Vashon Winery Folk Festival

Vashon Winery’s fourth annual music festival, featuring many local musicians, takes place Saturday, August 20 at Vashon Winery.

Opening up the Festival at 2pm will be local Vashon band Riverbend. A popular island band with members that played for many years as part of The Garage Boys, as well as The Colwell Brothers and The Riptide Rambles and the Up With People groups.  This band has a wide breadth of musical experience and talent sure to please.  With instrumentation ranging from guitars, banjos, mandolins, fiddles, accordion, harmonica, clarinet and upright bass, their songs range from traditional old-time country favorites, folk songs, Cajun and new twists on old time rock to original songs.  Riverbend will provide a variety for everyone to keep the toes tapping and the hands clapping.

Headlining for the 2011 Vashon Folk Festival is Larry Murante.

It’s no surprise that Seattle-based Larry Murante is gaining a reputation as one of the finest contemporary singer songwriters to emerge from the Northwest in recent years.

Larry grew up in the small rural town of Nazareth, Pennsylvania (also the home of Martin Guitars). In high school, Larry began singing in working bands of every kind. “In my late teens I was singing in a wedding band that performed a variety of styles including jazz, pop, swing, R&B and top-40,” he recalls. “In those early years I was also singing in rock cover bands and playing in top 40 groups in town on the weekends. And when I wasn’t doing that, I was listening to and playing acoustic folkrock music. My biggest influence from that period (and even today) were the early 70’s singer/songwriters like Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, CSNY, the Eagles and Jackson Browne.”
Larry’s voice today is a testament not only to good pipes but to years of training — which he’s done, logging over a decade of study with opera, jazz, and musical theater stylists among which was Metropolitan Opera veteran baritone, Frank Guarerra (Larry continues to lead a double life as a jazz/rock/R&B singer in his ten piece variety band, Second Wind, which has been together for over 15 years).

Music Schedule
2:00 Riverbend
2:40 True Wind (Bev Barnett & Greg Newlon)
3:20 Tanya Opland
4:00 Jeff Kanzler & band
4:40 Cat Loves Crow
5:20 Watermark
6:00 Rose Laughlin
6:40 MiddleMarch (Wally, John Dully, & Kat)
7:20 Larry Murante (Headliner)
8:30 Bluegrass band (Rochelle, Cliff, Paul, Steve Meyer, Mark Wells)
10:00 finish

Where:
Vashon Winery
10317 SW 156th st.
Vashon Island.
Bring blankets and chairs.

When:
Saturday, August 20, 2-10pm

Entry fee, $12.00
children under 16 years old, free.

Food will be available at the festival

More Information goto
www.vashonwinery.com
or call Ron Irving 205-567-0055
vashonwinery@yahoo.com