Folk Music Festival

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Saturday, July 18, 2015
10am-5pm

Sponsored by Reliant Medical Group
Media Partner: Worcester Magazine

Featuring Art + Market
Art, Craft, Food, Music, and More! from 10am-1pm on Lancaster Street and in the Museum Lobby. Connect with artisans, farmers, and musicians.

Enjoy Live Folk Music
All day long in the Stoddard Garden Courtyard
Featuring Bow Thayer (headliner)
- Andy Cohen
- Lydia Fortune & Phil Nigro and Friends
- Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards
- Danielle Miraglia
- Cannibal Ramblers
- James Keyes
- Cider Mill Stompers
- Iza Jane
- Andy Cummings
- Matt Robert
- Rich "AD" Leufstedt
- Ari Charbonneau
- Contra Dance with Dan Pearl and Floorplay
- Children's Folk Song and Play Party and tribute to Lead Belly by Big Jon Short
* Lineup subject to change

Contra Dance
Called by Dan Pearl with the band 'Floorplay'
(Renaissance Court)

Children's Folk Music Sing Along
with Big Jon Short
11am & 1:30pm (McDonough Court)

Stay all day, and picnic in the courtyard!
Sip Food Cart open 11am-3pm
- Expanded Menu
- Picnic Lunch Available
- Watermelon slices for sale
- Bar in Courtyard serving beer and soda
Food Trucks
will be parked on Lancaster Street from 11am-3pm
- Wooberry
- The Dog Father

American Folk Music Survey
1pm (Conference Room)
Learn about American Folk Music, listen to an American Folk Music Survey with musicologist Sam Breene & art historian Dan Greenberg covering the origins of folk music in the 17th century all the way through folk revival of the 1950s & 60s.

Art Carts in the galleries and Art Making all day long in the downstairs studios of HEW wing.
- Make your own folk instrument

Studio Workshop 12:30-2:30pm
Band Box Painting: paint your own band box. $10, click here to register in advance, or register in person at the event.

Tours
12-12:30pm: Zip Tour (Dark Release, Joan Snyder)
2-3:00pm: Tour of the Month (Sun, Surf, Summer)
2-2:30pm: Curator Tour (American Folk Art, Lovingly Collected tour with Elizabeth Athens, asst. curator of American art)

Press Release
Worcester Art Museum to host full day of down-home, toe-tapping fun - June 19, 2015

 

Folk Art Festival

Saturday, August 22, 2015
10am-5pm

Community Partner: Old Sturbridge Village
Media Partner: Worcester Magazine

Featuring Art + Market
Art, Craft, Food, Music, and More! from 10am-1pm on Lancaster Street and in the Museum Lobby. Connect with artisans, farmers, and musicians.

Antiques Appraisals
$25 nonmember; $20 Member,
for up to 3 objects.
11am-4pm (Hoche Scofield Room)

To register, call 508.793.4450 or
click here to register online.

Do you have a family heirloom passed down through generations? Maybe a great yard sale item or flea market finds that might be a treasure? Would you like to know what it is worth? Bring your special items to Appraisal Day at the Worcester Art Museum. Appraisers from Skinner, Inc. will provide verbal appraisals for your items. Pre-registration is recommended to reserve your space, but drop-ins are welcome!

Tips: Attendees will be seen on a first come, first served basis. Visitors should not bring coins, stamps, jewelry, and musical instruments to be appraised. Paintings and other art objects are highly recommended. Skinner also recommends that good quality photos be substituted for large or particularly fragile items. For services of china or silver, one example of each piece in a set accompanied by a list of the total number of pieces will serve to represent the entire set.

Watch craftspeople from Old Sturbridge Village demonstrate 19th century techniques in the courtyard from 10am-4pm. See a master tinsmith, yarn sewing, and a silhouette artist at work, and purchase their wares.

Stay all day, and picnic in the courtyard!
Sip Food Cart open 11am-3pm
- Expanded Menu
- Picnic Lunch Available
- Watermelon slices for sale
- Bar in Lancaster Lobby serving beer and soda
Food Trucks
will be parked on Lancaster Street from 11am-3pm
- The Dog Father

Folk Tale/Tall Tale Storyteller
10:30am & 2pm (McDonough Court )
Tim Van Egmond - Folksinger & Storyteller, Artist-Educator

Heroines on the Homefront
11:15-12:15pm
Watch Nancy Bell from Young Audiences of Massachusetts show and explain how woman and children were important to the colonial economy and home life. At the end, get the chance to try your hand at spinning.

Art Carts in the galleries and Art Making all day long in the downstairs studios of HEW wing.
- Make your own trade sign ($5)
- Silhouettes (free)
- Design your own gameboard (free)

Tours
10:30-11am Family Tour
12-12:30 Zip Tour (Matisse)
1-11:30am & 1:30-2pm Folk Themed Tour