Performers
Here’s the link to the complete festival schedule!
Here is our complete list of all 2025 PERFORMERS with the days they are booked.
* Acoustic Nomads S/S * Alex Radus F/S/S *
* Beth Molaro F/S/S * Bog Hollow F/S * Contrabhanna S/S *
* David Jacobs-Strain & Bob Beach F/S/S * Deb Callahan Band F/S *
* The Empty Bottle Ramblers F/S * The Falcon Ridge House Band F/S/S *
* Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen F/S * The Gaslight Tinkers F/S/S *
* George Marshall F/S/S * Jim & Christensen F/S *
* Joe Jencks F/S/S * Kathryn Wedderburn F/S/S *
* The Kennedys F/S/S * The Klezmatics Sun *
* Loudon Wainwright lll Sun * Louie Lou Louis F/S/S *
* Lucy Kaplansky F/S/S * Nerissa & Katryna Nields F/S/S*
* Patty Larkin Sat * Paul Rosenberg F/S/S * The Russet Trio F/S/S *
* Ryanhood F/S/S * Relatively Sound S/S * Rod MacDonald F/S/S *
* Sam Robbins F/S/S * The Slambovian Circus of Dreams F/S/S *
* The Storycrafters F/S/S * Tina Ross F/S/S *
* Tony Trischka’s Earl Jam S/S *
The 2025 Falcon Ridge House Band features long time FR alum Radoslav Lorkovic on Keys and accordion, CT native Nicholas DeFala on bass and Gina Forsyth from New Orleans on fiddle.
The 2025 Friday Night Summer’s Eve Song Swap will feature Joe Jencks, Lucy Kaplansky and The Kennedys.
Plus MCs Chris Teskey from Bluegrass Country Radio, John Platt from WFUV and Mike Horyczun from WPKN.
Music hours this year are 10 AM to 10 PM.
Gates will open daily at 9 AM.
Early camping will open Wednesday afternoon, July 23rd.
We will have FOUR stages this year, Main, Workshop, Dance & Family plus our community music area, the CIRCLE OF SONG at the gazebo. Note that our expanded DANCE program is once again in its own space in Building B.
THE THURSDAY NIGHT MUSIC STAGE
The TNM Stage will be hosted once again by Scotten Jones working this year with singer/songwriter Aaron Nathans as curator. Aaron is the do-director of the Philly Songwriter In The Round Series. The TMN stage had its beginnings as a campgrounds event hosted by Tribal Mischief Productions with tech director Scotten Jones.
Thursday July 24 – 4:30-10P – Workhop Stage in Bldg A
4:30-5:00P – Lara Herscovitch & the Highway Philosophers
5:10- 5:50P -Frank Critelli & Kala Farnham
6:00-7:00P – Bernice Lewis, Jessica Smucker & Serenity Fisher
7:10-8:10P – Halley Neal, Avi Wisnia & Karen Dahlstrom
8:20- 9:00P – Craig Bickhardt
9:10-9:45P – Aaron Nathans & Michael G Ronstadt
9:45- 10:00P – Singalong Finish
THE 2025 MOST WANTED SONG SWAP AND PREVIEW TOUR
The THREE top audience-voted 2024 showcasers, ALEX RADUS, TINA ROSS & LOUIE LOU LOUIS have been invited to the 2025 MOST WANTED SONG SWAP. Several Preview Tour dates are planned as well, see below.
Much thanks to our 2024 showcase judges, Singer/Songwriter Carolann Solebello from NYC, Hannah Stirzaker from Caffe Lena in Saratoga Srings NY & Ron Olesko from Folk Music Notebook. Big thanks as always to our mainstage coordinator Donna Grande and showcase wrangler Don Beesley. Kudos to Dan Tappan on another very successful livestream as well as creating and maintaining our online audience survey. And a very special, heartfelt THANK YOU to GRASSY HILL ENTERTAINMENT for their continued sponsorship of the EA Showcase and the festival.
THE GRASSY HILL EMERGING ARTIST SHOWCASE
Our 2025 Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase participants are Alexander Parlee & The Ellipses, Alicia Stockman, Allison Strong, Belle of the Fall, Bryan Titus, Couldn’t Be Happiers, High Tea, Jeremy Facknitz, Joe Gorka, Lucy Isabel, Mt. Gribley, Sierra West, Splendid Torch, Stacia Thiel, and Stefan Weinar & The Twangtown Paramours .
Much thanks to our 2025 SHOWCASE JUDGES, Patty Romanoff from Bulletproof Artist Management in Easthampton MA, Jake Jacobsen, Folk Music presenter and photographer from Norfolk MA and Bob Johnson from WPKN Radio in Bridgeport CT.
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Booking/Showcasing Guidelines
We begin booking every year by November, at that time we have gone thru and carefully tabulated all our audience surveys & begin with those requests in mind. Updated details on submissions can be found year round in this PERFORMERS section of our website. We accept EMERGING ARTIST SHOWCASE submissions online only thru Submittable, an online application processing platform. We will consider SELECT feature subs for 2025 via e-mail ONLY this year. To be considered, please send an e-mail with SUBJECT LINE: FRFF 2024 FEATURE ARTIST SUBMISSION to the Artistic Director, Anne Saunders, at FalcRidge@aol.com. Please include a short artist bio, contact info, which stage or stages you are seeking to play, an artist photo and links to 3 songs or videos. We plan to complete all feature booking by mid April. See more info below.
The GRASSY HILL EMERGING ARTIST SHOWCASE is open to all performers who have not showcased with us in the last 2 years, and will not be appearing in any other capacity including sideperson or special guest in the current year. This is a 2 song or 10 minute spot on our Main Stage on Friday afternoon. We have 15 showcase spots. Deadline to apply is May 20th. See submission LINK below.
There is a $20 Showcase application fee.
Selected showcase artists appear in the program book, are assisted by our excellent stage & sound crew and may have their mailing list and merch in our sales tent. While there is no compensation for this showcase, artists receive full fest admission, on-site camping and meals for the entire festival plus one guest pass per act.
The showcase is not a contest. However, the audience is surveyed as to which THREE showcase artists they wish to see return to the Most Wanted Song Swap (MWSS) at FRFF the following year. Three to four artists are invited to return for this feature spot. The showcase and song swap are an opportunity to be seen and heard in a large amphitheater setting with many folk fans, presenters, agents and media in attendance. A committee of 3 music professionals review submissions and make selections. The only criteria are high quality performances of interesting, well-crafted, acoustic based material. It need not be original.
All showcase applicants will be notified by June 1st. More details on production, merchandise & camping will be sent to all selected artists.
Falcon Ridge Artistic Director
Anne Saunders
