Food & Folk-Art Festival 2024

Food & Folk-Art Festival 2024

May, 2024

Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa, Florida

About This Festival

The Food & Folk-Art Festival will feature delicious food trucks, folk dance, and storytelling performances, arts& crafts, folk/indie music, and more. Attendees are invited to contribute to a community art project and folkloric fun for the whole family.

ENTERTAINMENT
**11 a.m. – Storyteller Windell Campbell**
Children will love how Windell Campbell incorporates the art of puppetry with the art of storytelling. When the visual world of the puppeteer unites with the auditory realm of the storyteller, a unique partnership evolves, providing a unique experience for the audience of children and adults alike!

**12 p.m. – Grupo Folklorico Mahetzi**
The Mexican dance troupe Grupo Folklorico Mahetzi enjoy teaching the cultural folk dance of Mexico to serve the community.

**1:15 p.m. – Liam Bauman**
Liam Bauman is a young singer-songwriter currently based in Nashville, TN. His music and deeply introspective lyrics blend into ethereal dreamscapes, transporting listeners to a place of warmth and self-reflection. This is acoustic guitar-driven folk music at its core, but masterful production elevates the songs to something more — subtly-layered instrumentation and vocal harmonies awash in reverb nod to inspiration from the likes of celebrated songwriters Conor Oberst, Elliott Smith, Phoebe Bridgers, or Angel Olsen.

**2:45 p.m. – Rebekah Pulley**
With an enviable ability to break your heart and shake your soul with her songs, Rebekah Pulley has earned a fruitful living in a diverse setting of house concerts, bars, coffeehouses, and festivals around the globe while garnering eight 'Best Of The Bay' awards from Creative Loafing. Rebekah's songwriting taps roots-rock, blues, old-school country & western, jazz, and gospel to become a must-have for discerning music fans.

**4:15 p.m. – His Hem**
Orlando-based alt-folk musician His Hem uses harp, guitar, loop pedals, and his voice to craft songs of desire, longing, joy, and endurance. Since 2017, His Hem has performed his brand of 'loud, gay, harp music' throughout the Tampa Bay area and beyond. Normally seen in orchestral environments, His Hem holds the harp close while he pulls, hits, and loops melodies together while his voice soothes or unsettles depending on the song. Influenced by a Catholic upbringing and later conversion into Quakerism, His Hem weaves these experiences together to create songs both ornate and sparse. His Hem is currently working on recording an album for a summer release and looks