Only 309 days away: The 51st Annual Alaska Folk Festival, April 6-12, 2026
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6:30pm

QUEENS

Juneau, AK Featuring: Andria Budbill, Taylor Vidic, Cate Ross, Kelsey Riker, Margeaux Ljungberg, Ella Kelly, Elizabeth Ekins, Marian Call, Wendy Byrnes, Allison Waid

Singing a wide range of songs spanning the past 50 years, the QUEENS are back and ready to take the stage to rejoin the Folk Fest community. Here we go!

6:45pm

The White Hots

Juneau, AK Featuring: Annie Bartholomew, Dylan Proudfoot, Nicole Lantz, Miguel Rohrbacher, Lindsay Clark

Mountain music from Juneau, Alaska.

7:00pm

Ice Jam

Fairbanks, AK Featuring: Seth Danielson, Sarah Garland, Skip Nodler, Kayt Sunwood

Ice Jam: a Fairbanks-based musical pileup found at festivals, contradances and beyond. Jumbled jamming in one configuration or another since 1997.

7:15pm

June Bunch

St. Petersburg, FL

June Bunch spills storytelling vocals through lilting, dynamic tones and melodic finger-picking ukulele.

7:30pm

A Quiet Light

Juneau, AK Featuring: Nora DeSloover, Dan DeSloover, Sarah Shaddy-Farnsworth

Through darkness to the light. Original songs from an intergenerational ensemble.

7:45pm

Full Circle

Juneau, AK Featuring: Greg Burger, Mary DeSmet, Don Rudolph

Soaring harmonies, hot licks, and great tunes artfully selected from folk, country, and roots music.

8:00pm

Costa's Silver Jubilee

Juneau, AK Featuring: Collette Costa

Trying to figure out how to do 50 songs in 15 minutes...

8:15pm

Grayscale

Cordova, AK Featuring: Amy O’Nell Houck, John Ingalls, John Lager

Old musicians and older tunes. Mostly unplugged renditions of not so classic tunes from around the twenties and thirties.

8:30pm

The Jig's Up

Juneau, AK Featuring: Heather Parker, Carl Schrader, Tony Yorba, Chris Meade

With catchy tunes and a driving beat, The Jig’s Up is bound to make you smile!

8:45pm

Dara Rilatos

Juneau, AK

Experience profound emotion and humor with singer-songwriter and lifelong Alaskan, Dara Rilatos.

9:00pm

Ross Island Duo

Portland, OR Featuring: Richard Melling, Karen McCracken

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Karen McCracken and Richard Melling specialize in close harmony and traditional / tradition-based original music.

9:15pm

Sunny Porch

Juneau, AK Featuring: Melanie Brown, Marcus Beckmann

Acoustic guitar and bass duo play originals and beloved songs.

9:30pm

Muskeg Roots & Xtratuf Boots

Juneau, AK Featuring: Douglas Badilla, Susanne Carter Badilla, Mary Jane Tenny, Karen Larson

Former 'Pelicanites' (fishers, teachers, & cold storage workers), including performers at the 10th Fest, and individually for 40 years, reunite for song.

9:45pm

The PEACESTERS

Juneau, AK Featuring: Dave Nichols, John Lager, Allan Nichols

Clever original ditties.

10:00pm

Tramwreck

Gustavus, AK Featuring: Tania Lewis, Jamie Marks, Dave Kovach, TJ Lazar, Sergei Morosan, Colin Osterhaut, Heidi Johnson

Folkfest is fifty and Tramwreck is twenty so get on the bus for a brand new batch of jam.


Emcee: Jacob Sweeney
Stage Manager: Dan Kirkwood