Lake Folk is working on some new tunes that we should start debuting at live shows over the next couple of months! Your first chance to check these out will be at our show at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor with our friends Wayward Roots. If you haven't heard these guys before, you're in for something special...they're coming off of an outstanding performance at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in which they were runner-up in the band competition! Come out to the Canterbury House on Friday, Nov. 11 and get to listen to some wonderful music up close and personal in one of the most intimate and lovely listening rooms in SE Michigan. See our facebook page/event for more details, we hope to see you there!

  We're wrapping up the festival season with an amazing and maybe a cold weekend at Harvest Gathering. If you haven't made it to this festival yet, you're missing out on a wonderful 3 days of music and artists from all over Michigan and beyond. Lake Folk will be playing the Hill Stage on Sunday at 1:30pm, so come say hi. Once we return from Harvest, we'll be making our way to the Kent State Folk Festival to play the 'Round Town series at the Downtown Gallery in Kent, OH on Sept 23. Looking forward to seeing our eastern Ohio friends on Friday night! On our way back home, we'll be swinging by the Folk Alliance Midwest Conference (FARM) near Chicago for an Official Showcase and to meet up with friends new and old. Look for us back in Ypsi on Oct. 1 at Woodruffs!

  Lake Folk Lends their talents to the SCA's Summer in the Studio Series
"Though not every song off their debut album, Feel Like I'm Home, is quite as haunting as the next, the members of Lake Folk find a lot of things that influence them. Their songs have a storytelling quality to them, personal stories from the bandmates that you probably won't hear elsewhere. An example of this rare storytelling is in Lizzy's Waltz..." - REVUE

  Lake Folk has been chosen for an Official Showcase at the Folk Alliance Midwest Conference (FARM)! We'll be performing Saturday night (Sept. 24) at FARM, and looking forward to meeting friends old and new.

In the meantime, the summer festival season isn't over yet...we'll be playing at Holler Fest for the second year in a row. This is an amazing little festival just outside of Ann Arbor with an awesome line-up, definitely check this one out. After that, we head to the Saugatuck Center for the Arts for an intimate evening with Lake Folk and our first time playing on Lake Michigan! Check out a lovely article on our Saugatuck show in the REVUE! Finally, our festival season ends with the magical Harvest Gathering. We're so happy to be a part of this festival, if you haven't been yet, stop right now and make plans to get up there. Last but not least, we'll be at the Kent State Folk Festival 'Round Town event on Sept. 23..

Stay tuned for more fall shows in the midwest, and in the meantime, stop by our facebook page and look for some free downloads!

  Check out a Q&A that we did with Twila Price from the Current on The Science of Folk! Also, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival is just around the corner, be sure to join us at our Top of the Park show at 6:30pm on Tuesday, June 28th. We can't wait to be a part of the best city festival around! And we've been working up a couple of new tunes just for this show, so we hope to see you there!

  Our good friends at Knox ivi have posted our show from 11 O'Clock Rock, taped in Knoxville during our spring tour. Just scroll across the show archives to stream Lake Folk's May 18th performance. Several songs are sprinkled throughout, including a new unreleased tune that we've been debuting at our live shows! You can also get a quick video of "Smoke" with the above video or at the 11 O'Clock Rock youtube site.

In other news, we just finished up a fantastic show in Traverse City with our good friends Nervous But Excited and our new friend Marc Alderman who was able to fill in on drums! Next up, Lake Folk will be starting off the festival season with several other lovely musicians at Nor-east'r Music Festival, June 10-12 and then a performance at Top of the Park on June 28th at 6:30pm! We hope to see all of you this summer, so come by and say hello!

  We have big news lake-friends! Lake Folk will be playing at Top of the Park this year as part of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival! We'll be playing the Rackham Stage on June 28th at 6:30pm. It's sure to be a good time, so bring your friends down to the A2 Summer Festival for some lovely Lake Folk tunes! Also, in Lake news, we'll be joining Nervous But Excited for a show in Traverse City on Saturday, May 21 at the InsideOut Gallery. We had a great time last fall in TC, and are very excited to come back and play for the first time with our friends Nervous But Excited!

  We're back from an amazing spring tour, thanks to all the folks that came out to support us! We'll be posting some video soon from the tour, so check back. Also, we'll be playing with Red Tail Ring and Little Island Lake on April 28 at Woodruff's in Ypsilanti It's an early show from 8 - 10pm, but promises to be a good time. Come on out and support Michigan music from Ypsi and Kalamazoo!

  Hey Lake Friends! It took a lot of porch sitting to plot out our Spring Tour, but it is almost finalized! We'll be making stops in Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Illinois. But the list keeps growing, so stay up to date at our Shows page for info. We hope to see our southern friends soon, and Michigan folks, keep an eye out for us at some wonderful Michigan festivals this summer!

  Next stop Memphis, TN for the 2011 Folk Alliance! Check out our private showcase schedule for this year's FA! We'll be putting on several performances Feb 16 - 19, so if you're heading to Folk Alliance, drop by and say hello. Otherwise, keep an eye out for our upcoming shows in Ypsilanti, Dayton, and beyond! One way or another, hope to see you soon!

  We're gearing up for a couple of busy months coming up. First off, we're part of Folk the Police (1/30) at the Blind Pig in A2. Then, a wonderful bill at Woodruff's Bar in Ypsi (2/04) with Lake Folk, Gun Lake, and Match by Match...not a night to be missed. Following that, Lake Folk will be playing several showcases at the International Folk Alliance in Memphis, TN (Feb 16-20) and then watch out for a spring tour through Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina (so far) in early April!

  Wow, the 4-day music marathon that is Mittenfest was amazing, and a record-breaking $15,000 was raised for 826 Michigan! We had a wonderful time meeting some new bands and all the folks that made it out. If you still haven't checked it out yet, Mittenfest should surely be on your calendar for next year. Up next, Lake Folk will be performing at the Plymouth Coffee Bean (1/14), part of Folk the Police (1/30) at the Blind Pig in A2, and making our first full appearance at Woodruff's Bar in Ypsi (2/04). These will all be a lot of fun, so come out and say hello, and keep watch on our tour dates for other upcoming shows...the list is updated continually. Thanks again Mittenfest...it was a blast!

  Well, we just played our last show of 2010 at The Strutt...a big thanks to everyone who came out and to the Red Sea Pedestrians! If you missed us, stay tuned because we're starting to line up our 2011 shows. Starting off the year, we'll be at Mittenfest V! Come check out this 4 day music festival that benefits 826 Michigan, you won't be disappointed. We play on January 2nd, the final night, at the new Woodruff's Bar in Depot Town, Ypsi!

  This Saturday the planets will align and bestow an unforgettable night of music with Lake Folk and the The Red Sea Pedestrians at The Strutt in Kalamazoo. Come see pure spectacle with our first show with RSP, and at The Strutt...it all starts at 9pm (12/11).

  Come out TONIGHT to PJ's Lager House in Corktown, we'll be playing with Englishman (from Kentucky) and Kelly Jean Caldwell! Music starts at 9pm, hope to see you there. Also a reminder to Kalamazoo and western MI folks, we'll be in Kzoo at The Strutt this Saturday (12/11) with Red Sea Pedestrians...a show not to be missed!

  Wonderful write-up on Ann Arbor's folk scene in Concentrate Media:
" Call it what you will: neofolk, alt-country, alt-folk, traditional, roots, folk-noir...whatever it is, or isn't - it's trickling out of watering holes and music venues all over town. And it's very, very different...One band defying description is the year old Lake Folk. Started by [three graduate] students and an oceanographer, all educated, in part, at Case Western and the University of Michigan, Lake Folk melds acoustic instruments like bright banjos with mourning cellos and melancholy narratives. " [photo by Doug Coombe]

  Check out a lovely review by Mostly Midwest:.
" Some bands just work. Every instrument fits and complements each other. Every line of vocals slides into place. Every beat, every note, comes together to produce a sound replicated by few. Lake Folk certainly have achieved an album of this quality with their debut Feel Like I'm Home"

  Nov. 6th at Goodnight Gracie's with Jeni Lee Richey. And then we're heading out of ann arbor with Hana Malhas for a couple shows in western Michigan! Check us out at The DAAC in Grand Rapids with Hana and The Crane Wives on Nov. 12th, and then at the InsideOut Gallery in Traverse City on Nov. 13th with Hana Malhas.

  Just added some new shows in Ann Arbor and western Michigan. Check us out at GLAMA SLAM this Friday, Oct 22nd at the Globe Theater at Shakespeare's Pub in Kalamazoo!

Then Nov. 6th at Goodnight Gracie's with Jeni Lee Richey.

And then we're heading out of ann arbor with Hana Malhas for a couple shows in western Michigan! Check us out at The DAAC in Grand Rapids with Hana and The Crane Wives on Nov. 12th, and then at the InsideOut Gallery in Traverse City on Nov. 13th with Hana Malhas.