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A longtime music festival is ready to give up the folk for the 50th year.
The Eagle Creek Folk Festival will ring in half a century Sept. 13 at Eagle Creek Park. The Indiana Folk Music Society will celebrate 50 years of the festival with a day of free performances, workshops and jam sessions featuring society members and guest players.
Pop-up booths and workshops will be spread throughout the park, but the bulk of performances will take place at the Eagle Creek Park Beach shelter located at 7602 Eagle Beach Drive. Hogeye Navvy, a local Celtic/American folk group that gigs every Friday at The Aristocrat on College Avenue, will headline.
Festival chair and longtime folk society member Susan Kraeszig said she’s pulling out all the stops for the festival’s 50th, including cake. The event’s marquee performance from The Big Band, a collection of local musicians who most recently performed at this year’s Indiana State Fair, will kick off the event at noon.
“It’s like a big party,” Kraeszig said.
The festival Kraeszig is helping to organize for the 50th anniversary looks different than the one the folk society hosted when she joined in the ‘90s. Back when the Indiana Folk Music Society was known as the Central Indiana Folk Music and Mountain Dulcimer Society, the event spanned two days, and performances took place in Eagle Creek Park’s former amphitheater.
At the height of its popularity, Kraeszig said, the festival drew such a crowd that cars filled Eagle Creek Park’s roughly 1,200 parking spots.
“It was just a certain generation, a certain group of people that got together and played music,” Kraeszig said. “They just had so much fun, and you just wanted to have fun too.”
These days turnout is around 200 people, but the festival still pulls big names in folk music circles. Chart-topping folk performer Tim Grimm is a festival regular, and Indiana-based jazz manouche group Bleu Django put a French twist on the lineup when they performed in 2023.
This year’s festival will take place from noon to 7 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Contact IndyStar Pop Culture Reporter Heather Bushman at hbushman@gannett.com. Follow her on X @hmb_1013.
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