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2010 Folk Festival – The Talent
Photos of some of the performers at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]PArQLfEfwdg[/youtube]
Read More »Folk Festival – People
Photos of some of the people I saw at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]IMwoAI8Tj68[/youtube]
Read More »Folk Festival Ramblings, ‘Sunday, Sunday…’
Kudos to the City of Lowell, Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitor Bureau, Lowell Festival Foundation, Lowell National Historical Park, and National Council for Traditional Arts for once again being the prime movers behind an inspiring and joyful Lowell Folk Festival. The Sunday crowd was much smaller than yesterday’s, but it…
Read More »Michele Choiniere & Jack Kerouac @ LFF
The popular Franco-American singer-songwriter Michele Choiniere of Vermont this afternoon at Boarding House Park dedicated her final song at the Lowell Folk Festival to Jack Kerouac because, she said, “He was a Franco-American, and he was from Lowell.” I missed her additional comments about the song and the title, but it…
Read More »Blogger Language Use Revealing
Have you created a special blogger persona for yourself – an anonymity in the internet world? It might surprise you that according to research done by Tal Yarkoni of the University of Colorado at Bolder – a blogger’s choice of language is in fact not concealing or masking the “real you”…
Read More »Globe reports on Cupples Square stabbings
A story in today’s Boston Globe provides some details about the two fatal stabbings that occurred in Cupples Square on Friday afternoon, and the third (non-fatal stabbing) that happened a short distance away.
Read More »UMASS Lowell Part of the Economic Boom
In today’s Globe Rob Gavin (formerly a Lowell SUN staffer) gives us an account of the many projects the UMass system is undertaking across its five campuses. He calls them “another sign of its growing impact on regional economies.” The projects bring federal and private dollars into the Commonwealth and importantly it…
Read More »‘Saturday, Saturday…’
I’ve been to every Folk Festival since the first National Folk Festival in Lowell in 1987, and the 2010 Saturday was as good as I’ve seen it—the talent, the street life, the audience size, the urban energy. I spent a lot of time at Boarding House Park with the UMass…
Read More »Saturday at the Folk Festival
I began my Folk Festival Day at the St John’s Baptist Church soul food stand at the Dutton Street Dance Pavilion with a plate of barbecued ribs, rice and beans, green beans and corn bread which was excellent. The rest of the afternoon was spent wandering around, visiting the various…
Read More »Casino Connections: Gettysburg to Holyoke
As the Massachusetts House and Senate conferees continue to negotiate the elements of the casino/gambling bill, stories continue to crop-up about casinos elsewhere. One of the most controversial is the attempt to license a casino only a half-mile from the national military park that commemorates the Civil War battle…
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