After their breakout set at this year’s Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau, Seattle by-way-of Southeast Alaska band Amish Robots have changed their name to Revilla and released a new EP.
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How Gustavus’ spruce tips get into Juneau’s ice cream and booze
Each spring, about 50 pickers young and old get paid a few bucks a pound to collect spruce tips during a short harvest window in small town Gustavus.
The story behind the student-made folk festival backdrop
The students are auctioning off the backdrop to raise money for their trip to Craig to compete in the Region V Art Fest.
Folk Fest headliners harmonize on stage and off
Pharis Romero says words like “vintage” and “country” and maybe even “old folk” come to mind when describing their sound.
Music: Hope Griffin live on ‘A Juneau Afternoon’
Griffin and Bennett dropped into KTOO to play us some tunes. This is the musicians’ first time to the Alaska Folk Festival.
2018 Folk Fest Nightlife Guide
Once again, your friends at KTOO listed the downtown evening venue schedules all in one place. As these things go, we’ll be updating the schedule daily with changes, new events, and start times as we learn more.
Theater featuring Juneau’s real histories plays this weekend only
After years of preparation, and months of interviews and rehearsals, “Aan Yátx’u Sáani: Noble People of the Land,” opens tonight at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. The multimedia theatrical presentation features five people with histories in the Juneau’s Indian Village and Willoughby District. Lillian Petershoare is one of them. “Instead of having five…
Interview: Paula Poundstone talks beaver dens, improv and using her audience
Comedian Paula Poundstone says she never does the same show twice.
Juneau shamanism retreat leader’s financial, cultural and spiritual legitimacy challenged
Sealaska Heritage Institute says the Dance of the Deer Foundation exploits shamanism.
Ray Troll’s Ratfish Wranglers return to Juneau
Ketchikan artist Ray Troll’s band performs two concerts in Juneau. See Ray Troll and the Ratfish Wranglers play a free show at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, @360 in the KTOO building. The group performs a fundraiser show at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2, at the JACC.