Our third of 10 Folk Fest Red Carpet Concerts is with Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms. The Portland, Oregon-based musicians are also part of the Foghorn Stringband and the Caleb Klauder Country Band. Here they sing a duet called “Last Time I Saw You.”
Watch more Red Carpet Concerts with musicians like Liz Snyder and Patrick Troll, Sean Tracey and Nate May, and Dara Rilatos. Tune in Monday for the release of Harrison B.
During this year’s Alaska Folk Festival, we filmed ten bands in a tiny 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.
Here are past Red Carpet Concerts with musicians like the Bowties, Sean Tracey and Nate May, Dara Rilatos, Cousin Curtiss, or Sophia Street. Check back on Friday for the release of Oregon-based Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms.
What do you get when you pack 10 Alaska Folk Festival bands and all the audio/video gear and people to shoot and record them into a 12-by-12-foot room at the Alaskan Hotel?
You get a series of one-song videos with bands like The Carper Family, Harrison B, Foghorn Stringband, Kim Beggs and the Bowties. Over the next three weeks, we’re releasing a series of Red Carpet Concerts from Folk Fest, a collaboration between KTOO Public Media, Juneau filmmaker Ryan Cortes and audio engineer Justin Smith.
To start, here is the San Francisco-based Bowties with “Houston Blues.”
Here are some of our other Red Carpet Concerts with musicians like Sean Tracey and Nate May, Dara Rilatos, Cousin Curtiss and Sophia Street. Check in on Wednesday for the release of Whisky Class with Liz Snyder and Patrick Troll.
Anchorage-based Sophia Street was the featured musician at this year’s Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities. She’s a singer-songwriter who plays ukulele and digitally loops her vocals during live performances.
While they were in Juneau, she and musician James Goodreau dropped into KTOO’s arts room to play a Red Carpet Concert.
Dara Rilatos serenaded the KTOO arts room with this three-song concert on November 25, 2015. Rilatos is from Wrangell, Alaska, and is a folk singer-songwriter. This performance includes “While You’re Here,” Making me a Fool” and “95.”
Watch additional Red Carpet Concerts with Annie Bartholomew and Rebecca File, Liz Snyder, Cousin Curtiss, Sean Tracey and Nate May, and Harrison B.
