Central Ohio Folk Festival

The festival features programming for all ages, including the very young. Large kids activity area: crafts, an "Instrument Petting Zoo", a YouthFolk Tent with workshops and performances for kids and youth AND opportunities for ages 12 & up to make Frame Box Drums. Other activities: multiple stages with a refreshing variety of folk/roots/Americana concerts. Are you itching to catch some live roots music in a great outdoor setting? Are you a musician that loves to jam with other musicians? You'll find it all here!  4  jam tents (folk/old-time/bluegrass and one for the beginner), and 30+ workshops (all levels). Food and drink.  Sat. night headliner: Internationally touring Folk/Americana band, Nefesh Mountain. This esteemed New York based band fronted by Eric Lindberg & Doni Zasloff and which has been hailed as one of today's formative boundary pushing Progressive Folk/Americana bands. Expect a mixture of Americana, Appalachian bluegrass, old-time, Celtic folk and eastern European music. Nefesh Mountain has recorded and shared the stage with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bryan Sutton, John Doyle, Noam Pikelny (Punch Brothers), Mark Schatz (Bèla Fleck, Nickel Creek), Mike Gordon (Phish) and Tony Trischka among others. The Troubadours, along with their band, continue to forge new paths in unknown territory, armed with Zasloff and Lindberg's strong, smokey, and folksy vocals and Lindberg’s soulful and masterful skills on guitars and banjo alike. Selling out venues from Atlanta to Chicago to New York City, Nefesh Mountain almost immediately took off in the USA roots music festival scene, with celebrated appearances at Merlefest, IBMA's Wide Open Bluegrass, NPR Mountain Stage and more. The festival is a free-will donation event. All festival events will be accessible by anyone entering the grounds and that includes the Saturday evening headliner concert and the workshops. We set up donation tents at the entrance. To make this "new way" successful, we’re encouraging donations. Know that your generous $$ support makes all of this possible! Donations can be made on-site. For a donation of $20 or more, you’ll get a fun flexible flyer, a cookie and a sticker (while supplies last)! You must pre-donate to get inside tent seating for the Sat. night headliner Nefesh Mountain, otherwise seating is on the lawn. To pre-donate: search Central Ohio Folk Festival 2023 on Eventbrite. WHAT DO FOLKS SAY ABOUT US? “I had an absolutely delightful day. . .Thanks for the nicest day out I’ve had all this year. And affordable too.” “Jam tent was awesome. Magical how various musicians just ‘walked up’ and started playing ! Very enjoyable. Thank you!” “Love it! Awesome way to introduce our kids to folk music.”

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