Richmond Folk Festival

Richmond Folk Festival

The Richmond Folk Festival is a folk festival held annually in Richmond, Virginia on Richmond’s downtown riverfront.

The RFF, started in 2008, was held October 10-12, 2008. It was an offshoot of the National Folk Festival (USA), which had been held in Richmond from 2005 to 2007 before the itinerant festival moved on to Bangor, Maine.

2008 Lineup

* BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet Cajun
* Larry Bland and the Volunteer Choir Gospel choir
* The Cellicion Traditional Zuni Singers Zuni flute, song and dance
* James Cheechoo Cree fiddling
* Dholi Mastana, Dholi Brij and Dholi Mosaic Indian (Punjabi) Percussion Ensemble
* The Edelweiss Boys German Accordion Band
* E.U. Go-go
* Ganga Indian (Bengali) Song and Instrumental Music Ensemble
* Grupo Cimarròn joropo music
* Mark Halata and Texavia Texas-Czech polka
* Harmonia Eastern European
* Husnu Aydogdu & the Turkish Music Ensemble Turkish Instrumental and Vocal Music
* The Itals roots reggae
* Ledward Kaapana and Mike Kaawa Hawaiian guitar masters
* Robin Kessinger & Todd Hallawell Flatpicked and finger-picked guitar
* Lee Sexton Band Appalachian banjo
* Líadan Irish
* Nadeem Dlaikan & Friends Traditional Arabic music
* Nukariik Inuit throat singing
* Eddie & Alonzo Pennington Thumb-picked guitar
* Plena Libre bomba y plena
* River Nile Band Sudanese Popular music
* Rumah Gadang Group] Indonesian Minang (West Sumatran) Music and Dance
* The Sama Ensemble Persian Daf and Tombak drumming
* San Jose Taiko Japanese drum and dance (taiko)
* Sharde Thomas and The Rising Star Fife and Drum African American Fife and Drum
* Solazo Ecuadoran, Chilean & Argentine Music
* Howard Tate R&B and soul
* Tamara and the Shadow Puppet Theatre of Java Indonesian shadow puppetry
* Jose “Chino” Terrones Master dancer, and Peruvian music and dance ensemble Peruvian Marinera Dance
* Tezcatlipoca Voladores -- Mayan Flyers Sundace
* Thongtanh Souvannaphanh -- (Lao Heritage Foundation) Laotian Instrumental Music
* The Dan Tyminski Band Bluegrass
* Eileen Torres] Dance instructor
* Vieux Farka Touré Saharan blues
* Dale Watson Honky-tonk country

References

* [http://www.richmondfolkfestival.org/docs/event_performers.html|Richmond Folk Festival official site]


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