Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024 | Key Peninsula Civic Center
Join us on Saturday, October 26, 2024, for an all-ages music celebration of the good life in the great outdoors with music, fun, food, and drinks. Music from Dean Johnson, Eli West, Sera Cahoone, Alessandra Rose, Ollella, Nathaniel Talbot. Old-Time Jam session, Workshops, and Contradance with flaming fingers string band.
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Featuring
Whether performing at intimate acoustic sessions or rocking out with his band at local venues, Dean Johnson’s fusion of country, folk, rock, and blues elements creates a unique and soul-stirring sound that resonates with listeners from all walks of life.
DEAN JOHNSON
Featuring
Eli West
Eli West's lovely, warm vocal style has made him a mainstay in the Pacific Northwest roots music scene. His music incorporates elements of bluegrass, country, and folk music, with instrumentation that includes banjo, pedal steel, acoustic guitar, and tenor guitar.
Sera Cahoone
Americana singer-songwriter Sera Cahoone grew up in the Colorado foothills. The daughter of a dynamite salesman, she played her first gigs on drums in a dive bar's open blues jams at 12. As a young adult, she moved to Seattle where she played drums with the adored indie rock group, Carissa’s Wierd, and later Band of Horses. She then went on to release four solo records, two with Sub Pop. Cahoone has earned great praise from KEXP, NPR series Tiny Desk Concert, First Listen and Songs We Love.
Alessandra Rose
Once in a blue moon you come across an artist that stops you in your tracks. Manette, WA’s Alessandra Rose is blessed with an instrument of penetrating grace, her voice a siren song wrapped in silk and incense. Bright as a brass bell and edged with a warm glow of whiskey and woodsmoke, it is resonant, radiant, and absolutely hair-raising.
Ollella
Ellie Barber AKA Ollella’s career as a musician started early, when she sang before she could talk. Trained as a classical cellist since the age of nine, the Seattle indie-folk musician merges her technical string background with authoritative vocals and live-looping. Described as “really outstanding” by NPR Music’s Bob Boilen and “so tastefully done” by Michelle Zauner (AKA Japanese Breakfast), Ollella blends the acoustic with the contemporary, folk with pop, and tenacity with softness, pulling on influences such as Feist, Cat Power, and Sylvan Esso.
nathaniel talbot
Hailing from Washington’s Whidbey Island, guitarist and singer Nathaniel Talbot, alongside Trout Lake’s mandolinist and vocalist Lincoln Crockett, have joined forces in a musical partnership two decades in the making. With the addition of Whidbey Island’s Keegan Harshman on upright bass, this trio is crafting some of the most compelling and innovative music of their careers. Their sound—self-described as shoegazer freefolk—is a sophisticated blend of American roots music with elements of pop, jazz, and funk, half-tethered to tradition and half stemming from the Pacific Northwest’s legacy of freedom and innovation.
madrona fest WORKSHOP schedule
Workshops Will Be Held in the Whitmore Room
2:30 -3:30 pm
Folk Guitar Workshop with Katie Weller
3:30-4:30pm
Beginning Banjo Workshop with Russell Van Dyke
4:30 - 5:30
Beginning Bass Workshop with Tom Zim
6-7:30
Jam Session with Flaming Fingers String Band
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