Sisters Folk Festival will offer two outdoor summer camps for middle-school-aged students this summer: August 10-14 and August 17-21, 2020. These weeklong day camps will explore creativity, musical discovery, art and creative writing taught by professional artists and educators. The all-day camps will be held outside on the lawn at Sisters Art Works, 204 W…
Sisters Folk Festival is pleased to announce the lineup for its new single-day concert offering on August 1, Close To Home. This unique, outdoor live concert will implement state-recommended guidelines for large gatherings during COVID-19, with limits on attendance and socially distanced seating pods at the Sisters Art Works lawn, 204 W Adams Ave. in…
Sisters Folk Festival’s Americana Project and the Graduate Research Organization (GRO) are pleased to announce the recipients of their 2020 scholarship awards. Sisters Folk Festival awarded a total of $4,000 to six Sisters High School seniors who have participated in performing and/or visual arts, as well as photography and digital arts during high school, in…
(Photo | Courtesy of Oliver Lemon’s) Many summer events may be canceled, but Oliver Lemon’s Sisters is making sure that support is not. Sisters Country’s only local grocer is selling custom-designed T-shirts to raise funds for the Sisters Quilt Show and Sisters Folk Festival, both of which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’d…
(L: View from the Ridge, 11×14, oil, R: Randal Tillery painting Still Free to Roam, 30×40, oil) I’ve known as far back as I can remember that I loved art and drawing. My father was a cartoonist for his college newspaper in the early 50s. When Disneyland was opening in 1955, he had the chance…
(Photo | Courtesy of Sisters Folk Festival) It is with deep sadness that the staff and board of directors of Sisters Folk Festival announce the difficult decision to postpone the 24th annual Sisters Folk Festival to September 10-12, 2021. We know that this news is very disappointing, and we had hoped to not have to…
The recipient of this year’s MOTH Spirit of Giving Award is Sisters’ own Preston Thompson Guitars in recognition of their generosity in providing a beautiful, handmade guitar for our fundraiser auction each year. This year’s guitar is spectacular (valued at $6,675) and only 200 raffle tickets will be sold, with the winner drawn on the…
(Photos | Courtesy of Sisters Folk Festival) We at Sisters Folk Festival believe that having something to look forward to in difficult times — like the ones we currently face — is vitally important to the human psyche. We continue to manage our plan to move forward with the 24th Annual Sisters Folk Festival, September…
(Photos | Courtesy of Sisters Folk Festival) As all of our lives continue to be impacted by COVID-19, we at Sisters Folk Festival believe that having something to look forward to — like the time when we will once again gather to connect through live music — is vitally important right now. We continue to…
(Writing Retreat instructors Beth Wood, Anna Tivel and Tom Kimmel | Photo Courtesy of Sisters Folk Festival) It feels like months since everyone’s lives were upended by COVID-19. Sports, concerts, school, vacations, work… it’s likely no one has escaped feeling some impact, and we hope you’re doing okay. Sisters Folk Festival had five events on…
