There is a nice small concert series in Princeton, IL.

Also, the Putnam County Conservation District has a nice short festival on their big land tract---once a year---just finished.

Springfield has some fine pickers.

Mike Anderson is in Jacksonville, IL.

Dan Keding, storyteller and sometime folksinger, is in Urbana, IL. He could point you to a hundred different places.

There is a good Old-Timey music scene too in the area. Some real fine pickers and singers who are devoted to the rural sounds and stringband music.

Woodstock has a nice festival. Contact Amy Beth there.

BEST OF ALL is the FOX VALLEY FOLKLORE AND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL in Geneva, Illinois----on a beautiful island in the middle of the Fox River---right downtown. That's coming up over Labor Day!!!

That's off the top o' my head. Hope it helps.

Art Thieme