sound.
Other bands will play through
out the weekend at Main Stage on
the East Lawn, the EMU Amphithe
ater, The Buzz and the Taylor and
International Lounges
“With some of the music, you
can sit on the lawn and relax, and
other music will get you up and
dancing,” Bowers said.
Workshops, children
and bicycles
On Saturday and Sunday there
will be workshops on the Ap
palachian clawhammer banjo, hip
hop dance and West African dance
in the EMU.
The children’s booth will be lo
cated in the craft vendor area be
Emerald
Some audience members at last year’s Willamette Valley Folk Festival were interested in
more than just music. Almost 15,000 people are expected for this year’s three-day event.
hind the EMU on Saturday and
Sunday. There will be finger-paint
ing, mask making, bubble magic,
jugglers and entertainers.
Bicycle valet parking is offered
again this year by the Center for
Appropriate Transport. CAT pro
vides a guarded, friendly area to
store your bike for a suggested $1
donation. The bicycle parking
area will be on the lawn between
the EMU and the Student Recre
ation Center.
Recycling
At last year’s festival, Campus
Recycling threw away 2,540
pounds of trash and recycled
4,000 pounds of material. This
year, Campus Recycling is moving
closer to making the event waste
free by recycling, composting and
offering reusable plastic plates and
metal forks.
The program will serve as a
model for other campus and com
munity events, said Jonathan
Borgida, the events coordinator for
Campus Recycling.
“We’re taking it to the next lev
el,” he said. “We’re definitely going
to put the UO on the map.”
ASUO also helped the recycling
effort by purchasing 3,500 metal
forks and 4,000 plates for the event.
There will be no deposit on the
plates, but Borgida said he doesn’t
think that they will have a problem
with people stealing them.
A collection of 70 volunteers will
shuttle plates to be cleaned and
staff seven compost stations. There
will be a total of 18 volunteers and
Campus Recycling employees
working all horns of the Folk Festi
val, Borgida said.
The event will not be zero-waste
until no waste at all is generated.
Borgida expects there will only be
enough waste to half-fill the one
Dumpster, which is half as small as
the one used last year.
E-mail Pulse reporter Alix Kerl
alixkerl@dailyemerald.com
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Main stage schedule
for the Willamette
Valley Folk Festival
Friday
12 p.m.
1pm
2 pm.
3 pm.
4 pm.
5 pm.
6 pm.
7 pm.
8 pm.
Saturday
11am.
11:25a.m,
12pm.
1 pm.
2 p.m.
3 pm.
4 pm.
5 pm.
8:30 p.m.
Sunday
11a.m.
11am.
12 pm,
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2 pm,
3 pm.
4 pm,
5 pm.
6 pm.
7 pm.
830 pm.
Celtic Tradition
Syrius Jones
Deb Cleveland Band
Norma Fraser
Justin King
What Yo Mama Warned
You About
Buster B< Jones
Han Liman
Tony Coleman
Dan Jones
Angela Lecompte
Don Latarskt's Rue
D'Acousttc
Mark Alai-r Hr? ills,
and Jeff Leonard
Danny Sa
Jackstraw
Son Meia’o
Mood Food
The Mystical Arts of Tibet
The Sugar Beets
Monks
Kawaida
UG Gospel Ensemble
Daybreak
New Song Contest
Misty River
Babes With Axes
Tom May
Olem Alves Band
Danny Godinez Band
Tosh! Reagon