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."