Yakima Folklife Festival Performers

Musicians: To be invited to our festival and considered for our concert series, please provide us with:

Mailing address, phone & fax numbers, and Website information and e-mail address
A sound sample of your music, or photos and description of dance performance.
An up-to-date promotional "press packet" (photo, bio, reviews, etc.)

Announcements/invitations to the festival are sent in December and applications are due in January 31st (last minute applications are considered on a case by case basis).

Thanks for your interest

Please fill out and submit the performer application by clicking on the link below:

2010 Performer Application

As is customary, we do not pay at festival time ...sorry. However, we will aggressively support the musician in any way we can—In most cases we will provide free motel lodging (performers more than 2 hrs from Yakima, and on a case-by-case basis), and we always provide Saturday and Sundaybreakfast, a fully staffed sales booth to sell your recordings (we take no cut of sales), and we’ll get a crowd. Tape and CD sales at our concert series are very good—often doubling the guarantee! If someone sees a performance they like in Seattle, they will remember the name so they can catch them again. Out here in culture-hungry Yakima, if you see a performance you like, you take the music home because, otherwise, you may never get to hear it again.

Exposure to the audience of Central Washington can help you in many ways, and we will help you in any way we can. Participation in the festival will count on your behalf when we choose performers for our concert series, as well as exposing your act to other venues in Yakima, such as the Greenway Concert Series, the Central Washington State Fair, and Yakima’s Allied Arts, to name a few.