Music

Matthew Burtner, who was born in Naknek and grew up around Alaska, has built an award-winning career around turning nature into music, using both field recordings and scientific data that he transforms into sound.

“Sisters of White Chapel” is about the Klondike Gold Rush, from the perspective of the women and sex workers who lived in the mining towns. 

Some bands are hard to describe. Not Dude Mtn, says frontman and guitarist Cullen McCormick.

Alaska Folk Festival organizers scrambled to rearrange the mainstage lineup Friday as it became clear that headliners Lone Piñon and several other performers would not make their scheduled sets. 

“We are encouraged to take up less space,” painter and poet Dita Devi said. “And I want us to take up a whole lot of space.”

The performance is part of a language and music program for kindergartners and first graders.