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   Message 95,281 of 96,488   
   David Dalton to All   
   Re: Feile Seamus Creagh   
   10 Sep 19 23:13:10   
   
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   XPost: nf.general, rec.music.celtic, rec.music.folk   
   XPost: ie.general   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   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.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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