Post by banjoray on Jan 31, 2008 12:52:30 GMT
The Foaotmad annual Old Time Festival is happening shortly in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, on the weekend of 8-10 Feb.
Full details can be found on the Foaotmad website www.foaotmad.org.uk.
Concerts will be held on Friday and Saturday evenings, and the Friday concert will be followed by a square dance.
The star turns from the USA will be Piney Woods and Adam Hurt. Piney woods is a newly formed West Virginia based string band consisting of Dave and Tim Bing, Kate Lissauer and Jim Martin. Dave and Jim also play fiddle and bass for Gandydancer. I believe Tim Bing, who plays great banjo, once came over to Ireland with the Bing Brothers band. Kate, from Maryland but who now lives in Somerset, is well known over here and is the core of the excellent Buffalo Gals string band.
Adam Hurt, accompanied by Beth Hartness on guitar, is one of the young players who is doing so much to revive, preserve and dare I say improve Old Time music in the states. A yankee from Minnesota, he has transplanted himself to Western North Carolina and regularly carries off the banjo prizes in the local fiddlers conventions.
We are also being visited by Chance and Suzette Shivers from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, who will delight us with their music presented in the form of an Old Time radio broadcast. I can't wait.
The British contingent of the festival will be two string bands and a dance instruction team. The bands are The Downtrodden String Band from Derbyshire and the Kitty Hawks from the deep South of England, while the dance instruction and display will be provided by Kerry Fletcher, accompanied by Tim Brooks on fiddle.
Workshops will be provided on Saturday and Sunday in fiddle, banjo, guitar and dance and also in various combinations of the above. There will alo be an open stage on Saturday afternoon for people to try their talents in front of an appreciative audience.
Sunday morning will contain the Foaotmad AGM.
The whole weekend will as usual be packed with jamming in various corners of the school as old and new friends get together to play and swap tunes.
Are any forum members coming (apart from me)?
I'd love to see comments about the festival in this thread.
Cheers
Ray
Full details can be found on the Foaotmad website www.foaotmad.org.uk.
Concerts will be held on Friday and Saturday evenings, and the Friday concert will be followed by a square dance.
The star turns from the USA will be Piney Woods and Adam Hurt. Piney woods is a newly formed West Virginia based string band consisting of Dave and Tim Bing, Kate Lissauer and Jim Martin. Dave and Jim also play fiddle and bass for Gandydancer. I believe Tim Bing, who plays great banjo, once came over to Ireland with the Bing Brothers band. Kate, from Maryland but who now lives in Somerset, is well known over here and is the core of the excellent Buffalo Gals string band.
Adam Hurt, accompanied by Beth Hartness on guitar, is one of the young players who is doing so much to revive, preserve and dare I say improve Old Time music in the states. A yankee from Minnesota, he has transplanted himself to Western North Carolina and regularly carries off the banjo prizes in the local fiddlers conventions.
We are also being visited by Chance and Suzette Shivers from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, who will delight us with their music presented in the form of an Old Time radio broadcast. I can't wait.
The British contingent of the festival will be two string bands and a dance instruction team. The bands are The Downtrodden String Band from Derbyshire and the Kitty Hawks from the deep South of England, while the dance instruction and display will be provided by Kerry Fletcher, accompanied by Tim Brooks on fiddle.
Workshops will be provided on Saturday and Sunday in fiddle, banjo, guitar and dance and also in various combinations of the above. There will alo be an open stage on Saturday afternoon for people to try their talents in front of an appreciative audience.
Sunday morning will contain the Foaotmad AGM.
The whole weekend will as usual be packed with jamming in various corners of the school as old and new friends get together to play and swap tunes.
Are any forum members coming (apart from me)?
I'd love to see comments about the festival in this thread.
Cheers
Ray
