STEVIE (UK) One bloke, one mandolin
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TIM ROGERS
Westport's own old-time fiddler playing his tune
Snouts and
Entrails. Visit him at home.
SOME VIDEO FOOTAGE OF LAST YEAR'S EDITION
It may be a good idea to stop the music player on top of the page before you start these videos. You don't want to hear two songs at the same time, do you ?
OLD TIME MEETS BLUEGRASS
Tim Rogers plays 'Jenny Lynn' backed up by Four Wheel Drive at the festival's workshop. Filmed by PERVEGE FREE FILMS
Four Wheel Drive plays and sings their Ireland signature song
'Rain please go away' at the workshop. Filmed by PERVEGE FREE FILMS.
Tim Rogers and friends jamming on Sunday afternoon; Filmed by PERVEGE FREE FILMS;
Four Wheel Drive and Tim Rogers jam on BILL CHEATAM at McGing. Filmed by PERVEGE FREE FILMS
The Westport Folk & Bluegrass Festival would like to thank its generous sponsors !
Uri Kohen and the Electric Cave Production (ECP) are very proud to announce the 3rd Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival, edition 2009.
After a very successful first two years, Uri and his team promise to keep the flame of music burning and to sustain the high standard of music and production levels at this unique festival.
Once again we will provide local, national and international acts from the very top of the folk and bluegrass world.
The festival will combine evening pub gigs, lunch time gigs, bluegrass workshops and one main event on Saturday, June 27th in the newly built
Mill Times Hotel in the heart of Westport.
Westport town itself has a lot to offer and all music fans are invited to enjoy the beautiful surroundings of Westport that once again won the great award of
Ireland's Tidiest Town
While at the festival you can visit one of the country’s best golf courses : The Westport Golf Club.
Westport has great cinemas, great leisure centres and superb bars and restaurants.
The festival will take place on the last weekend of June : 26-27 and 28th and Uri and his team are hoping to make this festival one of the biggest events on the Irish Folk & Bluegrass Calendar.
SEE YOU ALL IN WESTPORT on June 26, 27 and 28th.
Feel free to take a look at the 'Upcoming Shows' section to see the full details of the program. Enjoy the pictures of the 2008 edition of the festival in the slide show.
For more information please contact Uri Kohen at
Uriecp@yahoo.ie
or phone : 087 7570 958
See you at the festival !!
Uri Kohen, producer of the festival with last year's headliners : Four Wheel Drive
We'd like to thank our generous sponsors !
WESTPORT FOLK & BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL
RECOMMENDED ACCOMMODATION:
Its been a while and we thought it was about time we updated you on what we've been up to. Our debut EP Little World is now available at our gigs and will soon be available from our myspace and facebook pages, you will also be able to download it from itunes, but we don't have a release date for this as yet.
To celebrate the fact that we have now reached 25,000 plays on myspace, we are giving you a free MP3 of Rockabye Baby. All you have to do is send your email address to queen.elvis@yahoo.ie and we will send it to you.
We have spent the last year rehearsing with a full band and are now ready to bring it on the road. You can get a look at us when we appear on Balcony TV this week with the full line up. We are currently taking bookings for gigs/concerts/festivals and can be contacted on the email above, or through our myspace and facebook pages.
Thankyou for your continued support in what has been a great year for us!
Hi Uri. How's things ? All well I hope. Had a few more problems with my back since I was over to play the festival which has stopped me doin' some stuff this year. Next year is already lookin' good though. Should have the new album done by Christmas which would be good. Catch you next year.
CHEERS !!
Lithuania two weeks after Westport.
If I put the photos I have from this years Folk & Bluegrass Festival on my MySpace in my photos you'll be able to access them to use as you see fit.
Isn't it annoying that people mass email out missives for their superficial, so-called "pop" (which usta stand for popular b4 the melody mob got hold of it) music groups in the guise of personal messages to a dear friend? (That was a poorly constructed first sentence.) But people should really NOT advertise their bands this way, 'ya know? Man, I hate that too. Well...I mean...ahhh...I don't "hate" it...after all that is what I am doing here...so really...feeling a bit foolish now...you know what I mean...gotta get the word out about my band...not a young fellow anymore...oh God, this is not going well, is it?
Right. Deep breath...start again.
The Coal Porters play BOTH Sept. 4 Fri and Sept. 5 Sat this weekend. So you and your friends, dear reader of this mass emailed missive, will need TWO excuses why you couldn't make it next time you bump into one of the band and they ask where you were...be thinking of them now, okay?
Friday Sept. 4 is at the Kings Head, Downstairs at the Kings Head to be exact and is at 8pm. This gin joint has top tunes and nice real ales. Yum.
Sat Sept. 5 is at 8pm also and is at the FABULOUS Green Note in Camden Town, a short walk from the station. This fashionable little West Side bistro has GREAT FOOD served by nice people at a fair price. Top that, Gordon Ramsey! Plus not one soul working at The Green Note ever said they played for Glasgow Rangers when in fact, Gordon, they never did. So there. Eat that with your quiche, Ramsey!
Back to the Coal Porters...witness the silly (but quite truthful) sentence below. You guys read it and I promise to stop.
See/hear/experience why/how 330 south Londoners went bananas last Sunday at the Coal Porters gig at t
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
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