Blue Mountains Music Fest - March 18 - 20, 2011

[Joe]

March 18 ,19, 20, 2011
times tbd
Blue Mountains Music Festival
Katoomba, New South Wales 2780, Australia

www.bmff.org.au

from the site: "We haven't confirmed anyone for Festival 2011 yet but the line-up is looking promising and exiting. We will announce our first round of confirmed performers in November. If you are on our mailing-list you will be the first to know."

[Joe]

www.bmff.org.au/artists.cfm?perf=14

The Cottars scheduled to appear on all 3 days of the festival now.

[mott]

I wonder if they'll do that song that goes "Here we are in New South Wales...shearing sheep as big as whales...."

[Joe]

ABC Sydney events and line-up of the Blue Mountains Folk Festival

www2b.abc.net.au/EventCentral/View/event.aspx?p=21&e=4801562

[Joe]

Email from the Blue Mountains Music Fest organizers...

When all is as finalised as can be, about mid February, we will email a link to a pdf program, that details appearance times and stages, to everyone on our mailing list.


So in about a month we'll have the performance specifics for March 18, 19 and 20.

[Joe]

tickets now available at
www.bmff.org.au/tickets.cfm

FYI:
Concession tickets allow people to get food and beverages at events. This is done is so the food handlers do not need to deal with money or give back change

[Joe]

A video and photo from The Cottars' performance today!

Both appear on Flickr, and were taken by photographer Jeremy Davis.

video: www.flickr.com/photos/jadimages/5537974839/in/set-72157626296404422/

photo: www.flickr.com/photos/jadimages/5538527876/in/set-72157626296404422/

[Joe]

Review by "Timber & Steel", March 21, 2011

THE BLUE MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL, AUSTRALIA

The Guinness Stage: THE COTTARS of Cape Breton Island

Canada and Australia share a very similar history, so it’s no surprise that both countries produce some really fine traditional music. The Cottars are a four-piece hailing from the Cape Breton region in Nova Scotia, an area steeped in the Celtic tradition.

The Cottars had a lovely dynamic on stage, deftly moving from sets of tunes to Gaelic ballads to original compositions and back again with ease. Their relative youth (normally when you think of traditional music you think of elderly men in pubs pumping out the same old tunes on squeeze boxes and fiddles) did nothing to diminish their obvious affection for the music.

Fiona MacGillivray on whistle, bodhrán, keys and vocals was a particular standout in what was a group of standouts – the way she lost herself in the music was amazing!

The standout tune from The Cottars' set would have been their version of “The Rights of Man”, a very common piece among lovers of "trad" given a new lease of life in the hands of these young performers.

[Joe]

Hi all,

Some very lovely photos of Fiona and Rachel are to be found at

www.nodepression.com/photo/photo/search?q=cottars

Photos by: Steve Ford, Blue Mountains Music Festival

Here is just one of the photos: