East Durham Trad Fest
East Durham Trad Fest – $0.00
A one-day festival featuring world-class arts week faculty and special guests performing traditional Irish music, song, storytelling and dance.
All-Day Event | $20 per ticket
Please Note: The festival is free for youth under 18.
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Exciting Full-Day Festival of Traditonal Music and Dance on July 19, 2014 12:00pm – 7:00pm
| EAST DURHAM TRAD FEST – SATURDAY JULY 19TH
Dedicated to the memory of FELIX DOLAN |
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| 12:00-12:10 pm | Opening Prayer, and Dedication to Felix Dolan:
Msgr. Charlie Coen / Bill Ochs |
| 12:15-1:00 pm | Robbie O’Connell / Dan Milner / George Keith / Don Meade / Sean Gavin / Benedict Koehler / Kieran Jordan, Kristen Kelly & Jackie O’Riley |
| 1:15-2:00 pm | “A BLAST OF WIND”:
ACCORDIONS AND CONCERTINAS TAKE CENTER STAGE Billy McComiskey / Jackie Daly / John Nolan / Patty Furlong / Dan Gurney James Keane / Edel Fox / Dympna O’Sullivan / Msgr. Charlie Coen |
| 2:15-3:00 pm | CD LAUNCH:
“FORGET ME NOT” by ROSE FLANAGAN AND LAURA BYRNE Brian Conway / Rose Conway Flanagan / Laura Byrne / Brendan Dolan / Jerry O’Sullivan / Catherine McEvoy / Pauline Conneely |
| 3:15-4:00 pm | Mary Bergin / Kathleen Loughnane / Julee Glaub Weems / Annmarie Acosta
John Creaven / Patrick Ourceau / Myron Bretholz |
| 4:15-5:00 pm | Mai Hernon / Charlie O’Connell / Pat Egan / Bernadette NicGabhann /
Seamus Connolly / Ciaran O Maonaigh / Willie Kelly / Michael Tubridy / James Keane / Jimmy Coen / Padraig McEneany |
| 5:15-6:00 pm | CD LAUNCH:
“ROLLING ON” by MATT CRANITCH AND JACKIE DALY Matt Cranitch / Jackie Daly / Paul De Grae / Conal O’Grada / Marta Cook / Tes Slominski / Mai Hernon / Timmy McCarthy |
| 6:15-7:00 pm | CD LAUNCH:
“HAYMAKER” by THE YANKS Isaac Alderson / Dylan Foley / Dan Gurney / Sean Earnest / Mairin Ui Cheide Kevin Crawford / Edel Fox / Anna Colliton / Siobhan Butler |
| DANCE PAVILION | |
| 12:30-1:30 pm | Solas an Lae School of American Irish Dance, Deirdre Lowry, Director
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| 2:00-3:00 pm
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Concert featuring CCE Sean O’Riada Branch (Albany, NY)
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| 3:30-5:30 pm
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CEILI MOR with the Pride Of Moyvane Ceili Band, led by
Margie Mulvihill and John Reynolds, also featuring Patty Furlong, John Nolan, Linda Hickman, Bernadette Fee, Regan Wick, Brendan Fahey |
Admission: $20 at the gate ($15 in advance for Catskills Irish Arts Week students and free for youth under 18). Tickets are available online or through the MJQICSC office at 518-634-2286.
The Trad Fest at the end of the week, this year is dedicated to the late Felix Dolan, a longtime member of the CIAW teaching and performing faculty and a true icon in the music tradition. Sadly Felix died just before Arts Week last year. The Trad Fest is a feast for all who love the traditional music, songs and dances of Ireland. It will host a wealth of talent from masters in these traditions from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, most of whom had the pleasure of knowing and performing with Felix and who have spent the week in our workshops and on our stages. It is a treasure to behold for all who cannot make it for the whole week You will get a taste of what the week offers in a day, with seven complete concerts onstage in the Concert Pavillion, starting at noon with an opening prayer and dedication to Felix by Monsignor Coen. You will have the opportunity to dance or to enjoy the dancers as they take to the floor in a ceili mor in the Dance Pavilion from 3.00pm to 6.00pm. This dance is preceded by a performance given by the Sean O’Riada Comhaltas Branch of Albany N.Y. from 2.00pm to 3.00pm.
From the Artistic Desk