New Los Angeles Folk Festival 2013

The New Los Angeles Folk Festival celebrates the emergence of new L.A. folk in all its shapes and contrasts. It's traditional and experimental, acoustic and electronic, throwbacks and progressive ideas. They expect to draw as many as 1,000-1,500 people in 2013.



The New Los Angeles Folk Festival is now accepting submissions for the 2013 edition of the festival. Artists will be compensated, with the exact amount to be negotiated. There is 1 slot reserved for a Sonicbids artist. Their ultimate mission is to promote and document new folk music in Los Angeles as it happens, to create collaborative efforts between like-minded organizations in support of charitable causes, and to provide entertainment.



Their supporters include: LA Record, Flavorpill, LA Times, LA Weekly, OC Weekly, KUCR, Fat Cat Records, Mexican Summer, Pitchfork, Culturemob, Evil Monito, NPR, NBC Los Angeles, Losanjealous, Folkworks, The Daily Trojan, Festival Preview, EcobuzzLA, Examiner, LAist, RM64, Sound Spike and The Deli LA.

"The locally fabled yet relatively unknown Zorthian Ranch in Altadena served as the idyllic pastoral venue for Saturday’s New Los Angeles Folk Festival, a one-day event that brought together 28 bands and solo artists and included the emerging and established as well as the traditional and experimental from L.A.’s folk music scene and beyond to the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains."

-Los Angeles Times