2009 ENTERTAINMENT IN THE FIELD 

Your Friends and Neighbors is our favorite contra band based in Ithaca, NY and run by Ted Crane.  They organically come together and play their favorite tunes...feel free to dance!!  They will be playing at 4:30 in the entertainment tent. 

TBD- TRAONACH is a fortunate meeting of talented session musicians from around the USA who have all, to their own amazement, ended up living in the small city of Ithaca, New York. Over the past two decades they have created a tight, driving sound that has delighted audiences at festivals and concert halls throughout the northeastern states. With Mark Bickford, Harry Lawless, Matt Malone, Ed McGowan and Scott Whitham playing fiddle, whistle, concertina, accordion, banjo, bouzouki, bodhran and the African Kora. 

"A deep knowledge and love of the music and a palpable zest for playing." Dirty Linen Magazine

PAMELA GODDARD grew up surrounded by folk music and has sung the old songs
of England, Scotland, and America most of her life. At an early age she was captivated by
the "Big Ballads" and humorous songs sung by such notables as Jean Redpath and Norman Kennedy. She's particularly fascinated by how versions of these songs traveled to North America.  "Part of what catches my ear is a great story, a good tune, and I like the feeling that I'm carrying on a tradition," says Goddard, who sings stories of average people- the housewife, the farmer, and young people in love. Her passion is to let people hear these versions of the songs, to let them know these songs exist. "If the song has lasted over one hundred years," she says, "there's something really compelling about it."