Participating at Woodsong Festival:

We rely heavily on people like you to make this festival happen! There are many ways for you to help out both during and in preparation for the festival, whether it be helping clean up after meals, taking out the garbage or helping pay for a musician's ferry ticket. If you want to sign up to help in any of the ways below (or you have your own idea) just let us know on your registration form! We appreciate it! A little help goes a long way!

Ahead of Time:

Invite your friends and help spread the word:

We're a word-of-mouth grassroots festival.

1. Please join our Facebook and MySpace pages and invite your friends.

2. Download one of our new posters/flyers by Nathan Marion at BlueTree. Post a web version on your website or blog or print out the PDF and post it on a bulletin board.

Donate Frequent Flyer Miles:

Have some spare frequent flyer miles? Let us know and you can donate them in order to provide a musician with an airline ticket to the festival.

Sponsor-A-Ticket:

Even if you don't have frequent flyer miles, you can still "Sponsor-a-ticket" for a musician. Donate a few bucks to get one lucky musician to Shaw island . . . nearly there!. . . just a bit more cash will get them all the way to Orcas! If you're itching to do more, you might want to consider our second ticket option - Sponsor-an-Airline-Ticket. Our current package deal includes the opportunity to sponsor not only the airfare, but a delicious and nutritious airline meal for the performer as well! Contact us now for more details!

Donate Craft Supplies:

A few wonderful "craft ladies" have graciously donated not only their time, but a great deal of art supplies each year so that the Woodsong Festival can offer a craft tent free for anyone to use. You can participate in this by donating any spare craft supplies you might have! Be aware that small children may be present, so avoid dangerous supplies, and no paint please! A few specific things they're looking for this year are:

    • Small items to decorate picture frames (eg. plastic gems, feathers, sea-shells, old game board pieces etc)
    • Packages of low-temp-mini glue-sticks for the hot glue-guns.
    • Items for stepping stones and mosaics

Sponsor-a-Port-a-Potty:

The classiest way to get involved is undoubtedly by Sponsoring-a-Port-a-Potty. For only $200, you can sponsor (and name!) a Port-a-Potty for the festival weekend (who can forget the "Cosmic Pooper!?"). (If you want, we can take a picture of it for you to put on your refrigerator back home).

During the Festival:

Setting Up:

We'll be setting up tents, tables, chairs, booths and sound equipment for the festival on Monday and Tuesday. Come early and move picnic tables, clean off chairs and raise tents with us!

Creative Participation... for the artists among us:

A big part of the Woodsong Festival is all the participation from artistic festival-goers. We welcome you to bring and share your gifts with the rest of us . . . there are several formal ways to do this!

Open Mic:

We have open mic times (2-song/10 minute sets) scheduled late mornings on Friday and Saturday, and we welcome yourparticipation in this event, whether it be in the form of song, drama, storytelling, poetry readings or dance! Open Mics are filling up fast, so please contact the Thomas' to reserve your spot (sorry, we can't guarantee which day you'll be on).

Hosting a Musician:

Have a spare bedroom? We are looking for people who would be willing to let a musician crash at their home during the festival!

Garbage Duty:

Garbage and recycling bins will need to be emptied periodically during the festival. If you want to help out with garbage duty, you'll just need to tie up the garbage bags, carry them to a dump truck on-site where they'll be stored, and place an empty bag back in the bin. Just sign up for one of the following times:

    • After Breakfast Saturday and Sunday
    • After Lunch Friday and Saturday
    • After Dinner Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Selling CDs:

Artists will be bringing their CDs to the festival to sell. We'll need people to sell CDs in the CD booth both Friday and Saturday. You can sign up for one of the following slots:

    • Friday: 12-2pm, 2-4pm, 4-6pm, 6-8pm, 8-10pm, or from 10pm on
    • Saturday: 12-2pm, 2-4pm, 4-6pm, 6-8pm, 8-10pm, or from 10pm on

Pancake Breakfast:

You can help out with the potluck pancake breakfast on Saturday morning by:

    • Making coffee, tea, cocoa and juice
    • General organization of toppings and cleaning up the area

Waffle Breakfast:

You can help out with the potluck waffle breakfast on Sunday morning by:

    • Making coffee, tea, cocoa and juice
    • Mixing up waffle batter
    • Cooking waffles
    • General organization of toppings and cleaning up the area

After the Festival:

Take-Down:

We'll be taking down the festival tents and packing up the picnic tables on Monday. Help us put away tents and booths, organize the lost and found, pick up trash, stack picnic tables and set aside chairs.

Stay connected and share your photos:

Join our Facebook and MySpace pages, stay connected, and share your festival photos. Email us your photos for our gallery.