31st Annual Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival (Newfoundland 2007)

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Our 2007 Trip to Newfoundland

31st Annual
NLFF
2007

Main Stage: Sat. aft. Sat. eve. Sun. aft. Sun. eve. Audience
Neil Murray Stage: Saturday Sunday
Workshops: Oral Traditions Instrumental Dance
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31st Annual Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival

Main Stage

photo courtesy of CBC Radio FRIDAY EVENING
August 3
with host Ted Blades

6:45 Opening ceremonies
  7:00 Sandy Morris & Jenny Gear
  7:45 Shawn Lidster and Friends
  8:30 Sherry Ryan and Mark Bragg
  9:15 Crooked Stovepipe
10:00 Dana Whittle and Claude Methe Band
10:45 Mopaya

Unfortunately, thanks to a late flight from Great Bend to Kansas City, compounded by an early departure by the Air Canada flight to Toronto, we misconnected and arrived in St. John's 22 hours late, thus missing the Friday evening performances this year.

photo courtesy of Neil Butler SATURDAY AFTERNOON
August 4
with host Neil Butler

1:00 Joe Belly & the Sin City Ramblers
1:40 Ford Elms
1:50 Ballad Session (Anita Best, Allen
        Byrne, Linda Slade-Byrne, Kori
        Miyanishi, Danny Spooner)
2:40  The Forgotten Bouzouki
3:20  Ford Elms
3:30 McInnis’ Kitchen
4:10 Dancing on the Grass

photo by Rick West SATURDAY EVENING
August 4
with hosts Jean Hewson
& Sam Whiffen

  7:00 Accordion Session (Vince Collins,
          Daniel Payne, Frank Maher, Art Stoyles,
          Allan Ricketts)
  7:45 Andy Jones
  8:05 Sean Panting
  8:35 Rowdy Blues
  9:15 Mahers Bahers
  9:55 Dyad
10:40 Kelly Russell and the Planks

SUNDAY AFTERNOON
August 5
with host
Francesca Swann

1:00 Gulliver's Spree
1:40 The Rosalines
2:10 Danny Spooner
2:40 Folk Arts Council Dancers
2:55 Mary Barry & Paddy Barry
3:30 Fiddle Session (Claude Méthé, Shiho
Mizumoto, Pat Moran, Kelly Russell,
Christina Smith)
4:15 Lifetime Achievement Award - Wilf Doyle
4:20 Ray Walsh Family

photo by Rick West SUNDAY EVENING
August 5
host: John Clarke

7:00 Richard Neville
  7:45 The Once
  8:30  Dale Jarvis
  8:50 Tribute to Dermot O'Reilly
9.30 Little Miss Higgins
10:15 Crowd of Bold Sharemen
11:00 6-String Nation Guitar Session (Jean
          Hewson, Pamela Morgan, Sandy Morris,
          Gordon Quinton, Foy Taylor, Eric West)

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