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Texas Folk Music Foundation Board of Directors & Officers MICHAEL D’EATH – CHAIRPERSON (Legal Affairs) THOMAS CHAPMOND - VICE CHAIRPERSON (Membership) THERESA TOD – SECRETARY (Non-Profit Policy) LARRY WEST – TREASURER (Finance) JON CHARLES – (Fundraising, Endowments) ADAMS KIRKPATRICK – (Buildings and Grounds) LLOYD MAINES - (Music Industry) STAN BERKEFELT - (Nominating Committee, New Folk Tour) VALERIE L. STINSON - (FOC Liaison, Strategy) Other Staff: LEE ANDERSON, CPA (Accountant) BRACEWELL & GIULIANI – (Legal Affairs) ELECTRATO GRAPHICS – (Web Master) CLINT MORRIS – (VP local affairs) Kerrville Folk Festival Operating Committee CHARLES LAND, PRESIDENT VAL STINSON, VICE PRESIDENT VIRGINIA PLATTS, TREASURER BILL MCNEAL, SECRETARY STUART VEXLER, CHAIRPERSON BILL STACY RICK WRIGHT VERN CRAWFORD Quiet Valley Ranch Board of Directors & Officers JACK FIELDS - PRESIDENT LENORE LANGSDORF - VICE PRESIDENT HOWIE RITCHIE - VICE PRESIDENT GRAHAM WARWICK - VICE PRESIDENT CINDY PEYTON - SECRETARY WOODY WOODWARD - TREASURER LINDSEY LEE - LEGAL ADVISER PAM CENTER - ARCHIVIST TONY CUNNINGHAM - CHAIRPERSON EARL EUBANKS - VICE CHAIRPERSON LARRY FEIN NANCYLEE KENNEDY WALTER LEE ROBERT MORRISON II RICK RUBOTTOM ANDREW SEIDEL MICHAEL WROBEL Honorary Festival Advisors DAVID AMRAM BOBBY BRIDGER STEVE GILLETTE NANCI GRIFFITH BUTCH HANCOCK TISH HINOJOSA CAROLYN HESTER GARY P. NUNN TOM PAXTON GAYLE ROSS SHAKE RUSSELL DON SANDERS REV. CHARLES SUMNERS JOSH WHITE JR. PETER YARROW
president producer / gen. mgr./ empress festival consultants production office staff staff coordinators corporate sponsor liaison range boss ranch manager / foreman all kids crew assistant to the producer - backstage backstage hospitality - kennedy theater backstage hospitality - threadgill theater beverages
staff central staff kitchen stage production managers kerr-merch tag-a child tickets trees & trails pavilion liaison wine workshop liaison
CHARLIE LAND DALIS ALLEN ROD KENNEDY, JOHN EDDLEMAN SYD FRANZ / MELODY BAKER / CHRIS ADAMS JOSEPH NIPPER / RICHARD NELSON TOM HOPKINS NANCYLEE KENNEDY RICK WRIGHT / DAVE BELANGER OWL MORRISON JASON WAKEFIELD MELANIE WILLSON GAYLE MCELWEE JACOB PRICE / JEFF BUETTNER beer PATTY PEEBLES cokes COLE LOETZ GEOFFREY COPE TRISTA RIZK / SARAH SIRES-BENTLY / PAM DURHAM DONOVAN HATCHER POKEY HARRIS / JON MAXWELL ERIC “RADAR” CONRAD / PENNY FINUF JULIE DAVIS RUBEN HERNANDEZ / MIKE KITCHEN / ROBERT “DOBBS” GRIFFITH CHRISTINE MILLER PATY McCLURE / BILLY FAIRLY / LAUREN CARPENTER / HEATHER CAMPBELL LUNA WILSON JOHANN WAGNER / SARAH FLANNIGAN DAVE BELANGER / LOU TESSIER ANN STEPHEN transportation BRUCE POPPE vip JACQUE DICKINSON SUSAN ROADS LIZ CARSON / CAROL PETERSON / TEEL STAR FLEMING MARGHI ALLEN BRUCE CHANDLER GANO HARRIS / JANE REH COURTNEY EMERSON pottie patrol CHARLES “JESTER” RICE recycling KELLY “WHOA” FALGOUT trash JEREMY VOSS / DAN GREENLEE DAVID THORNHILL / HONDO CROUCH / DAVE WILMOTH backstage DAVID FISHER theater LENORE LANGSDORF campground STEVE PICKENS / WILLIE KINSEY parking NICK HORNUNG / JOE LAMBERSON ranch central JOE MONTGOMERY mixmaster GRETCHEN HINKLE / WENDY JACKSON DOUG GESSAMAN CARI KAHN JASON WEEMS / BRIAN URBAN SUE MEDLEY / MOLLY JONES / RAINA LEIGH NED MEFFORD CORRINA RACHEL / ERICA TOWER / PETER HACKMAN JACOB KINZIE DAVID BELL MARY BETH GRADZIEL KAT ROSE
festival sound radios provided by festival piano provided by festival t-shirts and apparel festival cups program printing brochure printing poster printing
JACOBS AUDIO - BOULDER, CO TRAVIS COUNTY REACT STRAIT MUSIC, AUSTIN TX RIVER CITY SPORTSWEAR, AUSTIN TX PARRISH & ASSOCIATES, KERRVILLE, TX SHWEIKI MEDIA, AUSTIN TX HERRING PRINTING, KERRVILLE, TX JACKSON REPROGRAPHICS, KERRVILLE, TX
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2012 MEMBERS OFTEXAS FOLK MUSIC FOUNDATION THREADGILL MEMBERSHIPS Kim McDowell - Shady Shores TX BRIDGER MEMBERSHIPS George Stieren - San Antonio TX Teri Stieren - San Antonio TX FOLKIE MEMBERSHIPS Eileen Alter - Austin TX Michael Crouch - Sugar Land TX BASIC MEMBERSHIPS Dalis Allen - Kerrville TX Don Baker - Alvarado TX David Bartlow - Conroe TX Stanley Berkefelt - Lake Jackson TX Christine Berkefelt - Lake Jackson TX Regan Brown - Austin TX Thomas Chapmond - Austin TX Jon Charles - Kempner TX Francie Charles - Kempner TX Elizabeth Choate - Canyon Lake TX Paul Colbert - Spring TX Phillip Collins - Austin TX Vern Crawford - Center Point TX Stephanie Crouch - Marble Falls TX Jeff Dalton - Arlington TX Kathleen Davies - Austin TX
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2012 KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL BUSINESS SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS TEXAS MONTHLY - Austin TX SHWEIKI MEDIA - Austin TX GRASSY HILL - Lyme CT WOLFMUELLER’S BOOKS - Kerrville TX GUILD GUITARS - Scottsdale AZ KERRVILLE CVB - Kerrville TX ROUSE HOUSE CONCERTS - Houston TX BERKALIN RECORDS - Houston TX BAYARD GUITARS - Fayetteville AR BRACEWELL & GIULIANI - Austin TX CABIN 10, INC / RICE FESTIVAL - Kerrville TX
MEDICAL SURGICAL SPECIALISTS - Kerrville TX JP HOPS HOUSE - Houston TX VISION SOURCE / TOBIN TILLEY - Kerrville TX STRAIT MUSIC - Austin TX YO RANCH RESORT HOTEL - Kerrville TX GIBSON’S DISCOUNT CENTER - Kerrville TX MAIN LIQUOR - Kerrville TX KEG 1 O’NEAL, LLC - Texas KYSER CAPOS - San Francisco CA MINI MART STORES - 17 Hill Country Locations ROLAND BROWN - Wimberley TX
RIVERSIDE NATURE CENTER - Kerrville TX KRVL RADIO - Kerrville TX FIDDLER’S GREEN - Austin TX M MAGAZINE - Redondo Beach CA TEXAS MUSIC MAGAZINE - Austin TX BLU MOBILE - Austin TX SWAN PERCUSSION - Austin TX PLANVIEW - Austin TX DR. VALERIAN CHYLE - Kerrville TX INTELLITOUCH TUNERS - Carrollton TX DOLPHIN BLUE - Dallas TX
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Kelly McQuerns - Pflugerville TX Dan Meador - Austin TX Daniel W. Merry III - Booneville AR Sherry & Greg Moe - Leander TX Greg Moore - Cedar Park TX Harold Morgan & Kathy Silberman - Austin TX Teresa Morris - Garland TX Ted Morris - Downright Texas Antique Robert Francis Morrison - Denton TX Jack & LuraFaye Motley - Edna TX Mary Martha Motley & Guitar Bill - Nacogdoches TX Elaine Nangle - Cedar Creek TX Bill Nash - Plano TX Jon Nicholson - Cypress TX Beverly & Jim Noble - Pearland TX Katy & Tom Noyes - Fort Worth TX David Obermann - Austin TX Bob Orenstein & Nancy Pfau - Dallas TX Pablo, Laura, & Gabby - Camp La Tuna Sierra Pahl - Placerville CA Juliette Palacios - San Antonio TX Papa DuctTape & Dragonfly - Wolfforth TX Susie Parrent - Lake Forest Park WA Diana Payne - Kyle TX Leon Ashley & Lulu Peek - Denton TX Ken & Mary Jude Peterson - Austin TX Jessie Petty - Kerrville TX Mike & Dianne Pierce - Spicewood TX John & Lynda Polk - Houston TX Mary Potter - Dallas TX Helen Preddy - Northfield MN Russell Prevost - San Antonio TX Jeff Provost - Lakeway TX Sheila Raines - Garland TX Randy Renter - Dallas TX James Reynolds - Kerrville TX Liz Henry Richardson - Austin TX Howie Richey - Austin TX Scott & Lina Rigrod - Houston TX Michael Roebuck & Marietta Robards - Bellaire TX Ray & Lady Romano - San Antonio TX wendy rosloff - los angeles CA Betty Ross - Garland TX Rick Rubottom - Houston TX Judy Sampieri - Houston TX Frank J. and Rene Scanio, III - Corpus Christi TX
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KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL NO. 41 Hi everybody! Glad you are here as we culminate our year long anniversary celebration with our 41st Kerrville Folk Festival. It means so much to us that live it year round that you come to support it and enjoy it and take some of it with you when you go. The magic I mean. And the community. And most of all the music that will sustain you until the next one. Just as important whether you have been to all 41, or if this is just your first. What is created when we gather is sustenance for all of the other things that are thrown in our paths when we are not together. But what we know is that we can call on one another even then. It is a family, a tribe, an important part of our time on this planet. It takes all of the parts — Kennedy Mainstage and Threadgill Theater, Children’s Concerts, canoe trips, yoga, bike rides and all of the Schools, the parts that are scheduled ahead of time and the unscheduled, music at Kerr Store or in the ‘middle of the road’, parties at your neighbors camps, the New Folk camp, trips to swimming holes — to make the ‘Kerrville’ experience what it is and what we set our intention all year long to preserve. Everyone that comes to visit for this time has choices to make, a schedule as put together by each of you as the days unfold, to partake of it all or just in bits and pieces. I have always loved choices! So welcome back to your myriad of choices for this year! ...including the stage schedules, which are available on our phone app thanks to Blu Mobile (oh dear we are joining the technological age), or as always in the brochure or the Program Book. Our wonderful team puts this and more together for many long days and nights leading up to opening day. They do it with much joy that we hope you feel when you call us and when you get here. The office staff and the grounds staff, along with the committees and boards that work together to keep the ‘magic’ alive, are all grateful that you have chosen to join us in this year’s celebration of songwriters. We have a lot of new to Kerrville artists this year. Matt Harlan is first up to open the whole shebang! Ghosts Along the Brazos, Carolyn Wonderland, Birds of Chicago, Old Man Luedecke, Salud, Joe Pug, The Milk Carton Kids, and Ruth Moody to name just the Kennedy Mainstage artists. Also a great schedule at Threadgill Theater this year, including the Phil Ochs Documentary Film hosted by his sister Sonny Ochs on May 29. See if it doesn’t feel currently familiar… Kinky Friedman is back with a full set on Friday May 25th! Then a group of fans that contributed to our fundraising effort will be hanging out with him Backstage to celebrate the launch of “Man In Black Tequila.” I could go on and usually do once I get started if it’s about Kerrville Festivals. But I will stop for now and let you get on with the enjoyment that you came to experience. After all, I get to talk to you every night from the stage. Lucky me! Much love, Dalis
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Vendors do not provide throw-away beverage cups. Please bring your own permanent cup or purchase souvenir cups at food &beverage stands. We also provide recycling and composting tubs throughout the campgrounds for your convenience. Please help our Festival volunteers by separating your green, brown & clear glass, aluminum, plastic (no lids!) and flattening cardboard. Composting buckets are located at most established camps around the ranch. If you are interested in having a composting bucket in your established camp, please contact the Kerrmaculture Krew or stop by the Festival Office.
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13th Annual Conference Sept. 27-30, 2012 Holiday Inn Austin Midtown Austin, Texas
songwriters from TEXAS UNIVERSITIES 3:30pm FRIDAY, MAY 25 threadgill theater
Each year songwriting competitions are held at various Universities across the State of Texas. Student songwriters vie for the opportunity to come out and play at the Kerrville Folk Festival. This year, competitions were held at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Texas, Texas State, Baylor University, Texas Tech and Texas A&M. help us welcome this year’s winners!
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Below is a listing of the Arts and Crafts Vendors who have booths at this year’s Festival. Others may have been added since the time of publication, so be sure to visit all of the booths and support these wonderful artisans who add so much to the atmosphere in our outdoor theater. BOOTH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, 11, 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 37 38 39 & 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 & 60 61 62 63 64 65 – 68 A - I
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Hippie Juju Magic Smithville TX Link & Pixi’s Enchanted Crafts Smithville TX Cinnamon Guitars & Services Asheville NC Earthyartz Pipe Creek TX LovePets Ft. Worth TX “Inside the Kaleidoscope” San Marcos TX Baruzuland Originals Austin TX Mystic Visions Card Readers San Antonio TX Cloud 9 Austin TX PrecisePens.com San Antonio TX Nu Essence Rancho De Taos NM Steel By Design Kerrville TX Mississippi Miracle Clay Colleyville TX Sarai Originals Elgin TX Marvin Gershowitz Platskanie OR SCI Products Andrews TX Cottage Industrials Austin TX Kirby de Logan Jewelry Missouri City TX Hippie Chick Creations Owasso OK Lucky Day Hats Austin TX Don White Wizards Ft. Worth TX Hippie Hollow Granola Ingram TX Lulu’s Closet Rockport TX Simplistix Laredo TX Bangles by Grace Corpus Christi TX Gaddashop.com Moorpark CA Richard Gassman Hot Springs AK Gypsy River Riches Austin TX Brightwell’s Botanicals Mesquite TX Mary Lou Knapp & Marilisa Swain Camptonville CA eRic Luplow’s Sur-Folk™ Watercolor Truchas NM Inch by Inch Weaving Lee Center NY Westwind Tie-Dye Company Van TX Silk Road Trunk Show Austin TX John Schroeder Driftwood TX WOW Productions Kerrville TX Aurora Foell Face Paintings Bastrop TX Imagination Leather Smithville TX ELMZART Driftwood TX Minawear Hemp Clothing Victoria TX Bayard Guitars Fayetteville AR Tiffany Dunlap Willits CA Juniperfare Vintage Wears Bandera TX Bajra, Inc. Haltom City TX Kontraband Kitty Austin TX Nadina’s Cremes & Drafonflies Vienna MD Musickscapes Kerrville TX Sacred Earth Clayworks Wimberley TX Rex Foster Comfort TX Amy Beth - HOPE Jewelry Ingram TX Helen Jean Hamlin Austin TX Rainbow Mtn. Ranch Productions Roosevelt TX Eye Candy Art Creations Austin TX TFMF Kerr History Booth
CRAFT Hippie Stuff Since 1989 Handmade Leathercrafts and More Handmade Guitars Setups Accessories Ceramic/Handmade by Artist Handcrafted Critters Hula Hoops, Jewelry & More! Functional, stylish, comfort wear Intuitive Card Readings Massage and Rope Sandals Handmade Functional Art Astrological Aromatherapy Products Metal Art Mississippi Magnesium Bentonite Clay Original designs by Sarai Handmade Kazoos Natural Organic Health & Living Handmade Accessories & custom Textiles Inspired Costume Jewelry Handmade Hippie Wear Not your Mama’s Headwear Handmade Clay Figurines Hippie Hollow Granola Costumes & Jewelry Sticks and Stones Artworks Handforged Sterling Silver Jewelry Horn, Tagua, & Wood Jewelry Silk Artwear Fair Trade Guatemalan Jewelry Brightwell’s Botanicals Massage and Body Work Vibrant Sur-Folk™ Watercolor Paintings Hand-Woven Clothing & Accessories Tie-dye clothing and apparell World Beat Clothing Musical Instruments, Carvings, Jewelry Inspirational Books and Artwork Face Painting Handmade Leather Goods Art Shirts - Leather - Fiber Art Luxury Hemp Loungewear Acoustic Stringed Instruments Body Art & Body Care Products Cool Hippie Stuff Nepalese, Tibetan Arts & Handicraft Feathered Austin Original Accessories Luscious Scented Cremes & Dragonflies Landscapes of My Mind Pottery, Tie-Dye, Clay Art Fossil Ivory Handmade Jewelry Recycled 2 Ravishing Guatemalan Crafts & Clothing Native Crafts & Jewelry High End Resin Art
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STAFF KITCHEN FOOD PROVIDERS Since our dedicated volunteer staff is the heart and soul of this festival, it is important that we keep them happy and well nourished. It is no small task to feed this army of volunteers, staff and performers. The Kerrville Folk Festival would like to acknowledge the hard work of Cari Kahn, Stuart Vexler and Julie Davis for taking the time out of their busy lives to secure donations from the following companies. Please consider these brands when you purchase quality natural products.
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7th Annual
Music Camp for Teens Quiet Valley Ranch July 22-26, 2012 Once again this the year, we are proud to partner with the Boys & Girls Clubs Of Central Texas to provide the 7th Annual Music Camp for Teens. Music Camp has provided youth the opportunity to learn about music & poetry, and these skills have opened new horizons for the youth who have attended. This year our goal is to provide 100 youth the opportunity to participate. Music Camp helps youth find their own voice by matching them with professional singer-songwriters and professional poets. Other aspects of the camp include learning about diversity, green building and how they, as individuals can make a difference in the world we live. 2012 Faculty musicians and poets will include:
ROY WOOTEN, TOM PRASADA-RAO, ANNIE WENZ, STEVE SESKIN, JENA KIRKPATRICK, BILL OLIVER & FRANK MEYER. A sampling of camp activities includes instructional sessions led by singer-songwriters, an Open Mic Night, and a canoe trip. All youth participants will need to be accompanied by a supervising adult. The cost per participant is just $50, and includes meals, camping, and all programed activities. Participants must bring their own camping gear.
The application packet, including a letter for youth & adult sponsor information, can be found at www.bgclubcc.org. For more information, contact Jon Charles at jcharles@bgctx.org. We look forward to having you and your child participate!
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Berkalin Records proudly announces two Spring 2012 Releases From Matt Harlan and Brian Kalinec
Matt Harlan opens the 2012 Kerrville Folk Festival on Thursday May 24th! “What a wonderful album! “There’s a fluid self- confidence to …these songs come across as an his writing that at times comes close to matching early Dylan for a clear- honest breath of fresh air and eyed description of the world as he common sense” --Tom Pacheco sees it.” –John Davy, Flying Shoes www.briankalinec.com www.berkalinrecords.com www.mattharlan.com Other Berkalin artists include: the late Tim Henderson, Jeff Talmadge, Bob Cheevers, Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus and George Ensle Tim Henderson Memorial 1-3pm Saturday June 2 Threadgill Stage
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Grassy Hill is a Folk Music Support Organization that produces
* Grassy Hill Radio * Grassy Hill Barn Concerts * Internet Support for a variety of folk related activities * Sponsorship of Folk Festivals and Conferences
Thanks to Grassy Hil for providing support to the Kerrvil e Folk Festival and our Annual New Folk Competition for Emerging Songwriters. Check out Grassy Hil at:
Thanks to Grassy Hill for providing support to the Kerrville Folk Festival and our Annual New Folk Competition for Emerging Songwriters, as well as providing major funding for the renovation of the Threadgill Theater.
Check out Grassy Hill at
www.GrassyHill.org
On Chapel Hill overlooking the meadows at the north end of Quiet Valley Ranch, folk fans gather on Sunday mornings for this weekly celebration. Rev. Charles Sumners, Rev. Walter Lee and Rev Rudi Harst are joined by singers, players and Festival performers in a Folk Song Service which emphasizes participation, involvement and thanksgiving. Everyone is welcome and there are services on all three Festival Sundays at 11AM. Come celebrate with us!
Shabbat Services will be held on Chapel Hill each Saturday morning of the Festival at 11AM. Sponsored by the Congregation Kol Halev of Austin, JCAA, and The Jewish Outlook. This special prayer experience is led by Rabbi Kerry Baker. After we read the Torah,we perform a traditional Kidush ritual where we share Challah and wine. Shalom...
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Congratulations to the following New Folk Finalists for 2012. These songwriters were chosen from 800 outstanding submissions we received from around the world. Fifteen will play the two songs they submitted on Saturday, May 26 and sixteen on Sunday, May 27 during the New Folk Concerts. This is the 41st year for New Folk and is always one of the highlights of the Kerrville Folk Festival!
SATURDAY, MAY 26 - 1 to 4 PM Threadgill Theater (in order of appearance)
SUNDAY, MAY 27 - 1 to 4 PM Threadgill Theater (in order of appearance)
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Terry Penney (Newfoundland Canada) Paula Held (Austin TX) Alison Lumley (Austin TX) Jon Troast (Nashville TN) Andra Suchy (Minneapolis MN) Burke Ingraffia (Point Clear AL) Edie Carey (Chicago IL) Whit Hill (Nashville TN) Miranda Dawn (Austin TX) Nicolette Good (San Antonio TX) The Hems (Austin TX) Daniel Makins (San Angelo TX) Larry Murante (Seattle WA) Robin Macy & Kentucky White (Belle Plaine KS) Lindsay May (Vancouver BC)
Lizzy Ross (Pittsboro NC) J.A. Carter III (San Antonio TX) Michael Jerome Browne (Montreal Canada) Mikaela Kahn (Denton TX) The Sea The Sea (Madison CT) Alicia McGovern (Salt Lake City UT) Eric Colville (Ipswich MA) Paul Sachs (New York NY) Scot Phegley (Nolensville TN) Dan Weber (Vancouver WA) Annie & Rod Capps (Chelsea MI) J Wagner (Austin TX) Anna Dagmar (New York NY) Korby Lenker (Nashville TN) The YaYa’s (Mohegan Lake NY) Michaela Anne (Brooklyn NY)
Six 2012 Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Award Winners will be selected by judges Nathan Hamilton (Austin TX), Cary Cooper (Richardson TX) & Seth Glier (Massachusetts), and will be announced on Sunday, May 27 during the evening Kennedy Theater Mainstage concert. These six winners will be invited to return the following weekend to perform at the Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Award Winners concert on Sunday, June 3 at Threadgill Theater. In addition to the above finalists, we’ve selected these regional performers to appear at the BALLAD TREE to sing one of their songs: Thursday, May 24 Host: Brian Cutean - Bill Davis (Austin TX) Dave Fenley (Fredericksburg TX) Melissa Greener (Austin TX) Kiya Heartwood (Austin TX) Drew Kennedy (New Braunfels TX) Friday, May 25 Host: Matt Harlan - Helene Cronin (Plano TX) Dan Sullivan (Cedar Park TX) Dave Thomas (Denton TX) Kathryn Hallberg (Spring TX) John Edward Bauman (San Antonio TX) Tommy Byrd (Austin TX)
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Songwriters from the festival audience have a chance to share their original songs with an appreciative crowd of listeners under the BALLAD TREE on Chapel Hill every weekend during the Kerrville Folk Festival. Chapel Hill is located at the north end of the ranch. The Ballad Tree is held from 3 to 5 p.m. on all Main Stage performance days. Suggested by Bobby Bridger and Tom Paxton, the Ballad Tree has become an important aspect of the song sharing that makes Kerrville so unique. You bring your guitar, fill out a slip and put it in the hat to be drawn by the guest host who will introduce you and others until time runs out. Each day of the Ballad Tree, the guest host will sing a song or two to get things going and then begin to draw the names of participants from the hat. Dates of the Ballad Tree and hosts on those days are: May May May May May
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[The following is originally from an article by David Bloom, published in the May 2009 Issue of Texas Music Magazine, and is updated here with the gracious permission of both the author and publisher]
It’s a scene that has been repeated thousands of times over the years at the Kerrville Folk Festival since that summer day in 1972. Three friends with guitars, sitting under a tree to escape the hot Texas sun, were playing and singing their songs just to pass the time and maybe, just maybe, get noticed. As this trio sang that musical question they’d still be asking four decades later — “Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night?” — they caught the ears of festival founder Rod Kennedy and folk legend Peter Yarrow, who suggested they perform at that evening’s songwriting competition. And by the time the boys from Lubbock had finished their two songs, Yarrow was enthusiastically telling them, “Hey, you guys come over and play on my set later tonight!” That spontaneous endorsement of West Texas cool made Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore —collectively known as the Flatlanders — the defacto winners of the inaugural New Folk Competition. Now in its 41st year, the Kerrville Folk Festival brings together music lovers of all ages — from crusty veteran “Kerrverts” to dusty first-time “Kerrvirgins” — for 18 consecutive days in May and June. Diehards who stay the entire three weeks earn the title “Kerrvivors.” Many of the 34
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30,000 plus people who attend Kerrville every year choose to camp on the ranch, making the festival a 24-hour experience where the music goes on forever and the song swaps never end. The lineup features more than 100 performers representing an array of musical genres that reach well beyond traditional folk. Campers can also take advantage of various mid-week work-shops, covering everything from songwriting to harmonica to roots/blues guitar.
Truly, for fans and musicians (both professional and amateur), Kerrville is more than just another festival; it’s a tradition, a family reunion and a beloved escape from reality. But for many,the soul of the festival has always been the Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Competition for Emerg-
ing Songwriters. With its rich history and ability to change a songwriter’s future, New Folk (as it’s commonly called) is “the most important thing that happens every year,” says Kennedy. THE KERRVILLE SEAL OF APPROVAL “We didn’t even know it was a contest,”Hancock jokes today. And the fact is, as Kennedy is quick to point out, New Folk didn’t officially name winners those first few years. It’s also a matter of semantics, but Kennedy and Yarrow believed that calling it a “competition,”as opposed to a “contest,” would make it all a little less, well, competitive. But there were clear perks bestowed on those whose songs stood out from the pack, such as a coveted invitation from Kennedy to come back the following year and play the mainstage, or mentoring and support from professionals like Yarrow (the Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary) who could help open doors and provide connections. While there now are six official New Folk winners named annually and prize money involved, it’s still those intangibles — credibility and community — that mean so much to the 32 songwriters selected as finalists from the 800 entries received every year. “Winning at Kerrville was my Sally Field Oscar moment,” says Dallas resident Cary Cooper, a New Folk winner in 2004. “I always believed I was a good songwriter; it just
felt like a secret the rest of the world didn’t know until New Folk.” Not only did her win affirm that the Kerrville Nation now liked her — really, really liked her — it made it easier for Cooper to tour and perform with her husband, 1993 New Folk winner Tom Prasada-Rao. “Tom is such a long-standing performer on the folk circuit, and legendary at Kerrville, that it was easy to feel lost in his shadow,” Cooper explains. “When I won New Folk, I felt legitimate stepping into my own light.” And though one would think the title of “Official Texas State Musician of 2008” would pack buckets of clout in its own right, Austin’s Shelley King also felt compelled to enter New Folk last year. “The truth is,” says King, who made it to the top 32, “performing as a New Folk finalist gave me some credibility that I didn’t have before. It opened doors to do some very cool house concerts.” It wasn’t necessarily credibility Vince Bell was after when he entered the New Folk competition in 1978. Rather, it was that mainstage booking, which he felt he deserved on the merits of his early recordings and growing reputation among that Houston crowd of songwriting stars such as Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Eric Taylor. When you’ve more than held your own in that kind of circle, you don’t exactly lack self-confidence or require validation. But while he was, indeed, named a winner that year, Bell’s most vivid memory is of being startled out of his slumber by a kick in the boot from a New Folk entrant who saw fit to share his disappointment at not being named a finalist. “It’s just not fair that you professionals are in this contest,” the young man vented. “I’ve worked all year on these two songs and traveled 1,000 miles to be here. It’s just not fair.” And the point hasn’t been lost on Bell all these years later. “It was a breath of honesty and really touching,” Bell says today. “And besides, I was a professional. Heck, I even had a $30 gig that night in San Marcos.” [Bell’s recently reprinted book, One Man’s Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell, recounts the story of a career sidetracked for years when Bell was hit by a drunk driver after leaving a 1982 recording session at which Stevie Ray Vaughan had just recorded several of his songs.]
The year 1978 is also notable because of who didn’t share the New Folk winner spotlight with Bell. In addition to the frustrated nemesis who kicked him were two others who somehow failed to convince the judges that they had a future in songwriting: Steve Earle and Nanci Griffith. There are more than a few recognizable names among the hundreds of finalists who didn’t measure up in the ears of the judges. In addition to awarding credibility, New Folk also brings together musicians who may have never crossed paths or heard one another’s music. Finalists and winners have often gone on to perform on one another’s albums and become friends who reunite on the road or at other festivals. Prasada-Rao’s other Kerrville-connected “marriage” of sorts is with Tom Kimmel and Michael Lille, his fellow ’93 winners; they’ve toured and recorded together as the Sherpas. Their 2003 release, Honor Among Thieves,prompted the San Antonio Express-News to suggest, “the Sherpas might well be the first acoustic singersongwriter supergroup.” And chances are,they might never have met if not for pure New Folk serendipity. (Some might call the reunited Flatlanders a singer-songwriter supergroup, but Hancock, Ely and Gilmore were hardly known names when they first played together back in’72. A closer match to the Sherpas’ model might be Austin’s Band of Heathens, which features New Folk winners Gordy Quist and Colin Brooks.) NEW FOLK’S PETER PRINCIPLE When Kennedy and Yarrow came up with the idea for New Folk, it was “the kids” they had in mind: those musical disciples of Dylan, Baez and“Puff the Magic Dragon” who had picked up their first guitars in the ’60s and simply needed a place— and
a way — to be heard. Kennedy was touring with Yarrow, handling logistics, promotion and business at the start of Yarrow’s solo career, while at the same time putting together evenings of folk music to help augment a new arts and craft fair designed to lure tourists to the Texas Hill Country. After
Yarrow’s shows, there would always be a group of young songwriters waiting for him outside the stage doors. They wanted to play their songs for him, and Yarrow would always take the time to listen and encourage them. Yarrow had already offered to come to Kerrville to play at Kennedy’s fledgling folk festival. But after one of these impromptu listening sessions, Yarrow asked Kennedy a simple question that would provide New Folk
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with its unwritten mission statement for decades to come: “Do you have any way for unknown songwriters to be heard? Unknown writers who have no advocates, who have no one to connect them to a larger audience?” Yarrow went on to describe how the Newport Folk Festival had something called New Folks concerts, where people like Buffy Sainte-Marie had gotten their start. Somewhere in the translation, the ‘s’ was dropped, and Kerrville New Folk was born. Thousands of unknowns and somewhatknowns have since submitted their songs to New Folk, perhaps planting a good-luck smooch on the envelope as they drop it in the mailbox. Kennedy calls many of the entrants “closet kids,” whose submissions may have been nervously sung into a cheap cassette recorder in the privacy of their home. Several, though, still earn spots as New Folk finalists because their songs are note perfect and strike a universal chord. He recalls a young Nanci Griffith as being one of these. “Nanci was uncomfortable onstage and had little charisma,” Kennedy says. “She wasn’t communicating to the people. But she grew up so rapidly as a performer.” Similarly, when 2009’s mainstage performer, Tish Hinojosa, won New Folk in 1979, she was such an inexperienced live performer that after playing her two original songs at the winner’s concert, she opted to fill out the 20-minute set with a lengthy medley of Joan Baez songs.
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Of course, there are hundreds of open mics around the country today for unseasoned songwriters to get their first taste of being onstage, but that wasn’t the case when the competition began. The “closet kids,” however, are still among us, including three-time New Folk finalist Datri Bean, who is currently based in Austin. “The first time I got into New Folk, I hadn’t really ever performed my material in public,” Bean admits. “I was by no means a professional musician, though I wanted to get started in that direction. Getting accepted was confirmation that I could, in fact, do this. I knew a number of full-time touring musicians who had submitted for years and never been accepted.” As New Folk has grown in popularity and prestige — accepting more entrants from throughout America and around the world —the rules, submission options and judging process have evolved. And with that, Texas dominance has waned a bit. Through the ’70s and ’80s, the Lone Star State produced 60 winners, but the ’90s saw only three Texans reach the winner’s circle. With The aughts have been a bit better for Texas-connected songwriters, though none of 2009’s winners — Lucy Wainwright Roche, Ernest Troost, Carrie Catherine, Tom Neilson, Rebecca Loebe
and Louise Mosrie — was Texan. The point is, New Folk is about something even bigger than “Texas music,” per se. It is, today, the gold standard when it comes to songwriting competitions because it has remained true to its vision: it’s about the song, not geography. Or, as Dalis Allen — Kennedy’s hand-picked successor to run both New Folk and the festival — puts it, “I don’t care where they happened to land on the planet.” JUDGING A SONG TO DISCOVER So, how does it really work? Each year, New Folk accepts 800 submissions — most on CDs, though a growing number are now sent via e-mail as MP3s. No lyric sheets or press kits are permitted; the idea is that the song stands or falls on its own merits as heard by the listeners. Like Kennedy did before her, Allen listens to every single submission. With 800 entries — two songs each, not to exceed eight minutes total — that adds up to, oh, you do the math. Hopefully, thanks to advances in tuning technology, Allen doesn’t have to wade through hundreds of unlistenable songs, as Kennedy suggests he was often subjected to. “I thank God every day of my life that a lot of kids just didn’t know how to tune their guitars. They were not ready to be exposed to the public,” he says. In addition to spot-on tuning, the self-proclaimed “old Marine” looked for songs that moved him. “And at that point, you had to about hit me with a truck to really move me,” Kennedy says. Allen has recruited between 30 and 40 members of the New Folk family — “festival people” who wanted to have a role in the contest — as online listeners throughout the country, who access the songs over a secure network and score them. She then takes those rankings and squares them with her own opinions of the songs to
winnow it down to the 32 finalists. In many cases, an entrant might have one song that gets everyone all excited, but their second submitted tune just doesn’t measure up. “We have a lot of one-song winners,” Allen says, “but they don’t make it to the New Folk stage.” As daunting as the initial listening process is, the real heavy lifting for judges begins once the finalists have been selected. There are six winners rather than a solitary champion, because, again, Kennedy and Yarrow wanted to keep it from being “cut-throat.” But it’s still the difficult job of the judges to separate the winners from all those who “tie” for seventh place. Butch Hancock, who has judged many a songwriting contest, has developed his own unique scoring system for evaluating talent. As he listens to the performers, he’ll jot down numbers on his pad like 8,321, 597, 63 or 50,000. This once prompted fellow judge Robert Earl Keen (a New Folk winner in 1983) to lean over and quietly ask what the bizarre rankings meant. Hancock whispered back, “That’s how many times they’re gonna have to write a song before they get a good one.” Joking aside, though, Hancock says he enjoys judging because he knows contestants
have put their “heart and spirit into it” — and because he finds it interesting to hear what people are “getting out of their system” through the songwriting process. It’s authenticity Hancock admires, along with craftsmanship and something that leaves the listener thinking. The three judges tasked with giving the New Folk blessing to those final six are professional, seasoned songwriters themselves and, in recent years, include a winner from the previous year. Songwriters, the reasoning goes, appreciate the craft, know what to look for and won’t be easily swayed by production values or pretty voices. As Allen puts it, “We use songwriters as judges because they’re going to be persnickety about how the song is put together — it’s what they do and what they pay attention to.” While the judges make six people very happy, there are those other 26 who may not all buy into the old “everyone’s a winner here” philosophy. Caroline Aiken, a judge in 2005, says, “I don’t like the idea of pitting musician against musician. It was devastating for those who didn’t win the final six, and I saw people angry with me for not winning for years after.” Slaid Cleaves, who won in 1992 (right after moving to Texas from Maine) and judged in 2004, says, “I was looking mainly for songcraft, lyrics and melody. But what if someone presents a song that is well-crafted but unlikable because it is overly sentimental or trivial? Can that be better than a song that has heart and originality, but is not polished?” Tracy Grammer, a judge in2 003, when Colin Brooks of the Band of Heathens was one of the six winners, notes that “it was very easy for us to agree on three of the winning songs, and it was fairly easy to eliminate others right away. But narrowing down the last three was a challenge, usually with two of us onboard against one ‘nay.’”
Even winners, like 2007’s Danny Schmidt, acknowledge the “ludicrousy” of competitive folk singing. His fellow Austinite, 2008 winner BettySoo, adds, “It’s naturally anathema for a folk singer to say one song is better than another. When I’m having a low day, it’s encouraging to know that someone heard something special in a few of
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Making it to the New Folk finals can also have the positive effect of renewing a songwriter’s self-confidence — even in the case of veteran performers for whom “new” is not exactly an adjective they’ve heard in a while. Just ask Tommy Byrd of Austin. His song, “Love Broke the Fall,” was a winning entry in the Austin Songwriter’s Group contest and was also one of the two that New Folk
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my songs. And on other days, I keep from getting too full of myself by thinking, ‘It’s just somebody’s opinion.’ But really, nobody likes competing.” Devine, Texas’ Claude “Butch” Morgan, a finalist in 2005 and 2008, has a slightly different take. “Competition is good,” Morgan says, “and the fact is, we are all in competition anyway —for gigs, fan support and CD sales.” He also views finalist status as a way to boost a singer-songwriter’s brand a lot faster than just playing hundreds of open mics, low- or no-paying gigs, and opening shows for regional or national acts coming through town.
listeners liked enough to make him one of 2009’s 32 finalists. But when he entered it in a similar contest in Dallas, Byrd was told it just didn’t have what it took. That’s the kind of thing songwriters who enter and don’t win like to hear, because it underscores the subjectivity — and good fortune— factors. Allen talks to each year’s finalists just before they go out to perform at the festival, reminding them that 32 out of 800 is something to be pretty darned proud of. She also serves up the humbling reminder that on any given Sunday, it easily could have been a totally different 32 standing before her. “‘This is just your turn,’ I tell them,” Allen says. Just as it is now Allen’s turn to continue the New Folk tradition and nurture unknown and underappreciated songwriters of all ages, styles and backgrounds. The spirit of New Folk lies not only in her Kennedy-approved and very capable hands, but with that long list of past winners and finalists who take their music to audiences far and wide and bear witness to the standard of excellence in songwriting that New Folk represents. It’s also found with the people who attend the New Folk concerts at the Kerrville Folk Festival and shower the performers with love and support. Most importantly, the spirit of New Folk is reborn every year with “the kids” and the older unknowns who, like eternally optimistic baseball fans each spring, hope that this just might be their year. New Folk inspires and motivates hundreds of anonymous songwriters who enter year after year, even though they may never get inside that circle of 32 finalists — or make the journey from shade tree to mainstage like those young Flatlanders did all those years ago. Regardless, they continually hone their craft to make themselves more capable of reaching others through song. New Folk, as Allen says, “is all about kindred spirits who do what they do — create music— because they simply can’t not do it.” - DB
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A SPECIAL TREAT FOR THE CLOSING DAY OF THE 2012 FESTIVAL!
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Jitterbug Vipers DAY 18 CONCERT SUNDAY, JUNE 10TH AT 1:00PM THREADGILL THEATER
Heal in the Wisdom Bobby Bridger’s song “Heal In The Wisdom” has been the anthem of the Kerrville Folk Festival for many, many years, and has provided rich memories of closing the Festival for singers, songwriters and music fans alike. After the last mainstage performance, please join us for the closing of the 2012 Kerrville Folk Festival by singing with the rest of the Kerr Friends & Family. 58
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Lyle Lovett and Collings Guitars
Lyle Lovett and his 1992 Collings CJ41 A SB Serious Guitars | www.CollingsGuitars.com | (512) 288-7770 2012 KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL
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