Moniaive Festival dates for 2011
Thanks to FOAOTMAD, the UK old-time music organisation, for the news that the 3rd Moniaive Michaelmas Bluegrass Festival will be held this year on 23-25 September in the village of Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Links between northern Ireland and western Scotland have been strong in the past, and previous Moniaive festivals have continued this by having a visible presence of bluegrass people from Ulster, including the Dangem Quality Instruments company of Craigavon, Co. Armagh.
The village hosts other bluegrass events during the year: last Saturday (22 Jan.) a 'Bluegrass Connections' show was held, featuring the Woodshed All Stars from Scotland. Check the Moniaive website.
posted by Richard Hawkins @ 11:41 am
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So this is where the bluegrass festival originated. The Americans are copycats?
That might be hard to maintain. Moniaive is only on its third year, and July 2011 will be the fiftieth anniversary of the first all-day, all-bluegrass event at Luray, VA. However, as the Scots can already claim Bill Monroe as one of their own, they may not bother to claim the credit for starting bluegrass festivals...
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I should of course have mentioned the Scottish Bluegrass Association's annual festival in Guildtown, Perthshire, founded four years before our own Athy festival: the 25th Guildtown festival will be held on 29 July-1 Aug. 2011.
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This is a great wee festival. Looking forward to it again this year.
Another boob on my part: what (as far as I can make out) should have been mentioned as the first all-day, all-bluegrass event is the 'Blue Grass Day' organised by Don Owens and John Miller at Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA, on 14 Aug. 1960.
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