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Bring a blanket and stay for the day. The first annual North Fork Folk Festival takes place at the Mattituck Lions Strawberry Festival. Six great bands hearkening back to the 40th anniversary of the “summer of love.”

• Gathering Time
  Folk-rock
  • Gathering Time is a folk/folk-rock harmony trio with a sound described as  "Peter, Paul & Mary -meets - CSN."  With widespread roots in traditional and classic folk, as well as '60s and '70s folk-rock, the trio is fast building a reputation for their stunning vocal blend, fun onstage chemistry, and songs of hope and the human spirit.
    
    
• Debra Lynne & Chris Tursi
  Folk/country blend
  • Debra Lynne is a country/pop singer-songwriter who writes meaningful lyrics about love...found love, lost love, and the search for love. The listener can easily identify with any of her songs, and can take comfort in or be inspired by her lyrics. Her lively country songs and flowing ballads will soothe the soul and satisfy the mind. Debra has just recorded her 4th cd at Treehouse Studios on Long Island.
    
    
• Lucky 13
  Female harmony trio with jazz and other influences
  • Lucky 13 unites the talents of Cathy Kreger, Marci Geller & Susan DeVita. With eclectic styles and unique voices, together their tight harmonies and engaging life stories have garnered them a performance on Fox Morning Show, WLNY-NY55, WFUV and a feature article in the NY Times.
    
    
• Red River Ramblers
  Acoustic blues
  • It started as two friends, Ken Korb and Tom Linden, getting together on occasion to sing old Hank Williams songs. Over the course of a few years, the “Hank Club” morphed into the Red River Ramblers, a four-piece country group. In addition to Hank Williams songs, the Ramblers do a variety of old country tunes originally sung by Merle Haggard, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Kris Kristoferson and others. The Ramblers also throw in a few bluegrass fiddle tunes just to liven things up.
    
    The Ramblers have performed at the some of the most prestigious music festivals on Long Island, including Bradstock, the Cedar Beach Music Festival and the Sayville Earth Day Festival.  In addition, they have wowed crowds at  various other venues including the bayside restaurant, Fat Fish, the Sugarloaf Café in Bellport and the East Enders Coffee House in Riverhead. The Ramblers are currently working on their first CD at Larry Moser’s studio in Huntington. Performances this summer will take place at the cafés listed above, Fadely’s in Blue Point, and later in the season at the South Country Library, Bellport.
    
    
• Josh Joffen
  Singer-songwriter in the folk tradition
  • Brooklyn-born Josh Joffen has recorded often for The Fast Folk Musical Magazine (1982 to the present). He released an album with songwriter David Roth (they each have one side). Joffen won the Kerrville New Folk Competition in 1987.
    
    
• Joe Iadanza
  Blues-influenced singer-songwriter
  • Joe Iadanza is a storyteller and a sophisticated folkie with a strikingly unusual tenor voice, a foot-stomping Euro-jazz schooled band, and a growing repertoire of smart, witty, warm, and stick-in-your-ear hummable songs. His independently released studio debut, Traveling Salesman (2008), spans the genres of folk, rock, roots and Americana, at times harkening back to a bygone era with its European jazz feel.