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 2013 Kerrville Folk Festival

 

Thurs, May 23	-	Jon Brooks
Fri, May 24	-	Korby Lenker
Sat, May 25	-	Brian Cutean
Sun, May 26	-	Amy Speace
Fri, May 31	-	Chris Chandler
Sat, June 1	-	BettySoo
Sun, June 2	-	Claudia Nygaard
Fri, June 7	-	Bill Nash
Sat, June 8	-	Graham Warwick
Sun, June 9	-	Butch Morgan

 

 

The Ballad Tree Hosts for the

2013 Kerrville Fall Festival

 

Fri, August 30	-	TBD
Sat, August 31	-	TBD
Sun, September 1	-	TBD