Traditional music featured at festival

Traditional music from all over the world will be featured at the 34th annual University of Chicago Folk Festival, which will be held from Friday, Feb. 4, through Sunday, Feb. 6. The festival is sponsored by the University of Chicago Folklore Society.

Four concerts in Mandel Hall will feature music from the Andes Mountains, Ireland, Japan and Poland, as well as Cajun music, blues, old-time country singing and string-band music, and fiddling in several regional styles. Free workshops, jam sessions and dancing will take place in Ida Noyes Hall.

Concert tickets range from $8 to $13 for general admission and from $5 to $9 for students, seniors and children. Tickets are on sale in Reynolds Club Bookstore Branch or by phone (Mastercard, Visa, Discover) at 702-7300. Tickets will also be sold in the Reynolds Club box office two hours before each concert. For more information, call 702-9793.

A complete schedule follows. All concerts will open with Jenny Armstrong performing on the Scottish war pipes, an Armstrong family tradition and a Folk Festival tradition since the festival's beginnings.

FRIDAY, FEB. 4 n 8:15 p.m. Concert, Mandel Hall Tickets: $11; $7 students, seniors, children

Charlie Cline and the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, bluegrass

Joe and Odell Thompson, old-time fiddle and banjo

Raices del Ande ("Roots of the Andes"), traditional South American

Mose Vinson, blues and boogie-woogie piano

Jim Tucker and Dave Trowbridge, with Clifford Hardesty, early country duets

James Kelly, Irish fiddle

SATURDAY, FEB. 5 n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Workshops, etc., Ida Noyes Hall Free workshops, informal jam sessions, dancing

n 3 p.m. Concert, Mandel Hall Tickets: $8; $5 students, seniors, children

Eddie C. Campbell, electric blues

Jim Tucker and Dave Trowbridge, with Clifford Hardesty, early country duets

Bob Holt, old-time fast fiddle

Shirley Bergeron, Elridge Aguillard and Paul Daigle, Cajun

Ella Jenkins, children's folk

n 8:15 p.m. Concert, Mandel Hall Tickets: $13; $9 students, seniors, children

Bob Holt, old-time fast fiddle

James Kelly, Irish fiddle

Taiko Drummers, Japanese drumming

Eddie C. Campbell, electric blues

Forrest "Junior" Daugherty, Western swing fiddle

Shirley Bergeron, Elridge Aguillard and Paul Daigle, Cajun

SUNDAY, FEB. 6 n 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Workshops, etc., Ida Noyes Hall Free workshops, informal jam sessions, dancing

n 6:15 p.m. Concert, Mandel Hall Tickets: $11; $7 students, seniors, children

Polish Highlanders, Tatra Mountains song and dance

Forrest "Junior" Daugherty, Western swing fiddle

Joe and Odell Thompson, old-time fiddle and banjo

Mose Vinson, blues and boogie-woogie piano

Charlie Cline and the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, bluegrass