TUMBLEWEED MUSIC FESTIVAL 2024
August 30 - September 1 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 2024 festival will be our 28th 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. Over the years, we've found some fantastic performers through this concert who have since become Tumbleweed family members, returning to the festival often to perform.
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; the theme for 2024 is "By Water, Under Trees."
Performers (except for the three headline acts chosen for the Saturday evening Tumbleweed benefit concert, and the band and caller for the Sunday evening contra dance) 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. Over the years, we've found some fantastic performers through this concert who have since become Tumbleweed family members, returning to the festival often to perform.
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; the theme for 2024 is "By Water, Under Trees."
Performers (except for the three headline acts chosen for the Saturday evening Tumbleweed benefit concert, and the band and caller for the Sunday evening contra dance) 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).
We will have a virtual segment of TMF2024. However, because we are getting a shiny new website that will be implemented shortly after this year's festival is complete, the virtual performances won't go live on tumbleweedmusicfestival.org until a week or two after the new site is up. Apologies for the delay.
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The Tumbleweed Music Festival 2024 Playlist is live on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music!
Click these links to go to your chosen service! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5bJFfpYTOyLbDCIgUn93SY Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/tmf2024/pl.u-xlyNqG2CpZ4JNe Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/f6843e39ffee4c4b962656e69fdbd8c6sune?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_V4v6CsLvgnbLg92L1UrGOH3g |
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Our Virtual Tumbleweed Festivals were and are 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, 2022, and 2023.
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, 2022, and 2023.
Our virtual festivals are still available at our festival website:
tumbleweedmusicfestival.org
Tumbleweed has a YouTube channel! We posted all the performances and concerts from the 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 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, and Print Plus.
Banner photo of Mare Wakefield & Nomad © 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, and Print Plus.
Banner photo of Mare Wakefield & Nomad © Justin Hawkes Design (Instagram: @JustinHawkesDesign)
