<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2Ve8y0_10UbWVbF00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2Ve8y0_10UbWVbF00" width="1024" height="1140" ></figure>UAS hosted its first Folk Fest on Saturday, April 5th as a prelude to the Alaska FolkFestival’s 50th year celebration.Open to the community and all ages, more than 250 people attended the free event thathosted over 10 booths and had six different musical/artistic acts.The show began with a dance lesson taught by Professor Mark Hopson, followed byBob Banghart’s local jazz group, the Hot Club of Juneau. It was an honor to have Boband his group on the UAS stage, as they have performed in all 50 years of the AlaskaFolk Festival.Alumni group Slept In also took the stage and wowed the audience with their incredibleduo act. June Bunch, flown in from Florida thanks to the Alaska Airlines StudentConcert Series, performed her original music while playing the ukulele like an angel witha harp. UAS student band Rice Fields jammed their funk-a-delic covers of belovedsongs as a wonderful opener for Juneau’s beloved, the one and the only, The RainDogs! The night closed out with the beautiful harmonies of Big Sissy, all the way fromNew York City, also in partnership with the Alaska Airlines Student Concert Series. BigSissy took the Alaska Folk Festival by storm, later partnering with Dude Mtn and otherlocal artists for smaller shows around downtown.Families, students, and everyone in between are already in anticipation of the secondannual UAS Folk Fest. Thank you to the Student Activities Board for its hard work on the first!</div></body>

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UAS hosted its first Folk Fest on Saturday, April 5th as a prelude to the Alaska Folk. Festival’s 50th year celebration. Open to the community and all ages, more than 250 people attended the free event that. hosted over 10 booths and had six different musical/artistic acts. The show...

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UAS hosted its first Folk Fest on Saturday, April 5th as a prelude to the Alaska Folk. Festival’s 50th year celebration. Open to the community and all ages

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