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Article: Mellow out! -- Folklife Festival shows its softer side this year
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
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- July 10, 1998
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With each year, it seems, the annual Folklife Festival gets a
little better at defining itself.
"The whole festival has been getting more organized," said Andy
Granitto, Folklife secretary and curator of exhibits and programs at
the Yakima Valley Museum, where Folklife is held. "This year, we
were booked solid by May. Normally, we don't have all our slots
filled until mid-June.
"It makes it a lot easier to organize the festival because we
know who we're going to have much earlier." The 1998 Yakima
Folklife Festival is Friday through Sunday in Franklin Park and the
Yakima Valley Museum, 2105 Tieton Drive, and Grant's Brewery Pub, 32
N. Front St.
The 16th annual event, which is free, ...