Marjorie Laramee and her husband Mark from Portland were taking in their eighth Sisters Folk Festival last weekend. They likened the event to "one of those sumptuous banquet scenes from a movie. Everybody feasting. Just incredibly good music. And so much of it."

While the sun is still burning hot these days, there will come a time not so long from now when the scene looks more like this: a late September weekend in Sisters, evening settling in with a sharp autumn bite. 

A small-town music festival in Oregon has dramatically reduced the amount of trash it generates in what organizers called a "huge win."

It ended Sunday night just as it began Friday -to thunderous applause. The third Big Ponderoo music festival delivered a musical experience which delighted - thrilled, actually - appreciative crowds with more than 20 hours of emotion-filled music by 41 artists performing in 15 acts.

SFF Presents is pleased to announce a special opportunity for music enthusiasts and supporters of arts education: a limited-entry guitar raffle to be held in conjunction with the 2025 Big Ponderoo Music + Art Festival.

One of the shining jewels of Central Oregon's music scene - the Sisters Folk Festival - recently announce the lineup for the 2025 event to be held Sept. 26 - 28 at several venues throughout Sisters.

From Friday, September 27 to Sunday, September 29, “the whole town is a stage.” Brad Tisdel, the artistic director of SFF Presents says, "We curate a diverse, multi-genre festival with seven stages throughout downtown Sisters.”

I’ve been writing about the Sisters Folk Festival for 19 years, ever since I arrived at The Bulletin to become the newspaper’s full-time music reporter in 2006.  

While the sun is still burning hot these days, there will come a time not so long from now when the scene looks more like this: a late September weekend in Sisters, evening settling in with a sharp autumn bite. 

SFF Presents is inviting the Sisters community to a free evening of live music, dancing, and connection at the Hometown Hang concert on Friday, August 8, at Sisters Art Works featuring award-winning bluegrass powerhouse East Nash Grass.

More than 30 years into their existence, the Bay Area band ALO are in a creative “boom time,” according to keyboardist Zach Gill.  

One of the best things about Central Oregonians is our love of nature. So it's no surprise that the SFF Presents outdoor festival, Big Ponderoo, is returning for its fourth year.

Some 200 Sisters folks ranging in age from infants to people in their 80s took to the hardwood at The Belfry on Friday, February 28, to dance to fiddle tunes provided by Scandalous Chutney. 

For the nonprofit and mostly volunteer-driven SFF Presents, the encroachment and dominance of musical juggernaut Live Nation is not just a hypothetical.