BIG FOLKIN' FEST YALL!

Review/Photos by: Taylor Prater

Huge thanks to Jeremy Drake and Parallel Play for having us out this weekend and entertaining the hell out of us with a great festival line-up!

Get ready for lots of creative ways to use the word “folkin’,” because the Deep Ellum Big Folkin’ Festival went down last Saturday at The Prophet Bar and things got folkin’ crazy.

Let’s all start off with some unanimous admiration for the set up of the thing, first of all. Four stages and all those bands, which were laid out into the schedule so seamlessly that transportation between sets was a breeze.

Outdoor vendors helped serve up a good down time, but if you wanted to rock straight from 4:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., you could bounce from set to set with no lag time, no sweat.

Folk yeah.

OK, I’ll stop. Maybe.

Big Folkin' Preview + Interview

This Saturday, March 30th Big Folkin' Festival returns to Deep Ellum, TX at The Prophet Bar with a rad line-up of touring and local acts.

William Beckett and Jillette Johnson join the bill this year along with some local favs like Holy Moly, QCNH, The Roomsounds and Fox and the Bird will be performing with some new local projects like The Venetian Sailors to watch out for that night!

We caught up with fest. co-founder Jeremy Drake who also fronts a local fav. band Parallel Play to find out a little more about the band and festival this year...

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