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Fat Fingers Jim
Fat Fingers Jim is a one-man band who specializes in fingerpicked prohibition-era blues, ragtime, and jazz guitar with foot percussion, harmonica, and the occasional ukulele number. He has been playing...
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Swing It! With the New Orleans Jazz Machine
The New Orleans Jazz machine is a Traditional/Dixieland jazz band that began over 20 years go. At the 2015 festival the band will feature the following musicians: Carl Johnson, clarinet/soprano sax;...
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Beyond Breakdowns: Fiddle Workshop (intermediate) with Cliff Harrison
Cliff will teach some less common old-time tune forms. Ever wanted to try a schottische or a (non-Irish) jig? Now’s your chance!
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Meet C-U’s newest old-time band! Tiny Arms features Claire Johnson and Amanda Ramey on fiddles and Matt Turino on guitar.
View ArticleFiddle from Scratch with Robin Kearton
Have you always harbored a secret desire to play the fiddle? Now’s your chance! C4A Director, master teacher, and fiddler extraordinaire Robin Kearton guarantees that by the end of this session you’ll...
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Piato Buffet Lunch Fundraiser
Piato Café The Piato Cafe in Lincoln Square is hosting a $5.00 all-you-can-eat lunch buffet as a fundraiser for the CU Folk and Roots Festival. Enjoy your lunch to the sounds of festival-hosted...
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Festival kickoff at Krannert!
As is tradition, the festival will begin with a FREE Krannert Uncorked performance at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday (5 November) from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the Krannert lobby....
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Paul Kotheimer
Paul Kotheimer has been writing, recording, and releasing DIY acoustic music since the days of the cassette tape. He is quite possibly one of the finest songwriters you’ve never heard of, period. He...
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Bucky Halker presents Rebel Voices: The Songs of Joe Hill and Woody Guthrie
Fusing elements of folk, blues, honky-tonk country, straight ahead rock, and jazz, Bucky Halker has recorded a dozen albums since the 1980s, including his recent double-CD,The Ghost of Woody Guthrie...
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Guitar raffle winner 2015
The Upper Bout, an authorized Martin dealer Congratulations to Mark Richardson, the 2015 winner of the guitar raffle! And many thanks to the Upper Bout for donating a beautiful Takamine guitar for our...
View ArticleBluegrass Hootenanny Homer Opera House Benefit
Join CUFRF, community partner for this event, at the Bluegrass Hootenanny Homer Opera House Benefit on Saturday, March 5, 2016, 6:00pm-10:00pm. This is an opportunity to enjoy some of the area’s best...
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Bruce Molsky Performance and Workshop
Please join the C-U Folk and Roots Festival and the Community Center for the Arts (C4A) for a special performance by renowned fiddler, Bruce Molsky, on Sunday, May 1, 2016, from 7:00pm-9:00pm at the...
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Roots Walk 2016
Join us for the Third Annual Roots Walk in Crystal Lake Park, sponsored by the Urbana Park District and the C-U Folk and Roots Festival! Stroll along the closed park road from the pool to the North...
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Folk and Roots Fridays
Join the Urbana Park District and the C-U Folk & Roots Festival from noon to 1:00pm on the first and third Fridays of each month this summer for some great FREE live music at the Lake House in...
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2016 Guitar Raffle Sponsored by the Upper Bout
The Upper Bout, an authorized Martin dealer Many thanks to the Upper Bout for donating a guitar for our raffle fundraiser for the THIRD year in a row! This year’s beauty is a Gibson J-29...
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C-U Folk and Roots Stage at the 2016 Sweet Corn Festival
Once again, the Urbana Business Association is collaborating with the CU Folk and Roots Festival to bring a folk and roots stage to the Urbana Sweet Corn Festival, which takes place on Friday, August...
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Janice Del Negro
Janice Del Negro Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, is a storyteller, author, educator, and coach. Her newest storytelling book, Folktales Aloud: Practical Tips for Playful Storytelling, was published by the...
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The Honey Dewdrops
Honey Dewdrops (photo by Trisha Bunce) In the summer of 2014, after a long stretch of living on the road, performing and writing across the U.S., Americana songwriters and Virginia natives Laura...
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The Hoyle Brothers
The Hoyle Brothers The Hoyle Brothers approach their music the way a preacher might prepare for a sermon: Reference the good Book, find a theme that resonates and deliver it with fire and passion....
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Banjo and Harmonica Workshop, with J.D. Wilkes
JD Wilkes wit Kentucky Colonel J.D. Wilkes — frontman of the Legendary Shack Shakers — has studied with some of the most notable Kentucky old-time music masters over his 25+ years as an artist. He will...
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