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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 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.

Juneau artist Devon Kasler’s premier EP Anger Machine is an even dose of teenage angst and fantasy.

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

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