First round of Richmond Folk Festival performers announced!
The Richmond Folk Festival takes place in just two months (on October 8 through 10, to be exact) and the powers-that-be are finally sharing some of the names that will be gracing this year’s schedule.
The Richmond Folk Festival takes place in just two months (on October 8 through 10, to be exact) and the powers-that-be are finally sharing some of the names that will be gracing this year’s schedule.
Here ya go, round 1:
Bonsoir, Catin
Cajun
Lafayette, Louisiana
Boukman Eksperyans
Haitian Mizik Rasin
Port au Prince, Haiti
Donald Harrison & The Congo Square Nation
Jazz & Mardi Gras; Indian Traditions
New Orleans, Louisiana
Ensemble Shanbehzadeh (pictured above)
Bushehri Music & Dance of Iran
Paris, France
La Excelencia
Salsa Dura
New York, New York
Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials
Chicago Blues
Chicago, Illinois
Lúnasa
Irish
Ireland
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
Bluegrass
Nashville, Tennessee
For more on these wonderful performers, stop by their individual websites (linked above in their listings, if applicable) or see what the Richmond Folk Festival has to say about them.
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Valerie Catrow
Valerie Catrow is editor of RVAFamily, mother to a mop-topped first grader, and always really excited to go to bed.
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Please tell me Debashish Bhattacharya is coming back. I would love to experience that. Now that I know I won’t hear Jason Scott’s Tristano thing, I’ve got new goals.
This is just the first round of names that they’ve released. We’ll post the next group as soon as we get the list.