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Jan. 16, and Sunday, Jan. 17. The folk-
focused festival began in the early 2000s,
when a Mapleton-based band called The
Singing Loggers put on a concert and
showcased some of the area’s homegrown
talent. Since then, the festival has mainly
featured headliners popular in the folk
music scene. The Winter Music Festival is
focusing on the “ABCs” of the folk genre:
Americana, Blues and Contemporary
music.
Among those performing at this
year’s festival will be Crow and the
Canyon, Cabin Fever NW, John Craige,
Ian McFeron, True North, Bob Haworth
and the popular contemporary folk music
of Pretty Gritty, who returns for the second
year to the festival.
In addition, the stage will welcome
local performers, such
as
up-and-coming
singer and Siuslaw High
School graduate Billy
Jones, who will open
the music festival Jan.
16. Also, local singer/
songwriter Molly Hardin,
who recently sang at
Backstreet Gallery during
September’s Rods ’n’
Rhodies in Old Town, will
help open the festival.
The sale of Winter
Music Festival tickets
has begun and continues
through Jan. 15. A full
weekend pass includes
admission to the Jonathan
Edwards and Shook Twins
concerts, along with a
Saturday and Sunday
pass for $45. Individual
Saturday passes (10 a.m.
For ticket information, contact The Florence Events Center box office at (541) 997-1994
to 5:30 p.m.) are $12.50; Sunday passes
(10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) are also $12.50; and
reserve tickets for the Jonathan Edwards
and Shook Twins concert (7 p.m.) are $28.
While some things have changed,
others — like the opportunity to introduce
students to live music — will remain.
“In 2000, I heard The Trail Band in
a concert put on by Florence Performing
Arts, which is now SEAcoast. I thought,
‘We’ve got to get the school kids in to
hear this,’” Pearson said. “It seemed like
a simple thing, but now this is my part-
time job. It is my passion, the music and
the kids.”
The Trail Band, an Oregon-based
eight-piece ensemble that features songs
from the Oregon Trail era, will be returning
to give the traditional kids concert this
year on Jan. 14. The kids’ concert will
also feature Lynn Anderson’s students in
traditional Native American regalia and
dances.
The artisan fair will continue in
the lobby with more than 30 booths of
handcrafted art and crafts for purchase.
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Formerly known as the Winter Folk
Festival, this year’s popular two-day
music fest will see the return of festival
favorites as well as introduce what are
certain to be some new favorites under its
new moniker, The Winter Music Festival.
“It’s always been Winter Folk Fest,”
said Rachel Pearson, chairwoman of the
Friends of the FEC committee that is
organizing the new Winter Music Festival,
which Pearson explained will keep an
emphasis on folk while expanding the
genre and diversity with new headliners
like The Shook Twins and Jonathan
Edwards.
Ten musicians, singers and ensembles
will fi ll the FEC with music on Saturday,
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