The second annual "North Coast Folk Festival" will take place at the Ocean Shores Convention Center on Friday and Saturday, April 18-19, 2008.

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This year's lineup:

County Joe McDonald

Famed Woodstock performer, County Joe McDonald, of Country Joe & the Fish will headline the concert on Saturday night. Since 1967, Country Joe has released several dozen recordings and has performed literally hundreds of concerts all over the United States and abroad. His career began as an outspoken activist against the conflict in Vietnam and who will forget the "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag"? In the past few years, Joe has been performing a tribute to Woody Guthrie. The "live" album of this tribute was recorded on May 12, 2007 in San Francisco.

Tom May

Writing and playing his own music, sharing through his songs his life and travels with folks throughout the U.S., Canada and overseas, hosting and performing weekly on the national radio/TV program River City Folk--that is just a glimpse at Tom May’s 33 years as a professional folksinger. On twelve and six string guitars, he accompanies his baritone voice with intricate stylings not often heard in folk music. Stories, humor, and occasionally even the Irish pennywhistle introduce the songs featured in his concerts. Tom May has performed in every state in the Union, as well as Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Belgium. His performing venues have included prestigious concert halls, small town auditoriums, and humble coffeehouses--all of which have given him an uncommon rapport with audiences both large and small. His festival appearances include The Kerrville Folk Festival; the Napa Valley Music Festival; Sister's Folk Festival; (Oregon) The Juan De Fuca Festival (Port Angeles, Washington) and dozens more.

Tiller's Folly

For over a decade, Tiller's Folly has been captivating audiences with their music, stories and smoking live shows. From the dynamic vocals, driving acoustic guitar and classic songwriting of Bruce Coughlan, through the wild, virtuoso layers of creative color added by award-winning multi-instrumentalist, Nolan Murray, to the solid driving foundation laid down by bassist and vocalist, Laurence Knight, Tiller's Folly is a high-energy acoustic roots music experience like no other.

Nancy K. Dillon

Nancy K. Dillon is an emerging Americana artist from the Pacific Northwest quickly making a name for herself. “An original new talent” mining a musical vein akin to Lucinda Williams or Kasey Chambers says respected UK country music journalist, Alan Cackett (Maverick-UK). Nancy is a gifted singer, songwriter and recording artist based in Seattle, WA. She masterfully weaves the textures and rhythms of American folk and country music into mythic road stories of “small town claustrophobia” and the “surreal euphoria” of traveling America’s byways. Her songs evoke the vistas and horizons of the sprawling American West.

Sky In The Road

Sky In The Road: With their well-crafted originals these versatile performers have toured throughout the West, from the Oregon Coast to Billings, Montana, from Monterey to the San Juans. In 2005 they were featured on the nationally syndicated radio show River City Folk. They have been heard at numerous concert halls, conferences, coffee houses and festivals including Seattle Folk Life, Portland's Winterfolk, Rose Festival, Artquake, The Bite, Earth Day/Procession of the Species, The Yakima Folklife Festival, and many more.

Dick Weissman

Dick Weissman was a member of the legendary folk trio the Journeymen, with Scott McKenzie and John Phillips. He has played on hundreds of recording sessions, produced numerous albums, written two feature film scores, numerous recoded songs and instrumental pieces, and performed as a soloist and accompanist in many live and recorded musical contexts. He has also taught many college classes on music and the music industry, and has written twelve published books on these subjects.

Michael Guthrie

Michael Guthrie has a relaxed, folksy style that incorporates jazz and blues into the mix and his lyrics run from playful to social to deeply personal. The lyrics are clever and interesting with unique thoughts and phrasings. Michael is a very talented musician playing acoustic and electric guitars, fretless and fretted electric bass, lap steels, synthesizers.

Michael was featured on River City Folk ( June 2007) a nationally syndicated radio show. He has appeared on KBCS 91.3 FM “Lunch With Folks”, KMUN FM Astoria, OR “Troll Radio Review”, Northwest Folklife Festival, Tumbleweed Music Festival, Yakima Folk Festival, KPSU AM “Raggle Taggle Gypsy”, The Langham Theatre (Kaslo BC) and regularly performs on the NW coffee house circuit. Michael performs a mix of Blues, Flok and his own songs.

Hank Cramer

Hank Cramer is a traveling folksinger who lives in Washington State. He is best known for his booming bass voice, accompanied by vintage flat-top guitar and a wry sense of humor. His repertoire is a mix of original, traditional, and contemporary folk songs. Most of his songs tell the stories of cowboys, sailors, soldiers, miners, adventurers and just plain drifters. That fits with Hank's life story: he has been an underground miner, a professional soldier, shanty-man on a square-rigged sailing ship, wrangler for a high-country outfitter, and a world traveler. Those experiences make Hank's music ring with a special authenticity. Hank's touring circuit has spread wider and wider. He now has twelve CD's in print and two television sound-tracks to his credit. In addition to concert engagements, Hank is an avid historian and presents educational programs which weave together music, history, and cultural traditions.

David Rea

David Rea has been a integral player in folk, heritage music and contemporary rip-snortin' string-flashing for more years than Gawhd's known how to play solitaire.Tthis seasoned guitarist, songwriter, and singer has toured with, recorded with, and written for an astonishingly diverse assortment of famous folkies and rockers including Gordon Lightfoot, the Allen-Ward Trio, Ian Tyson and Sylvia Fricker and Mike Seeger.

Del Rey

Del Rey started playing classical guitar when she was four. As a teenager, she met bluesman Sam Chatmon who inspired her to become a blues queen. Her guitar playing combines country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie through the sensibility of an autodidact trailor-park esthete. Her live show is full of complex guitar grooves and sly humor.

Prairie Flyer

Prairie Flyer isan eclectic collection of high-powered musicians who like to travel nonstop across the boundaries of bluegrass, folk and Americana - all on the same trip. They can move from a Stanley Brothers song to a Townes Van Zandt, from their own solid bluegrass instrumentals to Steve Earle to Fred Eaglesmith and back to traditional bluegrass with such ease and grace.

There will be concert sets, workshops and an open mike for emerging performers and singer songwriters.

All performances will take place at the Ocean Shores Convention Center or Galway Bay Restaurant and Pub.

Tickets for the two-day event are $25 if purchased prior to February 29, 2008 and $35 thereafter. Tickets can be purchased below. Lodging and ticket packages are also available. The North Coast Folk Festival is sponsored by the Ocean Shores Chamber of Commerce, Shilo Inn of Ocean Shores, Quinault Beach Resort & Casino, Galway Bay Pub, Ramada Inn of Ocean Shores, Dawn Wallace-Cook and other fine local businesses.

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