Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015

Subject: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 20 May 15 - 02:46 AM

The dates for this year's festival are 14-16 August 2015. We sure hope to welcome a bunch of Mudcat traditional enthusiasts.

Date: August 14-16
Title: 8th Annual Princeton Traditional Music Festival
Location: Princeton, BC Canada. Princeton is about 300 km (200 miles) E of Vancouver (about a three-hour drive through spectacular landscape).

A free festival, open to all performers of traditional music. Two outdoor, two indoor stages. The festival starts Friday night with a free public dance in the town square. Presentations, workshops, concerts, panels, from 10am to 6 pm Saturday and Sunday. About 125 performers. Glorious countryside (semi-desert, mountains), an ideal vacation spot, too.

Email: [e-mail]
Weblog: http://princetontraditional.org/index.htm

This year we are pleased to present the Kootenay Doukhobor Choir, the Roma band Oxygen Orkestar, the usual Irish suspects, two bellydancers with an Arabic band, shantysingers, uillean pipers, at last one Morris side and... and... Here's the full list:
Aodha Team, Mary Armitage, Alex Atamanenko, Bevan Bartlett with Jon Bartlett, Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat, Laura Bassett, Blackthorn, Bob Bossin, Linda Chobotuck, Valerie Cohen & Brad Reynolds, Coming and Going, Conchordance, Chris & Aine Corrigan, Daniel & Rui, Barbara & David Denz, Les Fleurs Sauvages, John Gothard, John, Rosaleen Gregory with David Gregory, Hard Row, Roger Helfrick, Stewart Hendrickson, Irish Wakers, Stuart James, Jook Joint Jokers, Just Tyme, John Kidder, Kootenay Doukhobor Choir, Bob Large, Los Portenos del Mundo, Lyn and Stoney, Janet Michael, Murphy & Middaugh, Oxygen Orkestar, William Pint & Felicia Dale, PsychoAcoustic Ceili Band, The RabbleBerries, Rakkab featuring Aviva and Nina D., Rattlebone Band, Tom Rawson, Brian Robertson, Chris Roe, Shanghaied on the Willamette, Helen Shilladay, Patrick Spearing, Simon Trevelyan, Triskele, Vancouver Morris Men, The van Lidth de Jeude Family, Vazzy, Maura Volante, John Walsh & Peter Huron, Leah Williams,& Mark Dowding, and Without a Net

Cheers!

Jon Bartlett
Coordinator

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 20 May 15 - 07:10 PM

That's great, Jon, to see a few new names! I'm going to try make it this year. Great to see Bob Bossin is coming.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jun 15 - 07:43 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett
Date: 15 Jun 15 - 04:58 AM

We've lost our Open Stage!

A fire burned down the building the day before yesterday, but we're looking for a new venue.

Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 16 Jun 15 - 02:00 AM

Good luck finding another venue. That's too bad about that fire.

I'm planning on being there for the Saturday.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: 4ADiva
Date: 26 Jun 15 - 02:02 AM

Oh noooooo, not the ICE CREAM PARLOUR?! There was never a more inspired pairing than a folk open stage in an ice cream store.

Jon, I hope you find another venue. I was toying with the idea of clearing the place out with a few tunes on my uke. Now what will I do?

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jul 15 - 01:25 AM

refresh with ice cream!

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 14 Jul 15 - 11:40 AM

Is it possible to have a local tell the ways to get there by train bus etc...from sesttle, vacouver..many people would like to come but not drive to it.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 25 Jul 15 - 11:22 PM

Please can someone post the times the greyhound bus leaves vancouver and arrives in princeton. i have spent a lot of time on truly horrid sites that make you download nonfunctional apps and just want to know some very basic bus information. friday the 14th. how much, what time. with the world of information at our fingertips, this bit has eluded me.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 26 Jul 15 - 10:33 AM

mobile.greyhound.ca tells me that busses leave Vancouver for Princeton at 12:15 AM, 6:00 AM, and 6:15 AM. Both the early morning busses get in at 11:00 AM, the later one requiring a transfer. Cost is about $35. The Greyhound station at Vancouver is in the same facility as the Amtrak terminal.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 26 Jul 15 - 02:18 PM

Thanks...taking train to vancouver and then bus..highly recommend this opdtion...also check out bolt bus from portland or seattle or belingham to vancouver..i got one.last yeatr for two dollars.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 12 Aug 15 - 12:09 PM

The Festival's this weekend. I'll be there for the Saturday anyway. And it looks like mg is coming. Maybe Bob the Postman? Any other mudcatters?

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Stewart
Date: 12 Aug 15 - 01:15 PM

I'll be there, Saturday, 10 am, on the Library Stage

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 13 Aug 15 - 11:52 AM

Great. That's 3, possibly 4 mudcatters.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 13 Aug 15 - 03:49 PM

It starts tomorrow!

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Aug 15 - 03:56 PM

I am on my way and so will be robinia..traveling by bus and train..easy if you can sleep on bus till four a.m. Might see us sleeping on grass til motel opens.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 14 Aug 15 - 03:40 AM

Who are you, guest?

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 14 Aug 15 - 06:21 AM

Me. Do not see robi ka. Stuck on a dead bus outside hope. But better it broke down here than on that.mountain road.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: mg
Date: 14 Aug 15 - 07:18 AM

It has been hours that we have been stuck. There has beenserious incompetence on that part of greyhound...just recently disoatched new bus despite being totally broken down as we apprlach mountains..kept trying to get driver to wait ten minutes and try again...sheer incompetence.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 14 Aug 15 - 11:49 AM

What a drag, mg. Hope the bus gets going......if it hasn't already. See you in Princeton.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 14 Aug 15 - 01:34 PM

Well, my sad story is that one or more forest fires have closed the highways at Rock Creek, halfway between me and Princeton. I just cancelled my three nights at the Riverside Motel, if anyone is hankering for rustic cabin accomodations next to the Tulameen swimming hole.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 14 Aug 15 - 02:03 PM

weather.gc.ca reports a Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect for Princeton this afternoon. Hope you brought your mask and snorkel, mg.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 14 Aug 15 - 07:06 PM

But Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be relatively sunny.

Subject: RE: Princeton BC Trad Music Festival 2015
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 14 Aug 15 - 11:05 PM

Bob The Postman ......sorry I'm going to miss you at the Festival. That Rock Creek fire sounds pretty horrible, with some people losing their homes, etc.