Friday, September 10, 2004
Music festival hits the high notes
From The Belfast Telegraph Digital
t was a superb lineup at the 13th Annual Appalachian and Bluegrass Music Festival in the Ulster American Folk Park, and one which now firmly makes it the most international festival of its type in Ireland.
It was definitely the best series of concerts and the biggest crowds since the festival started and the chairman of the main sponsors, the Northern Ireland Events Company, was mightily impressed.
Due to public demand - after the success of last year's event - there was a celebration of the gospel element of Bluegrass and American music on Sunday evening.
Dale Ann Bradley, who had raised the roof on Saturday night, also headlined this concert. Billboard Magazine has described her singing as 'soul-filled . . . building on time tested themes of love and the sacrifices made by hard-working people, her songs speak of the struggles of people today'.
One of the other big hits of the festival were the Gospel Jubilators who have been singing unaccompanied gospel for almost 30 years.
I really enjoyed Professor Jack Bernhardt's lectures on the origins of 'shape-note' singing, old-timey and bluegrass music.
Read the article
The Belfast Telegraph Digital
t was a superb lineup at the 13th Annual Appalachian and Bluegrass Music Festival in the Ulster American Folk Park, and one which now firmly makes it the most international festival of its type in Ireland.
It was definitely the best series of concerts and the biggest crowds since the festival started and the chairman of the main sponsors, the Northern Ireland Events Company, was mightily impressed.
Due to public demand - after the success of last year's event - there was a celebration of the gospel element of Bluegrass and American music on Sunday evening.
Dale Ann Bradley, who had raised the roof on Saturday night, also headlined this concert. Billboard Magazine has described her singing as 'soul-filled . . . building on time tested themes of love and the sacrifices made by hard-working people, her songs speak of the struggles of people today'.
One of the other big hits of the festival were the Gospel Jubilators who have been singing unaccompanied gospel for almost 30 years.
I really enjoyed Professor Jack Bernhardt's lectures on the origins of 'shape-note' singing, old-timey and bluegrass music.
Read the article
The Belfast Telegraph Digital
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