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is an active teacher, singer, and scholar. Currently on the faculty at
Boston University, his courses include "Stalking the Wild Mind: The
Psychology and Folklore of Extra-Sensory Perception amd Psychic
Phenomena," "English Ritual Dance and Drama" and "Folk Songs as Social
History."
He frequently sings with John Roberts. Their numerous recordings are available from Golden Hind Records.
Much of Tony's research and teaching has focused on various forms of
the seasonal display dances now known generically as Morris dancing.
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 | Basket Landingis a young folk/bluegrass group which includes Joan Stein,
lead vocals; Nate Zaur, vocals, guitar, banjo, string bass,and piano;
and teenagers John Powers, mandolin; Amy Powers, banjo; and Kevin
Anderson, bass guitar, and hand drums.
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Norris Bennett
has played banjo, mountain dulcimer, guitar, and autoharp in 14
different countries from Europe to the far east. Born in Ocala, FL and
raised in Buffalo, NY, he has been a devotee of the high mountain sound
of the music of the southeastern United States, for most of his life.
He is lead vocalist of the Ebony Hillbillies.
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Colleen Clevelandis a decendant of Scottish and Irish
settlers in the Adirondacks. Her family's music and stories from the
old country include ancient ballads or story-songs, for which the Scots
are known. Sara Cleveland, Colleen's grandmother, was a
nationally-famous ballad singer of her generation, and Colleen learned
many songs from her.
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Pat Conte
is a master instrumentalist with a secret - his Secret Museum of
recordings from the '20s and '30s, vinyl treasures of ethnic music that
he has collected over the years. A five-CD set of music from this
collection has been issued by Yazoo. Pat will introduce you to a whole
world of music you didn't even know existed.
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DisCanto
was founded in 1997 to represent and to reveal the musical culture of
Italy, in particular ethnic and popular music. DisCanto's repertoire
includes songs of harvest, lullabies, night songs, funeral wails, and
popular dances. Instruments include guitar, mandolin, violin, cello,
accordion, percussion, and traditional Italian bagpipes
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 | Craig Edwards
brings together a broad range of American roots music, finding the
common thread of rhythmic power, poetry, and passion that’s sustained
these musical cultures for so long. Old-time fiddle and banjo, delta
blues guitar, Cajun and Zydeco accordion, solo and group singing, and
Irish and French Canadian dance tunes form the core of his music.
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Jerry Epstein
is a singer of (mostly) unaccompanied traditional song of the Eastern US and Canada, and a pretty fair concertina player.
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Howard Glasseris the founding father of the Eisteddfod and
Festival Director Emeritus. He has also collected folksongs in Scotland
and other places. A noted calligrapher, Howard designed the
Eisteddfod-NY logo.
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Len Graham
is an award-winning traditional singer from Northern Ireland.
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Jodee James brings a new energy to the music of Wales and
the other Celtic lands. Singing ancient tales and ageless themes of
love, loyalty, longing and mystery, with a voice that is touching and
intimate, Jodee conjures the very essence of tradition, whether of this
century or many centuries before us.
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David Jonesis a master of English traditional song,
everything from the ballad tradition to the Music Halls, and an always
welcome regular at the festival.
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Dan Milner
has been involved in Irish traditional song all his life as a singer,
author, collector, organizer and teacher. He is best known for his book
of folk songs, The Bonnie Bunch of Roses,
published by Oak; his classic Folk-Legacy maritime song recording,
Irish Ballads & Songs of the Sea with Louis Killen, Mick Moloney,
Bob Conroy and others; and for the weekly traditional music club he ran
for 10 years at Malachy McCourt's Bells of Hell and The Eagle Tavern in
New York.
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 | Barry O'Neill
is the most laid-back, unassuming singer ever to fascinate an audience
with his very unusual repertiore of songs from the streets of New York,
to Eastern Canada, to the Victorian parlor.
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John Roberts
is a superb English singer who plays guitar, fiddle, concertina, and hurdy-gurdy.
He frequently sings with Tony Barrand.
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Dave Ruch
sings, either a cappella or with 5-string banjo, guitar, mandolin, lap
dulcimer, washtub bass or jaw harp, joyful songs that combine with
stories and humor to captivate audiences young and old. He is equal
parts historian, entertainer, educator, comedian and folklorist. He
finds his material in dusty archives, obscure songbooks, diaries, old
recordings, scholarly journals, and sometimes from his own children,
then brings these gems to life in a most entertaining style.
 Dave will be presenting "Traditional and Historical Songs of New York State," a special talk funded by the Speakers in the Humanities Program, made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the New York State Legislature.
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George Ward
presents songs and stories of the canals and Adirondacks, fresh and salt waters,
Ireland, England, and America. He plays banjo, guitar, tin whistle, concertina, fiddle, jaw harp and more.
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Dave Webber & Anni Fentimanmade their duo
debut on stage at the Eisteddfod Festival in Dartmouth Massachusetts in
1993 -- which began a very successful career as a harmony duo, working
largely acapella and featuring mainly traditional and traditional idiom
material. Anni has developed a specialist repertoire of songs
originating from her native North East, while Dave writes songs in
traditional vein, many of which are widely sung and have become part of
the general song repertoire of singers all over the world.
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Toby Weinberg is a world-class performer on the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. |
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Heather Wood
is a veteran singer from the English revival for some 40+ years, dating
from her days with The Young Tradition. In addition to the old songs,
she has written some dynamite new ones.
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