"Red Carpet Concert"

Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms sing “The Last Time I Saw You.”

During this year’s Alaska Folk Festival, we filmed ten bands in a tiny hotel room at the Alaskan Hotel as part of our Red Carpet Concert series. The videos are inspired by NPR’s popular Tiny Desk Concerts. The only criteria for the short concerts are that the music is original, and that it is played on the arts room’s red carpet wherever it may be—at KTOO, in a parking garage or on a beach.

The only criteria for a Red Carpet Concert is that the music is original and that it is played on the arts room’s red carpet — be it in the arts room, a bar, a parking garage, a beach, a mountain top, a moving van, a rooftop or a tiny hotel room.

Anchorage-based singer-songwriter Sophia Street and James Goodreau dropped into KTOO’s arts room to play a Red Carpet Concert.

Rilatos is from Wrangell, Alaska, and is a folk singer-songwriter. This performance includes “While You’re Here,” Making me a Fool” and “95.”

Watch Rebecca File and Annie Bartholomew of Fairbanks’ experimental psych-folk band Harm perform in this Red Carpet Concert.

Juneau songwriter Liz Snyder brought her original music and incredible whistling to KTOO’s red carpet for her first live solo performance in two years.

Longtime Alaska musicians Sean Tracey and Nate May dropped into KTOO to play three tunes for a gracious staff audience on a Friday afternoon. Tracey’s songwriting has been described as “Psycho-Tonk” and “Ameribilly,” and May’s Telecaster playing is just plain tasty. In addition to this video, you can hear an extended interview with Tracey here.