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Here’s a teaser for our March 2011 Ireland Tour. Exploring the links between our own Appalachian culture and Ireland roots, we’ll be visiting the Ulster American Folk Park.
An oft-overlooked fact… over 2 million emigrated to America from Ulster prior to 1900. Collectively, those people had a profound impact on American history and culture. Several American Presidents, most notably Andrew Jackson, U.S. Grant, and Teddy Roosevelt had Ulster roots. The Ulster American Folk Park explores the various reasons for the waves of migration reaching back to the early 1700s. People of all stations of life crossed the Atlantic… destined to become “Americans.”
The Park is a fascinating, open-air, sprawling museum including 30 buildings, some of which are recreations, some being lovingly restored originals. Staffed with interpreters and “people of history,” from them one gains a sense of place and time. Particularly of rural life in the 1700s and 1800s. Visitors are first guided through parts of an Irish village of smallholdings, cottages, churches, weavers shop, and a blacksmith’s shop. You’ll see and hear people go about their daily business as in earlier times.
“Ireland” then “ends” in a city street, complete with well-stocked shops, leading down to a quay. Here a sailing ship awaits…you board … for transport to “America.” Debarking, it’s through the immigration shed into a virtual street from 19th Century Boston. Then journey on until you are in the open countryside. Here, several farmsteads are recreated with a loving eye for detail, complete with crops and livestock. There’s even a log house directly from Greene County, PA.
All in all, the Ulster American Folk Park is an amazing experience. Especially for those of us from American frontier roots. Common traditions continue on both sides of The Atlantic. Of those, music is ever-present. In celebration, the Ulster American Folk Park’s annual Bluegrass Festival has been a calendar highlight for more than sixteen years. Who knows what musical moments we might share there!
To explore more, here’s the website: http://www.nmni.com/uafp
Source: http://www.edmontonjournal.com
By Roger Levesque, edmontonjournal.com
EDMONTON — Edmonton’s third annual Celtic Festival will pack 11 acts into one long Saturday extravaganza this August.
Celtic rockers Fraid Knot, St. James Gate, Claymore and McQuaig, and acoustic-oriented folk acts like Keri Lynn Zwicker, Sarah Burnell and Stephen Maguire are all set to perform at Hawrelak Park’s Heritage Amphitheatre Saturday, Aug. 14.
Two Edmonton-area dance groups will be on hand, Mattierin Dance Troop and Celtic Dance Academy, while the Edmonton & District Pipe Band will ensure that the pipes are blowing. Finally, Knights of the Northern Realm, a re-enactment troupe will walk the site in period armour with occasional battle skirmishes.
At a media launch Wednesday, spokesman Michael Purcell admitted that the festival “went a little too big, too fast” in expanding to a two-day Friday-Saturday schedule last year. The decision to go with one longer day this year will help the volunteer-run event channel resources more effectively.
“I think we’ve found that there is a large audience for Celtic music,” says Purcell. “We’re developing a large following especially with families. You can get there first thing in the morning and the kids will have a lot to do. It’s a good show for all ages.”
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The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center’s Education Department will host a free “Get To Know The Show” event for CELTIC CROSSROADS on Fri., March. 19 at 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. at the Wachovia Atrium. The afternoon’s program will feature the participatory activities to help you learn more about Celtic music (and stories from the past and present).
All participants at the “Get To Know The Show” event will receive a flyer for a discounted ticket to CELTIC CROSSROADS at the Knight Theater on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. Offer valid so long as tickets are available.
Get to Know the Show – CELTIC CROSSROADS – Wachovia Atrium (301 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC 28202)
12:00 p.m- Get to Know the Show program
1:00 p.m. – Get to Know the Show program
The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center’s Education Department will host two free “Get To Know The Show” events for TAO on Mon., Mar. 20 at 12:00 p.m. at ImaginOn and on Wed., Mar. 31 at 12:00 and 1:00 p.m. at the Wachovia Atrium. Japanese Taiko drummers, Yoko and Rocky Iwashima will offer a glimpse of their cultural history by providing a demonstration and participatory activities based on the traditional art of Japanese Taiko drumming. The World of Music Family Festival at ImaginOn on Sat., Mar. 20, 2010 is from 12:00PM – 3:00PM, but the Get to Know TAO will be at 12:30PM and at 2:00PM
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Source: IrishCentral.com
by Paul Keating
In the 1990s they were two Irish exiles arriving in New York City like so many before them, with youthful curiosity and adventure stoking their musical minds still very much in formation.
Fate and serendipity would bring them together in a new band called Solas (Light) along with other wunderkind in the Irish traditional music scene ready to take the music into the next millennium.
As wildly exciting and successful as Solas was in its opening five years of existence, it could not contain the brilliant pair who felt compelled to seek different roads for themselves at the turn of this century experiencing personal growth as artists and individuals.
Maturity and a willingness to expose themselves to greater challenges as professional musical artists have marked the work of singer Karan Casey from Waterford and singer/guitarist John Doyle from Dublin.
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Due to last minute cancellations we now have 4 seats available for the Albannach Homecoming Tour to Scotland March 9-16, 2010!!!
This trip will allow you to see some of the best Scotland has to offer and there will be plenty of music and merriment to be had.
Stirling, Bannockburn, Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh, Loch Ness, Glencoe, the Highlands, castles, all will leave their marks. Featuring performances by Albannach, Ted Christopher, Jim Malcolm and Mickey Harte, in some of Scotland’s most interesting places.
This trip will be the experience of a lifetime!!!
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New 3-part series from Scotland TV a feast for the senses!
A “must see” for those visiting Scotland (or wanting a reminder!).
To coincide with countrywide efforts and events for Homecoming 2009, STV produced a glorious travelogue series aired in September 2009. The subject? A celebration of Scotland. Now, both organizations have made available substantially all of the series to viewers online. And in rich, high-definition.
With our own Scotland Tour planned for March 2010, we thought we’d share these links with you. As did we, I’m sure you’ll find the imagery stunning, the aerial fly-over views to be spectacular, and the whole presentation to be crafted with joyous love for people and place. Episode #1 starts with Scotland’s main cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Stirling. In this episode as well as those following, you’ll have an exquisitely teasing opportunity to preview some of the very places on the itinerary for the March 2010 Tour with Albannach and David R. Ross.
And, if you haven’t already fallen in love with all that is Scotland, it will be hard to resist after “Scotland Revealed.”
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Thought I’d share this with all of those that have a love of Scotland. This was performed by Ted Christopher, a well respected singer/songwriter, and highlights last Friday’s Stirling Bridge commemoration in Scotland. We met Ted and heard him perform this past March, that’s why he will be one of the entertainers featured on the upcoming Albannach Homecoming Tour next March. Imagine standing in Stirling and hearing this song performed. A special experience indeed!
This song is the one Ted wrote for the memorial service for William Wallace held in 2005 in London. David R Ross walked the 400 plus miles from Glasgow to London to commemorate the 700th anniversery of Wallace’s death, along the same route and in the same 19 days that it took the English to drag Wallace to his execution. Having been dismembered and his body parts sent to the corners of the empire, Wallace never had a proper burial. This song embodies the story of Wallace finally returning home.
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