Featured performers for 2008 include: Brooks Williams • Colleen Cleveland • Frank Sears & Sebastien Deshaies • Genticorum • The Johnson Girls
Lorraine Lee & Bennett Hammond • The MacArthurs • Rebecca Hall & Ken Anderson (hungrytown) * The Speckers • The Sweetback Sisters, The Hanneke Cassel Trio, The Guy Mendilow Band
Fred Park, The Kossoy Sisters, Marge Bruchac, Dan and Debby Gellert, Millish, Christpher Layer, Lewis Franco and the Missing Cats, Val Mindel and Emmy Miller, The Sevens, Catherine Carron...and more!
Influences
Folk music from the Northeast rooted in Scottish, Irish, French-Canadian and Old-time traditions.
Sounds Like
"One of the front-porch friendliest festivals in the region" -- The Boston Globe
"Vermont hosts a number of signature annual cultural events in the summertime. . . But for people with an appreciation of folk and ethnic musical traditions in all their diversity and glory, none compares to the Champlain Valley Folk Festival. . . " -- Montpelier-Barre Times-Argus
Honoring Traditional Music and Dance in the Champlain Valley
Kingsland Bay State Park
on Lake Champlain in Ferrisburgh Vermont
Dates: Friday-Sunday, August 1-3, 2008
Please check out the website www.cvfest.org, you can buy tickets in advance online and check out the schedule of performers! The festival is fast approaching, so keep your eyes on the site for changes and updates. This year is a very special 25th year celebration!
See you soon...
Champlain Valley Folk Festival's Friend Space (Top 8)
Thanks for adding to our site. We actually helped (along with Viveka Fox, Peter McFarlane and Franklin Hayburn) to close down your festival this past summer. After we finished jamming with those people Sunday night we walked out into a very dark and deserted field to find our cars. We enjoyed it to the full!
Hooo--eeee! I see you've taken a liken to us Sweetback Sisters hmmm? Well you stop by anytime to say "Howdy," you hear?
www.TheSweetbackSisters.com
"Honky-tonk for the modern day cowboy & girl!"
Thanks for reaching out, it sounds like you have a wonderful festival going up there! One of us (Doug) went to college at Goddard in Plainfield, and loves that part of the world...
Good luck with this year's festival, and happy new year!
