F??ile S??amus Creagh
David Dalton <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Aug 2024 22:52:32 -0230
| Newsgroups | alt.religion.druid, rec.music.makers.squeezebox, rec.music.makers.bowed-strings, rec.music.makers.bagpipe, alt.arts.storytelling, rec.folk-dancing |
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| Organization | Eternal September |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Féile Séamus Creagh is a festival of Traditional Music, Song and Dance from Newfoundland and Ireland. It is held in memory of the late fiddle master Séamus Creagh. The festival features top performers, and indeed, tradition bearers from both the Newfoundland musical tradition, and its forebear, the Irish musical tradition. It will be held this year from September 4--8, 2024 in Freshwater (Carbonear), St. John’s, and Ferryland, on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. The performers for 2024 are: MATT CRANITCH, JACKIE DALY& PAUL DE GRAE from Ireland, THE CAME THE DAWN BAND from Newfoundland EOIN O RIABHAIGH, JOHNNY McCARTHY & AOIFE BLAKE from Ireland ANITA BEST & SANDY MORRIS from Newfoundland ELEANOR DAWSON, LINDA BYRNE & JOE BYRNE from Newfoundland LEE DUNNE, BRAD KLUCOWICZ, DARREN BROWNE WITH MAXINE DUNNE from Newfoundland For more details on performers plus a schedule and to buy tickets online (though they should still be available at the door), see https://www.nltradfest.com/ . The lecture on September 4 is free but you need to reserve a space. The price of each evening concert is CAN$25 (US$18.29 or EURO-16.58) and they are indoors in an intimate setting. -- David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill; And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)