Welcome to the home page of the Alaska Folk Festival.
The 32nd Alaska Folk Festival is scheduled for April 3-9, 2006.
The Alaska Folk
Festival is a unique event and can be compared more to a folk
life festival then to the Folk Festivals that many of us have
experienced. For the most part, no one gets paid. Performers on the
main stage have 15 minute sets. Dance sets in the dance hall Thursday
- Saturday nights are one hour in length. Applications come out in
January and are usually due by the end of February. Performers come
from all over Alaska and also from other Northwest States as well as
from just about everywhere else. Performances range from school
groups to professionals. Many come from hundreds or thousands of
miles away, every year. The Festival is a non profit organization
funded mostly from memberships. Admittance to the festival itself is
free.
We do bring up one guest artist and dance caller every year. For guest performers we look for
people with roots in a musical tradition. (see
Guest Artist Criteria)
For further information see our News;
or our Current Newsletter; or bookmark
this site; or fill out and send in the membership
form to receive our newsletter. ) To view this or previous years' info., to become a member or just to learn more, click a link at left. Or try these:
Official Alaska Folk Festival Phone is: 907-463-3316
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