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SUNDAY AUGUST 1, 2010 - PRE-FESTIVAL OPEN AIR GOSPEL CONCERT
Time: 2:00 pm
Place: Beaverbrook Kin Centre Patio, 100 Newcastle Blvd
Admission: Freewill
offering
Special Guests: Brenda Jones from Sussex, NB Canadian Gospel
Music Assoc. winner and a host of local entertainers Co-EMCEE Rev. Ross Wiseman & Susan Butler
C.M.,O.N.B. Director of the Festival
Inclement Weather: To be held inside.
Note:
Please bring lawn chair.
Sponsored by: Canadas Best Value Inn & Suites
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MONDAY AUGUST 2, 2010 NB Day Breakfast: 9am to 11:30am Music continues until 12noon Place: Beaverbrook Kin Centre 100 Newcastle Blvd Featured Music: Jim Morrison & The Down East Entertainers with Susan Butler, Melanie Ross Breen,
The Gillis Family & other special guests
Sponsors: Kinsmen Club of Miramichi and Northumberland Co-op. Tickets at door - $ 6.00 adults/children $3.00
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| Melanie Ross |
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| Jim Morrison, Susan Butler and the Down East Entertainers |
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| Gillis Family |
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| The Sky Family |
53rd Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival
Official Opening - Miramichi Civic Centre - 487 King George
Hwy.
Monday - August 2nd, 7:00pm
Featuring three family acts. Advanced tickets
$20. Door $25. Weekly passes on sale.
1) The Sky Family from Prince Edward Island. With Father
Tom, head of Unshamed Ministries with sons Joel, Seth, Gabe, and daughter Miriam. The Sky family bring a breathtaking and
heartwarming package of Irish singing, dancing and playing. They compose their own Irish-style music and step dance routines.
The quality of the music, the dance, and the drama will make this a performance to remember.
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2) Ballagh Bunch from Teeswater Ontario. Mom, Dad, 2 daughters Paige and Michael, and 2 sons Devon and
Mathew. Their show with fiddle and stepdancing make for a full show of toe tapping music.
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| Gadelle |
3) Gadelle from Prince Edward Island. A four member, all women, traditional French-Acadian band that
includes former internationally acclaimed Barachois members, Helen Bergeron and Louise Arsenault. Gadelle is an old Acadian
word which translates as "wild berries" and also has a connotation as feisty female. Gadelle members play piano,
sing, step-dance, fiddle, harmonica and foot percussion.
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TUESDAY AUGUST 3rd - NOON LUNCHEON Time:
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Beaverbrook Kin Centre, 100 Newcastle Blvd.
Tickets:
Adults $12.00
Children $6.00 Tickets
at door
Featured Music: 11:30 am - Ballagh Bunch, Teeswater Ont.
12:00
Noon - singer - Jimmy Lawlor, Miramichi
12:30 pm - singers - Before the Mast, Saint John, NB
(nine men who sing sea shantys)
Reservations can be made ahead for the
first seating only, by Sponsored by Bells Meadows Funeral Home
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| Jimmy Lawlor |
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| Before the Mast |
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| Miramichi Fiddlers |
Tuesday, August 3rd - Evening Concert
Featuring:
Miramichi's own, Miramichi Fiddlers
Miramichi Fiddlers are thirty dedicated
men and women who are ambassadors of music for the Miramichi. And also Before the Mast, an acappalla vocal group dedicated
to promoting and preserving songs of the sea. Most of the songs come from the merchant sailor tradition, but a number deal
with the Navy. The groups repertoire also includes songs by modern composers such as Tom Lewis, Archie Fisher, and Jim Stewart.
Before the Mast is based in Saint John area of NB, which was once home to one of the largest ocean going saling fleets in
the British Empire.
Plus Melanie Ross Breen, Helen & Aubrey Stewart, Elizabeth Smith, Gerry Roberts from
Ireland, Cathy Daigle, Frank McKibbon, Elizabeth Smith, Colleen Estey, plus a host of other performers.
Location: Beaverbrook Kin Centre 100 Newcastle Blvd, Miramichi, N.B. Time: 7:30pm Price: Advance $12.00/ Door $
15.00 On Sale: Book's Inn - Bill's Kwik Way, at the door, email
bb2@nb.sympatico.ca or call (506)622-1780 Children under 12 with parent, free.
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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4th, 2010 Noon Luncheon with live music,
Beaverbrook Kin Centre - 100 Newcastle Blvd. Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Featured Music:
11:30 am. - singers - The Gillis Family, Miramichi
12:00 Noon - fiddling barber - Norman Young, Miramichi
12:30 pm. - singer - Melanie Ross Breen from NS Location : Beaverbrook Kin Centre, 100 Newcastle Blvd. Tickets : Adults - $ 12.00 Children $ 5.00 Tickets at door Reservations can be made ahead for the first seating only. By Phone : (506) 622-1780 or by
Sponsored by Newcastle Pharmasave Drugs
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| Gillis Family |
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| Melanie Ross Breen Children's Show |
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4th, 2010 - CHILDREN'S
SHOW Time: 2:00 P.M. Beaverbrook Kin Centre, 100 Newcastle Blvd. Hosted by Melanie Ross Breen from Halifax, NS. Special Guest: Nicole Saulnier, fiddler and step
dancer from Riverview, NB.
Event :Children under 16, who sing folksongs, dance, play an instrument, or tell a story may perform by registering on or before July 1st.
(506) 622-1780 or e-mail bb2@sympatico.ca
All performers receive a cash prize
Price : Adults : $5.00 Children
:$2.00 TICKETS AT THE DOOR ONLY Sponsored by Newcastle Printing & Pizza Delight, Newcastle |
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| The Landry Family |
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4, 2010 Time: 7:30 pm
Location:
Beaverbrook Kin Centre, 100 Newcastle Blvd. Special Guests - Back by popular demand, The Landry Family, Allison & Alexander Landry,
great grandchildren of noted
fiddling champion, Ned Landry. They sing, dance, play the fiddle and yodel. They will be joined by other local musicians.
Advance tickets :
$12.00 At the Door :$15.00
On Sale at : Books Inn & Bills Kwik Way,
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THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 2010 Noon Luncheon with live music Time
:11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Location :Beaverbrook
Kin Centre, 100 Newcastle Blvd. Tickets :Adults
:$12.00 Children : $5.00 Featured Music:
11:30 am - singer - John Lordon, David Bunnell, Miramichi
12:00 Noon - singer - Al Dupuis, NS
12.30 pm - singer- Bob McCallum, Miramichi
Reservation can be made for the first seating only
By Phone : (506) 622-1780 or by Sponsored by Rodd Miramichi River
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THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 2010 Scottish
Highland Dance Workshop
with Elizabeth Smith, Fredericton/Miramichi Time
: 2:00 pm Location : Beaverbrook
Kin Centre, 100 Newcastle Blvd. Tickets
: Free, All ages welcome
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THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 2010
Time: 7:30 pm Location : Beaverbrook Kin Centre featuring SPECIAL GUESTS Ivan & Vivian Hicks, New Brunswick's ambassadors of fiddle music and recipients of many
musical awards, nationally and internationally. Plus Al Dupuis, NS former teacher who now finds happiness
on the stage. Al has performed in local pubs here in Miramichi in the late 60's. A singer song-writer and guitarist has
performed on such TV shows as Ryan's Fancy, Tommy Hunter and has recorded in Nashville and this past fall inducted
into the NBCMHF. Also, Gerry Roberts, Cathy Daigle, Melanie Ross Breen, Elizabeth Smith, Greg
Hoover - Syracuse NY, Smith School of Highland Dance, Gillis Family, Frank McKibbon and ECMA Nominee
Terry Whalen. Advance Tickets:
$12.00 At the Door: $15.00 On
Sale at Books Inn, Bills Kwik Way Children under 12 with
adult FREE
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* Jam Session
to follow evening concert at the Black Horse Tavern, across the street from the Beaverbrook
Kin Centre. For those 19 and over, bring your voice and your musical instruments or just come and enjoy the music. (a good
old-fashioned kitchen party!)
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FRIDAY AUGUST 6, 2010 There will be no noon
luncheon because of the closing Dinner/Theatre.
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Friday August
6, 2010 Closing
Dinner Theatre Time:
6:00 P.M. ADMISSION:
$30 by reservation only. Weekly pass will also cover this show. Those who purchase tickets for
dinner theatre and weekly pass must call to reserve their seat for dinner theatre at 506-622-1780 email: bb2@nb.sympatico.ca
Location :
Beaverbrook Kin Centre, 100 Newcastle Blvd
Featuring : The Heritage Players, Written by Bernie Colepaugh, a sequel to Whoop
Step & Driver (A History of the Miramichi Folksong Festival) Part 2.
Sponsored by: Econolodge & City Square Restaurant, 365 Pleasant St., Miramichi, NB.
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Plan now for next years festival.
54th Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival August
1st - 5th 2011
Pre-festival gospel concert July 31 2011
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