The 39th Annual Woodstock Folk Festival 2024 Is Coming Right Up. There’s a great lineup! Here’s all you need to know for an epic day and weekend: woodstockfolkfestival.org. Off Square Music will be there managing the sound. If you’re a performer and haven’t yet played in Woodstock, come on out to meet us all!!
It’s Festival Time! Here’s the Who, What, When, and Where Of It…
The 39th Annual Woodstock Folk Festival 2024 has such a great lineup this year, and there are lots of other music events going on in the Woodstock area. Please join us on Sunday, July 21, from Noon to 6 p.m.
We’ll gather on the historic Square in Woodstock, Illinois, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago (See below under “A Few Things To Know To Make Your Visit Carefree” for more detailed directions). In case of rain, the Festival will move to Unity Spiritual Center of Woodstock, 225 W. Calhoun St., corner of Tryon, 2 blocks southwest of the Square.
The 39th Annual Woodstock Folk Festival 2024 continues the tradition of presenting local, national, and international musicians who perform in a variety of styles. This year performers from California, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, and Canada will perform Americana, traditional and contemporary folk, singer-songwriter, blues, alt country, Tex-Mex, and roots music at the Main Stage.
The Open Mic Stage offers an opportunity for audience members to share their talent. A one-hour sampler will be available anywhere in the world via the Festival website Gallery Page after the in-person Festival.
The Festival will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Juno-Award-winning Canadian artist Connie Kaldor, now celebrating 45 years of music, and its “Woody Award” to Annie Capps for her contributions to the local, regional, and national folk community.
This year’s Festi val Main Stage will be co-hosted by WFMT Folk DJ Marilyn Rea Beyer
and our long-time Festival MC Chuck VanderVennet.
In addition to the Award recipients Connie Kaldor, accompanied by her husband Paul Campagne and their son Gabriel, both of whom are also performers in their own right, and Annie Capps, whose husband Rod Capps and mandolinist Jason Dennie will perform with her, Main Stage performers include Brittany Jean, Lynne Hanson, Los Gallos, Paper Birds (Claudia Russell, Bruce Kaplan, Katie Dahl, and Rich Higdon), SongSisters (Amy Dixon-Kolar, Sue Fink, and Patti Shaffner), and Jeff Talmadge. SongSisters will open the Festival and lead the All-Sing Finale.
The Open Mic Stage will feature David Callan celebrating his CD release and Robinlee Garber’s Workshop on “The Healing Power of Music.” The Open Mic Stage will be co-hosted by Gloria Burchfield and Mark Lyons. Sign-up for the Open Mic begins at 12:05 p.m.