This week, we're featuring highlights from the 2011 Sioux River Folk Festival, including the Mark Kreitzer band and Carolina Story. We're featuring this music because the 2012 Sioux River Folk Festival is happening next weekend - August 3rd-5th at Newton Hills State Park near Canton. The festival has been presented by the South Dakota Friends of Traditional Music for more than 30 years.
Mark Kreitzer has been performing for nearly 40 years - bluegrass, hot jazz, folk and more. You may have heard him on Prairie Home Companion. For this performance, the band included Wakonda, South Dakota native Tom Schaefer.
Carolina Story, the husband-wife duo from Nashville, Tennessee, has been performing together since the fall of 2008. Ben and Emily Roberts' 2011 album "Home" debuted at #2 on the ITunes Singer/Songwriter chart.
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