• Monday Evening, April 7
• Tuesday Evening, April 8
• Wednesday Evening, April 9
• Thursday Evening, April 10
• Friday Evening, April 11
• Saturday Afternoon, April 12
• Saturday Evening, April 12
• Sunday Afternoon, April 13
• Sunday Evening, April 13
• Thursday Night Dance, April 10
• Friday Night Dance, April 11
• Saturday Night Dance, April 12
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Folk Festival Video
Photos: Wrapping up Folk Fest
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| First, Irene Muller of Tukwila, Wash., a veteran of more than 10 Folk Festival appearances, performs Sunday at Centennial Hall. Second, Corey Ledet of Les Amis Creole and Bob Banghart of The C Notes, right, perform dance music Friday at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. More...
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Photo: Keeping the beat
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| Aidan Hopson, 6, front, marches with other children to the songs of Robin Hopper of Eagle River during the Alaska Folk Festival children's concert Saturday morning at Centennial Hall. More...
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Photo: Old-time Creole
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| Les Amis Creole, the 2008 guest artists for the Alaska Folk Festival, play Thursday evening at Centennial Hall. The bandmembers, from left, are Cedric Watson, Corey Ledet, Ed Poullard and James Adams. More...
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Folk Festival Profiles
 Judy Domeny Bowen
 The Dandelion Greens
 Graham Siebe and the Green Toaster
 Crewed: Cate, Maggie & Ginny
 Ken Burch
 Tlingit Gospel Singers
 Skagway Beach Picnic
Photos: Grooving to the folk
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| The Alaska Folk Festival continues tonight with the Zydeco tunes of Les Amis Creole. The band will perform at 8 p.m. at Centennial Hall. The band will perform at 8 p.m. at Centennial Hall. More...
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Old-style Creole: From the Deep South to the Last Frontier
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| Chances are you've never heard a band quite like Les Amis Creole, according to its members.
"We're one of the few bands that still plays this old-style Creole music," said James "J.B." Adams. "It's kind of sort of a lost art cause there's not too many people that still play this stuff." More...
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Turkish singer Latif Bolat to perform at folk festival
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| Turkish singer and musician Latif Bolat is scheduled to perform at the 34th annual Alaska Folk Festival at 9:45 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at Centennial Hall.
Bolat is one of the most distinguished Turkish musicians outside of Turkey, having composed the soundtracks for "Young Indiana Jones" and the PBS documentary "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet." More...
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Photos: Time for folk
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| The 34th Annual Folk Festival continues all week, with afternoon and evening concerts and dances at Centennial Hall and Juneau Arts & Culture Center. The featured band is Les Amis Creole, which will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday. The festival ends Sunday. More...
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Photo: Behind the Folk Fest scene
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| Val Synder poses for a picture Sunday in front of the stage for the 34th annual Alaska Folk Festival at Centennial Hall. Synder designed and painted this year's stage decoration with the help of Erik Chadwell and Jennifer Morrell. More...
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Slow Gun Runner's got the feeling
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| Niki Skeek holds the microphone with her right hand and moves her left one through the air, her fingers together, making a point. Her eyes are closed. Her feet are a foot apart, one forward, one behind. More...
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World-roaming singer/songwriter calls Juneau home
| When asked where home is, singer and author Dao Strom - whose roaming life began as a tot in Vietnam - tells a parable of a woman who, denied shelter in a village, is grateful for the rejection after finding peace under a full moon in the woods. More...
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The art of rock 'n' Troll
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| A uniquely Alaskan sound has spawned from the mind's eye of artist Ray Troll after incubating in the depths of Ketchikan's musical ecosystem for the last couple of years. More...
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