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Early bird tickets are now on sale for the Gamble Rogers Folk Festival.

Cartoons are a joyful, essential part of the American experience. From the beloved Saturday morning antics of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in the ‘40s and ‘50s to today’s inspired anime, they express wild swings of energy and emotion, explosive triumphs, and deserved defeats. One element of the cartoons that we’ve recently recognized is the genius of the music that underscores them, a mash-up of classical, jazz, pop, folk, and everything in between.

Djoin a djam on a street corner or catch a performance in honor of Belgian jazz pioneer Django Reinhardt during the four-day festival.