T ELEVISION Friday, June 7, 2002 15 Folk reigns all over region this summer t’s going to be a folk music- www.festivalonthegreen.org. The filled summer locally, with Arrogant Worms, Dan and the performances by Randolph’s Midnite Plowboys, Chris Brubeck’s Joe Derrane at the Irish Triple Play, Chanterelle, Aoife Clancy Festival in Easton to Band, Connie Dover and Roger Livingston Taylor and Lucy Landes with Randal Bays, Hot Club IKaplansky at this year’s Summerfest of Cowtown, Juliet McVicker, Mud in New Bedford. Season, No Strings Marionette Co., and Arlo Guthrie return Orchid, Rik Palieri, Robert, Carol & to the and a Gigi for Kids, John Roberts and Tony flood of performers will take to stages Barrand, Garnet Rogers, Vermont Jazz in the state as well as at venues like Ensemble, Tom Verner. New York’s Grey Fox Bluegrass July 12-14: New Bedford Festival, and the Falcon Ridge and Summerfest, New Bedford, www.- Winterhawk 2000 festivals in the ultranet.com/~koro/summfest.htm, Berkshires. 508-673-8523, fax 508-673-8283, Here is a listing of some of the [email protected]. Kevin Burke, region’s folk and bluegrass festivals: Liz Carroll, Johnny Cunningham, June 6-9: 23rd Annual Sea Music Rory Block, Patty Larkin, Ellis Paul, Festival, Mystic Seaport, 75 , The Kennedy’s, Greenmanville Avenue Mystic, Conn., Richard Shindell, Livingston Taylor, Ricky Skaggs will perform at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in New York in July. 888-9SEAPORT or 860-572-5315. Susan Werner, Garnet Rogers, Little Performers include: Martin Carthy, Johnny England, Jeff Warner, Brooks Finest Kind Danny and Joyce McLeod Williams, Cliff Eberhardt, Vanida Gail Jeff Warner, Louis Killen, Debra Group, Scott Alarik, Howie Bursen, Cowan, Mystic Seaport Chantey Michael Cooney, Copper Family, Jeff Singers, The Paddy Westers, Bob Davis, Ray Fisher, Gypsy Wranglers, Walser, Bob Webb, Ellen Cohn, Jack Hardy Band, David Jones, Mustard’s Retreat, Warp 4, The Matapat, Bruce Molsky, Montcorbier, Ancient Mariners Chanteymen, and John Roberts, Sally Rogers, Colleen Mystic Seaport’s traveling Sexton, Art Tebbetts, Tongue and ambassadors, Forebitter. Groove, Karen Tweed & Ian Carr, June 7-9: Irish Cultural Festival, April Verch, Ye Mariners All. Stonehill College, Easton, July 18-21: 26th Grey Fox [email protected] and www.- Bluegrass Festival, Rothvoss Farm, irishculture.org/festival. Seven Ancramdale, N.Y., www.greyfox- Nations, Gaelic Storm, The Cottars, bluegrass.com, 888-946-8495. Dry Anthony Kearns (Irish Tenors), Derek Branch Fire Squad, Ricky Skaggs & Warfield & Sons of Kentucky Thunder, The Erin, Chanda Gibson, Sam Bush Band, Rice, Gaelic Step Dancer, with Rice, Hillman & Lucy Kaplansky, above, will perform at Pulse, The McCabes, Pedersen, Nickel Creek, the Summerfest in New Bedford and at The Fenians, Andy The Del McCoury Band, the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in New Cooney Band, Dermot Seldom Scene, Tim York. O’Brien, Andy Healy O'Brien with the STEPHEN A. IDE photos /The Patriot Ledger Todd Schaeffer, right, of the band Band, Noel Henry Irish Crossing, Natalie Chris Thile of the group Nickel Creek will perform at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Railroad Earth will also perform at the Showband, Erin’s MacMaster, Lonesome Festival in New York in July. Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Melody, Bedlam, Irish River Band, Yonder Beat, the Boston Police Mountain String Band, Clements w-Northern Lights, musician Shemekia Copeland, Ramblers, Tom Hanford & Love at Bromberg, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Gaelic Column of Pipes The Hazel Dickens Jonathan Edwards, Seldom Scene Bob French’s Tuxedo Jazz Band, Work, The Storycrafters, Tony Peter Davis, Harry Aceto, Peter and Drums, The Brian Band with Dudley Reunion (featuring Tom Gray, John Worcester-based Puerto Rican Salsa Trischka Band and the Winterhawk Ecklund), BeauSoleil avec Michael Ború Pipes and Drums, Connell, Barry Starling, Ben Eldridge, & Mike band Los Pleneros del Coco, Irish House Band. Doucet, The Dudes (featuring Tommy Tulach Àrd Pipe Band, Mitterhoff, Tom Gray, Auldridge with Larry Stephenson). group Danú, Cajun dance band Aug. 2-4: Newport Folk Festival, Malone, John Magnie & Steve The 103rd Electricians Jack Leiderman & July 26-28: Falcon Ridge Folk Charivari, the Bottom Land Quartet, Newport, R.I., www.festival Amadee), Candye Kane & the Pipes and Drums Band, Ron Thomason of Dry Richard Underwood, Festival, Long Hill Farm in Hillsdale, Quebecois band Entourloupe, polka productions.net/newpor tfolk/index02. Swinging Armadillos, Steve Riley & Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Branch Fire Squad, Mark Schatz with Missy N.Y., www.falconridgefolk.com. from Eddie Biegaj and the Crusade of html, 401-847-3700. Friday, August 3, the Mamou Playboys, The Iguanas, Eireann, Calley host band of the Grey Raines, Jim Hurst & Airdance, Ani DiFranco, Back Porch Toledo, Ohio, cowboy poet, singer and Grand Ballroom, Hotel Viking, 8:00 Fox Bluegrass Festival. The Derailers, Nathan & the Zydeco McGrane, Ceol Casey Driessen, The Rockers Cajun Dance Band, Bare storyteller Glen Ohrlin, the Jack p.m.: Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Cha Chas, Jo Miller & the Burly Tradsiunta na hEireann, Kruger Brothers, The Necessities, Beth Molaro, Big Table, Zarzatian Armenian Ensemble, more. special guest Geoff Muldaur; Roughnecks, Aztex, Sean Ardoin & Frank Ryan & Celtic Clan, Tradition, Gibson Brothers, Bill Keith, The Billy Jonas, Chris Smither, The festival includes craft Saturday, Aug. 4, Fort Adams State Zydecool, Tarbox Ramblers, Redstick Seamus Connolly, Joe Derrane, Grasshoppers, The Schankman Twins, Christopher Williams, demonstrations, many Park, 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.: Bob Ramblers. Terence Coe, David O’Docherty, Irish The Carters, Colonel Catastrophe, Chris & Meredith varieties of ethnic foods Dylan, Shawn Colvin, Jonatha Sept. 21-22: Boston Folk Festival, Cultural Centre Seisiún Group, Cathal Gopher Broke Bluegrass Band, The Thompson, and a family activity Brooke, , The Waifs, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Dunne, Irish Descendants, Mike Burns Band, Pine Mountain & Tracy Grammer, area. Rosie Ledet, Maura O’Connell, Slaid 617-287-6911, www.wumb.org/folk- McTaggarts, Aideen O’Donnell, Railroad, Bluegrass Academy for Kids Dave Fry, David Aug. 2-4: Cleaves, Rani Arbo & Daisy fest. Richard Thompson, Barachois, Norman Payne with Brian Wicklund, Steve Riley & Massengill, Da Vinci’s Winterhawk 2000- Mayhem, Song Circle with Vance Cephas and Wiggins, C.J. Chenier, June 28-30: 22nd Annual Old the Mamou Playboys, Big Sandy & Notebook, Eddie From Bluegrass and Beyond, Gilbert, Caroline Herring, Louise Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, Billy Songs Festival of Traditional Music the Flyrite Boys, Slippery Sneakers, Ohio, Eric Schwartz, Long Hill Farm in Taylor, Bob Hillman & Geoff Jonas, Mindy Jostyn, Patty Larkin, and Dance, Altamont Fairgrounds- John Kirk, Trish Miller & Quickstep, Erin McKeown, Hillsdale, N.Y., Muldaur, , Pastures of Modern Man, Alistair Moock, Ellis Plenty, Rachael Davis, , Altamont, NY, www.oldsongs.org/- Fiddlestyx Old Time Dance Band. Gandalf Murphy & the www.winterhawk2000.com, Paul, Utah Phillips, Rust Farm, Tanya Jabe Beyer, Dennis Brennan; Sunday, festival.html, 518-765-2815, July 19-20: The Green River Slambovian Circus of Airdance, Barebones & Savory, Small Potatoes, Southern Rail, [email protected]. Chris Festival, Greenfield Community Dreams, George Wildflowers, Beth Aug. 5, Fort Adams State Park, 11:30 a.m. -6:30 p.m.: Arlo Guthrie, Dar Bill Staines, The Waifs, Cheryl Newman & Máire Ní Chathasaigh, College-Greenf ield, Marshall with Molaro, Brian Melick, Wheeler, Jack Williams. Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies, Les www.greenriverfestival.com, 413-773- Nightingale, Gene the Biscuit Boys, Buddy Williams, Bruce Cockburn, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Richard Shindell, – STEPHEN A. IDE Barker, Norman Kennedy, Craobh 5463, Little Feat, Steve Riley & The Murrow, Greg Brown, Miller Band, The Patriot Ledger Rua, Beppe Gambetta, Francisca Mamou Playboys, Chris Smither, The Falcon Ridge Tim O'Brien will Commander Cody & Melissa Ferrick, Gigi, The Hackberry House Band, Mark perform at the Grey His Lost Planet Airmen, Ramblers, Laurie Lewis, Song Circle Calvino Prina, Barachois, Falcoli , Chris Ardoin & Double Fox Bluegrass Festival. Dance & Drum, Margaret MacArthur, Clutchin’, Dave Carter & Tracy Dann, Radoslav Charivari, Chris with John Gorka, Jack Williams, Lynn John Roberts & Tony Barrand, Grammer, , Fred Lorkovic, Lisa Gutkin, Hillman, David Jacobs- Miles, David Massengill & Kris Folkids of Vermont, Chris Sblendorio, Eaglesmith & Band, Tim O’Brien & Hoopoe the Clowne, The Ivy Vine Strain, Eileen Ivers Band, Einstein’s Delmhorst, Maybe Baby, Alastair Donna Hébert & GrooveMama, Spare The Crossing. Players, , Jimmy LaFave, Little Homunculus, Fred Eaglesmith, Moock, , The RESTAURANT & SPORTS PUB Parts, Swallowtail, Bob Franke, Alien July 25-27: 7th Annual Podunk Kathryn Wedderburn, The Kennedys, Gordon Stone Band, the Grapes of Resophonics, Deb Talan. Folklife, John Rossbach & Chestnut Bluegrass Music Festival, Martin Kris Delmhorst, Laurie’s Stories, Lucy Vaudevillian Fantasy, the Hickory Aug. 30-Sept. 1: 5th Annual Grove, John Kirk & Trish Miller w- Park-East Hartford, Conn., Kaplansky, Nerissa & Katryna Nields, Project, Hoopoe the Clowne, the Ivy Rhythm & Roots Festival, Ninigret THURSDAY NIGHT QuickStep, George Wilson, Mandolin www.ci.east- Paul Rosenberg, Patti O’Brien Melita, Vine Players, Jeff Lang, Jo Miller & Park-Charlestown, RI, Madness, Ginny Hawker, Tracy hartford.ct.us/Podunk.htm, 860-282- Peter Davis & Lindy Hop Heaven, her Burley Roughnecks, Kathryn www.rhythmandroots.com, 888-855- DANCE Schwarz, Wily Milo, Tom Paxton, 8241, fax 860-282-8239, Railroad Earth, Ralph Sweet, Rhonda Wedderburn, Mary Gauthier, Meg 6940, Balfa Toujours, Delbert Anne Hills, Roy Book Binder, No [email protected], Thunder Vincent and The Rage, Small Tattoo, Griffin’s Trainwreck featuring Buddy McClinton, The Radiators, Acoustic PARTY Strings Attached, Tales & Scales, Mountain Bluegrass, Amy Gallatin & The Storycrafters, Tom Landa & The Cage, Northern Lights with Vassar Americana (featuring David Rose Tattoo, Roger the Jester, Ivy Stillwater, Blistered Fingers, The Paperboys, Trina Hamlin, Zoe Lewis. Clements, The McKrells, Paul WITH D.J. T. MCKENNA Pine Players, more Larkins, Austin Lounge Lizards, Dale July 26-28: Lowell Folk Festival, Rosenberg, Ralph Sweet, Reel Hoss, July 7-13: Middlebury Festival Ann Bradley & Coon Creek, Lowell National Historical Park, Roger the Jester, Ruthie Foster & Cyd On-The-Green, Town Green, Auldridge, Bennett & Gaudreau, www.lowellfolkfestival.org, 978-970- Cassone, Silk City with Dede Wyland, FRIDAY JUNE 7TH Middlebury, Vt., 802-388-0216, Larry Stephenson Band, Vassar 5000. Country singer Dale Watson, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart, Tarbox CHUCK’S BAR & GRILLE