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2020-07-10

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The National Folk Festival is thanking all of the

The National Folk Festival is thanking all of the performers who have come to Salisbury in the last two years. We are privileged to work with such amazing artists, whose joy and kindness and enthusiasm create lasting impacts on everyone in attendance. We will miss you this September, but look forward to 2021.

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#NationalFolkFestival #NFFMaryland #NCTA #nctausa #salisburymd #maryland

@lowellfolkfest's Virtual Celebration is here! Mak

@lowellfolkfest's Virtual Celebration is here! Make sure to tune into the classic 1999 radio broadcast tonight at 6:30, and Saturday and Sunday at noon!

Saturday night at 6:30pm, settle in for a full night of incredible concerts! New York-based Afro-Colombian dance band @gruporebolu will be presenting an original set, and we can’t wait to share it with you!

Grupo Rebolu is the only Afro-Colombian ensemble of its kind in the United States, promoting the rich, rhythmic and eminently danceable music from Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Comprised of some of the U.S.’s finest resident Colombian musicians, Rebolu was founded by singer/composer/gaitero Ronald Polo, master percussionist Morris Cañate, and singer Johanna Castañeda. With one foot firmly rooted in their rich, ancestral traditions and the other in fresh, 21st century innovation, Grupo Rebolu brings the best of Afro-Colombian music to New York City’s vibrant Latin and Caribbean music communities and beyond.

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Don’t touch that dial! Keeping the Tradition: A

Don’t touch that dial! Keeping the Tradition: A Virtual Celebration of the @LowellFolkFest starts tonight, Friday July 24th at 6:30pm! Tune in for part one of a vintage radio series broadcast, produced by @WDUQ public radio in partnership with the NCTA. The series, not aired since 1999, features highlights from Lowell’s earliest years, curated and narrated by late NCTA director Joe Wilson. The broadcast continues Saturday and Sunday at 12pm, and will be available this weekend only!

On Sunday, part three begins with string wizards Wayne Henderson, Zhentian Zhang, Tamara Volskaya and Anatoly Trofimov, and Richard Hagopian, followed by gospel greats the Birmingham Sunlights, the Chosen Sisters, and the @campbellbrothersband with Katie Jackson. Up next are vocal virtuosos Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Ana Vinagre, and the @blindboysofalabama, followed by musical storytellers John Jackson, Dalton Roberts with Johnny Bellar, Howard Armstrong, and Buck Ramsey. The broadcast concludes with country and rockabilly legends @jefflittlemusic & the Rockabilly All-Stars, Sleepy Labeef, and @BR5_49. Tune in at facebook.com/LowellFolkFestival/, lowellfolkfestival.org/ or at 980 WCAP in Lowell.

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This Saturday, July 25th at 6:30pm, @lowellfolkfes

This Saturday, July 25th at 6:30pm, @lowellfolkfest's Virtual Celebration will present an amazing array of traditional music, including both new and archival concert footage of Lowell Folk Festival artists, available to stream this weekend only! Be sure to check out the 2019 performance by rockabilly guitar phenom Albert Lee!

British-born, Malibu-based guitarist Albert Lee gained acclaim in the 1960s as one of the UK’s top R&B players, and since the 1970s has been one of the top rockabilly guitarists in the world. In England, Lee is a household name, and in Nashville and Los Angeles, he’s long been among the most in-demand session guitarists. Nicknamed “Mr. Telecaster,” he is noted for his fingerstyle and hybrid picking technique, lightning speed, and melodic sensibilities. Over the years, he’s worked with Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Joe Cocker, Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Bo Diddley, and Eric Clapton, to name just a few. Lee has received many awards, including a Grammy, and was named Best Country Guitarist five consecutive times by Guitar Player magazine.

Check out the Festival website for more information about the full program at http://www.lowellfolkfestival.org

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Starting Friday at 6:30pm and continuing Saturday

Starting Friday at 6:30pm and continuing Saturday and Sunday at noon, Keeping the Tradition: A Virtual Celebration of the @LowellFolkFestival is airing a 13-part vintage radio series broadcast from 1999, produced by WDUQ public radio in partnership with the NCTA. The series consists of highlights from Lowell’s earliest years narrated by late NCTA DIrector Joe Wilson.

Saturday’s broadcast starts with a Caribbean segment featuring Los Pleneros del Coco, Ivan Cuesta y sus Baltimore Vallenatos, and Blinky & the Roadmasters, followed by Barachois, Cape Breton fiddlers Joseph Cormier and Buddy MacMaster, and the Rankin Family from the Canadian Maritime provinces. Next is a showcase on New Orleans’ Paulin Brothers Brass Band, Samba Ngo and the Ngoma Players, Claude Williams Trio with Jamie Slide, a blues segment featuring John Cephas & Phil Wiggins, Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson, and Charles Brown, and finishing out Saturday’s broadcast are bluegrass artists the James King Band, the Lynn Morris Band, and the Johnson Mountain Boys.

Tune in all weekend long at LowellFolkFestival.org or WCAP.org!

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Keeping the Tradition: A Virtual Celebration of th

Keeping the Tradition: A Virtual Celebration of the @LowellFolkFest will showcase three original performances starting at 6:30 this Saturday! Don’t miss a set by giants of Irish traditional music and members of supergroup the Alt, @JohnDoyle1 and @NualaKennedymusic!

Dublin-born, North Carolina-based John Doyle has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential Irish guitarists of his generation. With a signature left-hand picking style, Doyle has invented a whole new way of playing the rhythm for Irish dance tunes. Singer Nuala Kennedy is known for her beautiful vocals and fine flute and whistle playing. From Dundalk, Ireland, an area with historical links to Scotland, she developed an extensive repertoire of Scottish tunes and songs to add to the Irish material she had already mastered. The ballads, tunes, and rediscovered songs Doyle and Kennedy bring to the collaboration reflect their love of the traditional songs that have been a touchstone of Irish identity for generations.

Catch this and other performances at http://www.lowellfolkfestival.org
#LowellFolkFestival #JohnDoyle #NualaKennedy #Irishtraditionalmusic

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