TUMBLEWEED MUSIC FESTIVAL 2023
September 1 - 3 Howard Amon Park
Richland, Washington
The Tumbleweed Music Festival is a free, open-air, community acoustic music festival sponsored by the Three Rivers Folklife Society, a small, 501(c)(3) community arts orgaization here in the Tri-Cities, which is traditionally held on Labor Day weekend each year. The 2023 festival will be our 27th annual! We feature many kinds of acoustic music (primarily folk, blues, bluegrass, etc.) but are welcoming to all types of music and dance performances.
The festival begins Friday of Labor Day weekend with a free "New Horizons" concert, presenting younger (and euphemistically "higher energy") performers than many of our attendees are used to seeing. We've found some fantastic people that way who have since become Tumbleweed family members, returning to perform often.
Saturday and Sunday of that weekend, from 11am to 6pm, we have a new performance or workshop on each of our 4 outdoor and 2 indoor stages, and 2 workshop rooms every 45 minutes; there's also an open-mic stage that keeps its own schedule. All performances and workshops are free except for the Saturday benefit concert and the Sunday evening Contra Dance - those are ticketed events.
One other feature of Tumbleweed is the annual "Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest," in which songwriters submit songs matching that year's festival theme; for 2023, our theme is "Good Times."
Performers (except for the three headline acts chosen for the Saturday evening Tumbleweed benefit concert) are not paid beyond a travel stipend that is based on distance traveled to be here (and which maxes out at $150). If this works for you, we'd love to have you apply! (see below, or the "Applications" tab above).
The festival begins Friday of Labor Day weekend with a free "New Horizons" concert, presenting younger (and euphemistically "higher energy") performers than many of our attendees are used to seeing. We've found some fantastic people that way who have since become Tumbleweed family members, returning to perform often.
Saturday and Sunday of that weekend, from 11am to 6pm, we have a new performance or workshop on each of our 4 outdoor and 2 indoor stages, and 2 workshop rooms every 45 minutes; there's also an open-mic stage that keeps its own schedule. All performances and workshops are free except for the Saturday benefit concert and the Sunday evening Contra Dance - those are ticketed events.
One other feature of Tumbleweed is the annual "Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest," in which songwriters submit songs matching that year's festival theme; for 2023, our theme is "Good Times."
Performers (except for the three headline acts chosen for the Saturday evening Tumbleweed benefit concert) are not paid beyond a travel stipend that is based on distance traveled to be here (and which maxes out at $150). If this works for you, we'd love to have you apply! (see below, or the "Applications" tab above).
Tumbleweed RUNS on Volunteers! We literally can not put on our festival without volunteers! Would you like to help us out? Please click the button to get a copy of our Volunteer Application! If there's something in particular you'd like to do, we've probably got a checkbox for that - or, you can enter a suggestion yourself!
We LOVE our VOLUNTEERS!!
We LOVE our VOLUNTEERS!!
SPONSORS WANTED!
Tumbleweed also runs on money from SPONSORS!! We receive funds to put on our festival from a variety of sources, but one of the most needed are donations from SPONSORS, who go a long way to make it possible for us to continue to operate!
If YOU would like to help us out and become a SPONSOR, please take a look at our SPONSOR FORM, choose your level of sponsorship, and send it in! Instructions and sponsorship levels are all in the document linked below. THANK YOU for your generous support!
Tumbleweed also runs on money from SPONSORS!! We receive funds to put on our festival from a variety of sources, but one of the most needed are donations from SPONSORS, who go a long way to make it possible for us to continue to operate!
If YOU would like to help us out and become a SPONSOR, please take a look at our SPONSOR FORM, choose your level of sponsorship, and send it in! Instructions and sponsorship levels are all in the document linked below. THANK YOU for your generous support!
Here are our Vendor applications - both Craft Vendors and Food Vendors!
Deadline for Vendor applications is August 1st, 2023.
Deadline for Vendor applications is August 1st, 2023.
The Tumbleweed 2023 Logo!
The Three Rivers Folk Society (3RFS) and the Tumbleweed Music Festival are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Logo Contest: Richland-based marketing, branding, and design consultant Irish Kreis. Irish wins the $150.00 first prize, and her logo will appear on all 2023 Tumbleweed advertising materials and merchandise. Congratulations, Irish! You may find more about her at her website, https://www.wildimagination.biz/.
The Performer Application and Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest applications are now closed for 2023. You may still find the applications on their respective applicactions pages - click the "Applications" button above.
Applications for the 2024 Tumbleweed Music Festival will become available in the fall.
Applications for the 2024 Tumbleweed Music Festival will become available in the fall.
DONATE to the Tumbleweed Music Festival
The Tumbleweed Music Festival 2022 was a great success!
Click on TMF2022 above for all the information!
Click on TMF2022 above for all the information!
Our Virtual Tumbleweed Festivals were a success!
Click on VirtualTMFs above for archived festival reports, original schedules, and information regarding our three (so far) Virtual Tumbleweed festivals, presented in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Our virtual festivals are still available at our festival website:
tumbleweedmusicfestival.org
Click on VirtualTMFs above for archived festival reports, original schedules, and information regarding our three (so far) Virtual Tumbleweed festivals, presented in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Our virtual festivals are still available at our festival website:
tumbleweedmusicfestival.org
Tumbleweed now has a YouTube channel! We posted all the performances and concerts from the 2020 and 2021 Virtual Festivals - over 200! Search YouTube for "3RFS," or click here: 3RFS / Tumbleweed YouTube Channel.
Tumbleweed Music Festival Founded by the Three Rivers Folklife Society
See www.3rfs.org for year round events.
Co-Sponsored by the City of Richland, WA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, OneWorld Telecommunications, Digitalface Media, and Print Plus.
Banner photo of Mare Wakefield & Nomad by Justin Hawkes Design (Instagram: @JustinHawkesDesign)
See www.3rfs.org for year round events.
Co-Sponsored by the City of Richland, WA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, OneWorld Telecommunications, Digitalface Media, and Print Plus.
Banner photo of Mare Wakefield & Nomad by Justin Hawkes Design (Instagram: @JustinHawkesDesign)
