Festival JAM auction is underway

The 2024 JAM (Journey, Adventure, Music) Silent Auction & Raffle Fundraiser is underway with a collection of packages up for bid and the chance to win a custom Breedlove guitar. The fundraiser is taking place in conjunction with the 27th annual Sisters Folk Festival.

Proceeds will support SFF Presents’ mission to strengthen community and transform lives through music and arts educational outreach and programming in Central Oregon. Check out all the auction packages, set up your electronic bidding account, and bid on items by visiting https://auctria.com/auction/JAMAuction2024.

Longtime SFFP sponsor Breedlove Guitars donated a custom concertina guitar to be raffled. The handcrafted guitar features a slotted headstock with a Western Red Cedar top, figured myrtlewood back and sides, natural gloss finish and figured Koa binding. Built with a maple neck and purfling, the instrument features ebony fingerboard and Gotoh 700 nickel tuners with Morning Glory Mosaic Pins as inlay. The rosette is made with single-channel spalted maple with inner and outer black purfling. The guitar comes with a hardshell case and is valued at $5,000. Only 400 raffle entries will be sold at $25 each; tickets can be purchased online at https://www.sistersfolkfest.org/raffle or in person at the Sisters Folk Festival JAM tent (until sold out). The winner will be drawn on Sunday, September 29, at 2:55 p.m. from the stage at Village Green Park (winner need not be present).

Visit the online auction site, or the JAM tent over the festival weekend, to find more than a dozen packages up for bid including: a four-day getaway for two to Banff, Canada; a cajon made locally by Tim Shuler; a case of SFF-branded Lange Pinot Noir wine and a Ponderosa Forge six-bottle wine rack; getaway package to beautiful Mendocino; SFF swag with 2025 tickets.

All bidding can be done online or visit the JAM tent at Village Green to view the packages and register for the auction. JAM Tent hours are Friday, September 27, from 5 to 11 p.m., Saturday September 28, from 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., and Sunday, September 29, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Bidding will close at 1 p.m. on Sunday, September 29, so winners can pick up their items after the music ends. Arrangements can be made to ship items (restrictions may apply).

Proceeds from the auction support SFFP efforts to strengthen community and transform lives through music and arts educational outreach and programming in Central Oregon.