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Festival Director
Dick Glasgow
Festival Committee
Nat Magee
Ian Miller
Susan Miller
Nick O'Sullivan
Honorary Life Member:
William Rea
2006 Festival Sponsors
2005 Festival Sponsors
The National Trust at the Giants Causeway
Awards for All
Ballymoney Community Relations
Ballymoney Borough Arts Committee
Coleraine Borough Arts Committee
Moyle District Council
Balleybogey Community & District Association
Bushmills Festival Committee
House of McDonnell in Ballycastle
Springhill Bar in Portrush
The Distiller's Arms in Bushmills
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The Causeway Dulcimer Festival
has as its able director Co. Antrim traditional music teacher,
dulcimist / multi-instrumentalist, and promoter Dick Glasgow.
We are honored, as well, that Hector McDonnell,
of Glenarm Castle,
Co. Antrim, has agreed to be the festival Patron again this year.
The
festival not only attempts to carry on the good work Christie Burns began
in the Cork Dulcimer Fest, but also does its best to preserve the memory
and music of Co. Antrim's John Rea, Ireland's best known dulcimer player,
and to celebrate the musical traditions of Co. Antrim.
The 2005 festival was held on June 10-12, 2005, and Dick put
together a memorable time of sharing the dulcimer, as well as the music of other
instruments and the music of Co. Antrim. (Read Dick's,
Review
of this year's festival.)
The dates of the 2006 festival are June 2 - 4. The location of the festival will
again be in Bushmills, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Bushmills is home of the
Bushmills Distillery (the
oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world), and
in close proximity to scenic and legendary sites such as
The Giant's Causeway and the
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge,
and historic sites such as
Dunluce Castle,
all with views of the Isle of Iona and of Scotland's Mull of Kintyre. To
find out more about the Causeway Coast and its many attractions, visit
www.causewaycoastandglens.com.
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Update from Dick on the festival as of May 7, 2006:
-- No CDF06 --
Sorry, but unfortunately, as funding was not available for this year's event, in 2006, there will be no Causeway Dulcimer Festival this year.
However, rather than cancel it altogether, I have decided to go ahead & simply run a couple of Hammer Dulcimer orientated sessions on the Thursday night, Friday night & during Saturday afternoon & night, of the first weekend in June, just to keep the concept alive until next year.
On a more positive note, Rick Davis will be here from North Carolina, with his Hammered Dulcimer, so anyone who is planning to be in the area & who would like to get a few lessons from Rick, should contact me soon, & I'll try & arrange a venue for a class.
For the sessions, I'm hoping to at least have local players of Hammered Dulcimer, Harp, Fife, Flute, Northumbrian Pipes, Uilleann Pipes, Fiddle, & Lindsay Porteous is also planning to come over from Scotland, with his Mountain Dulcimer.
Please note - as, not surprisingly, nobody has booked in for this year's event, I have had to cancel the hire of the Education Centre in Bushmills.
It is hoped that normal services will be resumed next year.
For the information of anyone who finds themselves in the area this weekend & is looking for a session, you will find us:
- Thursday night from 10pm in the "Springhill Bar", Causeway St. Portrush
- Friday night from 10pm in the "House of McDonnell", Castle St. Ballycastle
- Saturday night from 9pm in the "Smuggler's Inn", Bushmills
- On Saturday afternoon Rick Davis & I will be playing in a concert in Coleraine & any musicians around are welcome to come join us at this event.
- At some stage, Rick & I will be playing a few tunes in Glenarm too, in memory of John Rea.
- On Sunday afternoon though, we will be heading up to Omagh to the "Ulster American Folk Park" to enjoy the "Old, New, Borrowed, Blue…" event ( www.folkpark.com/whats_on/events/?article=1265 ) which will celebrate marriages on both sides of the Atlantic:
"The first wedding will take place in rural Ulster during the 19th century, where a great number of marriages came about with the help of a matchmaker and this wedding will be no different. Visitors will be taken on a journey from courting to the church and then on to the wedding feast. Along the way they will learn about the traditions associated with marriage at this time including the local blacksmith making a lucky horseshoe as a present for the bride to be.
Visitors will then travel back in time to an 18th century wedding in pioneer America through a visit to the "New World" side of the outdoor museum. After the wedding ceremony, which traditionally took place in the house of the bride, the wedding feast will begin. As well as sampling traditional Frontier American wedding fayre, visitors can enjoy some old-time music, which was brought to the New World from Ulster. To end the day there will of course be dancing in the Pennsylvania Barn with the rest of the wedding party."
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