Yakima Folklife Festival 1999 17th Annual "This is one of the great undiscovered festivals. Soon you will have people coming in from all over!" --Paget Management&Booking Agency (Bananafish)on Festival '95 JULY 9,10, & 11 dance- crafts-food- kids' stuff-medieval fest MUSIC-MUSIC-MUSIC Over 100 performers at six stages in Franklin Park,  The Yakima Valley Museum, Bob's Keg & Cork,  and Grant's Brewery Pub With an abundance of music and dance performances on three outdoor stages and one inside the Yakima Valley Museum's Great Hall, this 16-year-old festival in Yakima's beautiful Franklin Park is becoming known as one of the biggest little folk festivals in the Northwest...and it's FREE!  A mini "Kids' Festival," a "Medieval Faire" and jousting tournament (courtesy of the Society for Creative Anachronism), many crafts and ethnic foods, a full schedule of children's activities, an old time country dance, and evening concerts at Bob's Keg & Cork and the famous Grant's Brewery Pub, this event has something for everyone.

Yakima Folklife Festival 1999

THURSDAY EVENING
SUMMER SUNSET CONCERT at 6:30 pm in FRANKLIN PARK
Bram Bratá * Steel Drum Band

FRIDAY NIGHT
...in the Museum's Great Hall
7:00 The Marlayne Kyle Trio (Bluesy Jazz)
8:00 Mashicuna (Music of Ecuador)
9:00 Jim Farrand (Original 90s Folk)
10:00 Jonathan Kingham (Original Folk)
11:00 TBA
...at Grant's Brewpub
7:00 Bye Bye Chinook (Original Acoustic Rock)
8:00 Catch & Release (Bluegrass)
9:00 6-Legged Frog (Jazzy Folksy Blues)
10:00 TBA
11:00 Melodic Grooves (Inspired Funkadelic Rock)
...at Bob's Keg & Cork
7:00 Run of the Mill String Band (Old Timey Folk)
7:45 Mark Fountain (Original & Traditional Folk)
8:30 Harper & Poet (...just that!)
9:15 David Lanigan & Troy Hanford (Scottish smallpipes & guitar)
10:00 North Fork (Cowboy Songs & Stories)
10:45 TBA
11:30 TBA

SATURDAY AT THE PARK & MUSEUM
...in the Museum's Great Hall   Dance Day
12:15 Nashim Olam (Middle Eastern Dance)
1:00 County Line Country Dancers (American Country Dance)
1:45 Pomai's Hula Halau (Hawaiian Dance)
2:30 Maiyah's Kinzas (Middle Eastern Dance)
3:15 Los Bailadores del Sol (Mexican Dance)

Music Begins
4:30 Cate ën' Starla (Original Folk)
5:20 Sparkling Tonics (Swing Jazz Jug Band)
6:10 Bill & Robyn Fisher (Acoustic Folk)
...at the Lawn Stage and the Interlude Stage
11:00 Vibration HQ (Spacey Twang to get you going)
    11:45 TBA
NOON Bungled Beak (Folk-Rock)
    12:45 Bowers & Baker (Original Folk-Rock)
1:00 Melodic Grooves (Inspired Funkadelic Rock)
    1:45 Steve & Shelley Hines (Original Folk)
2:00 Bram Bratá (Steel Drum Band)
    2:45 TBA
3:00 The Cutters (Sea Chanties & Celtic)
    3:45 Mashicuna (Music of Ecuador)
4:00 Christel, Spring, & Carper (Original Country Folk Supergroup)
    4:45 TBA
5:00 The Ohop Valley Boys (Hot Bluegrass)
    5:45 Carolyn Currie (Original Folk)
6:00 Donkeys Breakfast (Salty Sailors Sing Sea Songs)
    6:45 Heather Christie (Original Progressive Folk)
7:00 Catch & Release (Bluegrass)
    7:45TBA
8:00 6-Legged Frog (Jazzy Folksy Blues)
...Children's Concert in the Underground
2:00 Bill & Robyn Fisher
2:30 Jim Vick
3:00 Cate ën' Starla
...at the Grove Stage
11:45 The Bluetones (Bluesy Jazzy Swingin' Folk-Rock)
12:30 The Stone Throwers (Original Folk Country-Rock)
1:15 Not So's You'd Notice (Folk Duo)
2:00 Nicholas Vroman & Adam Griffen (Original Power Folk)
2:45 Steve & Shelley Hines (Original Folk)
3:30 Humphrey & Hartman (Original Folk w/ Harmony & Whimsy)
4:15 TBA
5:00 Jonathan Kingham (Original Folk)
5:45 The Vick-Warren Conspiracy (High Energy Folk Duo)
6:30 TBA
7:15 Subject to Change (Folk-Rock)

SATURDAY NIGHT
...in the Museum's Great Hall
7:00 Steve Dolmatz (Original Folk)
8:00 Carolyn Currie (Original Folk)
9:00 Cindy Pearson (Original Folk/Jazz)
10:00 Heather Christie (Original Progressive Folk)
11:00 TBA
...Contradance
7:30-11 in the museum's Centennial Hall
Live music. Instruction included. It's easy. It's fun.
...at Grant's Brewpub
7:00 Island Time Steel Band (Steel Drums)
8:00 Ohop Valley Boys (Hot Bluegrass)
9:00 Campbell Road (Irish Music & Song)
10:00 Donkey's Breakfast (Salty Sailors Sing Sea Songs)
11:00 The Stone Throwers (Original Folk Country-Rock)
...at Bob's Keg & Cork
7:00 Dan Chott (Original Folk)
7:30 Neil Leonard (Original Folk)
8:00 Jack Roberts (Folk-Rock)
8:45 Heather Christie (Original Progressive Folk)
9:30 Betsy Wellings & Eric Miller (Versatile Folk Duo)
10:15 TBA
10:45 Mark Geisler (Orig./Trad. Celtic Multi-Instrumentalist)
11:30 TBA

SUNDAY AT THE PARK & MUSEUM
...in the Museum's Great Hall   Celtic Day
12:15 Susan Irwin (Celtic Harp)
1:00 David Lanigan & Troy Hanford (Scottish smallpipes & guitar)
1:50 Mark Geisler (Orig./Trad. Celtic Multi-Instrumentalist)
2:40 Campbell Road (Irish Music & Song)
3:30 Harper Tasche (World Harp & more)
4:20 Bramble & Rose (Bagpipes & Irish Dance)
...at the Lawn Stage and Interlude Stage
NOON Vibration HQ (Spacey Twang to get you going)
12:45 Cindy Pearson (Original Folk/Jazz)
1:00 Darwin's New & Used (Jazz)
1:45 Jill Cohn (Piano Folk/Pop)
2:00 Island Time Steel Band (Steel Drum Band)
2:45 TBA
3:00 Carolyn Currie (Original Folk)
3:45 TBA
4:00 TBA
4:45 North Fork (Cowboy Songs & Stories)
5:00 TBA
5:45 TBA
6:00 Swamp Mama Johnson (Rockin' Blues)
...at the Grove Stage
12:30 The Rhythm Ranglers (Folksy Country-Rock)
1:15 Douglas With Hope (Original Folk-Rock)
2:00 Open Country Joy (Folk-Rock of Many Influences)
2:45 Jill Cohn (Piano Folk/Pop)
3:30 Zama (New Folk)
4:15 Jeff & the RFs (Country Folk-Rock)
5:00 Bowers & Baker (Original Folk-Rock)
5:45 The Blue Tropics (Tropical Bluesy Folk-Rock)

OTHER EVENTS
Medieval Faire & Tournaments at the Medieval Village
Quilting Demonstration (courtesy Museum Quilters Guild) Sat. in the Museum

CHILDREN'S EVENTS
Water Slide (courtesy Yakima Fire Dept.)
Make Your Own Plane & Fly-Off!
Obstacle Course (courtesy Gymnastics Plus)
Jumpin' Castle (courtesy The Balloonery)
Karate Demonstration
Children's Arts & Crafts
all day Sat. & Sun. in the Underground