Alaska Folk Festival
On a more upbeat note... we have our 32nd annual country/bluegrass music fest coming up:
"The Alaska Folk Festival is a unique event and can be compared more to a folk life festival then to the Folk Festivals that many of us have experienced. For the most part, no one gets paid. Performers on the main stage have 15 minute sets. Dance sets in the dance hall Thursday - Saturday nights are one hour in length... Performers come from all over Alaska and also from other Northwest States as well as from just about everywhere else. Performances range from school groups to professionals. Many come from hundreds or thousands of miles away, every year. The Festival is a non profit organization funded mostly from memberships. Admittance to the festival itself is free. We do bring up one guest artist and dance caller every year."
I've heard a lot of bruhaha about this. Not about the music or the quality of performances but about the city-wide cabin fever that explodes with the heralding of spring. The week of free music and the parties that accompany it just happen to be a pretty damn good backdrop.
posted by valorie @ 7:33 PM
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oh, so you haven't been in alaska for one full year yet? and here i thought you were a seasoned alaska vet ;) my friend lived near anchorage and to hear him tell it, it's just one big party as long as it's nice outside
nope just 8 months so far :) with anchorage being more north than us, i imagine it's a big party when it's warmer than 20 degrees outside for once. in juneau, it's a party when it's not so foggy and/or rainy. which happens for like 2 weeks out of the "summer".
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