It’s the 10^th anniversary of Urban Futures Farm Farm (and Loki’s 10^th birthday!) and the 5^th anniversary of FarmFest. Let’s make this one special!

Once again, we will be partnering with the Community Farm Land Trust. A portion of every ticket sold will go toward protecting threatened farmland in our region. This year we also plan to have even more workshops, morning yoga, farm tours, and a few other surprises.

Who’s Performing?

We are excited to welcome long-time Olympia favorite Cruz Contreras & The Black Lillies back to town for their first FarmFest appearance. Cruz’s honest, soulful lyrics and the band’s unique whisky-soaked blend of Americana, roots rock and honky tonk is sure to get everyone up and moving.

Also gracing the FarmFest stage for the first time is Late for the Train, a modern string band rooted in American folk and bluegrass music. Infused with the honest depth of the coastal redwood forests and the heartfelt community of Northern California, the group provides a playful and poignant musical experience that uplifts the spirit and rouses the soul.

Back for a second year, Portland-based Band of Comerados plays music that just makes you feel good. Call it bluegrass, jamgrass, folk, or indie, last year they got everyone up and boogieing with their improvisational jams and intricate harmonies.

It wouldn’t be FarmFest without our Bend-based buddy Pete Kartsounes. An award-winning singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso, Pete has been bringing his eclectic style and smokey soulful voice to stages all around the world for over two decades. Always a crowd favorite at the farm.

Joining us from Hood River, Oregon Chicken $#it Gamblers brings their raunchy, crass spirited take on bluegrass music to Urban Futures Farm for the first time. Their polished bluegrass pickin’, rhythmic jams, pop culture inspired medleys and smooth three-part vocal harmonies are sure to put a smile on your face and a swing in your thing.

Mars Garden is a new Port Angeles-based quartet spawned from the beloved duo Deadwood Revival. Mars Garden blends the grooves and soul of funk with progressive country twang. Get ready for some Down Home Funk, with tight harmonies, innovative arrangements, breakdowns, and soulful jams

Roux Dio is a dynamic new group of good time buddies from the Columbia Gorge. This quintet is a special sauce of original fun and funky swamp-boogie jamrock. Fine musical sustenance best served hot with a side of jooose.

Leigh Jones (Crow and the Canyon, Five Letter Word) returns to the farm to debut her newest project, Eugenia Riot. A finalist in the 2024 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Troubadour contest, she explores the crescendos of love, heartache, and the human condition by weaving together words and melodies in a style that is at once idiosyncratic and infectious.

You know them, you love them. Olympia’s very own The Kitchen Sink Experience celebrates the diversity of Americana music with a toe-tapping mix of originals and genre bending covers of traditional and contemporary songs.

Emerging from the American string band tradition, Quickdraw String Band plays a repertoire of old-time, early bluegrass, country blues and ragtime, Including some of their own originals. Experienced and hard-working, they have been performing around the Pacific Northwest off and on for the past twenty-one years.

No stranger to the FarmFest stage, back this year with a different lineup and a different sound. The Pine Hearts Country Band showcases the songwriting of former Olympian Joey Capoccia, with a sound that lands somewhere between John Prine and Sturgill Simpson. The same good vibes the band is known for, with a new country twang.

Briarfinch, Olympia’s newest entry to the Americana scene, blends progressive bluegrass inspirations, Irish roots and attention to musical detail. Their powerful punch of passionate songwriters, virtuosic leads and tight arrangements of modern bluegrass standards is sure to wow and inspire.