Huntington Folk Festival Coming To Heckscher Park

HUNTINGTON, NY — The Huntington Folk Festival is set for Saturday at Heckscher Park.

Quarter Horse, a Long Island-based Americana band, is planned to headline the 15th annual Huntington Folk Festival. The park is located off Main Street and Prime Avenue in Huntington.

Opening for the group on the park’s [Harry] Chapin Rainbow Stage at 8 p.m. that evening will be The Honey Dewdrops, an Appalachian-inspired, now Baltimore-based husband-and-wife Americana duo.

The free event is set to run from 1 to 10:30 p.m. with a dinner break scheduled from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and is co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Huntington Arts Council as part of the 56th Huntington Summer Arts Festival.

Quarter Horse is a six-member ensemble that was voted the Most Wanted to Return Emerging Artists at the 2018 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Elements of folk, rock, alternative, country, blues, and jazz are all part of its Americana sound.

Before the evening concert, Michael Kornfeld, president of the Folk Music Society of Huntington and editor & publisher of AcousticMusicScene.com, will conduct an on-stage conversational interview with the evening’s featured & opening artists at 7:30 p.m. He will also host a series of amplified showcases and a harmony workshop — presented by The Honey Dewdrops — from 1 to 6 p.m. These will take place near a canopy tent on the upper lawn area overlooking the stage and will feature artists from throughout the Long Island and the New York metropolitan area.

Below is the full schedule for the Huntington Folk Festival:

• 1 p.m.: Ray Lambiase
• 1:15 p.m.: Song Swap: Rorie Kelly, Nico Padden & Christine Sweeney
• 2 p.m.: South Country String Band
• 2:15 p.m.: Josie Bello
• 2:30 p.m.: Roger Street Friedman
• 2:45 p.m.: The Royal Yard (sea shanty duo)
• 3 p.m.: Dave Murphy
• 3:15 p.m.: Loretta Hagen
• 3:30 p.m.: Kate Mills
• 3:45 p.m.: Open Book
• 4 p.m.: Harmony Workshop with The Honey Dewdrops
• 4:45 p.m.: Catherine Miles & Jay Mafale
• 5 p.m.: The Levins
• 5:15 p.m.: Queler/Farber Family Band
• 5:30 p.m.: Toby Tobias
• 5:45 p.m.: Rachael Sage
• 6 p.m.: Dinner Break
• 7:30 p.m.: On-Stage Conversation with Quarter Horse and The Honey Dewdrops
• 8 p.m.: Evening Concert on the Chapin Rainbow Stage

Festivalgoers are advised to bring lawn chairs, blankets and a picnic supper — or they can walk into Huntington Village and enjoy a meal at one of its many restaurants, according to the event organizer.

The festival’s evening concert is also set to be live-streamed via the Huntington Arts Council’s Facebook page.