FACE Florence Winter Music Festival 2025
Friday Schedule
9:30a Doors Open for WORKSHOPS
9:30a - 11:45p Jam Session @ FEC Flat Floor Rm 3
10:00a - Midnight Jam Session, @ The Lighthouse Inn
4:30p - 5:30p Tony Furtado Free Community Concert @ Oregon Pacific Bank (FREE)
6:30p Theater Doors Open for Friday Night Bluegrass @ FEC
7:00p Kristen Grainger & True North
8:30p Henhouse Prowlers
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Tony Furtado
Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumental-ist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the fl air of a master chef (he’s also an accomplished sculptor, but that’s another story). All of the music of America is in Tony’s music. Relix hit the nail on the head when writing of Tony: “True talent doesn’t need categories.
Kristen Grainger & True North
KRISTEN GRAINGER & TRUE NORTH is a bluegrass-leaning Americana powerhouse of terrific songwriting, lush vocals and crazy-good instrumentalists. Kristen has collected accolades and awards at Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Wildflower Arts & Music Festival, Merlefest, Kerrville and, together with Dan Wetzel, at Wintergrass . She also won Common Ground‘s 2022 Acoustic Roots Songwriting Contest, and 2019 Roots Northwest songwriting competition. On stage, the band deftly delivers the stories, mind-blowing harmonies and mad instrumentals audiences love. As Folk World (UK) put it, “What comes over loud and clear is that one is in the presence of some seriously talented musicians.
Henhouse Prowlers
This group is in its second decade, honing the unique, high-energy vibe that makes them an
unforgettable stage presence -- be it in Chicago, Siberia, or the Middle East. These official Cultural
Ambassadors for the US State Department show the world what American bluegrass is all about.
FRIDAY WORKSHOPS
Workshops are free to Festival ticket holders or with a $10 admission fee.
“Take the Stage!” is free and open to the public.
-All workshops are held in Gallery Rooms 1+2 and are 60 minutes each
10:00a - 11:00a What’s It to You: Authenticity in Songwriting
Kristen Grainger & Dan Wetzel - True North (Duo)
11:15a - 12:15p Worldwide Bluegrass!
Henhouse Prowlers
12:30p - 1:30p It’s All About the Bass
Standup Bass - Josh Adkins - True North Band
1:45p - 2:45p Band Harmony -- Amelia Ransom - Thunder & Rain
3:00p - 4:00p Old Time Guitar -- Erinn Peet-Lukes - Thunder & Rain