The Ballad Tree

 

Songwriters from the festival audience have a chance to share their original songs with an appreciative crowd of listeners under the BALLAD TREE on Chapel Hill every weekend during the Kerrville Folk Festival. Chapel Hill is located at the north end of the ranch. The Ballad Tree is held from 3 – 5 pm on all Main Stage Performance days. Suggested by Bobby Bridger and Tom Paxton, the Ballad Tree has become an important aspect of the song sharing that makes Kerrville so unique.

 

You bring your guitar, fill out a slip and put it in the hat to be drawn by the guest host, as time permits, who will introduce you and others until time runs out.

 

Each day of the Ballad Tree, the guest host will sing a song or two to get things going and then begin to draw the names of participants from the hat. On the first two days, Dalis will choose some regional writers from that year’s New Folk competition who will be introduced to share one of the songs they entered in the competition.

 

If you are not a singer or songwriter, the Ballad Tree is also a good spot to hear two or three dozen original songs each of the Main Stage performance days, including during the Wine & Music Festival.

 

The Ballad Tree Hosts for the 2012 Kerrville Folk Festival

 

Thurs, May 24	-	Brian Cutean
Fri, May 25	-	Matt Harlan
Sat, May 26	-	Butch Morgan
Sun, May 27	-	Ellis Paul
Mon, May 28	-	Nels Andrews
Fri, June 1	-	Bill Ward
Sat, June 2	-	Drew Nelson
Sun, June 3	-	Rebecca Loebe
Fri, June 8	-	Graham Warwick
Sat, June 9	-	Matt the Electrician
Sun, June 10	-	Lorin Rowan