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Thank you, Friends of Folklife! Your support makes the Folklife Festival happen.
INDIE ROOTS
Sponsored by KEXP
Indie Roots Showcases
Look for the Indie Roots icon
on the
schedule grid and take yourself on a tour
of all that Indie Roots has to offer.
Here are some, among the many showcases,
not to miss:
American Standard Time
Featuring The Wild Lips, The Black Tones,
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio (aka DLO3),
M. Lockwood Porter
Friday from 6–9 p.m., Fountain Lawn Stage
Folk, Redefined Showcase
Featuring Ravenna Woods, Aura Ruddell,
Amanda Winterhalter, Among Authors
Saturday from 3:30–6:15 p.m., Vera Project
Kinfolk: Stories in Song
Featuring Jason McCue, Kimo Muraki of Tiny
Messengers, Tomo Nakayama
Sunday from 1–3 p.m., Folklife Café
Giddy Up Roots Show
Featuring The Hasslers,
The Pearls
Sunday from 2:45–4:45 p.m.,
Fountain Lawn Stage
New Americana Roots Show
Featuring The Talbott Brothers, Ky Burt and
The Moonlight Travelers, Curtis/Sutton & The
Scavengers, The Local Strangers
Sunday from 6–9 p.m., Back Porch Stage
Check out Indie Roots programming throughout
the weekending in The KEXP Gathering Space,
located at #7 on the map.
A CO-CURATED FESTIVAL
If you’ve wondered how the annual Northwest Folklife
Festival presents such a wide breadth of diversity and
cultural inclusion each year, the answer lies in the innovative
Community Coordinator Program, which brings cultural
leaders into the festival’s planning
process. Each coordinator is drawn
from a specific community in the Pacific
Northwest and is an integral partner in
the fulfillment of Northwest Folklife’s
mi s s ion t o c e lebr at e, sha r e, and
participate in the evolving traditions
of this region. The goal of the program
is to give space at the festival for these
communities to present their arts and traditions on their own
terms. An additional goal is also for the coordinators to invite
their communities to attend the festival and to encourage
all festivalgoers to participate and
learn from each other’s traditions.
The commun it ies covered by t h is
program range widely across Northwest
demographics, including South Asian,
Native American, Filipino, Arab, Irish,
Latino, Hispanic, Scandinavian, African,
African-American, Latin American,
Canad ian, and East er n Eu ropean
communit ies. Nor thwest Folklife’s
festival programming reflects the diversity of our region,
much of it centered on immigrant communities.
“The Community Coordinator program at Northwest Folklife
creates a co-curated, shared ownership of the Festival
that defines Northwest Folklife’s commitment to cultural
inclusion”, says Kelli Faryar, Programs Director. “Our
collaboration with Coordinators is necessary to an authentic
celebration of the multicultural arts, cultures and traditions
of the region. They represent the
lifeblood of our communities and these
relationships lie at the heart and soul of
this commitment.”
The Community Coordinator Program
is an ongoing partnership that results
in over 65% of the programming at both
the Northwest Folklife Festival and the
Seattle Children’s Festival (which Northwest Folklife also
produces). With Coordinator guidance and co-curation, each
showcase is put together with careful consideration of the
unique needs of the community, artists, and audience, and
with the goal of growing and embracing
the ever-changing cultural traditions
and landscapes of the region. “The
Northwest Folklife Festival has such
a prominent energy in the arts and
music in the city,” says Ali Ghambari,
the Community Coordinator for the
Northwest Folklife Festival’s Iranian
Showcase. “For us, working with
Northwest Folklife compliments what
we’re doing, and Folklife gives us resources and the energy
to build on. It’s a pleasure to work with Northwest Folklife,
and at the same time it elevates what we do.”
For a full list of our Community Coordinators, visit Page 19.
“The Community Coordinator
program at Northwest Folklife
creates a co-curated, shared
ownership of the Festival that
defines Northwest Folklife’s
commitment to cultural inclusion”
“For us, working with Northwest
Folklife compliments what we’re
doing, and Folklife gives us
resources and the energy to build
on. It’s a pleasure to work with
Northwest Folklife, and at the
same time it elevates what we do.”
CO-CURATED FESTIVAL
Photo by Christopher Nelson