Yahhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooo! That one little word can be said with a wide variety of inflections. There’s the excited “Yahoo!” five-year-olds shout when they get news they are going on a surprise trip to the fair. There’s the mundane “yahoo…” teenagers mutter when they get news they are going on a surprise trip to anywhere. But there’s […]
Guest post by Felicia K. Knight With apologies to The Barenaked Ladies, if I had a million dollars, I could buy the American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront. “Buy” is probably the wrong word. Support is better. I love to go to the American Folk Festival and I enjoy being on the beautiful […]
It will be here before you know it. Now is the time to coordinate your action plan for the best event ever! First, clear your calendar – I mean, come on… You have known about the American Folk Festival for MONTHS now and trust me, the last thing you will want to do is have […]
Every year I can’t wait for the announcement of what artists will be performing at the American Folk Festival. I scan down the list so I can choose someone I never heard of playing music I don’t understand, so that by the end of the weekend, I have added an experience of sounds and emotions […]
Sunday morning dawned cloudy and slightly cool for May. Throngs of volunteers were getting organized to dole out mass quantities of colored cornstarch at the color stations set up in a five kilometer area around downtown. As runners started lining up for the second annual Color Bangor, we knew we had a successful event on […]
Guest post by Kaitlin Patnode As Color Bangor fast approaches, we are getting more and more excited about it! This means more status updates on Facebook and Twitter, more registrations from you, and more buzz within the community. Overall, that sounds amazing. But what about your kids? We’re talking about your younger ones, not those […]
