Schedule

The 2025 Montana Folk Festival schedule.

GENERAL INFO – The festival grounds open at 5:00 pm on Friday with an opening ceremony at “The Original” Stage at 6:30 pm. Music starts at 7:00 pm on three stages, the Original, the Seacast Copper, and the Dance. All performers will be featured at one or more of the six venues throughout the weekend, including the Northwestern Energy Dance Pavilion.

Friday, July 11

	Friday, July 11
6:30 PM	Opening Welcome
7:00 PM	Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
7:15 PM	Mira Dickey & Lennart Jansson
7:30 PM	Yeison Landero
8:00 PM	Solas
8:15 PM	Mariachi Mariposas
9:00 PM	Bamba Wassoulou Groove
9:15 PM	Khumariyaan

	Friday, July 11
6:30 PM	Opening Welcome
7:00 PM	Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
8:00 PM	Solas

	Friday, July 11
7:15 PM	Mira Dickey & Lennart Jansson
8:15 PM	Mariachi Mariposas
9:15 PM	Khumariyaan

	Friday, July 11
7:30 PM	Yeison Landero
9:00 PM	Bamba Wassoulou Groove

Saturday, July 12

	Saturday, July 12
12:00 PM	Zhantao Lin Tessa McCoy and the Big Possum Stringband Yamini Kalluri & The Kritya Ensemble
12:15 PM	TRANSATLANTIC CREOLE CONNECTIONS
12:30 PM	Khumariyaan
1:00 PM	Arnold "Smoke" Elser & Eva-Maria Maggi—Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Brinae Ali Quartet Rondalla Club of Los Angeles Elizabeth King
1:30 PM	Little Mountain Cree
2:00 PM	Workshop—Fly rod builder Glenn Brackett—Decoy carver Mark Mariano & Mary Sutherland—Salish tool crafter Tim Ryan Mira Dickey & Lennart Jansson Michael Cleveland Fabiola Mendez Solas SINNERS, SAINTS, & LOVERS
3:00 PM	Little Mountain Cree drum group Zhantao Lin Paul Beaubrun
3:15 PM	STORIES FROM MONTANA’S NATIVE POET LAUREATES
3:30 PM	Nathan Kimpel blacksmith demonstration Brinae Ali Quartet Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band
4:00 PM	Yeison Landero STRINGS OF THE WORLD
4:15 PM	Mira Dickey & Lennart Jansson Dan Roberts lutherie and demonstration
4:30 PM	Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
5:00 PM	FASHION SHOW
5:15 PM	Bamba Wassoulou Groove Mariachis Mariposas Montana Old Time Fiddlers presents: The String Beings Solas
5:45 PM	Shemekia Copeland
6:15 PM	Tessa McCoy and the Big Possum Stringband Wayne Hancock
7:00 PM	Yeison Landero
7:15 PM	Mariachi Mariposas Zahra Alzubaidi
7:45 PM	Paul Beaubrun
8:15 PM	Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band Yamini Kalluri & The Kritya Ensemble
9:15 PM	Shemekia Copeland
9:30 PM	Bamba Wassoulou Groove Fabiola Mendez

	Saturday, July 12
12:00 PM	Zhantao Lin
1:00 PM	Rondalla Club of Los Angeles
2:00 PM	Solas
3:15 PM	STORIES FROM MONTANA’S NATIVE POET LAUREATES
4:15 PM	Mira Dickey & Lennart Jansson
5:15 PM	Mariachis Mariposas
6:15 PM	Tessa McCoy and the Big Possum Stringband

	Saturday, July 12
12:00 PM	Tessa McCoy and the Big Possum Stringband
1:00 PM	Brinae Ali Quartet
2:00 PM	Michael Cleveland
3:00 PM	Paul Beaubrun
4:00 PM	Yeison Landero
5:00 PM	FASHION SHOW
6:15 PM	Wayne Hancock
7:15 PM	Mariachi Mariposas
8:15 PM	Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band
9:30 PM	Bamba Wassoulou Groove

	Saturday, July 12
12:00 PM	Yamini Kalluri & The Kritya Ensemble
1:00 PM	Elizabeth King
2:00 PM	SINNERS, SAINTS, & LOVERS
3:30 PM	Brinae Ali Quartet
4:30 PM	Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
5:45 PM	Shemekia Copeland
7:00 PM	Yeison Landero

	Saturday, July 12
12:15 PM	TRANSATLANTIC CREOLE CONNECTIONS
1:30 PM	Little Mountain Cree
2:00 PM	Mira Dickey & Lennart Jansson
3:00 PM	Zhantao Lin
4:00 PM	STRINGS OF THE WORLD
5:15 PM	Solas
7:15 PM	Zahra Alzubaidi
8:15 PM	Yamini Kalluri & The Kritya Ensemble
9:30 PM	Fabiola Mendez

	Saturday, July 12
12:30 PM	Khumariyaan
2:00 PM	Fabiola Mendez
3:30 PM	Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band
5:15 PM	Bamba Wassoulou Groove
7:45 PM	Paul Beaubrun
9:15 PM	Shemekia Copeland

	Saturday, July 12
1:00 PM	Arnold "Smoke" Elser & Eva-Maria Maggi—Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall
2:00 PM	Workshop—Fly rod builder Glenn Brackett—Decoy carver Mark Mariano & Mary Sutherland—Salish tool crafter Tim Ryan
3:00 PM	Little Mountain Cree drum group
3:30 PM	Nathan Kimpel blacksmith demonstration
4:15 PM	Dan Roberts lutherie and demonstration
5:15 PM	Montana Old Time Fiddlers presents: The String Beings

Sunday, July 13

	Sunday, July 13
12:00 PM	Rondalla Club of Los Angeles Elizabeth King
12:15 PM	FIDDLE TRADITIONS: SCANDINAVIA TO SOUTH ASIA Khumariyaan Little Mountain Cree drum group
12:30 PM	Tessa McCoy and the Big Possum Stringband
1:00 PM	Zahra Alzubaidi MT Indigenous Poet Laureates—Chris La Tray, M.L. Smoker, Henry Real Bird PLACE-BASED CRAFT: PRESERVING THE LAST BEST PLACE
1:15 PM	Brinae Ali Quartet
1:30 PM	Yamini Kalluri & The Kritya Ensemble
2:00 PM	Paul Beaubrun Wayne Hancock Montana Old Time Fiddlers presents: Left for Dead Mira Dickey & Lennart Jansson
2:15 PM	Little Mountain Cree
2:30 PM	Rondalla Club of Los Angeles
2:45 PM	THE SOUNDS OF THE LATIN AMERICAS: CUMBIA, CUATRO, & MARIACHI
3:00 PM	Khumariyaan Workshop—Continuing Native Traditions—Carrie McCleary & Luella Brien
3:15 PM	Zhantao Lin
3:30 PM	Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band IN RHYTHEM: PERCUSSION & DANCE
4:00 PM	Wayne Hancock Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper Artist Show and Tell
4:15 PM	Solas
4:30 PM	Zahra Alzubaidi
5:00 PM	Yeison Landero Mariachis Mariposas
5:15 PM	Fabiola Mendez
5:30 PM	Elizabeth King

	Sunday, July 13
12:00 PM	Rondalla Club of Los Angeles
1:00 PM	PLACE-BASED CRAFT: PRESERVING THE LAST BEST PLACE
2:00 PM	Mira Dickey & Lennart Jansson
3:15 PM	Zhantao Lin
4:15 PM	Solas

	Sunday, July 13
12:00 PM	Elizabeth King
1:00 PM	Zahra Alzubaidi
2:00 PM	Wayne Hancock
3:00 PM	Khumariyaan
4:00 PM	Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
5:15 PM	Fabiola Mendez

	Sunday, July 13
12:15 PM	FIDDLE TRADITIONS: SCANDINAVIA TO SOUTH ASIA
1:30 PM	Yamini Kalluri & The Kritya Ensemble
2:30 PM	Rondalla Club of Los Angeles
3:30 PM	IN RHYTHEM: PERCUSSION & DANCE
4:30 PM	Zahra Alzubaidi
5:30 PM	Elizabeth King

	Sunday, July 13
12:15 PM	Khumariyaan
1:15 PM	Brinae Ali Quartet
2:15 PM	Little Mountain Cree
2:45 PM	THE SOUNDS OF THE LATIN AMERICAS: CUMBIA, CUATRO, & MARIACHI
4:00 PM	Wayne Hancock
5:00 PM	Mariachis Mariposas

	Sunday, July 13
12:15 PM	Little Mountain Cree drum group
1:00 PM	MT Indigenous Poet Laureates—Chris La Tray, M.L. Smoker, Henry Real Bird
2:00 PM	Montana Old Time Fiddlers presents: Left for Dead
3:00 PM	Workshop—Continuing Native Traditions—Carrie McCleary & Luella Brien
4:00 PM	Artist Show and Tell

	Sunday, July 13
12:30 PM	Tessa McCoy and the Big Possum Stringband
2:00 PM	Paul Beaubrun
3:30 PM	Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band
5:00 PM	Yeison Landero

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