Hood has toured with Miranda Lambert and had songs recorded by Lee Ann Womack and the Eli Young Band.
The Ferdinand Folk Festival organizers will hold the 2012 lineup announcement party and fundraiser on Saturday, January 28, 2012, at Foxy Hollow (7630 South 600 East, Ferdinand, IN 47532) beginning at 8 p.m. (EST). The featured performer for the evening will be Carnival Recording artist Adam Hood and tickets are $12. Foxy Hollow is an intimate venue and seating will be limited. Seats can be reserved by contacting Marc Steczyk at 812-367-2282 or by email at msteczyk@ferdinandindiana.org.
“We had a very enjoyable and successful announcement party last year when Jason Wilber performed for us,” said Steczyk. “Adam Hood is an incredibly talented songwriter, musician, and singer. We’re really looking forward to his performance AND getting to announce the rest of the September 15, 2012, Main Stage Folk Festival lineup. This is always an exciting time for us.
“We’ve held a similar event at Foxy Hollow before (a Tri-County YMCA fundraiser) with very much success. Seats are very limited, however, so I encourage you to contact us as soon as you can to make sure you can get a seat,” Steczyk said.
Hailing from Opelika, Alabama, Hood’s songs have been recorded by the likes of Lee Ann Womack and the Eli Young Band. He is a frequent touring partner of country music sensation Miranda Lambert’s and both of his full length albums have been produced by Grammy-winning and multi-platinum producer Pete Anderson (of Dwight Yoakam fame).
With an Americana, folk, and alt-country sound completely his own, Hood will have another performer with him for rhythm guitar and background vocals. For more information about Adam Hood and to listen to audio and video clips, visit www.adamhood.com.
The third annual Ferdinand Folk Festival will take place on Saturday, September 15, 2012, in Ferdinand’s beautiful 18th Street Park. Visit www.ferdinandfolkfestival.com for additional festival information. Also, for additional information about Ferdinand, Indiana, please visit www.ferdinandindiana.org.
Below is the promo video that we’ve created specifically for this event. Also, click HERE for youtube clips of Adam.
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It’s almost festival time! We hope that you all are as excited as we are. The Town employees have done another amazing job this year at getting the park prepped and ready to go. We’re almost there!
Don’t forget to check our schedule and our list of activities and things to do over the course of the day. If you look at our vendor tab at the top of the page, we have all the vendors listed along with what they’ll be selling–check it out!
Of course, the music. Oh, the music. We’re looking forward to it and hope you are, too! Any last minute questions can be sent to msteczyk@ferdinandindiana.org.
You can read it by CLICKING HERE. What a great article our friends at the Evansville Courier put together. Thank you so much!
Katie wrote an excellent article about the Ferdinand Folk Festival in Evansville’s entertainment publication News4U. In researching for that article, she had hoped to interview our Folk Fest main stage headliner Shawn Mullins. A deadline didn’t allow her the opportunity. She did catch up with him later, though, and you can read her interview and highly entertaining blog by CLICKING HERE.
We appreciate the response to our weekend special on Folk Festival bags and official 2011 t-shirts! All orders that came in this weekend are being shipped first thing this morning (Monday, Sept. 12). In the meantime, we’re shutting the online store down for the remainder of the week. Bags, hatch prints, and t-shirts will be available on a first come, first served basis at the merchandise tent on Saturday.
We’ll keep doing our part in getting ready for Saturday, y’all keep doing yours by sending loving vibes toward Mother Nature in hopes of a beautiful weekend!
THE COUNT DOWN IS ON!!!
Uuuummm, yeah. So have we. Sorry about any issues that you’ve had, BUT…we think the issue has been fully resolved and sincerely apologize for any incovenience you’ve experienced. To prove just how sorry we are, all t-shirt orders placed from 8 a.m. (EST) on Thursday, September 8, 2011, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, September 11, 2011, will be 
shipped with a free environmentally-friendly, reusable, official Ferdinand Folk Festival bag. We will be selling these at the Beau Troesch fundraiser on Saturday, September 10, and again the day of the festival in the merchandise tent. Don’t miss your chance to get one for free!!! Our online store can be found in the header or by clicking here!
We’re getting very excited around here and hope you are, too! The schedule has been pretty much set, so be sure and visit that section of the site by clicking here! Pre-plan how you’re going to spend your Saturday, September 17th!
Our friends at News4U are at again. They put together a great feature about our little ol’ festival in their September issue. News4U is Evansville’s premier entertainment magazine, and we are very grateful for their story about our second annual Ferdinand Folk Festival. You can pick the free publication up almost every where you go in Evansville OR you could visit www.news4uonline.com to view the virtual magazine.
Also, our pals at Evansville Living magazine (Evansville’s premier lifestyle, etc.,
magazine) put us on their calendar for this year. Last year, the Ferdinand Folk Festival was named as one of its top five things to do for its respective weekend. We’re hoping we are fortunate enough to get that distinction again (no pressure, Evansville Living!). You can view our little portion of their webpage by clicking HERE.
Ferdinand’s own Beau Troesch will perform Saturday, September 10, at 8 p.m. in the backroom of the Ferdinand American Legion. Tickets are $5 with all proceeds to benefit the 2nd annual Ferdinand Folk Festival (Saturday, September 17, 18th Street Park).
Official Ferdinand Folk Festival merchandise will be available to purchase at the Troesch concert, including t-shirts, the Hatch prints. and environmentally- and eco-friendly bags.
This fundraiser is the third in a series of fundraising events for the Folk Fest. Previous performers have been Jason Wilber (John Prine’s guitaritst and a fantastic singer/songwriter in his own right) and three time grammy winner Bill Miller.
Hatch Print Shop (Nashville, TN) Hatch Print Co. has been designing show prints for the biggest names in the music industry for over 100 years. Don’t miss your chance to have your very own designed specifically for the second annual FERDINAND FOLK FESTIVAL! This is a limited run of prints and when they are gone, well, they’re gone! Prints will be $15.00 each. Please contact Karl Hinson at 812-630-3415 or Wes Laake at 812-630-6339 if interested.
We will be selling prints
…be the first in your neighborhood to help us promote the festival (and look pretty cool while doing it)!!! Our store can be found by clicking the store link at the top of this page, or by clicking here.
In keeping with the environmental theme of the festival, these shirts are made of 100% organically grown cotton (pre-shrunk, of course). They are $15 per shirt (including shipping), the only color is the cream/off white and the sizes available are S-2XL. Get yours today!
Keep following our site, as it seems we’re adding info on a daily basis as we get closer to September 17. We’ve recently added a cool new tour of the 18th Street Park tree planting projects, updated our music schedule, and put information up about the chainsaw carving that will be happening at the fest. This is a very busy time for us, but very fun. I think we’re putting something together that, quite literally, has a little something for everyone!!
Stay tuned…
