Your favorite festivals

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: black walnut
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:54 PM

This summer? Vancouver Folk Music Festival (BC) and Celtic Roots Festival (Ontario).

~b.w.

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: Tedham Porterhouse
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:41 AM

For small festivals, my favorite is Champlain Valley.

For big festivals, the best I've been to is Vancouver. (That endorsement is qualified by the fact that I haven't been there since 1997).

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: Dunc
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:29 AM

THE GLENFARG FOLK FEAST

I have been going to the Glenfarg Folk Feast, Perthshire, Scotland for quite a few years now and it remains the highlight of the Scottish festival scene for me.
It is limited in size because of the location and lack of big venues in Glenfarg Village... and beacuase of that it has never grown too big or lost its unique charm.
It is held every year in mid April and is the first festival of the season for a lot of people. This gives it a freshness after the winter with people starved of that festival atmosphere.

GRANT BAYNHAM in his latest CD (recorded live at Glenfarg) refers to it as "The worlds friendliest festival" with an "Audience who'd clearly just come in from the HowToBeAPureDeadBrilliantAudience Workshop (Including Module 2: HowToProvideTheArtistWithGiftHeckles)
What more can one say?

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: ChanteyMatt
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:26 AM

The Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Sure, the primary attraction is the boats, but we've had a tradition of fine maritime music. The highlight is an informal officially unofficial chanty sing on the Saturday night of the festival. Scores of folks join in and the result is wonderous. You can bet I'll be there this year and many years to come.

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:21 AM

And for those who prefer a more intimate Irish music gathering, try the Frankie Kennedy Winter School in Gweedore every New Years. Its not for the squeamish, however. As Liam O Maoinlai says, its a pilgrimmage more than a festival.

Dark of winter, empty beaches, and dead brilliant sessions and craic.

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: ard mhacha
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:15 AM

Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann, All-Ireland Fleadh, unsurpassed, held this year in Listowel Co Kerry, August 24th-26th. Meet people from all corners of the Globe, hope that Tibetan nose whistler turns up. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:58 AM

Clifftop. For the old time music obsessed. Everybody (literally) is there.

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: GUEST,lilter
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:55 AM

Hi there,

Best Festival surely is Saint Chartier, it`s absolutly from another world.

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lilter

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:19 AM

Oh well, I know the post says music bu my favourite was the first couple of years of the Conwy Festival which was really a street festival.

I loved the atmosphere in the town, seeing the jugglers, some magic, some street theatre - some of the acts were fantastic, chatting to some of the street traders on the quay and joining in with the music down there. There was of course other music, a few buskers and bands around the town and also concerts in the civic hall in the evening that tried to cater for all tastes, maybe Rock one night, Folk another... A couple of my favourites were Flaco Jiminez and the Tex Mex band and an excellent folk rock band called You Slosh - I wonder what happened to them.

Sadly as time went on, the funds got lower and less happened particularly on the streets but I have some great memories, especailly of the early ones.

Jon

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: GUEST,Buffalo Gal
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:19 AM

My long-time favorite for all types of music, Chicago's Ravinia Music Festival. Too many wonderful experiences over the years to single out just one.

Subject: RE: Your favorite festivals
From: GUEST,Toledo
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:04 AM

Great thread idea!

Winnipeg, 1994. One of my (many!)proud parent moments.

My daughter, age 8, gets up to do her Irish dancing to Trian. The crowd opens for her, she receives a thunderous round of applause, and great appreciation from the other dancers of her fine dance abilities, who come up after the tune to congratulate her, ask her where she learned to dance like that, etc etc

Not only that, it was cloudy and cool all week long--no sweltering in the heat, or misery huddled under tarps from rain, mud, mosquitos...

It was divine and sublime!

Subject: Your favorite festivals
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 09:10 AM

Tis the season, so share your favorite music festivals and experiences...and what makes them your favorite?