Scott Burton, KTOO

During this year’s Alaska Folk Festival, we filmed ten bands in a tiny hotel room at the Alaskan Hotel as part of our Red Carpet Concert series. The videos are inspired by NPR’s popular Tiny Desk Concerts. The only criteria for the short concerts are that the music is original, and that it is played on the arts room’s red carpet wherever it may be—at KTOO, in a parking garage or on a beach.

The only criteria for a Red Carpet Concert is that the music is original and that it is played on the arts room’s red carpet — be it in the arts room, a bar, a parking garage, a beach, a mountain top, a moving van, a rooftop or a tiny hotel room.

While “Annapurna” officially opens Friday at Perseverance Theatre, you can catch pay-as-you-can previews Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

By the end of the 42nd annual Alaska Folk Festival on Sunday, close to 130 different acts will have taken the main stage at Centennial Hall plus 13 dance bands at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center.

Listen to this audio sampler with Beth Chrisman, who writes songs, sings and plays fiddle in the band out of Austin, Texas.

The free event begins at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Egan lecture hall.