Coming Next in 2025:

January's concert features

Bourbon and Bellows!!









Treat your ears to the amazing sounds of Bourbon and Bellows as they bring their unique sound of New Orleans style blues, folk, and gypsy jazz music to our first concert of 2025. The four-member group features Ben Macy as the bellows(accordion) and vocals, Jude Noah on fiddle, mandolin and guitar, Dave Riddle on guitar and vocals, and Teresa Palazzo on percussion and vocals. Hailing from Prosser where they formed in 2019, their music encompasses songs over a century old alongside new compositions that you could have sworn you’ve heard before on some old or 78. Their songs are toe-tapping, funny, dark, and just a little bit naughty. Bourbon and Bellows has a style that doesn’t fit easily in any category but instantly accessible to anyone wanting to stomp their feet and sing along with good friends having a great time. They have performed at Tumbleweed, the Emerald of Siam, the Princess Theatreland now for us. Upon first hearing them, Dan Maher described their sound as “amazing - the intense, hot, sweaty jazz of New Orleans rather than the soft, quiet piano lounge.” The group describes itself as “kinda like if Tom Waits and Django Reinhardt started jamming late one night in a dive bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans after too much whiskey.” But you don’t have to go to a tightly packed, hot, sweltering dive bar to hear them - just come to our 3RFS concert on January 18 at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 1322 Kimball in Richland. The concert begins at 7:30 pm. Park in the back parking lot and enter through the basement. Tickets are $20 general admission / $15 for 3RFS members and can be purchased at the door, or in advance at https://www.3rfs.org/concert.htm.

When Saturday, January 18th, 2025 from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM Location 1322 Kimball Ave. Richland, WA 99354 United States Concert ticket: $20.00 / $15.00 3RFS Members

Tickets are $20.00 for Non-members, $15.00 for 3RFS members, and are available at the door or HERE. Enter All Saints Episcopal Church from the door by the back parking lot.






The Three Rivers Folklife Society is partnering with the Princess Theatre Green Room in Prosser to present a series of concerts to be known as "Common Folk."

The next concert is Thursday, January 23rd, and features

Steve and Kristi Nebel!





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Steve and Kristi are veteran performers who showcase their passion, finesse, and beauty through songs of social justice, lyrical observations, and pure, simple love. Their musical style is informed by a wealth of experience from performing at our Tumbleweed Music Festival and throughout the Northwest, as well as nationally and internationally. Admission is $10, with food and beverages available for purchase.

Doors open at 6:30 pm with the concert beginning at 7. More info and tickets are available online at Princess Theatre or at the door for $10. Food (paninis, charcuterie, and snacks as well as local wines, beers, hard ciders, and a selection of non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase at the concert.











Concerts coming in the future:



February: Dan Maher!


March: Shamrock and Sage!












It is with great sadness that Three Rivers Folklife Society notes the passing of a very long-time 3RFS member, Alan Gibbs.

Alan and his wife Judi started the 3rfs.org website in 1995. In this time of straight HTML, they figured out how to put sound clips online, and posted some of the earliest ones.

Alan subsequently maintained and developed the 3rfs.org website by himself until May 2023, when a serious medical condition suddenly sidelined him.

Alan was born in 1939, and died January 11, 2024.

He was a valued and valuable member of our organization, and put in excellent work to promote the organization and our aims.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends now. Thank you, Alan, for everything.