Susquehanna Folk Festival
Friday, August 09, 2024 at 07:30pm
Susquehanna Folk Festival
Appell Center for the Performing Arts
50 N George St
The Susquehanna Folk Festival returns on the second weekend of August with world-class performers and hands-on fun. Join us at the Appell Center in downtown York, PA for a full weekend of live music, dancing, jams, and family activities.
Schedule:
7:30 pm: Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy at the Capitol Theatre
Canada’s reigning couple of Celtic music kick off our Susquehanna Folk Festival with their spectacular Cape Breton fiddling and step-dancing. If you haven’t seen anyone do both of those things at the same time (and brilliantly), you are in for the treat of a lifetime.
7:30 pm: Friday Night Contra Dance
8:15 pm in The Studio
Beginners Workshop 7:30 pm
Dancing till 10:30 pm
The Susquehanna Folk Festival’s weekend of dance kicks off with live southern old-time music by The Contra Rebels (Todd Clewell, Barb Schmid and Henry Koretzky) and caller Bob Nicholson.