Aug. 7 - The Woods Stage - 7:30-8:30pm
Aug. 8 - Mt. View Stage - 8:45-10:00pm

[Louisville, KY]
Perhaps you havent been paying attention, but Bonnie Prince Billy is clearly one of the great American songwriters to emerge in the last decade. Listen more closely, and youll ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Mt. View Stage - 8:45-10:00pm
Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 1:00-2:15am

[Philadelphia, PA]
"There was this feeling inside me going into making this record that we'd never made an album before," says guitarist/vocalist Scott McMicken of Dr. Dog's Shame, Shame, their ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Mt. View Stage - 9:45-11:00pm
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 1:00-2:15am

[Cincinnati, OH]
The Heartless Bastards' story starts in Dayton, Ohio, where Wennerstrom found the name on a multiple choice video trivia game at a bar.
As a songwriting teenager during a ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Workshop Barn - 3:30-4:30pm
Aug. 6 - Mt. View Stage - 7:00-8:00pm

[Austin, TX]
Hayes Carll delivers songs born of baptism-by-fire experience, world weary observations and sharp wit. While his songs draw a direct line from Texas songwriting heroes such as Townes ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Woods Stage - 6:00-7:00pm
Aug. 7 - Workshop Barn - 5:00-6:00pm
Aug. 7 - Mt. View Stage - 7:45-8:45pm

[Los Angeles, CA]
"Antifogmatic" is a bit of bygone slang that mandolinist Chris Thile and his bandmates stumbled across, "an old term," explains the Punch ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Galaxy Barn - 1:00-2:15am
Aug. 7 - The Woods Stage - 4:30-5:30pm
Aug. 8 - Mt. View Stage - 6:45-7:45pm

[New York, NY]
It is a special time for Langhorne Slim as he is so proud to announce and present Be Set Free, his mighty third album being released by ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Galaxy Barn - 7:00-8:00pm
Aug. 7 - Workshop Barn - 2:00-3:00pm
Aug. 7 - Mt. View Stage - 6:00-7:00pm

[Portland/Chicago, OR/IL]
In this often reflexive and world-weary era of popular music, there seems little room for unabashed wonder, or joy without suspicion. ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Fir Meadows Stage - 3:30-4:15pm
Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 8:30-9:30pm
Aug. 8 - Starlight Stage - 10:00-11:00pm

[Vancouver, BC]
Beloved East Vancouver alt folk trio The Be Good Tanyas have achieved cult status since their inception in the late 90's. With classic ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Woods Stage - 7:30-8:30pm
Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 11:30-12:30am
Aug. 8 - Mt. View Stage - 1:30-2:30pm

[Seattle, WA]
Here is the mystery of Seattle's Cave Singers: They never listened to much folk music, they never intended to play folk music, and more ... + MORE

Aug. 8 - Mt. View Stage - 3:15-4:15pm
Aug. 8 - The Woods Stage - 6:00-7:00pm

[San Francisco, CA]
If we're led to believe anything from the photograph on the cover of San Francisco songwriter Sean Hayes' new album, "Run Wolves Run," it's that we can feel one thousand different ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Mt. View Stage - 5:15-6:15pm
Aug. 6 - The Galaxy Barn - 10:00-11:00pm
Aug. 7 - The Woods Stage - 3:00-4:00pm

[Durham, NC]
Based in Durham, North Carolina, Megafaun was built by brothers Brad and Phil Cook and fellow Eau Claire, Wisconsin, native Joe Westerlund. ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Workshop Barn - 7:30-8:30pm
Aug. 6 - Starlight Stage - 1:00-2:00am
Aug. 7 - Fir Meadows Stage - 7:00-7:45pm

[Portland, OR]
Despite their individual musical pedigrees, the seasoned musicians that make up progressive string band Black Prairie aren't moonlighting. ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - The Woods Stage - 12:00-1:00pm
Aug. 8 - Starlight Stage - 11:30pm-12:30am

[San Francisco, CA]
The multi-layered style that Kyle Field likes to give his voice on the recordings he makes will make you feel as if there were two or more of him in the room with you at ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 11:30-12:30pm
Aug. 8 - Fir Meadows Stage - 4:15-5:00pm

[Greenville, MS]
On July 22, 2008, James "T Model" Ford stepped into Planet Paul Studios in Wichita, KS at the end of his first formal tour in years. Rumors of his demise had been laid to rest ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Galaxy Barn - 11:30pm-12:30am
Aug. 7 - Workshop Barn - 12:30-1:30pm
Aug. 7 - Fir Meadows Stage - 8:45-9:45pm

[Lafayette, LA]
Hard driving, witty, eclectic, and honest, the music of the Red Stick Ramblers is inseparable from their way of life and the rich ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Fir Meadows Stage - 1:45-2:30pm
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 1:00-2:00pm

[Portland, OR]
Richmond Fontaine was formed in 1994 at the Portland Meadows horse track over a shared love of old SST records and bad whisky. Never has quite so propitious a venue been the point ... + MORE

Aug. 8 - Fir Meadows Stage - 2:30-3:15pm
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 7:00-8:00pm

[Montpelier, VT]
From her current home base in a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont, Anais ("uh-NAY-iss") Mitchell writes songs that are as intimate as conversations and as rich in detail ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Mt. View Stage - 2:30-3:30pm
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 11:30-12:30am

[Raleigh, NC]
Ten years in, the four gentlemen that form Chatham County Line have a lot to reflect on. Sold out shows in the US and overseas, appearances on national Radio & TV, four solid selling ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 7:00-8:00pm
Aug. 8 - Workshop Barn - 2:00-3:00pm
Aug. 8 - Fir Meadows Stage - 8:00-8:45pm

[Lexington, KY]
With their third full length release in 18 months, These United States surrender themselves to unbridled rock and roll exuberance: ringing ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Woods Stage - 4:30-5:30pm
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 11:30-12:30pm
Aug. 8 - Workshop Barn - 5:00-6:00pm

[Astoria, OR]
Michael Hurley is one of the last remaining ramblin' American folk troubadours. Hobo-ing around the country, making music since the days ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Fir Meadows Stage - 8:00-8:45pm
Aug. 8 - The Woods Stage - 12:00-1:00pm

[East Jordan, MI]
In a Lincoln Log cabin in deep rural Michigan live and work Micah Middaugh, Trevor Hobbs, and Andrea Moreno-Beals. This is Breathe Owl Breathe.

A pocket history:
- ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Workshop Barn - 5:00-6:00pm
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 4:00-5:00pm

[Knoxville, TN]
In 2009, with the everybodyfields on hiatus, Sam Quinn booked some studio time and called up some friends to go swimming and hash out some ideas in an old milking stable in Johnson ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Workshop Barn - 5:00-6:00pm
Aug. 7 - Starlight Stage - 12:30-1:30am
Aug. 8 - Fir Meadows Stage - 6:00-6:45pm

[Knoxville, TN]
Jill Andrews has been a musician all her life: from her first original tune in kindergarten - a ditty about the letter P - to the stage ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Fir Meadows Stage - 12:00-12:45pm
Aug. 8 - Workshop Barn - 11:00-12:00pm
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 10:00-11:00pm

[Toronto, ON]
Stalking shadows on the prairies with a compass and set of matches, shaking the mountains loose with howls and footstomps and, settled ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Galaxy Barn - 8:30-9:30pm
Aug. 7 - Mt. View Stage - 11:00am-12:00pm

[Asheville, NC]
Imagine the band that occupies the common ground between traditional bluegrass, outlaw country, and pure old time mountain music. A group that harnesses the frantic energy of ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 5:30-6:30pm
Aug. 8 - Mt. View Stage - 11:45-12:45pm

[Portland, OR]
The seven core members of Typhoon (17 total contributors sing, play upright bass, toy piano, real piano, and a crumpled plastic bag for texture on Hunger & Thirst) have all known ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Fir Meadows Stage - 5:15-6:00pm
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 5:30-6:30pm

[Metuchen, NJ]
My grandparents were ornithologists, even during the war. My grandfather, stationed in Japan, did intelligence work for the army collecting data on Japanese birds and bugs. He ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Woods Stage - 3:00-4:00pm
Aug. 6 - Mt. View Stage - 10:15-11:30pm

[Portland, OR]
Foghorn Stringband plays old time string band music deeply rooted in the American folk tradition. It's a pre-copyright, post-bluegrass style, but the Foghorns put their own stamp ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Mt. View Stage - 11:45-12:45pm
Aug. 8 - Workshop Barn - 3:30-4:30pm
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 8:30-9:30pm

[Austin, TX]
Last summer, out of the ashes of the Hacienda Brothers, sprung the Stone River Boys featuring Dave Gonzalez and Mike Barfield. When the Hacienda ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Mt. View Stage - 3:30-4:30pm
Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 2:30-3:30pm

[Portland, OR]
It's uncommon for a contemporary artist to create a timeless album, an album that is both surprising and comforting. Yet after only a few listens to the new record from WEINLAND, ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Fir Meadows Stage - 6:15-7:00pm
Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 1:00-2:00pm

[Portland, OR]
Sallie Ford hails from Asheville, North Carolina, just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Enjoying a musical upbringing surrounded by performers, she grew up playing the guitar ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Starlight Stage - 11:00pm-12:00am
Aug. 8 - The Galaxy Barn - 2:30-3:30pm

[Brooklyn, NY]
The Dust Busters are an old-time string band based out of Brooklyn, New York. They met while playing in a larger band with folk music legends John Cohen of the New Lost City ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Workshop Barn - 11:00-12:00pm
Aug. 8 - The Woods Stage - 4:30-5:30pm

[Lake City, MI]
Michigan has, for some time now, been a deep resource for songwriters and roots musicians. Two favorites, Seth Bernard and "Daisy" May Erlewine, well-known to audiences as single ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 10:00-11:00pm
Aug. 8 - Mt. View Stage - 5:00-6:00pm

[Saskatoon, SK]
The timeless sound of the aptly named "The Deep Dark Woods" belongs to the depressing winters of the north. Pulsing with human warmth, these original songs echo through the lonesome ... + MORE

Aug. 8 - Fir Meadows Stage - 12:45-1:30pm
Aug. 8 - The Woods Stage - 7:30-8:30pm

[Asheville, NC]
Certain talented musicians have the ability to transport the listener to a different time by just hitting some strings or directing the air that fills their lungs. For Woody ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - The Woods Stage - 6:00-7:00pm
Aug. 8 - Fir Meadows Stage - 11:00-11:45am
Aug. 8 - Workshop Barn - 6:30-7:30pm

[Los Angeles, CA]
"A young Californian who sings and plays as someone who's crawled out of the Virginia mountains carrying familiar songs that in his ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Starlight Stage - 11:30-12:30am
Aug. 7 - Mt. View Stage - 4:15-5:15pm

[Cumberland, MD]
Biology says: That people who live at high altitudes must develop physiological adaptations to the decreased amount of oxygen available in order to maintain homeostasis. The list ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - Fir Meadows Stage - 4:30-5:15pm
Aug. 7 - The Woods Stage - 1:30-2:30pm

[Johnson City, TN]
Since first gaining national attention for her songwriting at the prestigious Chris Austin songwriting contest at Merlefest in 2004, Martha Scanlan has covered a good deal ... + MORE

Aug. 8 - The Woods Stage - 3:00-4:00pm
Aug. 8 - Workshop Barn - 6:30-7:30pm

[Los Angeles, CA]
Paxton is an early 20-something year old musician and singer who plays the guitar, banjo and piano and is a walking encyclopedia of early blues and jazz. He hails from the Watts ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - The Galaxy Barn - 4:00-5:00pm
Aug. 8 - The Woods Stage - 1:30-2:30pm
Aug. 8 - Starlight Stage - 1:00-2:00am

[Knoxville, TN]
Born in the rumbling cab of a stone truck and aged in the oak of Tennessee's smoky night haunts, The Black Lillies have come to the forefront ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Galaxy Barn - 4:00-5:00pm
Aug. 7 - Workshop Barn - 3:30-4:30pm

[Seattle, WA]
Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio performs music that swings. Nat "King" Cole Trio meets the Mills Brothers. Fats Waller meets Fats Domino. Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. It is music of ... + MORE

Aug. 7 - Woods Stage - 10:30-11:30am

[Portland, OR]
Though they sometimes claim to be from a place called Yazoo there is no denying the mossy side to The Cardboard Songsters at home in Portland Oregon. Entertaining all ages with songs both old and odd animated with giant cardboard ... + MORE

Aug. 6 - The Galaxy Barn - 5:30-6:30pm
Aug. 8 - Workshop Barn - 12:30-1:30pm

[Portland, OR]
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the Water Tower Bucket Boys play raw, hard-driving music with tight harmonies and virtuosic instrumental work. The Bucket Boys formed in 2005 with Josh ... + MORE

Aug. 8 - Mt. View Stage - 10:00-11:00am

[Portland, OR]
Captain Bogg & Salty began as a pirate-themed, children's concept CD by Kevin Hendrickson and Loren Hoskins in 1999. The band now includes five members with diverse backgrounds in musical theater, sketch comedy, and children's ... + MORE