From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #187 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Tuesday, July 8 2008 Volume 09 : Number 187 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] The Kennedys at New Bedford Summerfest [MercyHouse1@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:34:27 EDT From: MercyHouse1@aol.com Subject: [JP] The Kennedys at New Bedford Summerfest This is an overview of an incredible weekend. This was my first New Bedford Folk Festival since I saw N&K Nields (among others) there in 2003. I had never seen TK there before. I missed our usual family vacation in Eagle River WI to attend New Bedford this year -- the first time I'd not gone to Eagle River since 1977, a span of about 30 years. The delights of the New Bedford Summerfest helped to assuage the pain. It's billed as an international folk festival, and so it was, with performers from the US, Canada, England, Scotland, and Australia, among others. And the workshop stages had the most jamming I'd ever seen in one place -- hardly anything at all like workshop stages at other festivals I'd seen. TK were billed to play 6 separate times at various stages over the course of Saturday and Sunday -- I managed to catch 5 of the 6 billed Kennedys appearances. And I was exposed to music and musicians I'd never seen nor heard before, along the way, which is one of the delights of having festivals at all, discovering new artists. Some of whom really knocked my socks off too! More to come -- Bruce Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V9 #187 **********************************