Folk Project Fall Festival

Fall Festival is held Columbus Day weekend. There are organized events with scheduled performers, workshops, round robins (singalongs), dances, skits, canoeing, etc. Activities take place at many sites around the campground. Featured acts are established names or up-and-coming performers in the Folk Music world.

Fall Festival 2004
October 8-10

Concerts, Dances, Workshops, Pickup Jams, and more, featuring:

Artisan

ARTISAN is unique in the folk world these days. They are an all a capella trio from England doing original songs. The songs are wordy, funny, clever, and charming. The members of the trio, Jacey and Brian Bedford and Hillary Spencer are wordy, funny, clever, and charming as well. The harmonies are lush and compelling, and many of their songs have irresistible choruses. (Oh, good!) This irrepressible trio took the 1999 Folk Project Spring Festival by storm.

Wild Asparagus

It's a rare act that can switch gears to be both a concert and dance band, but WILD ASPARAGUS has been doing just that for 25 years. Probably the most renowned contra dance band in the world, W.A. is equally at home singing and playing for a listening crowd. Headed by caller and concertina player George Marshall, the band also includes Becky Tracy on fiddle, David Cantienin on winds, Anne Percival on piano and guitar, and Stuard Kenney on bass.

Les Barker

LES BARKER writes strange poems and comes from Manchester, England. He was an accountant before he became a professional idiot. He's written 65 books, which sell in large numbers at his gigs because people don't quite believe what they've just heard. His poems have spawned a number of folk heroes: Jason and the Arguments, Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife Thrower, Captain Indecisive and Spot of the Antarctic, to name but two.

Dave Kleiner & Liz Pagan

DAVE KLEINER was a founding member of the Folk Project. Together with his wife LIZ PAGAN, he presents a highly entertaining mix of his own clever and well crafted songs and some obscure gems written by his contemporaries in the folk and pop fields. He is a very classy guitarist, and Liz adds bass and vocal harmonies to the mix.

Heidi Muller

HEIDI MULLER is a songwriter, guitarist and mountain dulcimer player who sings warm-hearted, insightful songs and plays contemporary and traditional music on the dulcimer. She recently moved back to northwest NJ and joined the Folk Project after living in Seattle for 19 years.

Mark Schaffer

President of the Folk Project, MARK SCHAFFER embodies what we love best in our member-musicians. He plays Fiddle and Guitar, and will be assembling an impressive ensemble of his fellow Projectiles to form a swing band presenting mostly his own music.

Gary Paul Hermus

GARY PAUL HERMUS plays his own intelligently crafted songs accompanied with intricate fingerstyle guitar work.

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