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Today/tonight I went to the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival again,
and the highlights (though note I slept in late and missed some good local acts) were The Granville Sisters, Daoiri Farrell, and Sharon Shannon, all
from Ireland, and Kaia Kater from Montreal and Rum Ragged from here in Newfoundland. Sharon Shannon is a wonderful button accordion player who I
last saw in Vancouver 24 or 25 years ago at a Rogue Folk Club show at The W.I.S.E. Hall.

Note that The Granville Sisters will be playing Folk Night at The Ship Pub at
9 p.m. on Wednesday August 14.

For more information on the festival and Folk Night visit https://nlfolk.com/
.

Also the lineup for the smaller indoor Feile Seamus Creagh will be
announced on http://www.feileseamuscreagh.com/ soon, but the
dates are September 4--8, 2019, and the Irish contingent includes
Jackie Daly, who has been here in Newfoundland several times
before.

--
David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “But once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light” (S. McLachlan)

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On Aug 12, 2019, David Dalton wrote
(in article<0001HW.23012BAA0008B745700009FFF2CF@news.eternal-september.org>):

Today/tonight I went to the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival again, and the highlights (though note I slept in late and missed some good local acts) were The Granville Sisters, Daoiri Farrell, and Sharon Shannon, all from Ireland, and Kaia Kater from Montreal and Rum Ragged from here in Newfoundland. Sharon Shannon is a wonderful button accordion player who I last saw in Vancouver 24 or 25 years ago at a Rogue Folk Club show at The W.I.S.E. Hall.

SS was probably even better technically than 24 or 25 years ago, but
I think she may have been slightly jet lagged, and playing almost automatically. But she still wowed me.

One disadvantage we have in bringing Irish players over to
St. John’s these days is that direct flights have been
discontinued, so they have to fly past Newfoundland
to Halifax or Toronto and then transfer and fly back.
But there is some lobbying afoot to change that.

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David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “But once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light” (S. McLachlan)

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