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Tuesday, June 23
Cowboy Junkies at the Iron Horse Music Hall ~ Northampton, Ma ~ 7:00 PM ~ 413-584-0610, www.iheg.com

Note: Most dance locations require clean soft-soled shoes and do not allow street shoes. Partners not required.
Every Monday

>>>Contra dance at the Town Hall, Nelson, NH, 8PM, 603-827-3044 or www.monadnockfolk.org Callers & musicians include Don Primrose, Jeffrey Petrovitch, Lisa Sieverts, Rich Hart, Bob McQuillen, Gordon Peery, Harvey Tolman, Lloyd Carr & Roger Treat

>>>Clogging dance in Motion Dance Studio ~ Randolph, Vt. ~ 6:45 PM, workshop 6:00 PM ~ 802-522-2935, Greenmtnclogger@aol.com

Every Tuesday

>>>Scottish Dance /w John Bartholomew leading, Bill Tobin and Gary Apfel at the Fairlee Town Hall ~ Fairlee, Vt. ~ 7:00 PM ~ 802-439-3459, FairleeClass@rscdsboston.org

Every Wednesday

>>>Scottish Country Dance /w Loren Wright leading at The Church of the Good Shepherd ~ Nashua, NH ~ 7:00 PM ~ 603-891-2331 or homepage.mac.comlonwright/NashuaSCD

>>>Scottish Country Dance /w Bernard McGrath leading at The Westminster Institute ~ Westminster, Vt ~ 7:30 PM ~ 603-352-9371 or 802-463-3078

>>>World (International) Dance at Neskaya ~ Franconia, NH ~ 6:00 PM ~ 603-823-5828, www.Neskaya.com

Every Sunday

>>>Clogging and Irish Step Dance workshops w/ Hillary Barcomb leading in Barre & Northfield, VT, adults and children, please call for details ~ 802-522-2935 or GreenMtnClogger@aol.com

Friday, June 19

>>>Mill City Contradance at the Waumbec Mill, Manchester, NH, Beginners workshop 7:30Pm, dance, 8PM, 603-595-4484 or plizotte@rivier.edu

Saturday, June 20
>>>Contradance at the Tin Mountain Conservation Center, Albany, NH, 7:30 PM, No partner needed. (603)383-8946

Festivals:
June 18 - 21 ~~ 32nd Blistered Fingers Family Bluegrass Music Festival
Silver Spur Riding Club/Sidney, ME
[263 Trafton Road/ Waterville, ME 04901, phone 207/873-6539, email: blist-f@blisteredfingers.com]
The Lewis Family, Audie Blaylock & Redline, Lizzy Long & Llegacy, White Mountain Bluegrass, The Douthwrights, The Muellers, Acoustic Blue, The Hemingway Brothers, Smokey Greene, Aroostook County Bluegrass, The NitPickers, Anna Mae Mitchell & Rising Tide, Robinson Gospel Sing Along, Blistered Fingers, more
June 20 ~~ A Revels Summers Day
Arsenal Center for the Arts/Watertown, MA
[phone 617/923-9497]
David Coffin, The Nields, Brian O'Donovan, Revels Repertory Company, John Castillo, Donnell Patterson, more
June 26 - 28 ~~ 29th annual Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and Dance
Altamont Fairgrounds/Altamont, NY
[P.O. Box 466/Voorheesville, NY 12186, phone 518/765-2815]
Peggy Seeger, Josh White Jr., Christine Lavin, Vanaver Caravan, Bill Harley, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Jimmy & Ada McCown, Galitcha, Little Toby Walker, Michael Cooney, Lissa Schneckenburger, Elizabeth LaPrelle, Bill Smith & Don Woodcock, John Roberts & Tony Barrand, Peter & Mary Alice Amidon, Bua, Reveillons!, Ron Gordon & the Festival Jug Band, Lou & Peter Berryman, Red Hen, Groovemama, Double Decker String Band, Bill Spence & Fennig's All-Stars, the Flying Garbanzos, Paul Rosenberg, Steve Zakon-Anderson, Nanne & Ankie & the Hudson Crew, Great Groove Band w/Donna Hébert, Roger the Jester, Asterisk, Hokum Hawaiians, George Ward, Jez Lowe, Lea Gilmore, Louis Killen, Kale Thomas, more
July 3 - 5 ~~ 18th Annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival
Sherman, NY
[P.O. Box 791/ Jamestown, NY 14701, phone 716/487-1781, email: gbhfest@netsync.net]
Donna the Buffalo, Rusted Root, The Horse Flies, The Town Pants, N'Dias (The Mix), Slo-Mo, Rasta Rafiki, The Sim Redmond Band, The Believers, The Steve Johnson Band, Li'l Anne & Hotcayenne, Rising Sun & The Gunpoets, Bombadil, John and Mary & The Valkyries, Pine Ridge, Alison Pipitone, The Woodbox Gang, Jim Donovan, Chad Crumm & Friends, The Talk-to-me's, Buffalo Zydeco, Tiger Maple Stringband, The Bogarts, Smackdab, Who You Are, Blue Sky Mission Club, Ken Hardley, King Rail, more
July 5-12 ~~ Traditional Roots Music Week
World Fellowship Center, Conway, NH
worldfellowship.org or sethausten.com, 603-569-2341
A week of workshops and jam sessions led by Seth Austen, Beverly Woods and Ellen Schwindt. Coaching on fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, autoharp, dulcimer, piano, etc, will be available. Play together through the week and participate in homemade music and dance parties on the weekend.
July 9 - 12 ~~ 15th annual Basin Bluegrass Festival
Brandon, VT
[9 Charberry Lane/ Brandon, VT 05733, phone 802/247-3275]
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Blue Horizon, Acoustic Blue, Blistered Fingers, Cabin Fever, Big Spike, Crossover, Smokey Greene, Dave Nichols & Spare Change, Cannonball Express, James Reams & the Barnstormers, Pine Hill Ramblers, Bleeker Mountain
July 16- July 19~~~Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival
Oak Hill New York, 1-888-946-8495; www.greyfoxbluegrass.com; Del McCoury, Tim O’Brien Band, David Bromberg, Crooked Still, Steeldrivers, Kruger Brothers, The Waybacks,Sarah Jarosz, Ricky Skaggs, King Wilkie, Master Stage, Family Stage, Dance Stage and More…
July 17 - 18 ~~ The Green River Festival
Greenfield Community College/Greenfield, MA 413-773-5463
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Michael Franti & Spearhead, Kathleen Edwards, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, Dave Alvin, Chris Smither, Richard Shindell, Crooked Still, Justin Townes Earle, Kris Delmhorst, more
July 23 - 26 ~~ 25th Norwich Family Bluegrass Festival
Chenango Fairgrounds/Norwich, NY
[phone 518/783-3154, email: cabinfevertirell@aol.com]
the James King Band, the Jeannette Williams Band, Carolina Sonshine, The Larry Gillis Band, Remington Ryde, Hard Ryde, The Cabin Fever Band, the Doerfel Family, Dave Nichols & Spare Change, Angelica Grim, Bill & Maggie Anderson, Texas Rose Band, the Matthews Family, more
July 23 - 26 ~~ 21st annual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Dodds Farm/Hillsdale, NY
[P.O. Box 144/ Sharon, CT 06069]
Abi Tapia, Amy Speace, Beth Molaro, Blue Moose & the Unbuttoned Zippers, Bob Malone, The Clayfoot Strutters, Cliff Eberhardt, Country Spice, Dan Navarro, Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, Ellis Paul, Falcon Ridge House Band, Folk Arts Quartet, Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, George Marshall with Wild Asparagus, Girlyman, The Hickory Project, Hoopoe the Clowne, Janis Ian, Jay Mankita, John Flynn, Jon Vezner, Jim & Madeline Christensen, Karen Savoca, Kathryn Wedderburn, Kathy Mattea, Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie, Lisa Haley & the Zydekats, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Mecca Bodega, Nerissa & Katryna Nields, Notorious, Oneside, Patti O'Brien Melita, Paul Rosenberg, Pamela Means, Ralph Sweet, The Refugees, Ryan Montbleau Band, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, Steve Zakon-Anderson, Stonehoney, Susan Werner, The Storycrafters, Tidal Wave, Tracy Grammar
July 24 - 26 ~~ Lowell Folk Festival
Lowell National Historical Park/Lowell, MA
[67 Kirk Street/ Lowell, MA 01852, phone 978/970-5000, email: phil_lupsiewicz@nps.gov]
July 24 - 26 ~~ County Bluegrass Family Bluegrass Music Festival
Farm Park/Fort Fairfield, ME
[Steve and Nancy Rogeski/ 519 N. Caribou Road/ Fort Fairfield, ME 04742, phone 207/227-6242]
The Lewis Family, White Mountain Bluegrass, Blistered Fingers, The Douthwrights, The Muellers, Blue Horizon, Borderline Bluegrass, Aroostook County Bluegrass, The LaClaire's Gospel Sing Along
July 30 - August 2 ~~ 14th annual Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival
Martin Park/East Hartford, CT
[phone 860/528-1458]
Natalie MacMaster, Russel Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Steep Canyon Rangers, James King Band, The Lovell Sisters, NewFound Road, Wells Family Band, Bearfoot, Gold Heart, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, the Del McCoury Band, Daily Vincent Band, Alison Brown Quartet, Special Consensus, Grasstowne
July 31 - August 2 ~~ 26th Annual Champlain Valley Folk Festival
Kingsland Bay State Park/Ferrisburgh, VT
[phone 877/850-0206, email: info@cvfest.org] www.cvfest.org
Geoff Muldaur, Beartracks w/Junior Barber, Annie & the Hedonists, Hilari Farrington & Benedict Koehler, Blue Moose & the Unbuttoned Zippers, the Amidons,Abenaki Singers,more
July 31 - August 2 ~~ George Wein's Folk Festival
Newport, RI
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The Decemberists, the Low Anthem, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Gillian Welch, Del McCoury, Langhorne Slim, more
August 22nd~~ Great Waters Folk Festival: John Gorka, Susan Werner; Red Molly; www.greatwaters.org
August 27 - 30 ~~ 33rd Blistered Fingers Family Bluegrass Music Festival
Silver Spur Riding Club/Sidney, ME
[263 Trafton Road/ Waterville, ME 04901, phone 207/873-6539, email: blist-f@blisteredfingers.com]
Simon St. Pierre, Dailey & Vincent, The Bluegrass Brothers, The Gibson Brothers, Dan Paisley & Southern Grass, IIIrd Generation Bluegrass Band, Bluegrass Diamonds, Wilf Clark & Misty Mountaineers, Acoustic Blue, Cross Over, Blue Around the Edges, Josh Williams & North Country, Robinson Gospel Sing Along & Jam, Blistered Fingers, more
September 4 - 6 ~~ Rhythm & Roots Festival
Ninigret Park/Charlestown, RI
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September 4 - 6 ~~ County Bluegrass
Farm Park/Fort Fairfield, ME
[Steve and Nancy Rogeski/ 519 N. Caribou Road/ Fort Fairfield, ME 04742, phone 207/227-6242]
Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Goldwing Express, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, White Mountain Bluegrass, Blistered Fingers, Bluegrass Diamonds, The Adrians, Kip Hemingway & Crooked River, Aroostook County Bluegrass, The LaClaires, Robinson Gospel Sing Along
September 26 - 27 ~~ 10th Annual Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival
Portsmouth, NH
[P.O. Box 83/Nottingham, NH 03290, email: pmff@comcast.net]

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