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Read this Toronto Star report about this month’s celebration of The Beatles in their hometown of Liverpool, England. The events include a special version of the annual Mathew Street Music Festival (Aug. 29-30), which is billed as “Europe’s largest free music festival.” That description should sound familiar to Lowell Folk Festival people,…
Read More »Break dancers from UTEC and the “Yo Yo People” [youtube]kSh9gXiCGOI[/youtube]
Read More »Scenes from the streets of Lowell during the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]F3c5vAOk3UM[/youtube]
Read More »Photos of some of the ethnic food booths at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]CNwQXa4MP7U[/youtube]
Read More »Photos of some of the performers at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]PArQLfEfwdg[/youtube]
Read More »Photos of some of the people I saw at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]IMwoAI8Tj68[/youtube]
Read More »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 »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 »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 »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…
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