kerrville folk festival 2012

FESTIVAL FOOD SERVICEHEALTH FOODS...................................................................................................................................................................................................Jim O’Brien, Austin SOUPS, SANDWICHES, WRAPS................................................................................................................................................................Lovin Spoonful, Kerrville BARBEQUE & FRIED FISH........................................................................................................................................................................Moe’s Barbeque, Kerrville GOURMET COFFEES.....................................................................................................................................................................Imperial Expresso - Round Rock BEER, WINE, COKES......................................................................................................................................................................................Kerrville Festival Staff POPCORN / PIZZA.................................................................................................................................................................................................David Bell, Austin SMOOTHIES & DESSERTS.....................................................................................................................................................................Graham Warwick, Comfort KERR-CAFE… in the CAMPGROUNDS...........................................................................................................................................................Moe’s Kafe, Kerrville POTATOES, ROASTED CORN & SNACKS in the CAMPRGOUNDS...................................................................................................... The Potato Shak, Orange APPLE TREATS & SNACKS in the CAMPGROUNDS...............................................................................................................................The Apple Store, Medina

THE KENNEDY OUTDOOR THEATER, FOOD SERVICE, CRAFTS VENDORS OPEN AT 6 PM ON MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCE NIGHTS

BE SURE TO VISIT OUR FESTIVAL STORE FOR OFFICIAL T-SHIRTS, CUPS, MUGS, AND NEW ITEMS PO BOX 291466 * KERRVILLE, TEXAS 78029 * (830) 257-3600

www.kerrvillefolkfestival.org

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CHARLIE LANDDALIS ALLENROD KENNEDY, JOHN EDDLEMANSYD FRANZ / MELODY BAKER / CHRIS ADAMSJOSEPH NIPPER / RICHARD NELSONTOM HOPKINSNANCYLEE KENNEDYRICK WRIGHT / DAVE BELANGEROWL MORRISONJASON WAKEFIELDMELANIE WILLSONGAYLE MCELWEEJACOB PRICE / JEFF BUETTNERbeer PATTY PEEBLEScokes COLE LOETZGEOFFREY COPETRISTA RIZK / SARAH SIRES-BENTLY / PAM DURHAMDONOVAN HATCHERPOKEY HARRIS / JON MAXWELLERIC “RADAR” CONRAD / PENNY FINUFJULIE DAVISRUBEN HERNANDEZ / MIKE KITCHEN / ROBERT “DOBBS” GRIFFITHCHRISTINE MILLERPATY McCLURE / BILLY FAIRLY / LAUREN CARPENTER / HEATHER CAMPBELLLUNA WILSONJOHANN WAGNER / SARAH FLANNIGANDAVE BELANGER / LOU TESSIERANN STEPHENtransportation BRUCE POPPEvip JACQUE DICKINSONSUSAN ROADSLIZ CARSON / CAROL PETERSON / TEEL STAR FLEMINGMARGHI ALLENBRUCE CHANDLERGANO HARRIS / JANE REHCOURTNEY EMERSON pottie patrol CHARLES “JESTER” RICE recycling KELLY “WHOA” FALGOUTtrash JEREMY VOSS / DAN GREENLEEDAVID THORNHILL / HONDO CROUCH / DAVE WILMOTH backstage DAVID FISHER theater LENORE LANGSDORF campground STEVE PICKENS / WILLIE KINSEY parking NICK HORNUNG / JOE LAMBERSON ranch central JOE MONTGOMERYmixmaster GRETCHEN HINKLE / WENDY JACKSONDOUG GESSAMANCARI KAHNJASON WEEMS / BRIAN URBANSUE MEDLEY / MOLLY JONES / RAINA LEIGHNED MEFFORDCORRINA RACHEL / ERICA TOWER / PETER HACKMANJACOB KINZIEDAVID BELLMARY BETH GRADZIELKAT ROSE

JACOBS AUDIO - BOULDER, COTRAVIS COUNTY REACTSTRAIT MUSIC, AUSTIN TXRIVER CITY SPORTSWEAR, AUSTIN TXPARRISH & ASSOCIATES, KERRVILLE, TXSHWEIKI MEDIA, AUSTIN TXHERRING PRINTING, KERRVILLE, TXJACKSON REPROGRAPHICS, KERRVILLE, TX

presidentproducer / gen. mgr./ empress

festival consultantsproduction office staff

staff coordinatorscorporate sponsor liaison

range bossranch manager / foreman

all kids crewassistant to the producer - backstage

backstage hospitality - kennedy theaterbackstage hospitality - threadgill theater

beverages

communicationscureville

craftsfestival facilitators

first aidfood donations coordinator

icekerrmaculture

kerr storekerrth oven

kidsvillemaintenance

performer liaison

photographerquality control

raffle/foundationrecording

rv park hostssanitation nation

security

staff centralstaff kitchen

stage production managerskerr-merchtag-a child

ticketstrees & trails

pavilion liaisonwine

workshop liaison

festival soundradios provided by

festival piano provided byfestival t-shirts and apparel

festival cupsprogram printingbrochure printing

poster printing

Texas Folk Music Foundation Board of Directors & OfficersMICHAEL D’EATH – CHAIRPERSON (Legal Affairs)THOMAS CHAPMOND - VICE CHAIRPERSON (Membership)THERESA TOD – SECRETARY (Non-Profit Policy)LARRY WEST – TREASURER (Finance)JON CHARLES – (Fundraising, Endowments)ADAMS KIRKPATRICK – (Buildings and Grounds)LLOYD MAINES - (Music Industry) STAN BERKEFELT - (Nominating Committee, New Folk Tour)VALERIE L. STINSON - (FOC Liaison, Strategy)

Other Staff: LEE ANDERSON, CPA (Accountant)BRACEWELL & GIULIANI – (Legal Affairs)ELECTRATO GRAPHICS – (Web Master)CLINT MORRIS – (VP local affairs)

Kerrville Folk Festival Operating CommitteeCHARLES LAND, PRESIDENTVAL STINSON, VICE PRESIDENTVIRGINIA PLATTS, TREASURERBILL MCNEAL, SECRETARYSTUART VEXLER, CHAIRPERSONBILL STACYRICK WRIGHTVERN CRAWFORD

Quiet Valley Ranch Board of Directors & OfficersJACK FIELDS - PRESIDENTLENORE LANGSDORF - VICE PRESIDENTHOWIE RITCHIE - VICE PRESIDENTGRAHAM WARWICK - VICE PRESIDENTCINDY PEYTON - SECRETARYWOODY WOODWARD - TREASURERLINDSEY LEE - LEGAL ADVISERPAM CENTER - ARCHIVISTTONY CUNNINGHAM - CHAIRPERSONEARL EUBANKS - VICE CHAIRPERSONLARRY FEINNANCYLEE KENNEDYWALTER LEEROBERT MORRISON IIRICK RUBOTTOMANDREW SEIDELMICHAEL WROBEL

Honorary Festival AdvisorsDAVID AMRAMBOBBY BRIDGERSTEVE GILLETTENANCI GRIFFITHBUTCH HANCOCKTISH HINOJOSACAROLYN HESTERGARY P. NUNNTOM PAXTONGAYLE ROSSSHAKE RUSSELLDON SANDERSREV. CHARLES SUMNERSJOSH WHITE JR.PETER YARROW

FESTIVAL FOOD SERVICEHEALTH FOODS...................................................................................................................................................................................................Jim O’Brien, Austin SOUPS, SANDWICHES, WRAPS................................................................................................................................................................Lovin Spoonful, Kerrville BARBEQUE & FRIED FISH........................................................................................................................................................................Moe’s Barbeque, Kerrville GOURMET COFFEES.....................................................................................................................................................................Imperial Expresso - Round Rock BEER, WINE, COKES......................................................................................................................................................................................Kerrville Festival Staff POPCORN / PIZZA.................................................................................................................................................................................................David Bell, Austin SMOOTHIES & DESSERTS.....................................................................................................................................................................Graham Warwick, Comfort KERR-CAFE… in the CAMPGROUNDS...........................................................................................................................................................Moe’s Kafe, Kerrville POTATOES, ROASTED CORN & SNACKS in the CAMPRGOUNDS...................................................................................................... The Potato Shak, Orange APPLE TREATS & SNACKS in the CAMPGROUNDS...............................................................................................................................The Apple Store, Medina

THE KENNEDY OUTDOOR THEATER, FOOD SERVICE, CRAFTS VENDORS OPEN AT 6 PM ON MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCE NIGHTS

BE SURE TO VISIT OUR FESTIVAL STORE FOR OFFICIAL T-SHIRTS, CUPS, MUGS, AND NEW ITEMS PO BOX 291466 * KERRVILLE, TEXAS 78029 * (830) 257-3600

www.kerrvillefolkfestival.org

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THREADGILL MEMBERSHIPS - Kim McDowell - Shady Shores TX

BRIDGER MEMBERSHIPS - George Stieren - San Antonio TXTeri Stieren - San Antonio TX

FOLKIE MEMBERSHIPS - Eileen Alter - Austin TXMichael Crouch - Sugar Land TX

BASIC MEMBERSHIPS - Dalis Allen - Kerrville TXDon Baker - Alvarado TXDavid Bartlow - Conroe TXStanley Berkefelt - Lake Jackson TXChristine Berkefelt - Lake Jackson TXRegan Brown - Austin TXThomas Chapmond - Austin TXJon Charles - Kempner TXFrancie Charles - Kempner TXElizabeth Choate - Canyon Lake TXPaul Colbert - Spring TXPhillip Collins - Austin TXVern Crawford - Center Point TXStephanie Crouch - Marble Falls TXJeff Dalton - Arlington TXKathleen Davies - Austin TX

Michael D’Eath - Stonewall TXNeale Eckstein - Sudbury MALisa Fancher - Austin TXJack Fields - Kerrville TXBrenda Freed - Stonewall TXPeg Margaret Gavin - Austin TXMike Golas - Benbrook TXVirginia Goldstein - Helotes TXAlasdair Goldstein - Helotes TXDarren Groce - Longview TXNorris Hammers - Buda TXJack Harrison - Wimberly TXAlfred Heinsohn - Freeport TXKeith Hoak - Houston TXThomas Hopkins - Mena ARDebbie Huffman - Houston TXDino Jobe - Austin TXJohn Kelso - Austin TXMarilyn Kelso - Burnet TXAustin Kessler - Austin TXCharlie Land - San Antonio TXLenore Langsdorf - please enter TXBaylis Laramore - Murphy TXWalter Lee - La Grange TXTom Loud - Houston TXJames Macaulay - Beaumont TXRick Martin - Fredericksburg TXBen Marz - Austin TX

Jon Maxwell - Center Point TXLaura McCarver - Houston TXJohn McCarver - Houston TXBob McMurrer - Georgetown TXWilliam McNeal - Luling TXDan Meador - Austin TXSusan Medley - Kerrville TXChristine Miller - Kerrville TXSamuel Millwee - Austin TXGreg Moore - Cedar Park TXHarold Morgan - Austin TXRobert Francis Morrison - Denton TXLuraFaye Motley - Edna TXJon Nicholson - Cypress TXJim Noble - Pearland TXBeverly Noble - please enter TXDavid Obermann - Austin TXSusie Parrent - Lake Forest Park WAGail Penney-Chapmond - Austin TXThais Perkins - Austin TXMary Potter - Dallas TXHelen Preddy - Northfield MNDarryl Purpose - Nederland COJane Reh - Mena ARKary Reid - Lubbock TXRandy Renter - Dallas TXKaren Robinson - San Antonio TXDeb Rouse - Houston TXW

Frank Rubottom - Houston TXFran Rush - Bastrop TXAnne Ruthstrom - San Marcos TXJudy Sampieri - Houston TXFrank J. Scanio, III - Corpus Christi TXRichard Schultze - La Grange TXDavid Schunck - Austin TXPhyllis Shuffield - Cameron TXScott Shults - Houston TXSarah Shults - Houston TXWilliam Stacy - Bryan TXValarie Stinson - Houston TXKendra Terry - Dallas TXLou Tessier - Kerrville TXTobin Tilley - Kerrville TXBobby Tod - Dripping Springs TXTheresa Tod - Dripping Springs TXBrian Urban - Georgetown TXLeslie Valinoti - Round Rock TXWest Warren - San Antonio TXJim Weatherly - industry TXLarry West - Austin TXCatherine West - Austin TXBeth West - Austin TXAmanda Winters - Austin TXTodd Withers - Round Rock TXRick Wright - Kerrville TXChris Yost - Austin TX

Mark & Liz Abrahams - Austin TXEileen Alter - Austin TXJoe & Bev Angel - Cedar Creek TXJustin & Giovanna Arecchi - Justin’s Ice Cream Gary & Linda Armijo - Round Rock TXScott Ausburn - Fort Worth TXSeth Avant - Laredo TXDon Baker - Alvarado TXF E Baxter - Mountain Home TXThomas Belinoski - Austin TXVicki Bell & Tom Schnorr - Austin TXCindy Blue - Burnet TXDaniel & Ellen Boling - www.DanielBoling.com Boomer & Alan - Austin TXRandy & Barbara Brown - Mineola TXJeffrey Busbee - kirkwood MODiane Calvert - Denton TX Camp Kerrfuffle - Carol Cartwright - Richmond TXMark Cavazos - Plano TXThomas Chapmond - Austin TXJoe Chavez - CORPUS CHRISTI TXKathy Cicconi - Kerrville TXMaggie Cobb - Springdale ARJavier & Dyanne Cortez - Austin TXJeff Dalton - Arlington TXKathleen Davies - Austin TXCarolyn Davis - stafford TXMichael & Brenda - Albert TXJim & Deanne Dirden - Roanoke TXDavid Patrick Dunn - Austin TXJerry & Ginalyn Earwood - Denton TXNeale Eckstein - Sudbury MAJohn T Eddleman - Kerrville TXIngrid Ellerbee & Deanne Croan - Austin TXMoira Elmore - Laredo, TXSusan England - San Marcos TXEarl Eubanks - San Antonio TXLisa Fancher - Firewater Richard Ferrandiz - Planet Earth Jack Fields - Kerrville TXAndy Flack - Huntsville TXJohn Sanders & Wanda Fuchs - Jonestown TXBen Gangloff - Kingman AZAlan Gann - Plano TXLaurie Glaze - Houston TX

Mike Golas - Benbrook TXJames Gordon - Utopia TXLindsay Haisley - Leander TXLia Haisley - Austin TXMike Hall - Dallas TXDennis Hamilton - Farmers Branch TXDeanie and Norris Hammers - Buda TXJim Hancock - jimusic Mobile Studios Michael D Harper - Austin TXDarryl Harris - Austin TXKitty & Bubba Heinsohn - Freeport TXMarcela Hernandez - San Antonio TXPaul Hinson - Kerrville TXKeith & Susan Hoak - Houston TXNed Hobgood & Linda Rodriguez - Slidell LAHunter & Lisa Hollingsworth - Dripping Springs TXJudy Hoover - San Antonio TXAda Houston - Boerne TXKathleen Hudson - Kerrville TXDebbie Huffman - Houston TXWayne Jennings - New Braunfels TXDino Jobe & Leslie Cash - rawhidetrailconcerts.com Chester John - Round Rock TXDavid Johnson - Walters OKGlenn Johnson - Austin TX Kamp Tequila Mockingbird - John & Marilyn Kelso - Burnet TXThomas Kendelbacher - Seabrook TXAustin Kessler & Connie Gray - Austin TXGlenn Kunze - Austin TXRick & Ruthann Laman - Austin TXCharlie Land - San Antonio TXJohn Leavitt - Austin TXAndrea LeBlanc - Kerrville TXPaul A Lechowick - San Antonio TXWalter Lee - La Grange TXKelly Lobley - Spring TXJack Mann - Comfort TXGary Martin - Assonet MAJon Maxwell - Center Point TXPatricia Mayne - Austin TXScott McCarley - Inventor of Simple Stuff John McCarver - Houston TXJoe McClure/Joesongs Music - Cataula GAMarc McCullough - Plano TXBrad McGrew, CPA - Austin TX

Kelly McQuerns - Pflugerville TXDan Meador - Austin TXDaniel W. Merry III - Booneville ARSherry & Greg Moe - Leander TXGreg Moore - Cedar Park TXHarold Morgan & Kathy Silberman - Austin TXTeresa Morris - Garland TXTed Morris - Downright Texas Antique Robert Francis Morrison - Denton TXJack & LuraFaye Motley - Edna TXMary Martha Motley & Guitar Bill - Nacogdoches TXElaine Nangle - Cedar Creek TXBill Nash - Plano TXJon Nicholson - Cypress TXBeverly & Jim Noble - Pearland TXKaty & Tom Noyes - Fort Worth TXDavid Obermann - Austin TXBob Orenstein & Nancy Pfau - Dallas TX Pablo, Laura, & Gabby - Camp La Tuna Sierra Pahl - Placerville CAJuliette Palacios - San Antonio TX Papa DuctTape & Dragonfly - Wolfforth TXSusie Parrent - Lake Forest Park WADiana Payne - Kyle TXLeon Ashley & Lulu Peek - Denton TXKen & Mary Jude Peterson - Austin TXJessie Petty - Kerrville TXMike & Dianne Pierce - Spicewood TXJohn & Lynda Polk - Houston TXMary Potter - Dallas TXHelen Preddy - Northfield MNRussell Prevost - San Antonio TXJeff Provost - Lakeway TXSheila Raines - Garland TXRandy Renter - Dallas TXJames Reynolds - Kerrville TXLiz Henry Richardson - Austin TXHowie Richey - Austin TXScott & Lina Rigrod - Houston TXMichael Roebuck & Marietta Robards - Bellaire TXRay & Lady Romano - San Antonio TXwendy rosloff - los angeles CABetty Ross - Garland TXRick Rubottom - Houston TXJudy Sampieri - Houston TXFrank J. and Rene Scanio, III - Corpus Christi TX

Henry Schenk - San Antonio TXJeff Schmitt - Austin TXJohn Paul Schwartz, D.O. - Fort Davis TXPhyllis Shuffield - Cameron TXSarah & Scott Shults - Houston TXMark and Kathryn Smith - Lytle TXJohn & Joanne Speer - Camp Mixed Nuts Ricky Sprague - Fredericksburg TXKen Stallman - San Antonio TXWilliam Stanley - Prescott AZHarold Stevens Jr. - Mobile ALTamie Stewart - Austin TXValarie Stinson - Houston TXValarie Stinson - Houston TXJohn Stuart - Spring Branch TXRusty & Mary Taylor - Odessa TXKendra Terry - Dallas TXJoanne and David Tinder - Kerrville TXBobby Tod - Dripping Springs TXMary K. Trumble - Austin TX Urban Campfires - San Antonio TXLee VanWagner - Lorena TXLouise Vermillion - Fort Worth TXBrant Weatherford - Crossroads TXDavid Wells - Baltimore MDLarry & Beth West - Austin TXJoy H Whetstone - kerrville TXStanley Whitehead - Dallas TXCharlie & Ruby Williams - Cresson TXDon L Williams - Columbus GAJim Williams - Red Rock TXSean Willis - Houston TXDonald Wilson - MEDINA TXConn Wirth - Houston TXThomas Witanek - Cypress TXTodd, Drew, & Ben Withers - Round Rock TXLinda Wofford - Austin TXGary & Cathy Woitena - San Antonio TXJon & Sandy Wolfmueller - Kerrville TXBrian Wolfsohn - Southwest Ranches FLSteve Wood - San Antonio TXEddie Yarbrough - Houston TXH.C. & Victoria Yeager - Kerrville TXTricia & Chris Yost - Austin TXLee Zvonek - Austin TX

TEXAS MONTHLY - Austin TXSHWEIKI MEDIA - Austin TXGRASSY HILL - Lyme CTWOLFMUELLER’S BOOKS - Kerrville TXGUILD GUITARS - Scottsdale AZKERRVILLE CVB - Kerrville TXROUSE HOUSE CONCERTS - Houston TXBERKALIN RECORDS - Houston TXBAYARD GUITARS - Fayetteville ARBRACEWELL & GIULIANI - Austin TXCABIN 10, INC / RICE FESTIVAL - Kerrville TX

MEDICAL SURGICAL SPECIALISTS - Kerrville TXJP HOPS HOUSE - Houston TXVISION SOURCE / TOBIN TILLEY - Kerrville TXSTRAIT MUSIC - Austin TXYO RANCH RESORT HOTEL - Kerrville TXGIBSON’S DISCOUNT CENTER - Kerrville TXMAIN LIQUOR - Kerrville TXKEG 1 O’NEAL, LLC - TexasKYSER CAPOS - San Francisco CAMINI MART STORES - 17 Hill Country LocationsROLAND BROWN - Wimberley TX

RIVERSIDE NATURE CENTER - Kerrville TX KRVL RADIO - Kerrville TXFIDDLER’S GREEN - Austin TXM MAGAZINE - Redondo Beach CATEXAS MUSIC MAGAZINE - Austin TXBLU MOBILE - Austin TXSWAN PERCUSSION - Austin TXPLANVIEW - Austin TXDR. VALERIAN CHYLE - Kerrville TXINTELLITOUCH TUNERS - Carrollton TXDOLPHIN BLUE - Dallas TX

2012 MEMBERS OF TEXAS FOLK MUSIC FOUNDATION

2012 KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL BUSINESS SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS

2012 KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL SEASON TICKETS / LIFETIME UPGRADES

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Please help us maintain the beauty of the Texas Hill Country

and Quiet Valley Ranch by picking up trash and placing

it in the trash barrels.

Vendors do not provide throw-away beverage cups. Please bring your own permanent cup or purchase souvenir cups at food &beverage stands. We also provide recycling and composting tubs throughout the campgrounds for your convenience. Please help our Festival volunteers by separating your green, brown & clear glass, aluminum, plastic (no lids!) and flattening cardboard. Composting buckets are located at most established camps around the ranch. If you are interested in having a composting bucket in your established camp, please contact the Kerrmaculture Krew or stop by the Festival Office.

TOGETHER A DIFFERENCEWE’RE MAKING

Hi everybody! Glad you are here as we culminate our year long anniversary celebration with our 41st Kerrville Folk Festival. It means so much to us that live it year round that you come to support it and enjoy it and take some of it with you when you go. The magic I mean. And the community. And most of all the music that will sustain you until the next one. Just as important whether you have been to all 41, or if this is just your first. What is created when we gather is sustenance for all of the other things that are thrown in our paths when we are not together. But what we know is that we can call on one another even then. It is a family, a tribe, an important part of our time on this planet.

It takes all of the parts — Kennedy Mainstage and Threadgill Theater, Children’s Concerts, canoe trips, yoga, bike rides and all of the Schools, the parts that are scheduled ahead of time and the unscheduled, music at Kerr Store or in the ‘mid-dle of the road’, parties at your neighbors camps, the New Folk camp, trips to swimming holes — to make the ‘Kerrville’ experience what it is and what we set our intention all year long to preserve. Everyone that comes to visit for this time has choices to make, a schedule as put together by each of you as the days unfold, to partake of it all or just in bits and pieces. I have always loved choices!

So welcome back to your myriad of choices for this year!

...including the stage schedules, which are available on our phone app thanks to Blu Mobile (oh dear we are joining the technological age), or as always in the brochure or the Program Book. Our wonderful team puts this and more together for many long days and nights leading up to opening day. They do it with much joy that we hope you feel when you call us and when you get here. The office staff and the grounds staff, along with the committees and boards that work together to keep the ‘magic’ alive, are all grateful that you have chosen to join us in this year’s celebration of songwriters.

We have a lot of new to Kerrville artists this year. Matt Harlan is first up to open the whole shebang! Ghosts Along the Brazos, Carolyn Wonderland, Birds of Chicago, Old Man Luedecke, Salud, Joe Pug, The Milk Carton Kids, and Ruth Moody to name just the Kennedy Mainstage artists. Also a great schedule at Threadgill Theater this year, including the Phil Ochs Documentary Film hosted by his sister Sonny Ochs on May 29. See if it doesn’t feel currently familiar…

Kinky Friedman is back with a full set on Friday May 25th! Then a group of fans that contributed to our fundraising effort will be hanging out with him Backstage to celebrate the launch of “Man In Black Tequila.”

I could go on and usually do once I get started if it’s about Kerrville Festivals. But I will stop for now and let you get on with the enjoyment that you came to experience. After all, I get to talk to you every night from the stage. Lucky me! Much love, Dalis

KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL NO. 41Frank Rubottom - Houston TXFran Rush - Bastrop TXAnne Ruthstrom - San Marcos TXJudy Sampieri - Houston TXFrank J. Scanio, III - Corpus Christi TXRichard Schultze - La Grange TXDavid Schunck - Austin TXPhyllis Shuffield - Cameron TXScott Shults - Houston TXSarah Shults - Houston TXWilliam Stacy - Bryan TXValarie Stinson - Houston TXKendra Terry - Dallas TXLou Tessier - Kerrville TXTobin Tilley - Kerrville TXBobby Tod - Dripping Springs TXTheresa Tod - Dripping Springs TXBrian Urban - Georgetown TXLeslie Valinoti - Round Rock TXWest Warren - San Antonio TXJim Weatherly - industry TXLarry West - Austin TXCatherine West - Austin TXBeth West - Austin TXAmanda Winters - Austin TXTodd Withers - Round Rock TXRick Wright - Kerrville TXChris Yost - Austin TX

Henry Schenk - San Antonio TXJeff Schmitt - Austin TXJohn Paul Schwartz, D.O. - Fort Davis TXPhyllis Shuffield - Cameron TXSarah & Scott Shults - Houston TXMark and Kathryn Smith - Lytle TXJohn & Joanne Speer - Camp Mixed Nuts Ricky Sprague - Fredericksburg TXKen Stallman - San Antonio TXWilliam Stanley - Prescott AZHarold Stevens Jr. - Mobile ALTamie Stewart - Austin TXValarie Stinson - Houston TXValarie Stinson - Houston TXJohn Stuart - Spring Branch TXRusty & Mary Taylor - Odessa TXKendra Terry - Dallas TXJoanne and David Tinder - Kerrville TXBobby Tod - Dripping Springs TXMary K. Trumble - Austin TX Urban Campfires - San Antonio TXLee VanWagner - Lorena TXLouise Vermillion - Fort Worth TXBrant Weatherford - Crossroads TXDavid Wells - Baltimore MDLarry & Beth West - Austin TXJoy H Whetstone - kerrville TXStanley Whitehead - Dallas TXCharlie & Ruby Williams - Cresson TXDon L Williams - Columbus GAJim Williams - Red Rock TXSean Willis - Houston TXDonald Wilson - MEDINA TXConn Wirth - Houston TXThomas Witanek - Cypress TXTodd, Drew, & Ben Withers - Round Rock TXLinda Wofford - Austin TXGary & Cathy Woitena - San Antonio TXJon & Sandy Wolfmueller - Kerrville TXBrian Wolfsohn - Southwest Ranches FLSteve Wood - San Antonio TXEddie Yarbrough - Houston TXH.C. & Victoria Yeager - Kerrville TXTricia & Chris Yost - Austin TXLee Zvonek - Austin TX

RIVERSIDE NATURE CENTER - Kerrville TX KRVL RADIO - Kerrville TXFIDDLER’S GREEN - Austin TXM MAGAZINE - Redondo Beach CATEXAS MUSIC MAGAZINE - Austin TXBLU MOBILE - Austin TXSWAN PERCUSSION - Austin TXPLANVIEW - Austin TXDR. VALERIAN CHYLE - Kerrville TXINTELLITOUCH TUNERS - Carrollton TXDOLPHIN BLUE - Dallas TX

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13th AnnualConference

Sept. 27-30, 2012Holiday Inn Austin Midtown

Austin, Texas

songwriters fromTEXAS UNIVERSITIES

help us welcome

this year’s winners!

3:30pm FRIDAY, MAY 25threadgill theater

Each year songwriting competitions are held at various Universities across the State of Texas. Student songwriters vie for the opportunity to come out and play at the Kerrville Folk Festival.

This year, competitions were held at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Texas, Texas State, Baylor University,TTexas Tech and Texas A&M.

2012 CRAFTS VILLAGE

BOOTH ARTIST STUDIO CRAFT 1 Hippie Juju Magic Smithville TX Hippie Stuff Since 1989 2 Link & Pixi’s Enchanted Crafts Smithville TX Handmade Leathercrafts and More 3 Cinnamon Guitars & Services Asheville NC Handmade Guitars Setups Accessories 4 Earthyartz Pipe Creek TX Ceramic/Handmade by Artist 5 LovePets Ft. Worth TX Handcrafted Critters 6 “Inside the Kaleidoscope” San Marcos TX Hula Hoops, Jewelry & More! 7 Baruzuland Originals Austin TX Functional, stylish, comfort wear 8 Mystic Visions Card Readers San Antonio TX Intuitive Card Readings 9 Cloud 9 Austin TX Massage and Rope Sandals10, 11, 12 PrecisePens.com San Antonio TX Handmade Functional Art 13 Nu Essence Rancho De Taos NM Astrological Aromatherapy Products 14 Steel By Design Kerrville TX Metal Art 15 Mississippi Miracle Clay Colleyville TX Mississippi Magnesium Bentonite Clay 16 Sarai Originals Elgin TX Original designs by Sarai 17 Marvin Gershowitz Platskanie OR Handmade Kazoos 18 SCI Products Andrews TX Natural Organic Health & Living 19 Cottage Industrials Austin TX Handmade Accessories & custom Textiles 20 Kirby de Logan Jewelry Missouri City TX Inspired Costume Jewelry 21 Hippie Chick Creations Owasso OK Handmade Hippie Wear 22 Lucky Day Hats Austin TX Not your Mama’s Headwear 23 Don White Wizards Ft. Worth TX Handmade Clay Figurines 24 Hippie Hollow Granola Ingram TX Hippie Hollow Granola 25 Lulu’s Closet Rockport TX Costumes & Jewelry 26 Simplistix Laredo TX Sticks and Stones Artworks 27 Bangles by Grace Corpus Christi TX Handforged Sterling Silver Jewelry 28 Gaddashop.com Moorpark CA Horn, Tagua, & Wood Jewelry 29 Richard Gassman Hot Springs AK Silk Artwear 30 Gypsy River Riches Austin TX Fair Trade Guatemalan Jewelry 31 Brightwell’s Botanicals Mesquite TX Brightwell’s Botanicals 32 Mary Lou Knapp & Marilisa Swain Camptonville CA Massage and Body Work 33 eRic Luplow’s Sur-Folk™ Watercolor Truchas NM Vibrant Sur-Folk™ Watercolor Paintings 37 Inch by Inch Weaving Lee Center NY Hand-Woven Clothing & Accessories 38 Westwind Tie-Dye Company Van TX Tie-dye clothing and apparell39 & 40 Silk Road Trunk Show Austin TX World Beat Clothing 41 John Schroeder Driftwood TX Musical Instruments, Carvings, Jewelry 42 WOW Productions Kerrville TX Inspirational Books and Artwork 43 Aurora Foell Face Paintings Bastrop TX Face Painting 44 Imagination Leather Smithville TX Handmade Leather Goods 45 ELMZART Driftwood TX Art Shirts - Leather - Fiber Art 46 Minawear Hemp Clothing Victoria TX Luxury Hemp Loungewear 47 Bayard Guitars Fayetteville AR Acoustic Stringed Instruments 48 Tiffany Dunlap Willits CA Body Art & Body Care Products 53 Juniperfare Vintage Wears Bandera TX Cool Hippie Stuff 54 Bajra, Inc. Haltom City TX Nepalese, Tibetan Arts & Handicraft 55 Kontraband Kitty Austin TX Feathered Austin Original Accessories 56 Nadina’s Cremes & Drafonflies Vienna MD Luscious Scented Cremes & Dragonflies 57 Musickscapes Kerrville TX Landscapes of My Mind 58 Sacred Earth Clayworks Wimberley TX Pottery, Tie-Dye, Clay Art59 & 60 Rex Foster Comfort TX Fossil Ivory Handmade Jewelry 61 Amy Beth - HOPE Jewelry Ingram TX Recycled 2 Ravishing 62 Helen Jean Hamlin Austin TX Guatemalan Crafts & Clothing 63 Rainbow Mtn. Ranch Productions Roosevelt TX Native Crafts & Jewelry 64 Eye Candy Art Creations Austin TX High End Resin Art65 – 68 TFMF A - I Kerr History Booth

Below is a listing of the Arts and Crafts Vendors who have booths at this year’s Festival. Others may have been added since the time of publication, so be sure to visit all of the booths and support these wonderful artisans who add so much to the atmosphere in our outdoor theater.

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BOOTH ARTIST STUDIO CRAFT 1 Hippie Juju Magic Smithville TX Hippie Stuff Since 1989 2 Link & Pixi’s Enchanted Crafts Smithville TX Handmade Leathercrafts and More 3 Cinnamon Guitars & Services Asheville NC Handmade Guitars Setups Accessories 4 Earthyartz Pipe Creek TX Ceramic/Handmade by Artist 5 LovePets Ft. Worth TX Handcrafted Critters 6 “Inside the Kaleidoscope” San Marcos TX Hula Hoops, Jewelry & More! 7 Baruzuland Originals Austin TX Functional, stylish, comfort wear 8 Mystic Visions Card Readers San Antonio TX Intuitive Card Readings 9 Cloud 9 Austin TX Massage and Rope Sandals10, 11, 12 PrecisePens.com San Antonio TX Handmade Functional Art 13 Nu Essence Rancho De Taos NM Astrological Aromatherapy Products 14 Steel By Design Kerrville TX Metal Art 15 Mississippi Miracle Clay Colleyville TX Mississippi Magnesium Bentonite Clay 16 Sarai Originals Elgin TX Original designs by Sarai 17 Marvin Gershowitz Platskanie OR Handmade Kazoos 18 SCI Products Andrews TX Natural Organic Health & Living 19 Cottage Industrials Austin TX Handmade Accessories & custom Textiles 20 Kirby de Logan Jewelry Missouri City TX Inspired Costume Jewelry 21 Hippie Chick Creations Owasso OK Handmade Hippie Wear 22 Lucky Day Hats Austin TX Not your Mama’s Headwear 23 Don White Wizards Ft. Worth TX Handmade Clay Figurines 24 Hippie Hollow Granola Ingram TX Hippie Hollow Granola 25 Lulu’s Closet Rockport TX Costumes & Jewelry 26 Simplistix Laredo TX Sticks and Stones Artworks 27 Bangles by Grace Corpus Christi TX Handforged Sterling Silver Jewelry 28 Gaddashop.com Moorpark CA Horn, Tagua, & Wood Jewelry 29 Richard Gassman Hot Springs AK Silk Artwear 30 Gypsy River Riches Austin TX Fair Trade Guatemalan Jewelry 31 Brightwell’s Botanicals Mesquite TX Brightwell’s Botanicals 32 Mary Lou Knapp & Marilisa Swain Camptonville CA Massage and Body Work 33 eRic Luplow’s Sur-Folk™ Watercolor Truchas NM Vibrant Sur-Folk™ Watercolor Paintings 37 Inch by Inch Weaving Lee Center NY Hand-Woven Clothing & Accessories 38 Westwind Tie-Dye Company Van TX Tie-dye clothing and apparell39 & 40 Silk Road Trunk Show Austin TX World Beat Clothing 41 John Schroeder Driftwood TX Musical Instruments, Carvings, Jewelry 42 WOW Productions Kerrville TX Inspirational Books and Artwork 43 Aurora Foell Face Paintings Bastrop TX Face Painting 44 Imagination Leather Smithville TX Handmade Leather Goods 45 ELMZART Driftwood TX Art Shirts - Leather - Fiber Art 46 Minawear Hemp Clothing Victoria TX Luxury Hemp Loungewear 4 Bayard Guitars Fayetteville AR Acoustic Stringed Instruments 48 Tiffany Dunlap Willits CA Body Art & Body Care Products 53 Juniperfare Vintage Wears Bandera TX Cool Hippie Stuff 54 Bajra, Inc. Haltom City TX Nepalese, Tibetan Arts & Handicraft 55 Kontraband Kitty Austin TX Feathered Austin Original Accessories 56 Nadina’s Cremes & Drafonflies Vienna MD Luscious Scented Cremes & Dragonflies 57 Musickscapes Kerrville TX Landscapes of My Mind 58 Sacred Earth Clayworks Wimberley TX Pottery, Tie-Dye, Clay Art59 & 60 Rex Foster Comfort TX Fossil Ivory Handmade Jewelry 61 Amy Beth - HOPE Jewelry Ingram TX Recycled 2 Ravishing 62 Helen Jean Hamlin Austin TX Guatemalan Crafts & Clothing 63 Rainbow Mtn. Ranch Productions Roosevelt TX Native Crafts & Jewelry 64 Eye Candy Art Creations Austin TX High End Resin Art65 – 68 TFMF A - I Kerr History Booth

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Quiet Valley Ranch July 22-26, 2012

Music Camp for Teens

7th Annual

Once again this the year, we are proud to partner with the Boys & Girls Clubs Of Central Texas to provide the 7th Annual Music Camp for Teens. Music Camp has provided youth the opportunity to learn about music & poetry, and these skills have opened new horizons for the youth who have attended. This year our goal is to provide 100 youth the opportunity to participate. Music Camp helps youth find their own voice by matching them with professional singer-songwriters and professional poets. Other aspects of the camp include learning about diversity, green building and how they, as individuals can make a difference in the world we live.

2012 Faculty musicians and poets will include: ROY WOOTEN, TOM PRASADA-RAO, ANNIE WENZ,

STEVE SESKIN, JENA KIRKPATRICK, BILL OLIVER & FRANK MEYER.

A sampling of camp activities includes instructional sessions led by singer-songwriters, an Open Mic Night, and a canoe trip. All youth participants will need to be accompanied by a super-vising adult. The cost per participant is just $50, and includes meals, camping, and all programed activities. Participants must bring their own camping gear.

The application packet, including a letter for youth & adult sponsor information, can be found at www.bgclubcc.org. For more information, contact Jon Charles at [email protected]. We look forward to having you and your child participate!

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Berkalin Records proudly announces two Spring 2012 Releases

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“What a wonderful album! …these songs come across as an honest breath of fresh air and

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Matt Harlan opens the 2012 Kerrville Folk Festival on

Thursday May 24th!

“There’s a fluid self- confidence to his writing that at times comes close to matching early Dylan for a clear-eyed description of the world as he sees it.” –John Davy, Flying Shoes

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Other Berkalin artists include: the late Tim Henderson, Jeff Talmadge,

Bob Cheevers, Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus and George Ensle Tim Henderson Memorial 1-3pm Saturday June 2 Threadgill Stage

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Grassy Hill is a that producesFolk Music Support Organization

* Grassy Hill Radio* Grassy Hill Barn Concerts* Internet Support for a variety of folk related activities* Sponsorship of Folk Festivals and Conferences

Thanks to Grassy Hill for providing support to the KerrvilleFolk Festival and our Annual New Folk Competition forEmerging Songwriters. Check out Grassy Hill at:

Thanks to Grassy Hill for providing support to the Kerrville Folk Festival and our Annual New Folk Competition for Emerg-ing Songwriters, as well as providing major funding for the renovation of the Threadgill Theater.

Check out Grassy Hill at www.GrassyHill.org

On Chapel Hill overlooking the meadows at the north end of Quiet Valley Ranch, folk fans gather on Sunday mornings for this weekly celebration. Rev. Charles Sumners, Rev. Walter Lee and Rev Rudi Harst are joined by singers, players and Festival performers in a Folk Song Service which emphasizes participation, involvement and thanksgiving. Everyone is welcome and there are services on all three Festival Sundays at 11AM. Come celebrate with us!

Shabbat Services will be held on Chapel Hill each Saturday morning of the Festival at 11AM. Sponsored by the Congregation Kol Halev of Austin, JCAA, and The Jewish Outlook. This special prayer experience is led by Rabbi Kerry Baker. After we read the Torah,we perform a traditional Kidush ritual where we share Challah and wine. Shalom...

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Congratulations to the following New Folk Finalists for 2012. These songwriters were chosen from 800 outstanding submissions we received from around the world. Fifteen will play the two songs they submitted on Saturday, May 26 and sixteen on Sunday, May 27 during the New Folk Concerts. This is the 41st year for New Folk and is always one of the highlights of the Kerrville Folk Festival!

SATURDAY, MAY 26 - 1 to 4 PMThreadgill Theater (in order of appearance)

Set 1Terry Penney (Newfoundland Canada)Paula Held (Austin TX)Alison Lumley (Austin TX)Jon Troast (Nashville TN)Andra Suchy (Minneapolis MN)Burke Ingraffia (Point Clear AL)Edie Carey (Chicago IL)Whit Hill (Nashville TN)

Set 2Miranda Dawn (Austin TX)Nicolette Good (San Antonio TX)The Hems (Austin TX)Daniel Makins (San Angelo TX)Larry Murante (Seattle WA)Robin Macy & Kentucky White(Belle Plaine KS)Lindsay May (Vancouver BC)

SUNDAY, MAY 27 - 1 to 4 PMThreadgill Theater (in order of appearance)

Set 1Lizzy Ross (Pittsboro NC)J.A. Carter III (San Antonio TX)Michael Jerome Browne (Montreal Canada)Mikaela Kahn (Denton TX)The Sea The Sea (Madison CT)Alicia McGovern (Salt Lake City UT)Eric Colville (Ipswich MA)Paul Sachs (New York NY)

Set 2Scot Phegley (Nolensville TN)Dan Weber (Vancouver WA)Annie & Rod Capps (Chelsea MI)J Wagner (Austin TX)Anna Dagmar (New York NY)Korby Lenker (Nashville TN)The YaYa’s (Mohegan Lake NY)Michaela Anne (Brooklyn NY)

Six 2012 Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Award Winners will be selected by judges Nathan Hamilton (Austin TX), Cary Cooper (Richardson TX) & Seth Glier (Massachusetts), and will be announced on Sunday, May 27 during the evening Kennedy Theater Mainstage concert. These six winners will be invited to return the following weekend to perform at the Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Award Winners concert on Sunday, June 3 at Threadgill Theater.

In addition to the above finalists, we’ve selected these regional performers to appear at the BALLAD TREE to sing one of their songs:Thursday, May 24 Host: Brian Cutean - Bill Davis (Austin TX) Dave Fenley (Fredericksburg TX) Melissa Greener (Austin TX) Kiya Heartwood (Austin TX) Drew Kennedy (New Braunfels TX)Friday, May 25 Host: Matt Harlan - Helene Cronin (Plano TX) Dan Sullivan (Cedar Park TX) Dave Thomas (Denton TX) Kathryn Hallberg (Spring TX) John Edward Bauman (San Antonio TX) Tommy Byrd (Austin TX)

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Songwriters from the festival audience have a chance to share their original songs with an appreciative crowd of listeners under the BALLAD TREE on Chapel Hill every week-end during the Kerrville Folk Festival. Chapel Hill is located at the north end of the ranch. The Ballad Tree is held from 3 to 5 p.m. on all Main Stage performance days. Suggested by Bobby Bridger and Tom Paxton, the Ballad Tree has become an important aspect of the song sharing that makes Kerrville so unique. You bring your guitar, fill out a slip and put it in the hat to be drawn by the guest host who will introduce you and others until time runs out. Each day of the Ballad Tree, the guest host will sing a song or two to get things going and then begin to draw the names of participants from the hat. Dates of the Ballad Tree and hosts on those days are: May 24 - Brian Cutean May 25 - Matt Harlan May 26 - Butch Morgan May 27 - Ellis Paul May 28 - Nels Andrews June 1 - Bill Ward June 2 - Drew Nelson June 3 - Butch Morgan June 8 - Graham Warwick June 9 - Matt the Electrician June 10 - Lorin Rowan For the first two days, Dalis has chosen these regional songwriters from this year’s New Folk competition who will be introduced to share one of the songs they entered in the competition: May 24 - Bill Davis, Drew Kennedy Melissa Greener, Dave Fenley, & Kiya Heartwood May 25 - Helene Cronin, Dan Sullivan, Dave Thomas, Kathryn Hallberg, John Edward Bauman & Tommy Byrd Ballad Tree is a great spot to hear two or three dozen original songs each of the 11 Main Stage performance days!

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30,000 plus people who attend Kerrville every year choose to camp on the ranch, making the festival a 24-hour experience where the music goes on forever and the song swaps never end. The lineup features more than 100 performers represent-ing an array of musical genres that reach well beyond traditional folk. Campers can also take advantage of various mid-week work-shops, covering everything from songwriting to harmoni-ca to roots/blues guitar.

Truly, for fans and musicians (both profes-sional and amateur), Kerrville is more than just another festival; it’s a tradition, a family reunion and a beloved escape from reality. But for many,the soul of the festival has always been the Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Competition for Emerg-

ing Songwriters. With its rich history and ability to change a songwriter’s future, New Folk (as it’s commonly called) is “the most important thing that happens every year,” says Kennedy.

THE KERRVILLE SEAL OF APPROVAL

“We didn’t even know it was a contest,”Hancock jokes today. And the fact is, as Kennedy is quick to point out, New Folk didn’t officially name winners those first few years. It’s also a matter of semantics, but Kennedy and Yarrow believed that calling it a “competition,”as opposed to a “contest,” would make it all a little less, well, competitive. But there were clear perks bestowed on those whose songs stood out from the pack, such as a coveted invitation from Kennedy to come back the following year and play the mainstage, or mentoring and support from professionals like Yarrow (the Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary) who could help open doors and provide connections. While there now are six official New Folk winners named annually and prize money in-volved, it’s still those intangibles — credibility and community — that mean so much to the 32 song-writers selected as finalists from the 800 entries received every year.

“Winning at Kerrville was my Sally Field Oscar moment,” says Dallas resident Cary Cooper, a New Folk winner in 2004. “I always believed I was a good songwriter; it just

[The following is originally from an article by David Bloom, published in the May 2009 Issue of Texas Music Magazine, and is updated here with the gracious permission of both the author and publisher]

It’s a scene that has been repeated thousands of times over the years at the Kerrville Folk Festival since that summer day in 1972. Three friends with guitars, sitting under a tree to es-cape the hot Texas sun, were playing and sing-ing their songs just to pass the time and maybe, just maybe, get noticed. As this trio sang that musical question they’d still be asking four decades later — “Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night?” — they caught the ears of fes-tival founder Rod Kennedy and folk legend Peter Yarrow, who suggested they perform at that eve-ning’s songwriting competition. And by the time the boys from Lubbock had finished their two songs, Yarrow was enthusiastically telling them, “Hey, you guys come over and play on my set later tonight!” That spontaneous endorsement of West Texas cool made Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Jim-mie Dale Gilmore —collectively known as the Flatlanders — the defacto winners of the inaugural New Folk Competition. Now in its 41st year, the Kerrville Folk Festi-val brings together music lovers of all ages — from crusty veteran “Kerrverts” to dusty first-time “Kerrvirgins” — for 18 consecutive days in May and June. Diehards who stay the entire three weeks earn the title “Kerrvivors.” Many of the

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felt like a secret the rest of the world didn’t know until New Folk.” Not only did her win affirm that the Kerrville Nation now liked her — really, really liked her — it made it easier for Cooper to tour and perform with her husband, 1993 New Folk winner Tom Prasada-Rao. “Tom is such a long-standing performer on the folk circuit, and legendary at Kerrville, that it was easy to feel lost in his shadow,” Cooper explains. “When I won New Folk, I felt legitimate stepping into my own light.”

And though one would think the title of “Official Texas State Musician of 2008” would pack buckets of clout in its own right, Austin’s Shelley King also felt compelled to enter New Folk last year. “The truth is,” says King, who made it to the top 32, “performing as a New Folk finalist gave me some credibility that I didn’t have before. It opened doors to do some very cool house concerts.”

It wasn’t necessarily credibility Vince Bell was after when he entered the New Folk competi-tion in 1978. Rather, it was that mainstage book-ing, which he felt he deserved on the merits of his early recordings and growing reputation among that Houston crowd of songwriting stars such as Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Eric Taylor. When you’ve more than held your own in that kind of circle, you don’t exactly lack self-confi-dence or require validation. But while he was, in-deed, named a winner that year, Bell’s most vivid memory is of being startled out of his slumber by a kick in the boot from a New Folk entrant who saw fit to share his disappointment at not being named a finalist. “It’s just not fair that you professionals are in this contest,” the young man vented. “I’ve worked all year on these two songs and traveled 1,000 miles to be here. It’s just not fair.” And the point hasn’t been lost on Bell all these years later.

“It was a breath of honesty and really touching,” Bell says today. “And besides, I was a professional. Heck, I even had a $30 gig that night in San Marcos.” [Bell’s recently reprinted book, One Man’s Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell, recounts the story of a career sidetracked for years when Bell was hit by a drunk driver after leaving a 1982 recording session at which Stevie Ray Vaughan had just recorded several of his songs.]

The year 1978 is also notable because of who didn’t share the New Folk winner spotlight with Bell. In addition to the frustrated nemesis who kicked him were two others who somehow failed to convince the judges that they had a future in songwriting: Steve Earle and Nanci Griffith. There are more than a few recognizable names among the hundreds of finalists who didn’t measure up in the ears of the judges.

In addition to awarding credibility, New Folk also brings together musicians who may have never crossed paths or heard one another’s music. Finalists and winners have often gone on to perform on one another’s albums and become friends who reunite on the road or at other fes-tivals. Prasada-Rao’s other Kerrville-connected “marriage” of sorts is with Tom Kimmel and Michael Lille, his fellow ’93 winners; they’ve toured and recorded together as the Sherpas. Their 2003 release, Honor Among Thieves,prompted the San Antonio Express-News to suggest, “the Sherpas might well be the first acoustic singer-songwriter supergroup.” And chances are,they might never have met if not for pure New Folk serendipity. (Some might call the reunited Flatland-ers a singer-songwriter supergroup, but Hancock, Ely and Gilmore were hardly known names when they first played together back in’72. A closer match to the Sherpas’ model might be Austin’s Band of Heathens, which features New Folk winners Gordy Quist and Colin Brooks.) NEW FOLK’S PETER PRINCIPLE

When Kennedy and Yarrow came up with the idea for New Folk, it was “the kids” they had in mind: those musical disciples of Dylan, Baez and“Puff the Magic Dragon” who had picked up their first guitars in the ’60s and simply needed a place— and

a way — to be heard. Kennedy was touring with Yarrow, handling logistics, promotion and busi-ness at the start of Yarrow’s solo career, while at the same time putting together evenings of folk music to help augment a new arts and craft fair designed to lure tourists to the Texas Hill Country. After

Yarrow’s shows, there would always be a group of young songwriters waiting for him outside the stage doors. They wanted to play their songs for him, and Yarrow would always take the time to listen and encourage them. Yarrow had already offered to come to Kerrville to play at Kennedy’s fledgling folk festival. But after one of these im-promptu listening sessions, Yarrow asked Kennedy a simple question that would provide New Folk

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with its unwritten mission statement for decades to come: “Do you have any way for unknown song-writers to be heard? Unknown writers who have no advocates, who have no one to connect them to a larger audience?” Yarrow went on to describe how the Newport Folk Festival had something called New Folks concerts, where people like Buffy Sainte-Marie had gotten their start. Somewhere in the translation, the ‘s’ was dropped, and Kerrville New Folk was born.

Thousands of unknowns and somewhat-knowns have since submitted their songs to New Folk, perhaps planting a good-luck smooch on the envelope as they drop it in the mailbox. Kennedy calls many of the entrants “closet kids,” whose submissions may have been nervously sung into a cheap cassette recorder in the privacy of their home. Several, though, still earn spots as New Folk finalists because their songs are note perfect and strike a universal chord. He recalls a young Nanci Griffith as being one of these.

“Nanci was uncomfortable onstage and had little charisma,” Kennedy says. “She wasn’t com-municating to the people. But she grew up so rap-idly as a performer.” Similarly, when 2009’s main-stage performer, Tish Hinojosa, won New Folk in 1979, she was such an inexperienced live performer that after playing her two original songs at the win-ner’s concert, she opted to fill out the 20-minute set with a lengthy medley of Joan Baez songs.

Of course, there are hundreds of open mics around the country today for unseasoned song-writers to get their first taste of being onstage, but that wasn’t the case when the competition began. The “closet kids,” however, are still among us, in-cluding three-time New Folk finalist Datri Bean, who is currently based in Austin. “The first time I got into New Folk, I hadn’t really ever performed my material in public,” Bean admits. “I was by no means a professional musician, though I wanted to get started in that direction. Getting accepted was confirmation that I could, in fact, do this. I knew a number of full-time touring musicians who had submitted for years and never been accepted.”

As New Folk has grown in popularity and prestige — accepting more entrants from through-out America and around the world —the rules, submission options and judging process have evolved. And with that, Texas dominance has waned a bit. Through the ’70s and ’80s, the Lone Star State produced 60 winners, but the ’90s saw only three Texans reach the winner’s circle. With The aughts have been a bit better for Texas-con-nected songwriters, though none of 2009’s win-ners — Lucy Wainwright Roche, Ernest Troost, Carrie Catherine, Tom Neilson, Rebecca Loebe

and Louise Mosrie — was Texan. The point is, New Folk is about something even bigger than “Texas music,” per se. It is, today, the gold stan-dard when it comes to songwriting competitions because it has remained true to its vision: it’s about the song, not geography. Or, as Dalis Allen — Kennedy’s hand-picked successor to run both New Folk and the festival — puts it, “I don’t care where they happened to land on the planet.” JUDGING A SONG TO DISCOVER

So, how does it really work? Each year, New Folk accepts 800 submissions — most on CDs, though a growing number are now sent via e-mail as MP3s. No lyric sheets or press kits are permitted; the idea is that the song stands or falls on its own merits as heard by the listeners. Like Kennedy did before her, Allen listens to every single submission. With 800 entries — two songs each, not to exceed eight minutes total — that adds up to, oh, you do the math. Hopefully, thanks to advances in tuning technology, Allen doesn’t have to wade through hundreds of unlistenable songs, as Kennedy sug-gests he was often subjected to. “I thank God ev-ery day of my life that a lot of kids just didn’t know how to tune their guitars. They were not ready to be exposed to the public,” he says.

In addition to spot-on tuning, the self-pro-claimed “old Marine” looked for songs that moved him. “And at that point, you had to about hit me with a truck to really move me,” Kennedy says.

Allen has recruited between 30 and 40 members of the New Folk family — “festival people” who wanted to have a role in the contest — as online listeners throughout the country, who access the songs over a secure network and score them. She then takes those rankings and squares them with her own opinions of the songs to

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winnow it down to the 32 finalists. In many cases, an entrant might have one song that gets everyone all excited, but their second submitted tune just doesn’t measure up. “We have a lot of one-song winners,” Allen says, “but they don’t make it to the New Folk stage.”

As daunting as the initial listening process is, the real heavy lifting for judges begins once the finalists have been selected. There are six winners rather than a solitary champion, because, again, Kennedy and Yarrow wanted to keep it from being “cut-throat.” But it’s still the difficult job of the judges to separate the winners from all those who “tie” for seventh place. Butch Hancock, who has judged many a songwriting contest, has developed his own unique scoring system for evaluating talent. As he listens to the perform-ers, he’ll jot down numbers on his pad like 8,321, 597, 63 or 50,000. This once prompted fellow judge Robert Earl Keen (a New Folk winner in 1983) to lean over and quietly ask what the bizarre rankings meant. Hancock whispered back, “That’s how many times they’re gonna have to write a song before they get a good one.”

Joking aside, though, Hancock says he enjoys judging because he knows contestants

have put their “heart and spirit into it” — and because he finds it interesting to hear what peo-ple are “getting out of their system” through the songwriting process. It’s authenticity Hancock admires, along with craftsmanship and something that leaves the listener thinking. The three judges tasked with giving the New Folk blessing to those final six are professional, seasoned songwriters themselves and, in recent years, include a winner from the previous year. Songwriters, the reasoning goes, appreciate the craft, know what to look for and won’t be easily swayed by production values or pretty voices. As Allen puts it, “We use songwriters as judges be-cause they’re going to be persnickety about how the song is put together — it’s what they do and what they pay attention to.”

While the judges make six people very happy, there are those other 26 who may not all buy into the old “everyone’s a winner here” philosophy. Caroline Aiken, a judge in 2005, says, “I don’t like the idea of pitting musician against musician. It was devastating for those who didn’t win the final six, and I saw people angry with me for not winning for years after.”

Slaid Cleaves, who won in 1992 (right after moving to Texas from Maine) and judged in 2004, says, “I was looking mainly for songcraft, lyrics and melody. But what if someone presents a song that is well-crafted but unlikable because it is overly sentimental or trivial? Can that be better than a song that has heart and originality, but is not polished?” Tracy Grammer, a judge in2 003, when Colin Brooks of the Band of Heathens was one of the six winners, notes that “it was very easy for us to agree on three of the winning songs, and it was fairly easy to eliminate others right away. But narrowing down the last three was a challenge, usually with two of us onboard against one ‘nay.’”

Even winners, like 2007’s Danny Schmidt, acknowledge the “ludicrousy” of competitive folk singing. His fellow Austinite, 2008 winner BettySoo, adds, “It’s naturally anathema for a folk singer to say one song is better than another. When I’m having a low day, it’s encouraging to know that someone heard something special in a few of

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my songs. And on other days, I keep from getting too full of myself by thinking, ‘It’s just somebody’s opinion.’ But really, nobody likes competing.”

Devine, Texas’ Claude “Butch” Morgan, a finalist in 2005 and 2008, has a slightly different take. “Competition is good,” Morgan says, “and the fact is, we are all in competition anyway —for gigs, fan support and CD sales.” He also views finalist status as a way to boost a singer-songwriter’s brand a lot faster than just playing hundreds of open mics, low- or no-paying gigs, and opening shows for regional or national acts coming through town.

Making it to the New Folk finals can also have the positive effect of renewing a songwriter’s self-confidence — even in the case of veteran performers for whom “new” is not exactly an adjec-tive they’ve heard in a while. Just ask Tommy Byrd of Austin. His song, “Love Broke the Fall,” was a winning entry in the Austin Songwriter’s Group contest and was also one of the two that New Folk

listeners liked enough to make him one of 2009’s 32 finalists. But when he entered it in a similar contest in Dallas, Byrd was told it just didn’t have what it took.

That’s the kind of thing songwriters who enter and don’t win like to hear, because it under-scores the subjectivity — and good fortune— fac-tors. Allen talks to each year’s finalists just before they go out to perform at the festival, reminding them that 32 out of 800 is something to be pretty darned proud of. She also serves up the humbling reminder that on any given Sunday, it easily could have been a totally different 32 standing before her. “‘This is just your turn,’ I tell them,” Allen says.

Just as it is now Allen’s turn to continue the New Folk tradition and nurture unknown and underappreciated songwriters of all ages, styles and backgrounds. The spirit of New Folk lies not only in her Kennedy-approved and very capable hands, but with that long list of past winners and finalists who take their music to audiences far and wide and bear witness to the standard of excellence in song-writing that New Folk represents. It’s also found with the people who attend the New Folk con-certs at the Kerrville Folk Festival and shower the performers with love and support.

Most importantly, the spirit of New Folk is reborn every year with “the kids” and the older unknowns who, like eternally optimistic baseball fans each spring, hope that this just might be their year. New Folk inspires and motivates hundreds of anonymous songwriters who enter year after year, even though they may never get inside that circle of 32 finalists — or make the journey from shade tree to mainstage like those young Flatlanders did all those years ago. Regardless, they continually hone their craft to make themselves more capable of reaching others through song. New Folk, as Allen says, “is all about kindred spirits who do what they do — create music— because they simply can’t not do it.” - DB

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