La Roche Bluegrass Festival 2009

The Skillet Lickers plus Colm Murphy (fiddle) playing next to a record stall in the covered market at La Roche (photo from Jim MacArdle)

The fourth La Roche Bluegrass Festival was held on 29 July-2 Aug. 2009 in La Roche-sur-Foron, Haute Savoie, France, a very pleasant town with a medieval core (left) among spectacular scenery (right) and with friendly people (below) who give generous and essential support to a festival that attracts 10,000-12,000 visitors annually with no admission charges and no disorder. This year Ireland was well represented by the Skillet Lickers from Drogheda (Jim MacArdle, Mick Dunne, and Dick McGarry). Interested? More text and photos here...


M. Michel Thabuis, maire of La Roche-sur-Foron, with Carol Hawkins