A Weekend of Entertainment, Participation and Exhibits

Remedy Tree

(Friday evening)

Remedy Tree is Florida’s hard driving modern bluegrass band. Hailing from St Augustine, the outfit was established in 2015 by Gabriel Acevedo, 2018 Florida State Fiddle Champion and Singer Songwriter. Remedy Tree has been developing their sound blending bluegrass, folk and Old-time music with new influences to create a truly unique Americana sensation. Remedy Tree has shared the stage with major talent such as The Steeldrivers, Rhonda Vincent, Town Mountain, Chris Henry, Kenny and Amanda Smith, The Grascals and more, as they continue to make a name for themselves in Florida and abroad. With 3 Studio projects under their belt, Remedy Tree is known for keeping their audiences dancing with their high energy shows and inspiring through profound lyric-driven songs. They currently tour Florida from coast to coast often across state lines playing Bluegrass and Folk festivals listening rooms, bars and clubs promoting their new album, Love The Journey that features Mark Johnson on banjo.

Grant Livingston

(Sunday evening)

Singer/Songwriter Grant Livingston makes his thirty-fifth appearance at the Florida Folk Festival this year. He tells stories in song about armadillos, barnacles, the invasion of the Everglades by Melaleuca trees and pythons, and how to tell the difference between an alligator and a crocodile. And if you ask him Grant will reveal, in song of course, the reason he always wears a hat.

The Broward-Palm Beach New Times named Grant one of the “Ten Greatest South Florida Folksingers of All Time” and has called him “a cross between Jimmy Buffett and Sesame Street.”.

Grant was Artist-in-Residence at Everglades National Park in 2019, and appears nationwide with Ranger Gary Bremen as half of “Songs and Stories of Our National Parks”. He has taught Songwriting at Miami-Dade College and is a coordinator of the South Florida chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Grant appears at theaters, state parks, folk festivals, restaurants, coffeehouses and schools throughout the state of Florida.

Jeanie Fitchen

(Sunday evening)

Jeanie Fitchen has come a long way since her first appearance at the Florida Folk Festival in 1966. Since then, she has traveled to nearly every part of Florida, as well as to Tennessee, New York, Alaska, and points in between, earning for herself a bevy of accolades and awards for her performances, songwriting, and recordings focusing not only upon the culture, history, and environment of Florida, but also the basic human dignity of all people and their right to live in freedom with justice and equal opportunity.

As a young teenager Jeanie found her niche in the simple beauty and artistic style of traditional music from around the world. Throughout the years, however, she began to write and record her own songs earning a 1999 Grammy nomination for her CD, Roads, in the category of Best New Folk Album. For her long-standing contributions to the folk cultural resources of the state, Jeanie received a Florida Folk Heritage Award in 2001. For the songs she has written and sung in praise and defense of Florida’s natural and cultural heritage, Jeanie was honored with The Fellow Man and Mother Earth Award by The Stetson Kennedy Foundation in 2010. And In recognition of her legacy of performances as a Florida singer-songwriter and for her contributions to the Florida Folk Festival, Jeanie was inducted into the 2016 Florida Folk Festival’s Legends and Legacy Hall of Fame.

When asked why people should care about folk music, Fitchen says, “I think it allows people to reflect, and sometimes it compels people to make changes in their life or world around them. There will never be another form of music like this.” And there will never be another Jeanie Fitchen, a truly unique performer devoted to Florida Folk music steeped in the tradition of past folk icons and Florida’s diverse cultural history.