Scheduled
to Appear
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Friday, August 4th Bill Peterson and
Friends
Fiddle player and one of the founders of the Folk Festival, Bill Peterson,
will be joined by some of his very talented musical friends for an exciting
evening of Celtic and Scandinavian music to kick off the Sioux River Folk
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 The
Freight Hoppers - Influenced by the old-timey music of the 1920s,
the Freight Hoppers' are sure to impress both hard-core traditionalists
and casual old-time music fans alike. Formed in 1993, the Freight Hoppers
hail from Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio -- and Denmark. The group came
together at "some fiddle festival somewhere," according to the band's fiddle
player David Bass. Playing a lively mixture of old-time dance music and
traditional songs of the 1920s and '30s, the Freight Hoppers will
transport one back to the days of jalopies and steam locomotives.
Though the Freight Hoppers are a young band, they play with seasoned
enthusiasm and with a fluency and understanding of old-timey music that
belies their tender years. Enjoy!
"We like to call our music 'old-time music.' Our influences range from
old phonograph records made in the '20s and '30s of 'hillbilly' musicians
to early country and bluegrass singing as well as old time revival bands
who have recorded in more recent decades. --The Freight Hoppers
"The Freight Hoppers have become one of the tightest bands in old
time music. Good rocking dance tunes and beautiful two-part harmony coupled
with a good sense of humor.
Hop on board." --John Herrman
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 Nickel
Creek originated in San Diego, and has existed as a band, with
the same personnel, for a decade. They met, not surprisingly, through music,
when their parents took them to hear the Southern California band, Bluegrass
Etc., at their regular weekly show at a pizza place. Chris and Sean were
already studying mandolin with the band's John Moore, while Dennis Caplinger
was working with Sara on her fiddling. The three also worked hard on their
education's -- primarily through home schooling.
As they formed their band, the Nickel Creek kids were already starting
to win what would become bushels full of championship trophies. Most notably,
Sara took the Arizona State Fiddle Championship when she was 15; Sean,
at 16 was a finalist on mandolin as well as guitar in the National Flatpicking
Guitar Championship; and Chris has been a finalist for the IBMA's Mandolinist
of The Year award for the past four years. The band itself won the Southwest
regional division of the Pizza Hut International Bluegrass Band Championship
in 1994, and has built an enthusiastic following through appearances at
major festivals and on television, radio and the Interact.
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 Peter
Ostroushko and
Dean Magraw
Peter Ostroushko has come to be regarded as one of the finest mandolin
and fiddle players in acoustic music. His tours have taken him to the stages
of clubs, performing arts centers, music festivals and theatres across
North America and Europe, and he has earned an international reputation
as a versatile and dazzling master of Instrumentation and composition.
His recording contributions stand favorably alongside great Nashville session
men of his generation - he's played with Jethro Burns, Emmylou Harris,
Willie Nelson, Chet Atkins, Johnny Gimble -- but his hometown Minneapolis'
music scene has provided a fabulous variety of musical styles in which
Ostroushko remains unequaled: folk (Greg Brown, John Hartford, TaJ Mahal,
Robin & Linda Williams), bluegrass (Norman and Nancy Blake, Tim O'Brien
and Hot RAze), jazz, classical, and even rock: Peter's first recording
session was an uncredited mandolin set On Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks,
and his work is featured on Robin HDlcomb's 1992 release Rockabye (Elektra).
Dean Magraw is an elegant, exciting, and extraordinarily innovative
guitarist whose influences reach from the British Isles to India, and who
weds folk and jazz in a style all his own. His performances are full of
surprises, with playing that ranges from quiet intensity to explosive power.
The soulful sounds he coaxes from his instrument are amazing: sitar-like
string bends that slide forever, percussive bass rolls, brilliant rhythmic
chord inversions, and mysterious colors from a seemingly limitless tonal
palette.
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Chuck Suchy
North Dakota rancher, farmer and songwriter. Chuck Suchy returns to
the Folk Festival this summer, with his heartfelt songs of the land and
family. One of this areas favorite performers, Chuck Suchy, writes songs
that are "potent as fresh pearl onions and sings with a sincerity that
could rip a gunny sack." |
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Dakota District Pipes & Drums
People young and old, all over the world, have
been thrilled by the Highland bagpipes. Dakota District Pipes & Drums
proudly carries on the tradition in the region, performing at festivals,
concerts, parades, and, of course, Burns Supper in memory of the immortal
Scottish band, Robert Burns. |
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The Sioux
River Folk Festival
is sponsored
by...
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SOUTH DAKOTA ARTS COUNCIL
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For
more information please call (605) 987-2582
Brought to You by: South Dakota Friends of Traditional
Music
P.O. Box 901 Sioux Falls, SD 57101-901
email: info@fotm.org
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