Gurler Heritage Association Folk Music Fest 2008

Saturday, June 14 Noon - 4:45 PM

Sponsored by the Mary E. Stevens Concert Fund and the GHA

On Saturday, June 14th, the sounds of stringed instruments, wistful harmonies, and knee-slapping rural rhythms will fill the air at 205 Pine Street in DeKalb.
For the SEVENTH year in a row, the Gurler Heritage Association is hosting a daylong folk music festival on the grounds of Gurler House. This event is sponsored in part with a grant from the Mary E. Stevens Concert and Lecture Fund. We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of public radio station WNIJ, 89.5 FM, in DeKalb, IL. Food will be available all afternoon, along with the music. Come and enjoy, bring your friends, bring your kids!

Photos from Previous GHA Folk Music Fesitvals

Featured Groups: (follow links for more information)

12:00-12:45 PM DAVE BALIKA & FRIENDS

Dave is a local DeKalb artist, well-known throughout the area for his fine, blue-grass style hammered-dulcimer playing. Dave has played several of the Folk Fests, and is back by popular demand.

1:00 - 2:45 PM LAST KNOWN WHEREABOUTS (with Jacob Stroup)
Image of Last Known Whereabouts

3:00 - 4:45 PM CATFISH KEITH

Catfish Keith is an internationally recognized performer of acoustic bottleneck blues, and a regular on WNIJ's Saturday Blues show. He has been lauded as "..one of the most exciting..."

country blues performers, and has ten number-one albums in this genre. Please click on the link above for more information on Catfish Keith