Saturday Night Tumbleweed Benefit Concert
The headline performers for the traditional Tumbleweed benefit concert on Saturday evening at this year’s Tumbleweed festival show a wonderful blending of musical and geographic diversity, while maintaining the strong connections with the Tumbleweed family.
Our opener is new to Tumbleweed: Paula Boggs Band, from Seattle. Frontwoman Paula Boggs is on career #3 with earlier stints in the Army (Airborne!), and law and business. Paula Boggs Band blends jazz and Americana in a blend that’s been called “Soulgrass.” The band has released a steady stream of music since 2010. Five years ago, the band released an EP, Live at Empty Sea, Songs of Protest & Hope, and their third album Elixir, The Soulgrass Sessions. Their 4th studio album, Janus, featuring Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder Dom Flemons, released in 2022.
Our second headliner is also new to us, and comes from very far away. Sofia Talvik is an Americana singer from Sweden. Unmistakably Nordic in flavor, Sofia Talvik somehow still conforms to American interpretations of her own original music, a North Sea siren blending sparkle and melancholy. Growing up in Sweden, her music has always had a special tint of her Scandinavian heritage, making her a favorite among music lovers, but her 16-month, 37-state long tour through the USA (in an RV, which is bringing her to us) has moved her music closer to the Americana tradition.
Our closer, Wes Weddell, is a very long-time member of the Tumbleweed family. For the past twenty years, Wes has worked multiple shifts in the engine room of Seattle’s roots music scene as frontman, sideman, writer, teacher, and community-builder. Wes is a gifted musician and songwriter who also shares his music with students while making learning music fun. Wes was the 2006 winner of the Tumbleweed song-writing contest, and will (as is traditional) emcee the Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest Finalist performances on Saturday afternoon.
And don't forget - the winner of this year's Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest will perform their winning song between Paula Boggs Band and Sofia Talvik. As ever, our MC for the evening is Dan Maher.
The Saturday concert is one of our two ticketed events. Tickets are $15, and are available at both Info Booths, and from our roving button and ticket sellers on the grounds.
Our opener is new to Tumbleweed: Paula Boggs Band, from Seattle. Frontwoman Paula Boggs is on career #3 with earlier stints in the Army (Airborne!), and law and business. Paula Boggs Band blends jazz and Americana in a blend that’s been called “Soulgrass.” The band has released a steady stream of music since 2010. Five years ago, the band released an EP, Live at Empty Sea, Songs of Protest & Hope, and their third album Elixir, The Soulgrass Sessions. Their 4th studio album, Janus, featuring Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder Dom Flemons, released in 2022.
Our second headliner is also new to us, and comes from very far away. Sofia Talvik is an Americana singer from Sweden. Unmistakably Nordic in flavor, Sofia Talvik somehow still conforms to American interpretations of her own original music, a North Sea siren blending sparkle and melancholy. Growing up in Sweden, her music has always had a special tint of her Scandinavian heritage, making her a favorite among music lovers, but her 16-month, 37-state long tour through the USA (in an RV, which is bringing her to us) has moved her music closer to the Americana tradition.
Our closer, Wes Weddell, is a very long-time member of the Tumbleweed family. For the past twenty years, Wes has worked multiple shifts in the engine room of Seattle’s roots music scene as frontman, sideman, writer, teacher, and community-builder. Wes is a gifted musician and songwriter who also shares his music with students while making learning music fun. Wes was the 2006 winner of the Tumbleweed song-writing contest, and will (as is traditional) emcee the Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest Finalist performances on Saturday afternoon.
And don't forget - the winner of this year's Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest will perform their winning song between Paula Boggs Band and Sofia Talvik. As ever, our MC for the evening is Dan Maher.
The Saturday concert is one of our two ticketed events. Tickets are $15, and are available at both Info Booths, and from our roving button and ticket sellers on the grounds.