Event Details
FOLK FESTIVAL
Sunday, June 15, 2025 | 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
FREE with admission!
Join us for "Folk Fest!" at the Peoria Riverfront Museum! Excite all of your senses with musical performances, artist demonstrations, makers stations and so much more!
Celebrating current exhibition FOLK: Selections from the American Folk Art Museum
the Peoria Riverfront Museum is thrilled to be bringing a festival that uplifts American folk arts like decoy carving, basket weaving, loom weaving, storytelling, folk music and so much more!
Schedule of Events
Performances
- Acoustic set by Sarah Mooberry
FOLK: Selections from the American Folk Art Museum | 12 p.m.-1 p.m.
- Storytelling by Brian Fox Ellis
Giant Screen Theater | 1 p.m.
- Acoustic set by James Herr
FOLK: Selections from the American Folk Art Museum | 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
- Sarah Mooberry and James Herr
FOLK: Selections from the American Folk Art Museum | 2 p.m.-3 p.m.
- Headlining Performance Spoony and the Bootleggers
Sun Plaza | 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
Artist Demonstrations | 12 p.m. - 3 p.m.
- Danny Rohr | Metal Arts | Sun Plaza
- Lou Ann Koebel and the Dulcimer Petting Zoo | Lobby
- Nikole Cooney | Sculptor and Painter | Lobby
- Jon and Amy Sarver | Wood Carving | Lobby
- Julie Cundiff | Basket Weaving | Lobby
- Jennie Hawkey | Loom Weaving | Lobby
Folk Maker's Stations | 12 p.m.-3 p.m. | Gilmore Auditorium
- Folk Self Portrait | 10 points
- Pipe Cleaner Sculpture | 10 points
- Ribbon Basket Weaving | 25 points
- Model Magic Folk Characters | 25 points
- Soap Carving | 50 points
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation, Visionary Society, Illinois Arts Council
