The Sisters Folk Festival may happen over three days in September, but the team behind the event works year-round on what has become perhaps Central Oregon’s biggest and best music-focused extravaganza.
That’s why headliners for the 2010 folk fest are starting to pop up, even though it’s February.
The big names so far include master Americana singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves, who last visited the region in 2006. (Read my interview with him here.) And just last week, the festival locked up an appearance by veteran blues singer and guitarist John Hammond.
Also confirmed: Ellis, Peter Mulvey, BettySoo, Po’ Girl and Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines. Watch for new additions to the bill at the festival’s Web site.
I don’t know Hammond’s work all that well, but here’s my second-favorite song Slaid Cleaves sings. (My favorite is this cover of a Karen Poston song, and Cleaves has too many great tunes in his canon to feature one he didn’t write.)
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