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Katherine Angier
  Grassy Nook Stage   1:00pm
14-year-old Katherine Angier has 7 years of experience playing jazz, blues, big band songs, and classical. She attends Blair High School and is interested in insects, microbes, and music.

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Bad Sauce
  Grassy Nook Stage   3:00pm
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bad-Sauce/45397322953
The members of this hometown classic/indie rock/folk band are brothers Puck & Julian Bregstone and friends Irene Ravitz, Pat Clarke & Dylan Nunn on guitar, bass, drums, keys, trumpet, trombone and vocals. They've been playing together for more than 4 years (since 6th grade). Their individual musical adventures now include a cappella, marching band, musicals, song writing, club rock - with instruments as varied as ukilele and tuba. This TPFF performance will be one of their first ventures into a more acoustic un-plugged sound.

The Blackthorn Ceili Dancers have maintained the focus on the regular ceilis and we still do performances, festivals and parades. And what we do best is have fun.

Lessons are now taught by the Ring of Kerry Irish Dance Club, http://www. ringofkerrydancers.org, and the Greater Washington Ceili Club, http://www.gwcc-online.org.

Bluestone
  Field Stage   5:00pm

Since 2005 Bluestone has been rocking clubs and events throughout Virginia, Maryland and DC, and keeping the blues alive by bringing a freshness and excitement to the music. Geared to keep the dance floor packed, Bluestone lights up the stage wherever they perform.

The Bog Band
  Lenore Robinson Dance Stage   11:00am

The Bog Band was created in September, 2004 when a group of sixth grade boys at the Washington Waldorf School (Bethesda, Maryland) and their strings teacher, Mitch Fanning, formed a fiddle club to play traditional Irish tunes. As their talent and success grew, other young musicians joined. Today, the Bog Band has about 15 musicians ranging in age from ten through teen (and beyond).

The Bog Band has performed to great reviews at events and festivals throughout the Baltimore/Washington area including: Potomac Celtic Festival, The Folklore Society of Greater Washington, Smithsonian's Discovery Theatre, The DC Mayor's Awards Gala, Montgomery County Arts Council events, ShamRock Fest, and MetroPerforms!

They have recorded two CD'S: Got Bog?, a studio album, and Own Their On Turf/, a live session recording that captures the excitement and enthusiasm these musicians bring to their performances.

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Calico Jack
  Abbott Stage   5:00pm
http://janiemeneely.com
About 25 years ago, Janie Meneely began writing songs about the Bay, and she hasn't stopped yet. She and Paul DiBlasi perform together as the duo Calico Jack, bringing their songs and stories about Bay people, places and traditions to stages throughout the Bay watershed. DiBlasi adds a dash of color as well as a splash of comedy to the duo's routine, but he really shines as a singer. His mellow baritone vocals add a full-throated gusto to the mix, where he gives voice to the watermen Meneely so often writes about. He also brings his repertoire of classic work songs to Meneely's portfolio of originals - along with a flair for harmony. Sometimes saucy, sometimes serious, Calico Jack offers audiences a glimpse of a rapidly disappearing way of life and invites them to join in on the chorus.

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D.C. Labor Chorus
  Abbott Stage   11:00am
http://www.laborheritage.org/?p=579
The D.C. Labor Chorus is a musical ensemble representing union members and community activists from the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The D.C. Labor Chorus sings for rallies, demonstrations, and picket lines. We welcome union members to the annual Great Labor Arts Exchange each summer, and we hold an annual Sacred/Favorite Songs concerts every winter and a community benefit concert every spring. Some of our members and participants are professional musicians but most are union members and activists who just love to sing. Join us!

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The Echo Wall
  Grassy Nook Stage   11:00am
Brothers, Tate and Teddy Corrales, ages 10 and 13, play keyboard and saxophone, accompanied by their friend on clarinet. From blues to the Beatles.

emma's revolution
  Grove Stage   5:00pm

A motivating force in intimate concerts and mass demonstrations, infused with inspiration from the legacy of music for social change, Pat Humphries and Sandy O's dynamic harmonies are multiplied by hundreds of thousands. Emma Goldman stood for everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things. Join the revolution!

emma's revolution is the duo of award-winning, activist musicians, Pat Humphries & Sandy O, who write songs that become traditions. Their song, If I Give Your Name won Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and their music has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" and Pacifica's "Democracy Now!". Peace, Salaam, Shalom is sung around the world and has been called the "anthem of the anti-war movement." Keep On Moving Forward opened the NGO Forum at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Bejiing, becoming the unofficial theme of the Conference.

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Farafina Kan Youth Ensemble
  Grassy Nook Stage   11:00am
http://farafinakan.com/joomla/
Farafina Kan is a family! We are comprised of young African-American artists who, under the tutelage of international performing arts legends, seek to sustain the work initiated by these legends through professionalism, artistry, continual learning and proactive intergenerational transmission of African culture through music and movement.

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The Galt Line
  Seventh Heaven Stage   12:15pm
http://www.TheGaltLineBand.com
The Galt Line is a rootsy swing group born in Brooklyn in 2008 and recently returned to their native DC metro area. With wide-ranging influences that include R&B, Rockabilly, Western Swing, Jump Blues, and Gypsy Jazz, they have forged a sound that embraces music history without sounding antiquated. Combining classic dance styles with a wry lyrical sensibility and wall-shaking energy, The Galt Line is less interested in moving people and more interested in getting people moving.

The Grandsons
  Grove Stage   3:00pm
  Seventh Heaven Stage   5:00pm

The Grandsons bring with them a pawn shop of instruments. Vocalist-guitarist-trumpeter Alan MacEwen charms audiences with his sly wit and winsome original songs; DC blues veteran Matthew Sedgley locks in the groove on drums and percussion. Saxophonist Chris Watling puts out a sound so meaty and memorable that he is in demand all over as a guest artist and session player. The Grandsons employ first-call bassists to hold down the low end, including Moe Nelson.

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Hippie Citie
  Grassy Nook Stage   11:00am
Hippie Citie is Kenneth Hill, Robbie Fitzpatrick, Patrick Fox, Evan Williamson, and Sam Butler. These middle schoolers will perform a U2 cover and an original.

The Honey Dewdrops
  Seventh Heaven Stage   3:00pm

If the Sun Will Shine, their debut record, was released in 2009 to critical acclaim and was #2 for two consecutive months on Folk DJ Radio in 2010. Recorded live and mixed in a 1920's barn, the record is meant to pay homage to their live performances - full of the same energy and emotion the Honey Dewdrops bring to the stage. The album is a collection of songs that Laura and Kagey have written over the past two years, capturing "something haunting, melancholic and all-together charming" (Jeff Royer, Fly Magazine).

Their second record, These Old Roots, will be released in August 2010. The Dewdrops are A Prairie Home Companion's 2008 talent show winners and were finalists in the 2009 Mountain Stage NewSong competition.

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ilyAIMY
  Seventh Heaven Stage   4:00pm
  Seventh Heaven Stage   5:00pm
http://www.ilyaimy.com/
Rob Hinkal and Heather Lloyd have been touring nationally as ilyAIMY (i love you And I Miss You) for 7 years, playing everything from bait shops to biker weeks to nudist resorts. Called "a welcome jolt in folk," they've been honored by Kerrville New Folk, Mountain Stage Newsong, Eddie's Attic Acoustic Shootout and were the inaugural winners of the Takoma Park Folk Fest Emerging Artist Showcase. Since then, Heather backed Dar Williams' Promised Land tour, and ilyAIMY has released several CDs of award-winning songs.

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Jeanne & Lauren Jarvis-Gibson
  Grassy Nook Stage   1:00pm
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jeanne-and-Lauren-J-G/152512088443
Twins Jeanne & Lauren Jarvis-Gibson sing originals and covers in tight harmonies with guitar accompaniment.

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Ladle Fight
  Grassy Nook Stage   3:00pm
http://ladlefight.blogspot.com/
Original music by four Takoma Park 8th graders, Ian Askew, Ben Miller, Michael Untereiner, and Zeke Wapner. Afer writing and performing their own songs together since third grade, Ladle Fight releases its first CD this year. They will do a rare acoustic performance at Folk Fest, showing off their folkier side, and incorporating bucket drums.

Elizabeth & Sandy LaPrelle
  Abbott Stage   1:30pm

Sandy LaPrelle grew up singing the traditional songs her mother and father sang to her at home. As a counselor at summer camp she sang and taught others to sing folk songs around the campfire, and of course sang to her own kids at home. In the late 1980s Sandy performed early music with the Solstice Assembly out of Chapel Hill, NC. Now that her daughter Elizabeth is performing regularly, Sandy provides harmony vocals for the family duets.

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Martin Family Band
  Abbott Stage   1:30pm
http://www.themartinfamilyband.com
The Martin Family Band is a family music group from Maryland that has been performing since 1995. The band plays a lively mix of hammered dulcimer, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and bass. Concentrating on Appalachian old-time fiddle tunes and ballads, they also play colonial and Irish music. Parents Carl and Jeanean had always been involved with folk music, and it was only natural to include the children in music jams and events as the entire family began to take an interest in home-grown music. The family started playing at home for enjoyment when children Lydia, Emily and Claude were only 12, 10, and 7 years old. Since then, they have performed at many local festivals and traveled to Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, and New Mexico.

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Andrew McKnight
  Grove Stage   1:45pm

The foundation of Andrew's music is his captivating storytelling and stellar songcraft; his Good Things Matter is a past Winner of the Great American Song Contest. Andrew's writing often encompasses his passion for community and causes such as preserving American landscapes and heritage. The Shenandoah Valley-based artist often shares his talents for a variety of worthy causes, such as a community radio station in Massachusetts, an at-risk youth mentoring program in California, and a food bank in suburban Seattle.

Walt Michael
  Abbott Stage   1:30pm

A virtuoso of tremendous influence in the revival of the hammered dulcimer, Walt's wide repertoire ranges from old-time Southern Appalachian to Celtic to breathtaking original compositions. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, he has recorded 14 albums and instructional videos, appeared at the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and toured extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the U.K. His music has been heard on ABC-TV, NBC's Tonight Show, Broadway, BBC, TNN, CBC, OLN, and PBS.

David Morreale
  Grove Stage   11:00am

David left home at 16 and hit the road for ten years of hitchhiking and busking on European streets and in the London Underground. Homelessness, hard luck and constant movement were ever-present for David. Through this, his songs reveal a world view that is uplifting, inspiring, hard-bitten and hard earned. He traveled from his home in England, through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Holland and Austria. He made a living as a bartender, construction (and destruction) worker, waiter, chef, housepainter, guitar teacher, musician, writer, artist, cabinet-maker, record store clerk, street mime, and lumberjack. His music includes a cast of characters who experience poverty, redemption, joy, and what it means to watch ones dreams go up in smoke and try to fill the empty space they've left behind.

David has played in some of the country's most prestigious venues including Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, The Point in Philadelphia, and Arlene Grocery in New York City. In 2002 David took second place honours at The Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival songwriting contest. He was also a Recognized Finalist in The Plowshares Songwriting contest in 2004. And in 2005 David was a Finalist in The Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk song contest, and won a Maryland State Arts Council grant in Composition.

Anna Mwalagho & Afrofloetry
  World Stage   5:00pm

Former vocalist of the well known Chopteeth Afrofunk Band, she embarked on a successful solo career that led her to form a band, "The Afro Floetry Band". Within less than a year, the band had already opened up for international legends; The king of Afro Jazz Hugh Masekela International acclaimed legend of Afro Pop Oliver Mtukudzi famously known as Tuku Music with whom she collaborated doing her poem Flavoured world. She has also performed at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Her music is a unique blend of poetry, East-African music, old school world blues, Miriam Makeba style of music and African dance. She has become famous in the Washington DC metropolitan area. The band puts on an exciting, engaging and passionate show, with Anna mwalagho dancing, singing and the band injecting the African beat in each of a her songs and poems. This is a unique band because it blends both spoken word poetry, with African melodies, and songs. The musicians are all professionals who have performed for famous musicians, the likes of Gladys Night, Aretha Franklin, The Spaniards and The Flamingo.s, Angelique Kidjo, Hugh Masekela, and Orlando Julius, just to name a few.

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Val Nebbia
  Grove Stage   11:00am
http://www.nebiaband.com
Val Nebbia features soothing, balmy vocals - mixed with raw, emotive strains reminiscent of Heart's Ann Wilson or Janis Joplin.that take listeners on a spiritual journey replete with lyrical explorations of love, loss, brokenness and hope. Her beautiful and powerful voice ranges from ultra-quiet to belt-it-out bravado.

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Karyn Oliver
  Grove Stage   11:00am
http://www.karynoliver.com
Karyn Oliver, an up-and-coming singer-songwriter from Baltimore, has been turning heads on both sides of the Atlantic with her skillful songwriting and a passionate, soulful voice that could break your heart through a brick wall. Her musical inspiration comes primarily from the eclectic mix of music she was exposed to while growing up in the musically diverse culture of Washington, D.C. As a child, she was trained in both classical voice and musical theatre. At the same time, she learned to play rock-and-roll on her guitar and, being inspired by the likes of the Beatles, the Everly Brothers, and Carol King, to write some of her first songs.

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Jesse Palidofsky
  Grove Stage   2:30pm
http://www.jessepal.net
Jesse's original songs reflect a man who has never trod the well-beaten path. The breadth, depth, and good humor of his compositions reflect a life of great risk-taking and greater rewards reaped. Toward the end of the Vietnam War, he was a non-registrant for the draft. As a teenager, Jesse left his family of 16 brothers and sisters behind in Detroit and hitchhiked 30,000 miles around North America, searching for his place in the world. He bought his first guitar in a pawnshop in Denver at age 19, and started writing songs through a series of jobs.pumping gas, working for the United Farm Workers union, supervising emotionally disturbed teens, and newscasting on Detroit's public radio station.

Jesse's CD of original compositions, Food for the Long Haul, reflects the rich diversity of his Detroit musical heritage. It moves effortlessly from the harmonica-driven Crossing the Poison River, to the Appalachian-style political broadside, Ballad of Sammie Abbott, honoring the lifetime of Takoma Park's former mayor and founder of the Takoma Park Folk Festival. The CD also includes the jazzy sax and hilarious verbal juxtapositions of I Need Mercy (A Million Times a Day), to the sublime, Sweet-Honey-in-the-Rock-style spiritual, Send Down Your Healing Water.

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Beth Rinaldo & Scott Holland
  Field Stage   1:00pm
Beth Rinaldo (vocals, guitar) & Scott Holland (guitar, mandolin, harmonica, vocals) have been working together for 7 years; first as members of the Wammie award winning Beth-Allison & The Well-Strung Boys and then with the Wammie nominated Big Sky. Among their many shared influences are Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Buddy & Julie Miller, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, and John Hiatt. With close vocal harmonies and outstanding instrumental prowess, they stretch the boundaries of the roots rock genre with their skillful wanderings into alt-country, rock, blues, jazz and bluegrass.

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Serendipity
  Grassy Nook Stage   1:00pm
With a repertoire ranging from folk to pop to country music, Hannah Untereiner, Katie Leep-Lazar, and Ariel Miller are three rising seniors who love to sing together, a cappella or with guitar accompaniment.

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Those Guys
  Grassy Nook Stage   3:00pm
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=40787563438#!/group.php?gid=40787563438&v=info
Two guys make an ever-evolving, funky basement band thinking it will nowhere, then they realize, people actually dig this music. Gabriel Jones and Philip Kavuma play medley of soul-sonic funk, pitch-perfect harmony, lyrical wizzardry.

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Lynn Veronneau Trio
  Seventh Heaven Stage   12:15pm
http://www.myspace.com/lynnveronneautrio
The Lynn Veronneau Trio is a multi-national acoustic trio (Quebecois, English and US) whose members have played throughout Europe and the Americas. The trio perform in English, French, Spanish and Portugese. Lynn's previous album, Something Cool, was voted in the top 10 Albums of the Year in Quebec. A classically trained vocalist, Lynn is often compared to Eva Cassidy. Long-time partner Ken Avis performed for 5 years with the UK's legendary (and WC Handy Award winning) Otis Grand blues band before living and traveling throughout Europe and the US. David Rosenblatt studied Brazilian acoustic music in Brazil and played extensively in the San Francisco Bay area before moving to DC.

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Doug Alan Wilcox
  Grove Stage   11:00am
http://www.dougalanwilcox.com
Doug Alan Wilcox is a seasoned singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist equally at home performing his own songs on guitar, Irish bouzouki, strum stick, and harmonica, or accompanying others with percussion and vocals. With its rootsy base, his genre-busting stew has been called "acoustic--outside of the box."

Doug has spent his entire adult life in front of a microphone and behind a guitar. During that time, he's traveled a road from solo acoustic artist through numerous electric bands of various stripes and back again, having performed along the way at some of the East Coast's most notable venues as well as countless small cafes and listening rooms.