Coming Next in 2025:

The next concert is Saturday, March 15th, and features

Shamrock & Sage!





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It's almost St. Paddy’s Day, and 3RFS has a special concert for the season featuring the awesome assemblage of vocal and instrumental talents of Shamrock & Sage, an Irish band from the Columbia Basin and Yakima Valley

They feature professional and semi-professional musicians who share a love of music and good Irish whiskey. Formed initially in 2019 as a way for friends to share their love of traditional Irish tunes, their music includes big sounds and tight harmonies featured in songs both traditional and modern. They perform everything from ballads to drinking tunes from Ireland and the surrounding isles.

The 8-member band includes David Riddle on guitar and lead vocals, Bethany Riddle on vocals, Jude Noah on fiddle, mandolin, and whatever else he feels like playing, Peter Cole on flutes, whistles, and vocals, Teresa Palazzo on vocals and spoons, Jeremy Erickson on fiddle and vocals, Ben Macy on accordion, upright bass, and vocals, and last but not least, Dave Riddle on bodhran and vocals – no, its not a typo, Dave is father to son David, the guitarist and lead vocalist.

When: Saturday, March 15th, 2025 from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM Location: 1322 Kimball Ave. Richland, WA 99354 United States

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,March 27th, and features

Tim Hall (as a benefit show for Dan Maher!)





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On March 27 Tim Hall will perform a concert in The Green Room of the Princess Theater in Prosser and proceeds will be donated to Dan Maher’s medical fund. Expect a fine evening of music and community support for a very worthy cause. The concert is a part of the “Common Folk” concert series, co-sponsored by 3RFS and the Princess Theatre Green Room.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist, Tim Hall collects and shares songs from far and wide—anything that strikes his fancy from Australian sheep-shearing songs, to English ballads, to Appalachian banjo tunes to Canadian Northwest work songs. Kids songs, pub songs, cowboy songs . . . you name it. From clever and amusing to poignant and topical, Tim accompanies his repertoire with seasoned guitar, banjo and concertina playing. Or he may playa few Music Hall or novelty songs on the ukulele. Says Maritime Folknet, “Tim has a deep catalog of old songs in his head and under his fingers. His intricate guitar and banjo picking stand on their own . . . .”

A wonderful performer in his own right, Dan Maher has been an active member of the Northwest folk music family for as long as we can remember. He is facing enormous and expensive medical challenges and every dollar we can raise to help him out would be gratefully received. If you can’t make the concert, but still wish to contribute, his gofundme web site can be found at: https://gofund.me/f340d3c9.

The Common Folk Series at the Princess Theater is a relatively new concert venue for folk musicians and they are getting off the ground with a wonderful line up of stalwart regional folk musicians. Doors open at 6:30. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $10 online at https://prosserprincess.ludus.com/index.php.







Our dear friend Dan Maher is in dire straits now.

Dan Maher is one of the most amazing people we know. He's a working musician, and has hosted a folk music radio show in eastern Washington for over 40 years. He's been a good friend to many of us in the folk music community, and has helped countless people and organizations over the years.

Now he needs our help.

At the beginning of January Dan had a heart attack and, while he was in the hospital, was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer, and given about five months to live.

Hospitals are expensive. The bills he owes for his recent hospital stays are at around $19,000 with more to come.

Dying over a period of months is expensive. Dan will need increasing amounts of help on a daily basis as his condition worsens.

All money raised will go directly to Dan to be used to cover medical expenses and any help he needs with taking care of himself and minimizing the amount of suffering he goes through.

https://gofund.me/0acfc017











3RFS concerts coming in the future:



March: Shamrock & Sage!




April: Joel Underwood!


May: 3RFS Annual Meeting, performer TBD!










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.