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Our fourth of 10 Folk Fest Red Carpet Concerts is with Harrison B and Tim Pepper. Harrison B defines his sound as progressive American Soul.

Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms sing “The Last Time I Saw You.”

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 Atlanta-based Vega String Quartet kicked off the 30th annual Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival’s Brown Bag Concert series Monday. Nearly 200 Juneau students attended the free performance in the State Office Building atrium.

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.