New website for Omagh festival

The Appalachian and Bluegrass Music Festival at the Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, now has a new website as part of the National Museums Northern Ireland organisation.

The new site gives full programme, ticketing, location, and other information, together with photos and details of all the seventeen acts taking part. This year the festival reclaims its traditional place in showcasing Appalachian dance with the presence of Eileen Carson of the Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble (profiled in Bluegrass Unlimited earlier this year); and its mission of bringing bluegrass to young people, with the return of Charles Pettee and John Currie from Asheville, North Carolina, to run the Bluegrass Camp for Kids.

Thanks to the Dangem company for this news. Dangem also announce their next Bluegrass Get-Together at the Island Civic Centre, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, on the morning of Saturday 19 September. Full details are on the Dangem website, together with the dates (26-8 February 2010) for the second annual Dangem Banjo Camp.