The Northwest Folklife Festival is a blissful Seattle event featuring thousands of artists on over twenty stages sharing their traditions through music and dance performances, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops. Folklife is held over the Memorial Day holiday weekend at Seattle Center. The SFS is proud to have been one of the founders of Folklife thirty years ago. (Note that Folklife has long been split off from SFS, and it will do you no good to send Folklife email to SFS.)
Victory Music is a non profit organization for local musicians. The Victory Music Review is published monthly. Puget Sound Guitar Workshop provides inspiration and instruction for acoustic guitarists at all levels of skill. A week in the woods surrounded by enthusiastic musicians and outstanding teachers will help you to make strong, satisfying music now. Wintergrass is a huge four-day bluegrass festival held every Februar, formerly in Tacoma, now in Bellevue. Come hear the finest bluegrass artists in the nation, plus workshops, and more. The Pacific Northwest Folklore Society hosts concerts and a monthly session at the Couth Buzzard Bookstore and publishes the on-line newsletter the NW Hoot . Smithsonian Folkways supports SFS. The excellent work on folklore by the Smithsonian is worth having a look at.
Northwest Artists (Mostly Seattle)
- Stan Boreson
- Kellee Bradley
- Brian Butler
- Katya Chorover
- Rick Cooper
- Carolyn Currie
- Deadwood Revival, Port Angeles
- Del Rey
- Dulcimer Duo
- Joules Graves
- Stanley Greenthal
- Rachel Harrington
- Alicia Healey
- Dan Maher, Pullman
- Larry Murante
- Evan Purcell, Tacoma
- Tom Rawson
- Seattle Peace Chorus
- Slainte, Tacoma
- Jennifer Spector
- Stanislove
- Linda Waterfall
Festivals, Camps, and other folk organizations
- American Banjo Camp (5 string)
- Archtop.com (Joe Vinikow)
- Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival, Medical Lake (near Spokane), August
- British Columbia Acoustic Swing and Bluegass Camps
- Britt Festival, Jacksonville, OR
- Cascade Zydeco
- Centrum (Voice Works, Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Blues Week), Port Townsend, WA (June-July + Ukulele and other weekends throughout the year)
- Folk Music Happenings in Alaska
- Georgia Strait Guitar Workshop, British Columbia (June)
- Irish Music Retreat at Roche Harbor”
- Subversive Square Dance Society
- The Mandolin Café, Tacoma
- Mission Folk Festival, Mission BC
- Northwest Folkdancers
- Northwest New Years Camp (aka Bash on Vashon)
- Northwest Scottish Fiddlers
- Northwest Women’s Music Celebration
- Puget’s Sound (Wes Weddell)
- Pyrosutra, fire dancing
- Rogue Folk Club, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Seattle Banjo Club (4 string)
- Seattle Ukulele Players Association
- Sisters Folk Festival, Oregon
- Sno-King International Folk Dance Club
- Sunnycamp, Long Beach Peninsula
- Tacoma Celtic Players
- Tumbleweed Music Festival, Richland, WA (Labor Day)
- Vancouver Folk Music Festival, B.C.
- Victoria Nautical Song Circle
- Whatcom County Homemade Music Society
- Cascadia Irish Music Week
- Princeton Traditional Music Festival, BC
- Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center – monthly chantey sings and many other programs
Folk Societies
- British Columbia Folklore Society
- Washington Bluegrass Association
- Vancouver Folk Song Society, B.C.
- Victoria Folk Music Society
- Three Rivers Folklife Society, Eastern Washington
- Olympia Folklore Society
- Pacific Northwest Folklore Society
- Portland FolkMusic Society
- Island Music Guild, Bainbridge Island
- Spokane Folklore Society
- Song Circles in the Northwest
- Puget Sound Folk Harp Society
- Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association
- Washington Blues Society
Instrument Makers and Stores
Other
- Bumbershoot, pop festival, Labor Day weekend
- Richard Gillmann’s Seattle Folk Music Venues & Schedules
- Lady Lilei’s Calendar
- Seattle Folk Dancing
- Old Time Seattle Music & Dance Resource