2012 Takoma Park Folk Festival to Honor Woody Guthrie

The 35^th annual Takoma Park Folk Festival will take place on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012, from 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. and will pay tribute to one of America’s greatest musical legends, Woody Guthrie, on the centennial anniversary of the performer’s birth. Guthrie, perhaps best known for “This Land is Your Land,” is one of the true pioneers of American Folk music.

More than 50 performers are expected to participate in seven different locations, with a number of other acts roving the grounds of Takoma Park Middle School.

In addition to the 75-minute tribute to Woody Guthrie, the 2012 Folk Festival will feature a new event. “We will have a new tented area for local music teachers to demonstrate various musical instruments donated by [Wheaton music retailer] Chuck Levin’s," said A.J. Campbell, who is handling the publicity and marketing of the 35^th Festival. “We’ve received many applications so far, and hope this area will inspire the next generation of musicians,” she said.

A full line-up of scheduled performers is available in a PDF to the right of this article. For detailed information about the Takoma Park Folk Festival (parking, t-shirts, the juried craft show and more) visit the events website at http://www.tpff.org/.