Kent State Folk Festival November 5, 2008

The Kent State Folk Festival is the second oldest continuously produced folk festival on a college campus. Started in the 1960s by a group of Kent State students catching hold of the folk revival, the festival continues to preserve folk and heritage music through concerts, workshops and educational programs. Since 2000, WKSU-FM has produced the Kent State Folk Festival, after more than 30 years of production by student campus organizations.

WKSU-FM is a nationally recognized public radio station and affiliate of National Public Radio. Award-winning host Jim Blum presents three weekend evenings of originally produced folk music programming, offering the best in singer/songwriter, Celtic, acoustic, traditional and world sounds. In September 2003, WKSU launched Folk Alley, streaming folk music to the world 24 hours a day at folkalley.com.

WKSU broadcasts NPR and Classical Music at 89.7 FM and is a service of Kent State University. Station programming is also heard on WKRW 89.3 FM in Wooster, WKRJ 91.5 FM in Dover/New Philadelphia, WKSV 89.1 FM in Thompson, WNRK 90.7 FM in Norwalk or online at wksu.org.

DATE EVENT
Thursday, November 6 Darrell Scott, Richard Shindell (co-headliners)
Friday, November 7 Peter Rowan & Tony Rice
Saturday, November 8 The Felice Brothers, with opener Justin Townes Earle
Tuesday, November 11 Korea National University of Arts Korean Music Ensemble
Thursday, November 13 Martin Sexton, with opener Ryan Montbleau
Friday, November 14 Folk Alley 'Round Town - free music at 35+ venues in Kent!
Saturday, November 15 Free Community Workshops
Saturday, November 15 Talent Show
Saturday, November 15 Nanci Griffith

Official Website: http://www.kentstatefolkfestival.org/