NLFolkFest: Granville Sisters, Daoiri Farrell, Sharon Shannon, Rum Ragged

[David Dalton]

Today/tonight I went to the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival again,
and the highlights (though note I slept in late and missed some good local
acts) were The Granville Sisters, Daoiri Farrell, and Sharon Shannon, all
from Ireland, and Kaia Kater from Montreal and Rum Ragged from here in
Newfoundland. Sharon Shannon is a wonderful button accordion player who I
last saw in Vancouver 24 or 25 years ago at a Rogue Folk Club show at The
W.I.S.E. Hall.

Note that The Granville Sisters will be playing Folk Night at The Ship Pub at
9 p.m. on Wednesday August 14.

For more information on the festival and Folk Night visit https://nlfolk.com/
.

Also the lineup for the smaller indoor Feile Seamus Creagh will be
announced on http://www.feileseamuscreagh.com/ soon, but the
dates are September 4--8, 2019, and the Irish contingent includes
Jackie Daly, who has been here in Newfoundland several times
before.

[David Dalton]

Post by David Dalton
Today/tonight I went to the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival again,
and the highlights (though note I slept in late and missed some good local
acts) were The Granville Sisters, Daoiri Farrell, and Sharon Shannon, all
from Ireland, and Kaia Kater from Montreal and Rum Ragged from here in
Newfoundland. Sharon Shannon is a wonderful button accordion player who I
last saw in Vancouver 24 or 25 years ago at a Rogue Folk Club show at The
W.I.S.E. Hall.

SS was probably even better technically than 24 or 25 years ago, but
I think she may have been slightly jet lagged, and playing almost
automatically. But she still wowed me.

One disadvantage we have in bringing Irish players over to
St. John’s these days is that direct flights have been
discontinued, so they have to fly past Newfoundland
to Halifax or Toronto and then transfer and fly back.
But there is some lobbying afoot to change that.