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    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 9 02:16:44 2019
    XPost: nf.general, rec.music.folk, soc.culture.irish
    XPost: ie.general

    On Saturday night I went to the St. John’s concert of the tenth Feile
    Seamus Creagh, a festival in memory of the late Irish fiddler Seamus
    Creagh (who lived in Newfoundland for five years), featuring tradition
    bearers from Newfoundland and Ireland.

    The concert was sold out, and I was mightily impressed by the music from: singer/accordionist Meabh Begley & singer/fiddler Niamh Varian-Barry
    eight piece Newfoundland celtic band Tickle Harbour
    fiddler Matt Cranitch, accordionist Jackie Daly, & guitarist Paul de Grae singer Anita Best & guitarist Sandy Morris
    dancers Edwina Guckian& Michael O’Rourke

    and at the end all of the musicians got up again for one final set of tunes

    The show was three hours long including a 15 minute intermission, and cost
    only 20 Canadian dollars (about 15 US dollars).

    There was also a public lecture by Matt Cranitch on Wednesday, a concert in Freshwater (Carbonear) on Thursday, a concert in Bay Bulls on Friday, a
    concert in Ferryland on Sunday, instrument workshops in the day in St.
    John’s on Saturday, and sessions after the concerts (including one at The Crow’s Nest on Saturday night, which I didn’t make, even though the hurricane passed well to the west of us, since I had promised to visit friends).

    This was the tenth annual (or perhaps tenth anniversary?) one, and was the fifth time that Jackie Daly, Matt Cranitch, and Paul de Grae have come; they were good friends of Seamus Creagh.

    I think they have settled on the first or second weekend in September for the future.

    Their website is
    https://www.nltradfest.com/

    --
    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) “‘Cause it’s you who released me/It’s you who gave me fire
    Oh, and now it’s impossible to grow/Without breaking striDe” (S. M.)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 10 23:13:10 2019
    XPost: nf.general, rec.music.folk, soc.culture.irish
    XPost: ie.general

    On Sep 9, 2019, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<0001HW.232610B4083577A470000F45B2CF@news.eternal-september.org>):

    On Saturday night I went to the St. John’s concert of the tenth Feile Seamus Creagh, a festival in memory of the late Irish fiddler Seamus
    Creagh (who lived in Newfoundland for five years), featuring tradition bearers from Newfoundland and Ireland.

    The concert was sold out, and I was mightily impressed by the music from: singer/accordionist Meabh Begley & singer/fiddler Niamh Varian-Barry
    eight piece Newfoundland celtic band Tickle Harbour
    fiddler Matt Cranitch, accordionist Jackie Daly, & guitarist Paul de Grae singer Anita Best & guitarist Sandy Morris
    dancers Edwina Guckian& Michael O’Rourke

    and at the end all of the musicians got up again for one final set of tunes

    The show was three hours long including a 15 minute intermission, and cost only 20 Canadian dollars (about 15 US dollars).

    There was also a public lecture by Matt Cranitch on Wednesday, a concert in Freshwater (Carbonear) on Thursday, a concert in Bay Bulls on Friday, a concert in Ferryland on Sunday, instrument workshops in the day in St. John’s on Saturday, and sessions after the concerts (including one at The Crow’s Nest on Saturday night, which I didn’t make, even though the hurricane passed well to the west of us, since I had promised to visit friends).

    This was the tenth annual (or perhaps tenth anniversary?) one, and was the fifth time that Jackie Daly, Matt Cranitch, and Paul de Grae have come; they were good friends of Seamus Creagh.

    I think they have settled on the first or second weekend in September for the future.

    Their website is
    https://www.nltradfest.com/

    In 2020 it will be from September 9 to 13.

    --
    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) “‘Cause it’s you who released me/It’s you who gave me fire
    Oh, and now it’s impossible to grow/Without breaking striDe” (S. M.)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 11 04:03:55 2023
    XPost: rec.music.folk, uk.music.folk, ie.general
    XPost: soc.culture.irish, nf.general

    Saturday night I attended the St. John’s concert of the 2023
    Féile Séamus Creagh and was absolutely blown away and
    even moved to tears by some of the tunes and songs.

    The festival web site is https://www.nltradfest.com/ where it says:

    "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 is an intimate indoor festival, and I suggest that you put it on
    your radar for 2024 and beyond.

    --
    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)

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