Rock Bend Folk Festival

09/11/2025

Rock Bend 34.
The music.
The people.
The place. 🎻🌳
Thanks to all the musicians, Johnny F + crew for the great sound. Thanks to the City of St. Peter for this venue in our beautiful river valley. Thanks to our sponsors and contributors. Thanks to the craft, art, and food vendors. Thanks to our volunteers at the festival, and the crew who put it up and tore it all down. Thanks to you...the best looking crowd ever!
The Rock Bend Committee.

We'll see you at the 35th Annual Festival!

09/08/2025

Found items at Rock Bend. 🌳
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Still lost...
- Silver knot pinky ring
- Light green "Superior" beanie
- Blue and red chairs

09/06/2025

Rock Bend 34 🌳🎻
On the Pavilion Stage -
Minnesota Square Park, St. Peter
Sunday, September 7
Noon - City Mouse & Friends

Making their 34th appearance at Rock Bend Folk Festival and celebrating over 50 years, City Mouse make sure their friends are part of the party too!

Welcome back to the Rock Bend (for the 34th time)
City Mouse! 🌳

https://www.facebook.com/p/City-Mouse-100021536894781/

City Mouse, The Lost Walleye Orchestra, The Fabulous Fatheads, Pengra and Arsenault, Ace In The Whole

09/06/2025

Rock Bend 34 🌳🎻
On the Pavilion Stage -
Minnesota Square Park, St. Peter
Sunday, September 7
4:25 BZ3 Organ Trio

Spirited Improvisation Feel-Good Grooves! BZ3 Organ Trio consists of Brian Ziemniak (Hammond B3), David Feily (guitar), and Kevin Washington (drums). A Modern take on a classic sound - combining the atmosphere of the organ trio sound of the 60’s with an updated texture and groove.

Welcome to the Rock Bend, BZ3! 🌳

BZ3 Organ Trio consists of Brian Ziemniak (Hammond B3), David Feily (guitar), and Kevin Washington (drums).  A modern take on a classic sound - combining the atmosphere of the organ trio sound of the 60's with an updated texture and groove.  

09/05/2025

Great vibes, good food! 🌳🎻
Good music needs great food. Grab something delicious from your favorite local vendors—right here between sets!

09/05/2025

Rock Bend 34 🌳🎻
On the Pavilion Stage -
Minnesota Square Park, St. Peter
Saturday, September 6
Noon - Poor Lemuel
Poor Lemuel is a local MN band with a very eclectic yet original sound. If you enjoy organic, free-range, ripping guitar hooks, tangy, unfettered charismatic bass, spicy, ardent, distinctive percussion, mellifluous, impassioned male & female vocals that hover outside of the dial, dynamic and innovative songs that refresh your palate, traverse old school and new school musical tastes that will provoke and transform your schema of music... then come on in for a bite.

Welcome to the Rock Bend, Poor Lemuel! 🌳

Melodic, harmony driven indie rock from the great sprawl of Minnesota.
Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7hudc5BcE0sAFOTtt8kqwP

09/05/2025

Rock Bend 34 🌳🎻
On the Pavilion Stage -
Minnesota Square Park, St. Peter
Saturday, September 6
1:25 pm - Annie Humphrey

Growing up on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota, Annie lived in a home filled with voices made of thunder and nothing could stop it. Her parents were brilliant people individually. Her father, a singer and musician and her mother an artist and poet. Together they made sadness. Each of her parents taught Annie the beautiful things they knew. They showed her that she carried their gifts in her hands too. This is how creating art and music came about for her. This is what saved her. This is how she lives now.
Things my dad taught me:
skin a deer, set net, clean fish, make maple syrup, harvest wild rice, play basketball, ride motorcycle, go without if you can't afford it, play guitar
Things my mom taught me:
draw, paint, sew, write, laugh, wonder, forgive

Welcome to the Rock Bend, Annie Humphrey! 🌳

09/05/2025

It's a good Rock Bend Raffle this year! 🌳🎻
Your $5 donation gets you a chance to win these great prizes, and helps support next years FREE 35th Annual Festival! Buy your raffle tickets at Rock Bend on Saturday and Sunday! We'll be out in the crowd selling, or buy them at the info booth.

- CD Package from 2025 Rock Bend performers
- Anytime Fitness: 3 Month Membership
- Mecca Tattoo: $50 Gift Card
- River Rock Cafe: $85 Gift Card
- Crooked Pint Ale House: $20 Gift Card
- Julee’s Jewelry: 2 Diamond
Necklaces & Earrings ($200 value)
- Frey Salon: $25 Gift Card
- Wow Zone: Bronze Package
- Rhapsody Music: $25 Gift Card
- Papa Murphy’s: 2 - $20 Gift Cards
- Tune Town: $50 Worth of Product
- Cactus Tattoo: $50 Gift Card
- Stones Throw Gallery: Custom
Jewelry ($100 value)
- Embassy Bar: 3 Gift Cards ($50 value)
- Clark Station: 2 cases Gatorade
Punch ($75 value)
- BC Nails: $50 Pedicure & Salon Products
- Paddlefish Brewing Co.: $25 Gift Card
- Morgan Creek Vineyards: $50 Gift Card
- Nicollet Bike & Ski Shop: Tune-up, Hat,
Water Bottle ($115 value)
- Roadhouse 169: 5 - $20 Gift Cards
- Jake’s Pizza: 2 - $20 Gift Certificates
- PJ Liquors: 3 - $10 Gift Certificates
- Don Distel Grain Systems, LeSueur:
John Deere B Mailbox - ($169 value)
- Traverse des Sioux Garden Center:
A Tree! ($200 value)
- Patrick’s on Third 4 - $25 gift cards
- Tremendous Brewing Co.: Party room
rental, gift card & swag ($225 value)

09/04/2025

Rock Bend 34 🌳🎻
On the Pavilion Stage -
Minnesota Square Park, St. Peter
Sunday, September 7
2:50 pm - Teague Alexy & The Common Thread

Award-winning Duluth-based musician, author, and storyteller Teague Alexy joins us with his band. Teague Alexy & The Common Thread perform their songs as well as songs from Teague’s extensive back catalog. Teague has long been a stalwart of the Minnesota music scene as well as one of the founding brothers in the national-touring Americana act Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank. Teague’s guitar, harmonica, and songwriting are clearly influenced by his home in Duluth, his childhood in New Jersey, and his life as a traveling musical hobo that includes lengthy excursions through blues, reggae, Irish music, bluegrass, hip-hop, country and folk.

Welcome to the Rock Bend, Teague Alexy & The Common Thread! 🌳

Original poetic roots rock - new single "Sidesteppin’ Man”

09/03/2025

Rock Bend 34 🌳🎻
On the Pavilion Stage -
Minnesota Square Park, St. Peter
Saturday, September 6
7:30 pm - New Primitives

High energy rhythm and blues, ska, reggae, calypso and world dance music - SK’s New Primitives was founded in Minneapolis in 2003 by drummer, singer, and songwriter Stanley Kipper, who has played, toured, or recorded with Minnie Riperton, The Bee Gees, Joe Walsh, Bill Withers, former Eagle Randy Meisner, Jay Ferguson, Andrew Gold, Karla Bonoff, Melanie, and Gypsy.

The New Primitives are four-time Minnesota Music Award recipients and have played with Taj Mahal, Ziggy Marley, Mickey Hart, and the Neville Brothers, among others.

The New Primitives rocked the Rock Bend in 2005 and 2006. Welcome back for the third time, New Primitives! 🌳

The band's first two records, New Primitives and American Nomads, received nationwide airplay, including top ten chart positions across America and Canada. New Primitives recorded their third, live album, at A440 studios. Their latest record, Primitive Road, was released in 2024 under the Loud Folk....