All posts by Heather McCarthy

Heather McCarthy

About Heather McCarthy

Heather McCarthy is the Executive Director of the American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront and lives in Hermon, Maine.

Two months to go until the American Folk Festival!

Two long summer months stretch ahead of us… Two months of enjoying the glorious Maine weather, friends and family visiting, and the frenetic work of final preparations for this year’s American Folk Festival!  That’s right, at the Folk Festival office, the “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer” are, well, just crazy!  It’s our time to […]

COLORBangor: Mission Accomplished

Color Bangor 2014 was almost like the first year of the Festival all over again.  The frenzied days before the event, the all-too-frequent outbursts of, “Hey! We almost forgot…” (first aid? A changing tent?), and checking the weather forecast every 23 minutes to see if the rain would fall on our day. Photo Credit: Bill […]