June 25, 26 & 27, 2010   Altamont Fairgrounds, Altamont, NY  
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2009 Old Songs Festival Performers
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program subject to change
Top row, L to R: Reveillons!, Lissa Schneckenburger, Little Toby Walker, Josh White Jr., Peggy Seeger. Bottom row: Bill Harley, Lea Gilmore, Elizabeth LaPrelle, Christine Lavin


Peter & Mary Alice Amidon
     shape-note singing, folk songs

Asterisk
     music * poetry * movement
     former members of Tales & Scales   

Lou & Peter Berryman
     eccentric songs from Wisconsin

Bua
     Chicago's Irish super-group

Michael Cooney
     one-man folk festival

Double Decker String Band
     Southern old-time tunes and songs

The Flying Garbanzos
     contra dance band

Galitcha
     music of India

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen
     trad./contemporary folk duo

Lea Gilmore
     goddess of blues, soul & Gospel

Groovemama
     old-time & Franco-American stringband

Bill Harley
     family singer/songwriter/storyteller
     2-time Grammy winner!

Hokum Hawaiians
    jug band

Louis Killen
     illustrious singer of British balladry

Elizabeth LaPrelle
   & the Fruit Dodgers

     young Appalachian balladeer
     & family band

Christine Lavin
     wonderfully skewed songs

Jez Lowe & Kate Bramley
     prolific British songwriter
     with fiddler/singer Kate

Jimmy & Ada McCown
     old-time music from Kentucky

Nanne & Ankie and the Hudson Crew
     songs from the Netherlands
     + Henry Hudson song cycle

Red Hen
     old-time band

Top row, L to R: Red Hen, Lou & Peter Berryman
Bottom row: Galitcha, Jez Lowe

Reveillons!
     music and dance of Quebec

John Roberts & Tony Barrand
     English folk song duo

Roger the Jester
     Juggling, mime and tomfoolery

Paul Rosenberg
     dance caller

Lissa Schneckenberger
     New England fiddle and folk singer

Peggy Seeger
     legendary folk singer and songwriter

Bill Smith & Don Woodcock
     North Country NY storytelling
     and fiddle tunes

 

Bill Spence & Fennig's All-Stars
   
contra dance band

Jake Thomas
    sign language interpreter

Vanaver Caravan
    dance & music ensemble

Toby Walker
    American blues and roots

George Ward
    songs, ballads and stories

Josh White, Jr.
    folk, blues veteran

Steve Zakon-Anderson
    dance caller

 

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