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Thread #103662 Message #2121365
Posted By: john f weldon
07-Aug-07 - 11:46 PM
Thread Name: Champlain Valley 2007
Subject: RE: Champlain Valley 2007
I've almost always camped out at Button Bay for this fest.
It was a great year; there were several excellent song-swap formats going on involving John Roberts & Tony Barrand, the Berrymans, Peggy Seeger, Jeff Warner etc.
A surprise for me (I'm not sure why it was a surprise) were the Whippersnappers. I've seen them all before, but not recently, and they were high-energy and versatile; and seem to improve with age. George Wilson; amazing!
The Powder Kegs were the young up-and-comers in the old-time folky department, with lots of original songs; fast and furious; a lot of harmonica-fiddle leads.