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Friends of the Moab Folk Festival 4-5 Pictorial Retrospective

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Peter Rowan’s Free Mexican Airforce featuring Los Texmaniacs

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Venue Maps ......................... 16-17 Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway .... 18 Lindsay Lou .............................. 20 James Keelaghan....................... 22 Kyshona

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• Please, turn off cell phones during the performances.

• Please, no outside food, beverages or coolers.

Help us in our mission of environmental stewardship by:

• Consider bringing a reusable cup, food containers, and utensils.

• Whenever possible, bring a reusable water bottle. We offer free water refills at all of our venues. Commemorative bottles and cups are for sale at our Festival merchandise tent.

• Pay attention when disposing of waste and place into the appropriate compost, recycling or trash bins.

• The Moab Folk Festival encourages you to walk or bike to venues along Moab’s streets and Millcreek parkway pedestrian and bike path.

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Melissa Schmaedick (Festival Founder & Board President) Cosy Sheridan Meladye Shively Eric Jones Karen Downey

EXECU TIVE DIRECTOR Cassie Paup

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Makeda Barkley

The Moab Folk Festival is just one production of Friends of the Moab Folk Festival (Friends), a 501(c)(3) organization. Our mission is to promote community building through music appreciation, education, and environmental stewardship. Based in the small, rural community of Moab, Utah, Friends strives to bring diverse Folk Music talents and educational opportunities from around the country to the area for the entertainment and enjoyment of the local community and visitors. We encourage environmental stewardship by engaging in and advocating for sustainable and low-impact practices in all of our activities. We strive to keep our programs and concerts economically accessible to many and offer several free to the public. Friends exists to foster and promote traditional, contemporary, and multicultural music in Moab, UT. We believe access to the performing arts should not be determined by where one lives or their socioeconomic status. Each year we aim to further this goal by finding new ways to engage more of our community. Friends programming includes the following:

Moab Folk Camp & Desert Song Songwriting Retreat

The fall camp is an adult music education camp focusing on instrument, vocal, and songwriting skills as well as classes in photography and pastels by local artists. In the spring, Desert Song offers a more intimate setting focused on reflection and writing, in addition to group song discussions and sharing.

Free Festival Workshops

Each year during the Festival, Friends offers two days of free workshop activities including performer interviews, demonstrations, our ever-popular singer-songwriter in the round performances, and two outdoor evening workshops. Festival attendees and local residents alike are welcome at these accessible community outreach events.

Senior Outreach

When it is safe and we are able, Festival musicians perform a private concert for the residents of the Canyonlands Care Center. Due to limited mobility and resources, our senior population is challenged in seeking experiences outside their care facilities. This program helps bridge that gap in access for our senior citizens.

School Assembly Performances for Grand County Students

Since its inception in 2003, Moab Folk Festival has provided free, age-appropriate assembly concerts for all Grand County School District students.

Educational Outreach Artist Residencies

Friends is happy to augment existing school curriculum with weeklong arts and culture classes for local students. We provide grant funding for one outreach intensive per trimester of the school year. Programs this year include songwriting with Ellis Delaney, Roots music education with Joe Seamons of The Rhapsody Project, support for Beacon Strings Camp teaching artists, and Native American Hoop Dance instruction with Joseph Secody and Patrick Willie. Festival performers, The Henhouse Prowlers are scheduled to work with Grand County students the week before the event.

Moab Free Concert Series

Established in 2017, this popular and family-friendly summer music series is the bedrock of our community outreach programming. These concerts provide a free cultural attraction and meeting place for our community and visitors alike. Concerts take place in Moab’s shady Swanny City Park and feature national touring musicians.

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Become part of the growing Moab Folk Festival team and help us uphold our mission and this community that we all love. There is an ongoing need for individual donations and sponsor contributions to fund our general operating expenses and repertoire of non income generating community and educational outreach programs. Donating is easy, tax-deductible, and can come in many forms! Visit moabfolkfestival.com/support or please contact our staff for more information on how you can help.

Grantors

Joseph Leavell

Dan & Elaine Parchman

Jennifer Speers

Mary Collar

Mike Duncan in memory of Bonnie Crysdale

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Richard Codd & Nora Shepard

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Funding for the Festival and its programs is provided by WESTAF (the Western States Arts Federation) and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Taylor 150C 12 string guitar

This year’s raffle guitar is a pristine, lovely Taylor 150C 12 string. If you’ve always wished for a super playable, durable, 12 string that gives you that rich jangle without hurting your hands when you play barre chords, or do those Roger McGuinn runs up the neck, this guitar feels just like it should. Balanced tone and excellent sustain from the heavier-than-6 string bracing and top combine with Taylor’s well known easy to play setup to make this a guitar that gets you a whole new world of sound possibilities. Includes strap and deluxe gig bag.

2022 Moab Folk Festival Artist CD Collection and 2023 Passes

Your chance to take home the full 2022 performer line-up. This set includes a cd donated by each of our Festival performers. Neatly packaged in a gift basket, the music collection will keep you going until November 2023 when you redeem your 3-Day Passes.

All the raffle proceeds benefit our future efforts to bring you another amazing musical experience.

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Pine Bones and TheArtistCNK are the contributing visual artists for Moab Folk Festival 2022. You can see Pine Bones’ work on any of our merchandise, the cover of this program, and at their vendor tent here at the festival. TheArtistCNK’s interactive work can also be viewed and participated in near the food trucks (south end of the ballpark) and at their vendor tent as well.

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Celia Alario

Ellen Amuso

Tori Bauman

Bret Bentley

Maggie Bernet

Terri Bingle

Rick Bore�

Sheena Anne

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Anya Bronowski

Eric Brors

Charlie Bruce

Sharon Brussell

John Cannino

Don Casler

Janet Christenot

Kelly Christenot

Wade J Clapier

Molly Clark

Carolyn Conant

John Costanza

Joseph Costanza

Megan Crapo

Daryl Crossland

Paula Cur�s

Erinn Cutright

Ginger Cyan

Gianna Dallape

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Karen Downey

Natalia Du�

Meera Edwards

Ellie Elijah

Michael Engelhart

Paul Ennis

Marcia Ewell

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Daniel Frideger

Duncan Fuchise

Bre� Goldman

Michael Goller

Joan Gough

Miriam Graham

Peter Greene

Tatsy Guild

Pam Hackley

David Hardy Riley Henry

Wendy Hoff

Olivia Holmes Mary Holozubiec

Lori Hunsaker

Dane Jensen Eric Jones

Jenn Jones Chris Kauffman

Taryn Kay

Doni Kiffmeyer

Charles Kofford

Cinimin Kofford

Josie Kovash

Holly Lammert

Janet Landon

Emily Lanter

Bob Lippman

Gordy Long

Jessica Lowell

Adrea Lund

Heather Lynn Vivian MacKenzie

Joyce Marienfeld

Carol Mayer

Bruce McCabe Melanie McCabe

Annie McVay

Eric Menz

Erica Messinger Caleb Meyer

Jakob Mikkelson Kirsten Miller

Mandy Moore

Alex Mudler

Jordan Nesbi�

Wendy Newman

Cheryl Olson

Nancy Orr

Maria Osborne

Monica Piñera

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Jeff Porter

Susan Raleigh

Charlie Raley

Jackie Raley

Antje Rath

Curt Redd

Joshua Rich

Shelby Rockelein

Kelly Ronquist

Drew Roots

Brian Ross

Mary Jill Roth

Emily Rutkowski

Bri�any Schelk

Anna Scherer

Mike Scherer

Ami Schlosser

Melissa Schmaedick

Paul Sco�

Tricia Sco�

Chris Sealy

Meagan Selvig

Angie Se�le

Rae Schultz

Arthur Shain

Cosy Sheridan

Meladye Shively

Sherri Simmons

Gordon Slaugh

Scooter Smith

Wyn Smith

Sheila Strahan

Chris Strobl

Emily Sudduth

Meredith Talbert

David Thompson

Emily Thompson

Dick Toll

Mike Toninelli

Peter Tucci

Janie Tu�

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Charlo�e Van Voast

Brian Vasquez

Leta Vaughn

Gayle Veum Erin Vick

Rob Walker

Stephanie Walker

Jessica Walsh

Julianne Waters

Glenn Webb

Teagan Webb

Elizabeth Weimholt

Bear Wessels

Gerrish Willis

Jessica Woods

...and all those who are not named on this list.

A deep bow to our founder Melissa Schmaedick who had the vision and then poured her heart, soul, free labor, and resources into the Fes�val to get it off the ground. We could not have go�en this far without our Board of Directors, and the many core volunteers, friends, and family who have helped every year to make this event possible. Special thanks to Assistant Director Makeda Barkley for her skilled assistance with everything. Hugs to Mike Scherer, Duncan Fuchise, and Anna Scherer, for their year round support. We are extremely grateful to our behind the scenes crew Doni Kiffmeyer, Scooter Smith, Michael Ricks, Glenn Webb, Teagan Webb and Don Casler who make this event possible. Gra�tude to Sarah at Pipe Dream for her expert assistance with our t-shirts and hats. Extra apprecia�on to Steve and the pa�ent team at Canyonlands Adver�sing for our program. Thanks to local �cket outlets Back of Beyond Books and Canyonlands Copy Center. Thanks to KZMU for providing accessible Fes�val content online and fabulous performer interviews. Thanks to The Times Independent, Moab Sun News, Moab Happenings and The Adver�ser for being a crucial pipeline of informa�on. We love Grand County Public Library for loaning us IPads and hotspots for our retail stores. Hat �p to Red Rock 4 Wheelers for their fencing. Kudos to Michael Kirby and especially Vic and Anna Bruno for providing their personal RVs to use as performer green rooms. Huge thanks to the Utah Division of Arts and Museums for their con�nued belief in and generous support of our organiza�on. Many others have helped us on our way, too many to men�on here and to you, we say THANK YOU!!

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The fabulous Peter Rowan returns to Moab – bringing with him Los Texmaniacs and The Free Mexican Airforce’s TexMex conjunto style of music – songs based on the traditional music of northern Mexico and south Texas. Conjunto is Spanish for coming together of styles and people, says Rowan. Rowan first met the Grammy Award-winning San Antonio musicians after he began working with accordionist Flaco Jimenez, who has performed with the band. “I’ve always loved Spanish music, the Latin influence,” Rowan says. “I’ve written a lot of songs with that flavor.” Los Texmaniacs won its “Tejano Album of the Year” Grammy for Borders y Bailes.

Los Texmaniacs are comprised of Max Baca performing bajo sexto (6-string bass); Josh Baca on accordion, Noel Hernandez playing bass, and Chris Rivera on drums. Festivalgoers can expect to hear some romantic dance tunes, as well as a few Rowan originals.

While the performance on Saturday specifically features TexMex conjunto music, Rowan has a new bluegrass album out titled Calling You From My Mountain from Rebel Records. The CD includes guest artists Billy Strings, Lindsay Lou, and Molly Tuttle. “They are young players who are lighting it up on fire,” says Rowan. His new CD will be for sale at the merch tent during the festival, and includes a lot of new original songs in the bluegrass style, says Rowan.

In September, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) inducted Rowan into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame for his lifetime contributions to great music. In addition to winning a Grammy for his collaborations on True Life Blues: the songs of Bill Monroe, Rowan has been nominated for six other Grammy awards over the years.

It’s a career that spans five decades, including his early years alongside bluegrass legend Bill Monroe. Rowan began his professional career in 1963 as the singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys. Later Rowan performed in the band Old & In the Way with Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Vassar Clements, and John Kahn – an era that produced Rowan’s classic song Panama Red, performed by New Riders of the Purple Sage.

The Moab Folk Festival show with Los Texmaniacs will be a “plugged in” Rowan.

“I just love playing with these guys,” he says. “I get a chance to sing in front of a top-notch Tex-Mex band. My love of the Southwest comes through. We’ll have fun.”

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The Infamous Stringdusters formed 17 years ago with all the chops to be a traditional bluegrass band. However, the Grammy Awardwinning group added a modern spin to that foundation, giving the Stringdusters a more “progressive acoustic bluegrass” sound, says its fiddle player Jeremy Garrett.

The Stringdusters won a Grammy Award for “Best Bluegrass Album in 2017 for their Laws of Gravity, and have been nominated for numerous other Grammys, including last year’s nomination for “Best Bluegrass Record” for their Tribute to Bill Monroe album.

In addition to Garrett, the Stringdusters are comprised of guitarist Andy Falco, Travis Book performing bass, Andy Hall playing dobro, and Chris Pandolfi on banjo.

Their new record Toward the Fray, released on their own label Americana Vibes, was written collaboratively, yet separately while locked down during the pandemic. The record ended up being a culmination of their individual experiences during that time, as well as their collective impressions of the tension in the nation amidst the uprisings after the killing of George Floyd. The record is intended to spark conversations about the current state-of-affairs, says Garrett.

“We couldn’t even see each other, yet we still connected to the music we were all writing,” Garrett says. “That’s what this record is

about – it’s a reflective, art piece. We wanted to make a statement about the world we live in; it’s our view of how it’s hitting us.”

Falco adds, “I hope people who hear these songs will feel like they’re not alone. That’s what we always hope that people can relate to in our songs – that we’re all in it together.”

The Infamous Stringdusters are thrilled to be on the road again performing for live audiences. “We’re on fire right now for music,” Garrett says. “Every moment, every show, is a real thrill. Moab is an outdoorsy, magical place –our music goes hand-in-hand with the type of people who love this area. We’ve wanted to bring the Stringdusters to Moab where there are a lot of cool things happening.”

In addition to songs from Toward the Fray and Tribute to Bill Monroe, the audience may also hear tunes from the Stringdusters’ current project – a tribute to bluegrass legends Lester Flatt and Early Scruggs, says Garrett.

“We try and keep the set list fresh always,” he says. “It’s a different set list for every show.”

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The virtuosic and multiinstrumentalist Molly Tuttle is a compelling new voice in the roots music world and she’s performing with her band Golden Highway Sunday afternoon at the ball field.

Tuttle inherited her lifelong love of bluegrass from her multi-instrumentalist father and banjo-picking grandfather, with whom she started attending bluegrass jams at age 11. She was playing guitar by age 8, and writing songs by the time she was 15.

She co-produced her new release Crooked Tree from Nonesuch Records, with bluegrass legend Jerry Douglas, who plays dobro on the album. Other guest artists on the record include Gillian Welch, Margo Price, Billy Strings, Old Crow Medicine Show, and others. Recorded in Nashville, the album honors the bluegrass tradition while pushing the genre in new directions – particularly in its lyrical content.

“My hope is for people to someday play these songs around the campfire at bluegrass festivals,” she says. “I’d love for people to learn the songs and play them with their friends and make them all their own.”

While Tuttle grew up in a San Francisco suburb, her songs often draw from childhood memories of visiting her grandparents’ beloved farm in Illinois. The new album includes a song titled San Francisco Blues – about how the Bay Area used to be a thriving artistic scene, but how most musicians can no longer afford to live there. Throughout the album Tuttle also

sings the praises of “wild-hearted women” including the song Side Saddle, “a defiant anthem of resistance” that features Welch.

Her Golden Highway band includes mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjo player Kyle Tuttle (no relation), fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and bassist Shelby Means.

After high school Tuttle attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied American Roots Music with a focus on guitar performance and songwriting. She began working with Americana, folk and bluegrass musicians after moving to Nashville in 2015. In Nashville, Tuttle continued to refine her skills and earned acclaim from artists such as The Bluegrass Situation, who noted “her playing is rhythmically complex, technically precise, and remarkable fleet, as though there are two sets of hands running up and down the frets.”

In 2017, Tuttle was the first woman to be named “Guitar Player of the Year” by the International Bluegrass Music Association(IBMA). In 2022, Molly won IBMA’s “Female Vocalist of the Year.”

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After numerous invitations to perform at the Moab Folk Festival (and not being available on those particular dates) singer-songwriter and musician Lindsay Lou attended last year’s Moab festival just for fun – though she says she’s never shown up to a festival un-booked where she didn’t end up being asked to perform. And sure enough, when a scheduled artist ended up canceling last year, Lou was asked to fill in. She quickly put together a set with friends already in Moab performing for the festival.

The last-minute gig was a hit, and lo-andbehold Lou was voted the 2021 People’s Choice which earned her an invitation to return again this year.

Festivalgoers will hear new original songs, including from Lou’s recently released four-song EP titled You Thought You Knew – an acoustic collection that includes Lou’s favorite acoustic musicians and Nashville neighbors, Billy Strings, Ethan Jodziewicz, Maya de Vitry, Kristen Andreassen, Dominick Leslie and Jordan Tice.

Lou, who plays bass and guitar, will be joined at the festival by fiddle player John Mailander, guitarist Jake Stargel, Chris Lippincott on lap steel, piano and electric guitar and drummer Mark Raudabaugh. May Erlewine and Rachael Davis (from Lou’s other band the Sweet Water Warblers) and Kyle Tuttle (Lou’s

partner) – who’s performing with Molly Tuttle and her band Golden Highway on Sunday, may also join the set at times.

Saturday’s performance “will be a collaboration of all aspects of projects I’m working on,” Lou says. “it will be a unique amalgamation, special for this festival.”

Lindsay Lou, who grew up near the Great Lakes, rooted herself in the Michigan music scene before moving to Nashville. She’s performed both nationally and internationally, including such venues as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Merlefest, Stagecoach, the Scotland’s Shetland Island Folk Fest, Celtic Connections tour, and Australia’s National Folk Festival.

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Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh has described James Keelaghan as “Canada’s finest songwriter” – and he’s performing November 4, at Star Hall.

James was born in Calgary but has lived in Toronto, Winnipeg and now, a charming little town called Perth in Eastern Ontario.

When asked years ago what album most influenced his life, the Canadian folksinger replied “Herbie Hancock at Carnegie Hall” –an album his parents played when he was that 6. “It’s the most amazing live album ever recorded,” he says, adding that when he was 9, his parents brought him to a Herbie Hancock concert – “and I loved every minute.”

Keelaghan is passionate about history, especially related to science and World War One. He is known for writing songs around historical events – such as Small Rebellions, about the 1931 slaughter of peaceful striking miners in Saskatchewan, Canada, Kiri’s Piano (a triumph over adversity amidst the racist treatment of Japanese-Canadians during WW II (yes, Canada had internment camps, too). And Cold Missouri Waters, a portrait of the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire in Montana. Keelaghan’s baritone voice, driving rhythm guitar, and narrative enables him to bridge traditional folk music with roots revival and Celtic music.

Keelaghan won a Juno Award (Canada’s equivalent to a Grammy) for his CD My Skies, and the Canadian Folk Music Award for “Traditional Singer of the Year.”

Moab Folk Camp founder Cosy Sheridan calls Keelaghan “fabulous” and “a songwriting hero of mine.” He performed previously for the festival in 2004.

Keelaghan’s new album titled Second-hand includes two songs written solely by Keelaghan, six collaborations, one translation, and a cover of a Jesse Winchester tune.

James is the Artistic Director of both the Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival in Owen Sound, Ontario, and the Stewart Park Festival in Perth.

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As a music therapist Kyshona (pronounced KUH-SHAUNA) first started writing songs with students and inmates under her care – she is accustomed to using her voice and music to help those who feel silenced or forgotten. When she decided to start exploring her own voice more, she moved to Nashville for its creative community and songwriting culture. There she was featured on the cover of The Nashville Scene 2020 “Year in Music” issue.

Shortly before the pandemic shut down live music events in 2020, Kyshona released the LP, Listen, co-produced with Andrija Tokic and recorded mostly in his Nashville studio The Bomb Shelter. The album’s 10 tracks blend roots, rock, R&B, and folk, plus powerful lyrics designed to “uplift the marginalized and bring awareness to the masses.”

The album has become even more relevant since it was released. The Bluegrass Situation called the songs “prescient,” while The Journal of Roots Music – No Depression writes that Kyshona’s songs are “protest music for a new generation, a musical treatment for social ills, a unique prescription that only works if you listen.”

Rolling Stone included Kyshona’s song Fear on its list of “10 Best Country and Americana Songs to Hear Now,” describing its sound as “a soulful, southern groove.”

“On Fear …she digs deep into a swampy hook that dredges the depths of our subconscious. While the song explores all of the ways we tell ourselves what we can’t do, Kyshona imbues it with the determination needed to free ourselves from our doubts,” says the The Boot.

In 2021 Kyshona appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where she performed with Margo Price and others.

As Highwayqueens.com writes: “In these uncertain times we need music like this more than ever. Open your heart and Listen to Kyshona’s compelling truths.”

Kyshona is performing this weekend with Latara Nicole Conley and Maureen Patricia Murphy.

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If you’re interested in music and culture from around the world –including America’s own traditional music, you won’t want to miss the Henhouse Prowler’s performance Sunday at the ball field.

The Chicago-based bluegrass band travels the world via its Bluegrass Ambassadors nonprofit to perform, share, teach, talk about and learn traditional songs of various cultures. The group is currently touring the United States to promote its most recent album The Bluegrass Ambassadors Sessions – nine songs from nine different countries.

The Prowlers first got involved with cultural diplomacy work after applying to the American Music Abroad program, which opened the door to invitations from embassies worldwide.

After a powerful musical experience in Nigeria, where the group ended up sharing the stage with notable Nigerian hip-hop artist Peter Okoye, the word got out about the American bluegrass band, and the Prowlers found themselves often invited to other nations to learn their country’s popular songs.

“We realized we could use bluegrass as a foundation to talk about music and culture all over the world,” says banjo-player and Prowlers co-founder Ben Wright. Other members of the group include standup bass player and band co-founder Jon Goldfine, guitarist Chris Dollar, and mandolinist Jake Howard.

“Every country has its traditional music,” Wright says. “We’ve been privileged to travel to 28 different counties” – such as Uzbekistan, Kenya, and Cambodia. “Part of what we do is learn the music there with bluegrass instruments, and bring it back to the U.S. Every show we play we perform at least two songs from other parts of the world.”

Festivalgoers will be treated to songs off of the Prowlers’ new album, as well as some of their original music, written in the bluegrass style. And while bluegrass is their foundation, the Henhouse Prowlers have a sound that’s all their own.

We are so pleased that the Henhouse Prowlers will be bringing their education programming to our local schools the week before the event.

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The Sweet Water Warblers will sing their sublime threepart harmonies at the 20th Anniversary kick off concert, Friday evening at Star Hall. Outdoor festival goers will get to hear these multi-instrumentalists at the ball field during a special Sunday morning Gospel hour at the ballpark.

Lindsay Lou, May Erlewine, and Rachael Davis discovered their “mutual passion for social change and expansion of the soul through music,” after the three musicians – each with a well-regarded solo career of their own – were asked to perform a song together at the 2014 Hoxeyville Music Festival in Michigan.

The three songbirds went on to form the Sweet Water Warblers, bringing together Davis’s “gospel and soul-laced melodies,” Erlewine’s “Appalachian folk and countryleaning ballads,” and Lou’s “versatile country soul and bluegrass roots.” Erlewine performed for the Moab Folk Festival in 2019, where she was voted the People’s Choice that year. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone and on Prairie Home Companion. Davis, since adolescence, has sung Amazing Grace each year for the Wheatland Music Festival in Michigan. The third Warbler, Lou, was last year’s MFF People’s Choice, thus, she’ll perform again on Saturday bringing with her additional musicians with whom she’s been working on some new projects. Maya de Vitry will be joining the Warblers for all their performances at the Festival this year.

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“The perfect soundtrack for uncorking that emotion and (defiantly) loving life again,” is how National Public Radio describes one of the songs on Maya de Vitry’s album Violet Light – her third solo release recorded in 2020 and 2021 with numerous musical guests. The record was produced by de Vitry and Ethan Jodziewicz.

De Vitry will be joining Sweet Water Warblers as a special guest Friday, November 4, at Star Hall, and on the mainstage Sunday morning for a special gospel set. Maya will also showcase her solo work at an evening workshop performance.

Raised in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and currently a Nashville resident, de Vitry first traveled and performed as a

fiddling street musician, before progressing to bars, theaters and festivals as a founding member of the band The Stray Birds. She released her critically-acclaimed solo debut Adaptations in 2019, and has emerged as a prolific solo artist and musical collaborator.

De Vitry performs solo, as well as with her band – a fluid ensemble showcasing various collaborators. She also plays in a duo project with North Carolina artist Hannah Seng (known as Hannah and Maya). In addition to writing, recording and touring, de Vitry collaborates with other artists as a writer, multiinstrumentalist, and producer.

American freestyle folk, world and roots musician Joe Craven is at home and loving every minute of it whether he’s performing at Carnegie Hall or busking on Cannery Row (or onstage at the Moab Folk Festival)! Craven, a multi-instrumentalist, played percussion and violin for 17 years with mandolist David Grisman, and spent seven years recording and touring with Grammywinning banjo fusionist Alison Brown. Craven has also performed alongside violinist Stephane Grappelli, Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, string musician David Lindley, and harmonica player Howard Levy.

“Joe Craven brightens any stage he sets foot on, with his deep musicality and warm, impish demeanor, says musician, author and radio host David Gans.

He’s known as “a musical madman with anything that has strings attached: violin, mandolin, tin can, bedpan, cookie tin, tenor guitar/banjo, mouth bow,” and more. According to Audiophile Review “His music combines so many diverse elements it is practically its own genre.”

Craven has recorded and performed a wide variety of roots music projects under his own label Blender Logic Arts, and is an award-winning creativity educator, former museum curator, visual artist, actor/storyteller, and event emcee. He is also the recipient of the 2009 Folk Alliance Far-West Performer of the Year.

Joe will be teaching at this year’s Moab Folk Camp the week before the Festival and doing an education outreach performance for local students.