The Tumbleweed Music Festival is a free, open-air, community acoustic music festival sponsored by the Three Rivers Folklife Society, a small, 501(c)(3) community arts orgaization here in the Tri-Cities, which is traditionally held on Labor Day weekend each year.  The 2023 festival will be our 27th annual!  We feature many kinds of acoustic music (primarily folk, blues, bluegrass, etc.) but are welcoming to all types of music and dance performances.

The festival begins Friday of Labor Day weekend with a free "New Horizons" concert, presenting younger (and euphemistically "higher energy") performers than many of our attendees are used to seeing.  Over the years, we've found some fantastic performers through this concert who have since become Tumbleweed family members, returning to the festival often to perform.

Saturday and Sunday of that weekend, from 11am to 6pm, we have a new performance or workshop on each of our 4 outdoor and 2 indoor stages, and 2 workshop rooms every 45 minutes; there's also an open-mic stage that keeps its own schedule.  All performances and workshops are free except for the Saturday benefit concert and the Sunday evening  Contra Dance - those are ticketed events.

One other feature of Tumbleweed is the annual "Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest," in which songwriters submit songs matching that year's festival theme; for 2023, our theme is "Good Times."  

2023 Tumbleweed Guitar Raffle!

A Tumbleweed tradition for many years is our annual Guitar Raffle.

This year is no exception, and this year we have a remarkable guitar to be raffled off.

This year’s guitar is a Taylor GS Mini Holden Village Special Edition.  The neck has a unique emblem among the frets.  The top soundboard was made from 250-year-old Engelmann spruce salvaged near Holden Village in the North Cascade Mountains, and the back and sides were made with wood from a single fiddleback maple tree that grew near Bellingham, which was cut for a college expansion project.  This combination of woods gives clarity and power, along with warmth and sensitivity to the instrument tones.

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Date:  September 1 - 3, 2023

Location: Howard Amon Park

Richland, Washington

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