Sisters Folk Festival tickets selling fast

Folks who want to catch the music at the Sisters Folk Festival had best act soon.

Tickets for the September 7-9 festival are nearing a sellout point for the first time in the organization's history.

"We've experienced a dramatic increase in ticket sales every year for the past four years, and this year we are ahead of projected sales by almost eighty percent," said Assistant Festival Director Travis Ehrenstrom.

The festival has traditionally released single-day tickets in the middle of August, but the high demand for all-event passes has been so great that the festival will forego selling day tickets and will instead sell a small remainder of All-Event passes, and then declare the event at capacity.

Ehrenstrom noted that, "In an effort to keep the Sisters Folk Festival a premier music event in the Pacific Northwest, we've been working hard to prevent overcrowding. As our festival continues to expand in popularity it is the organization's work to keep our venues at a safe and comfortable capacity."

The lineup for this year's festival includes legendary songwriter James McMurtry, festival favorite Mary Gauthier, and "Walking Woody's Road," a celebration of the life of Woody Guthrie, featuring Jimmy LaFave, Eliza Gilkyson, Slaid Cleaves, and Sara Lee Guthrie with Johnny Irion, among some 30 acts performing in venues throughout town.

All-Event passes can still be purchased online from http://www.sistersfolkfestival.org/tickets or from Paulina Springs Books as well as FootZone of Bend. For more information email [email protected] or contact the office at 541-549-4979.