Eisteddfod (New Venue)
Friday, October 16 – Sunday October 18, 2009
at the Friar Tuck Inn, Catskill, NY 12414
The Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. announces a change in venue for this exciting Festival of Traditional Music. The festival is being moved from the Nevele (due to uncertain availability) to the Friar Tuck Inn in Catskill, NY. Located in the northern foothills of the Catskill Mountains, the Friar Tuck Inn has the facilities needed to accommodate the festival as well as all the amenities of a first class hotel and spa. It is about 40 miles south of Albany, NY and about 20 miles north of Kingston, NY.
This is the sixth festival to be held in New York after a 30 year history of festivals in Pittsburgh and Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The previous 5 were held in New York City and this is the first to be held in the upper Hudson Valley.
The festival features over 25 performers who are representatives of the traditional music of the US, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Canada, as well as other European regions . It has programs ideal for the whole family, and provides a very rare chance in New York to hear such diverse, and such high quality, performers all in a single venue. The Performers include: Claire Boucher, Paul Geremia, Norman Kennedy, Enoch Kent, Alison McMorland & Geordie McIntyre, John Roberts & Tony Barrand, Happy Traum, Bill & Livia Vanaver, George Ward, Eric Weissberg, Heather Wood, the Wreck Room String Band, and more. For a full list and details of the performers go to
www.eisteddfod-ny.org.
Participants are encouraged to register for the entire weekend to stay at the hotel and experience all the music. A special registration rate has been set up with information and a booking form available at
www.eisteddfod-ny.org. Information on day rates is also available at
www.eisteddfod-ny.org. You can reserve online directly at:
http://eisteddfod-ny.eventbrite.com/.
For information go to
www.eisteddfod-ny.org or call 718-672-6399
[The word "Eisteddfod" is Welsh. It connotes a gathering of poets and musicians, and there is a large Eisteddfod every year in Wales. The name was adopted by Howard Glasser, the founder of the American Eisteddfod, when he began these gatherings of singers and musicians four decades ago.]
