Folk festival gets a Christmas present

The Sisters Folk Festival got a Christmas present last week from the father of a founding member of the festival board.

Bob Cornelius donated a solid oak table to the festival to be used in the Sisters Art Works conference room. He and his son John trucked the table up from Southern California and delivered it to the arts center last week.

The table had been the family dining room table and was the site of many a Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.

“The table has history,” said arts center owner Kathy Deggendorfer. “All those meals were eaten on it and now we’re going to make all these decisions on it.”

The Sisters Folk Festival is one of the tenants of the new Sisters Art Works, with offices and a meeting room at the center on Adams Avenue. The site also includes a performance venue, artists work space, the 5 Elements Healing Arts Center, American Nutrition and the offices of the Sisters Jazz Festival.

Bob’s son Jim Cornelius is a founder of the Sisters Folk Festival, which started as a one-day event in 1995 and has since expanded to a three-day music festival held annually on the second weekend of September.

The festival is currently developing its talent roster for the 2006 event. For more information call 549-4979 or visit http://www.sistersfolkfestival.com.