KUNM – KUNM's Gift of Community Auction Spring2013
Auction Ends: May 30, 2013 11:00 PM MDT

Entertainment/Tickets

ABQ Folk Festival, June 1st at Balloon Museum Park - Two Adult Passes

Item Number
237
Estimated Value
40 USD
Sold
28 USD to sunundersun
Number of Bids
5  -  Bid History

Item Description

Visit our website at the link below to see the full schedule of national performers and SO MANY local bands and musicians that we can't get enough of. Where else can you see Porter Draw, Squash Blossom Boys, Le Chat Lunatique, Green Billies, Zoltan Orkestar, Wildewood, Sage & Jared's Happy Gland Band and more all at the same festival on the same day?

The Albuquerque Folk Festival provides an opportunity for the public to experience and participate in folk music, song, dance, and storytelling through educational workshops, demonstrations and performances. Folk activities enhance community expression and the continuance of cultural traditions.

The Albuquerque Folk Festival is focused on public participation. It is about teaching, not just entertainment. Our goal is to pass on knowledge, skills, and traditions to ensure the survival of folk activities. We enlist organizations and individuals to demonstrate and teach wide-ranging folk activities that include old American, New Mexican, Middle Eastern, and other international traditions. We see the teaching of folk activities as a process of encouraging creative expression and fostering a sense of community. Participation in folk activities can reconnect individuals with their neighbors, and participation in folk activities across cultures may encourage cultural tolerance. We aspire to remind people of the days when they could create their own entertainment by going to the community dance, telling stories to their families, or playing music on the front porch with friends. We seek to create alternatives to the public trend of relying on passive entertainment: participation instead of observation.

Item Special Note

The winning bidder will be able to pick up their passes at the Folk Festival will call office.

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