American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront

12/25/2019

Celebrating 25 Days of Festival...Day 25. The Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers with the message that matches perfectly how we are feeling. It's SO very hard to say goodbye. Thank you, Brotherhood. Thank you, artists. Thank you Festival friends.

The Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers - Hard to say goodbye snippet. This was the last song we sung during the American Folk Festival on Sunday, August 2...

12/24/2019

Celebrating 25 Days of Festival...Day 24: Cimarron takes the stage at the 2019 American Folk Festival, sharing the powerful sounds of Colombian joropo music with us! Video courtesy of Jeremy Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFoPWY3N2mU

12/23/2019

25 Days of Festival... Day 23: The incomparable Annika Chambers, on the Railroad Stage at the 2018 AFF. What a show!

Annika Chambers ~ Fever - American Folk Festival 2018 - Bangor Maine

12/22/2019

25 Days of Festival...Day 22: The Campbell Brothers from the 2019 American Folk Festival. Blessing us with their music and their spirit, and bring people together.

The Campbell Brothers ~ American Folk Festival 2019 - Bangor Maine

12/21/2019

Celebrating the Festival... Day 21: Wayne Hancock, "Slingin' Rhythm" on the Dance Stage at the 2018 American Folk Festival!

Wayne Hancock ~ Slingin Rhythm - (H***y Tonk) - Amercan Folk Festival 2018 - Bangor Maine Waterfront

12/20/2019

Celebrating 25 Days of Festival...Day 20: The Holmes Brothers taking charge of the Railroad Stage at the 2010 American Folk Festival.

Sacred and profane, rocking and righteous, the undisputed masters of blues-based American roots music, "God's own bar band" always bringing down the house wi...

12/19/2019

Celebrating 25 Days of Festival...Day 19: Join Dale Ann Bradley and the members of Otrov for "Rocky Top, Croatian Style" from the 2012 American Folk Festival. This kind of collaboration could only happen at a Folk Festival!

Dale Ann Bradley performing with Otrov at the American Folk Festival in Bangor, ME on 8-25-2012 during the Masters of Harmony session.

12/18/2019

Celebrating 25 Days of Festival...Day 18: Rhythms of Rajasthan perform at the 2011 American Folk Festival.

Rhythms of Rajasthan at 2011 American Folk Festival Bangor Maine

12/17/2019

Celebrating 25 days of Festival...Day 17: The Pride of UMaine Black Bear Marching Band kicks off the 2017 edition of the American Folk Festival. Go Blue!!

This was just as the sun was beginning to set and all I had was a 70-250mm canon kit lens. Hand held from a crowd :-(

12/16/2019

25 Days of Festival... Day 16: Sleepy LaBeef. Check out this version of Sleepy singing his custom-made version of "Tulsa Time" (now known as "Bangor Time") at the 2015 AFF!

The legendary Sleepy LaBeef performs Tulsa Time. But, instead of singing "Living on Tulsa time," they change it to "Living on Bang-er time.' What a hoot!

12/15/2019

Celebrating 25 Days of Festival... Day 15: Les Tireux d'Roches, whose high-energy Quebecois (is there any other kind of Quebecois?) tradition came to Bangor at the 2019 American Folk Festival. (Merci to Jeremy Day for the recording!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3LFc0BOlH8