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   XPost: nf.general, rec.music.celtic, soc.culture.irish   
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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   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.   
      
   --   
   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)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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