Additional performers announced for 2023 Maryland Folk Festival

SALISBURY, Md. – Two sibling bands have been announced as additional performers at this year’s Maryland Folk Festival.

The Quebe Sisters are traveling to Downtown Salisbury from Dallas, Texas, before taking a hiatus at the end of 2023. They are a progressive western swing group featuring archtop guitar, upright bass, fiddles, and sibling harmony. The group presents a unique Americana blend of western swing, jazz-influenced swing, country, Texas-style fiddling, and western music.

Also performing at the festival are Eileen Estes & The Good Folk, who thrills audiences with her extraordinary voice, which effortlessly combines vocal power with subtle emotional expressiveness. She grew up immersed in the music of Ireland and Scotland and is a traditional singer, arranger, vocal coach, songwriter, and song collector who collaborates with musicians from around the world.

Jonathan Zapuche, a Fruitland resident, began violin lessons at the age of 4, and in the last 9 years, he has won first place at the Little Mozart International Music Competition, second place at the London International Music Competition, second place at the London International Music Competition, second place at the Manhattan International Music Competition, third place at the Bösendorfer Youth Music Festival, and third at the Golden Key Music Festival. Jonathan performed at Carnegie Hall last year at the age of 13 and is currently the youngest violinist in the Peabody Youth Orchestra.

The Folk Villians of Tyaskin, Maryland, are three-time winners of Best Youth Band at the Berlin Fiddlers’ Convention and have brought bluegrass, old-time, and folk music of all kinds throughout the last five years, throughout Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

The Maryland Folk Festival takes the stage September 22nd through 24th.