8/17 Dam Jam Revival Outdoor Family Art and Music Festival
- Sacopee Valley News
- Aug 12
- 4 min read
On Sunday, August 17, 2025, from 3:00 - 8:30 p.m., enjoy more family fun than ever! Our outdoor festival focuses on family with kid’s art, stilt-walkers, traditional craft artisans, good music, as always, and a fun selection of food trucks! 12 and under are free when accompanied by an adult.
Pihcintu Multinational Chorus will open our outdoor family art and music festival followed by Rachel Sumner and Traveling Light and our 2025 headliner The Wolff Sisters!
Jack Gentempo knits together performances with his original vaudeville skits that will keep you rolling with laughter!
Pihcintu Multinational Chorus - Portland, Maine, an ever-expanding international resettlement community, was fertile ground to bring together children from diverse backgrounds to sing as one. Con Fullam, award-winning producer, musician, and songwriter, combined his passion for music with a deep concern for the effect of world issues on children – creating The Chorus with the help of countless supporting souls from all walks of life. This unique chorus of young women from Cambodia, China, Congo, El Salvador, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Viet Nam, British West Indies, and Zambia, along with children whose families have been here for generations, have formed a powerful and permanent bond.
“What a gorgeous, gorgeous chorus you have – what beautiful voices … isn’t it incredible – BRAVO!” Bono
"A big thank you to you and the choir for inspiring all of us at last night’s event. The performance was absolutely beautiful and certainly left everyone in the room feeling uplifted. I and the rest of the organization were so very moved." YoYo Ma
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are a Boston-based string band making music that blends folk tradition with feminist storytelling, poetic detail, and just enough grit. At the center is Sumner’s songwriting—rooted in history, myth, and personal reckoning—carried by close harmonies, upright bass, acoustic guitar, and fiddle. The trio features Kat Wallace on fiddle and vocals and Mike Siegel on upright bass and vocals, whose playing brings both tension and tenderness to the sound.
Their sound is spare and intimate, sometimes eerie, sometimes sweet, always intentional. They call it Femericana—sharp-edged Americana with a splash of feminine rage.
Sumner has performed at the Library of Congress, where five of her original songs are now archived, and was a 2024 winner of the Kerrville New Folk competition. Her song “Radium Girls (Curie Eleison)” struck a nerve—streamed over 300,000 times and picked up by dancers, theater directors, and deep listeners who saw themselves in its story. It’s been tattooed on arms, sung in audition rooms, and carried into classrooms and protests. The kind of song people hold onto.
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light has toured coast to coast, bringing their spellbinding live show to listening rooms, libraries, farms, and festivals across the country. They've appeared at Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Earl Scruggs Festival, IBMA, and legendary folk listening rooms like Caffé Lena and Club Passim, where their shows have become a staple of the Boston folk scene.
The Wolff Sisters is fronted by three sisters -- Rebecca on acoustic guitar, Kat on the keys, Rachael on electric guitar, and all three on lead vocals and harmonies. Raised on Bob Dylan, The Band, and Little Feat, the sisters crafted their sound around a honky tonk piano in the living room of their childhood home. With a talented cast of rotating drummers and bass players, The Wolff Sisters are a rag tag group of hardworking individuals that bring a big sound and timeless songs. Their music is honest and genre defying, but still rooted in traditional rock and Americana storytelling. New England Music Award winner for Americana Artist of the Year 2021 and Boston Music Award winner for Americana Artist of the Year 2020, the band’s electrifying live performance and unique sound continues to gain momentum and recognition from their hometown of Boston and beyond. The band is on tour promoting their fourth studio album 'Dark River.'
Kids Area includes the Fantabulous ArtVan-Keeping the arts rolling and Neveah Dance Circus with hula-hoop jam, face-painting, and roaming artists! Kids can design their own tee-shirts, make spin art, make their own buttons, and a chance to make their own instrument to join in with the music! Kids 12 and under are FREE! Traditional Crafts will be onsite with Guitar-making with luthier Alex Edney, and Tear Cap Workshops Wood products and Pickett Hill Pottery.
The gate will open from 3:00 - 8:30 p.m. with great food trucks like Terra Firma Food Truck, Dragon Wagon Food Cart & Sailaway Coffee Co Bridgton.
Denmark Arts Center is grateful for support from Onion Foundation, Ham Charitable Foundation, The Betterment Fund, Robert & Dorothy Goldberg Foundation, Maine Community Foundation, and The Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation and wonderful sponsor support from STANDARD Gastropub, Avenue Media, Norway Savings Bank, Baked Beans Recording, WMPG Radio, Wyonegonic Camps, Highland Lake Resort, Norway Savings Bank, VisitMaine.com, Skinny Towel & Washcloth Co., Town of Denmark, Fryeburg Fire Department, Khiel Logging, Downeast Energy, and Atlantic Hardwoods, SO MUCH THANKS!
Tickets for these events are $25 before event day and $30 day of event. Thank you for supporting the Music Series and Denmark Arts Center. For reservations and more information go online at www.denmarkarts.org/calendar-of-events (view calendar listing).
Thank you to the Onion Foundation for supporting Dam Jam REVIVAL outdoor family Art & Music Festival.
Source: Denmark Arts Center
