Wakefest 2009

Wakefest Arts Festival Call to Artists and Creative Wannabees
Wakefest’s visual-arts component will be a completely new experience in 2010.  A contemporary-art treatment of trees will turn the whole village into an open air exhibition, and we’re not talk’n about stringing up your Christmas ornaments!  The old “gallery idea” will be different too, as we celebrate [...]

Wakefest 2010 August 26th – 29th
Wakefield’s Arts Festival is an annual event. Come and experience dance, music, film, theatre, literature and visual art. Workshops, performances from here and away. We will be giving people a taste of what is to come this Saturday, April 17th at the Blacksheep Inn. See the poster below for details.

GILLIAN WELCH REVIVAL at KAFFE 1870 – WORKSHOPS – POETRY AND SONG – LATE NIGHT THEATRE – GRANNIES! WAKEFIELD HAS IT ALL!

Last night’s events kicked serious tush! See post below. What follows are program updates.
The Wakefield Ball was a bust due to rain. Peter Ryan will be back later in the season to lead this workshop for WF.
Chaises Musicales also got washed out. You can still buy veggies and support farmers at the Wakefield Farmer’s Market.
Silkscreening [...]

HOODLUM’s original sore to RailRodder was phenomenal … NOSFERATU WITH MIKE DUBUE AND THE MAYFAIR ORCHESTRA … VERY PHENOMENAL. 
 
HERE ARE A FEW PICS FROM FRANZISKA HEINZE!
 
 

Here are a few shots of the launch lastnight … Movies tonight on the Covered Bridge ! A bientot!

With just four albums over thirteen years, it may seem premature to call her a musical icon. Yet Gillian Welch has cut wide and deep into the fabric of contemporary American music with melodies and lyrics that are both original and hauntingly familiar. Welch somehow seems to be at once forward moving and backward gazing. [...]