Community Choir will perform for mental health The Woodstock Community Choir will bring May’s Mental Health Awareness Month to the forefront of its upcoming free concert, “Shining a Light on […]
By Lydia LaGue news@thewoodstockindependent.com With the arrival of spring comes warmer weather, birds singing – and people gathering to sing, too. The Woodstock Folk Festival is holding its spring concert […]
Folk Festival spring concert set for April 16 at Stage Left Woodstock Folk Festival has scheduled its first in-person spring concert since 2019 for 2 p.m. Sunday, April 16, at […]
By Julia Eastham news@thewoodstockindependent.com Music filled Woodstock Square and Stage Left Café Sunday afternoon as Woodstock’s Folk Festival had its first in-person concert since 2020. The concert opened with Tricia […]
For the first time since 2019, the Woodstock Folk Festival will be an in-person event on the Square this coming weekend, the 37th annual affair. The festival, from noon to […]
The Woodstock Folk Festival will present a virtual tribute to Bill Staines at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, which would have been his 75th birthday. The program of words and […]
Since 1986, the Woodstock Folk Festival has brought folk music to Northern Illinois. This July, the festival returns in virtual format, followed by a Zoom session where audience members can […]
Folk Festival leading local observance of centennial of U.S. Women’s Suffrage
Call it the annual Woodstock Folk Festival – with a bonus. Eight featured performers from the U.S. and Canada, with styles ranging from traditional folk to jazz, blues, swing, folk-rock, […]
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