Seattle Folklore Society
Organizations / Associations
The Seattle Folklore Society is a nonprofit founded in 1966 to preserve and promote folk and traditional arts in the Seattle area. It was incorporated by John Ullman, who had organized folk concerts at Reed College, and Phil Williams, who with his wife Vivian later ran the Voyager Recordings label. At first the society brought aging roots musicians to Seattle for public concerts and recorded them on audio, video, and film, working with KCTS-TV and the University of Washington's ethnomusicology program. In the 1970s it broadened its scope, helping found the Northwest Folklife Festival and launching a journal, an archive, and a clubhouse.