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Pollstar confirms 1st FRFF '06 booking!
John J. Ryan
· 19 years, 2 months ago
And it's Eddie From Ohio again. It also confirms the dates are the same as always, July 20-23, 2006.
Eddie From Ohio really doesn't do it for me. I can't get into the spirit.
Well at least Eddie will be there...I can listen to them live more than on a cd. Hopefully they won't do "Hey Little Man" again. I enjoy alot of the acts that appear at FR pretty much every year but having a variety of regulars, new acts and big name headliners definitely keeps it interesting.
More British Folk acts like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Ashley Hutchings, Martin Carthy, John Tams and Dave Swarbrick would be nice too. 
Fairport Convention with Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny was as great as any band ever. I saw them without those two. It was as if they did one song over and over again. Boring. I acutally saw them with Steeleye Span. There were great. I went for the third act on the bill, Rennaisance, the first band I ever stalked.
Just wait until you hear Mike Clem solo, he's coming out with a solo record of his own! :)
I think Ann Saunders can be very liberal with who she chooses to book. Reason being is that a good portion of the crowd will show up to the festival anyway, even if they book Slayer. She doesn't have to bring the same acts back every time, although it wouldn't feel like FRFF without some of those "regulars".
I've seen Fairport several times, once with RT. They are better now that Chris Leslie is in the band. I saw Steeleye Span at the iron horse�once too right after the time cd when Maddy Prior and Gae Woods were in the band, quite a show. I got to sit and talk with Maddy after the show too. She's really nice and quite sexy!! Someday I'd like to go to Cropredy. People who have been to both�say Falcon Ridge is a lot like Cropredy
yeah . . . .not really into "great day."
My one thought for the Sunday morning gospel show? Book Sweet Honey! Book Sweet Honeyyyyyy!!!
Maddy isn't in the band? She was the band. She's great. She sings the ballad I did as a spoken word piece for a contest in the 7th Grade. The Twa Corbies.
I think Maddy left for a while but now she is back.
She sounds live as good or better than in the studio. You wouldn't think they could sing that well live but the are amazing. Gaudete was a show stopper. Green Day would be great. American Idiot is a great cd. Although they are not folk artists they certainly would fit in and add to FR.
Great Day is an Eddie From Ohio song that many find to be no that "Great" and rather annoying. Including me. :)� As for the second question...I'm assuming that is the case, yes. 
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 19 years, 2 months ago
The problem isn't with EFO. They are great, the problem is overexposure. The fact that they appear every year is creating a backlash which is evident on this thread. I've been thinking who would be a good replacement for them. I've come up with three. They aren't my three favorite bands. What they are is three groups that fill the same ecological niche.
speak for yourself. my problem is with EFO. I don't think their live show has changed particularly much in the past six years, other than that Julie has become more sickeningly over-expressive and that they do fewer songs with Mike and Robbie on lead vocals.
nowadays, I find them rather dull live.
but that's the point. If you hadn't been seeing them constantly over the last 6 years you wouldn't be as concerned about the act not changing.
The act actually has changed. I was struck by how many songs I didn't really know the last time I saw them. I just have the Cow Album (out of the fishbowl) and Quick. I love Carbon Leaf to no end but if seeing them wasn't a rarity I think I'd feel the same way about them.
am i the only one who didn't mind all the stuff they were saying?
ARe we talking about during the gospel morning wake up? I missed that so I can't say. I know that I pretty much always love them.
Julie needs a vocal coach? Are you kidding? In terms of technique, Julie is nearly flawless, says this classically trained singer...
me neither. but when is it proselytizing and when is it just sharing a philosophy? is it proselytizing if you're saying everyone should be open-minded and kind or whatever?
They did a tour with Great Big Sea. They pretty much blew everone away
I know Julie's styling is a little too "star search" or "American Idol" for some people. Fine. I'm cool with that. But when you say she needs a vocal coach, are you criticizing her styling or her technical (ie. production of pitch, etc) ability?
She's okay technically. Not great.
A vocal coach is different from a singing teacher. The teacher instructs your technique. The coach teaches you how to use it. She has no idea what to do with her vibrato. She starts words that begin with vowels with an h. Her attempts at being emotional border on hystrionic. I'm far from a purist, but I have basic expectations.
Which is why it makes so much sense for them to play FRFF. They could use the exposure.
I know they draw huge crowds in Canada. Canadians come down here to see them so they can see them in more intimate settings.
Hardly anyone has heard of them in the states. I've only run into a handful of people around here, and most of them are originally Canadian. I'd say they're on par with EFO in terms of popularity from what I've seen - a definite cult following, but certainly not too big to play FRFF.
No crowd-surfing at a GBS concert? Gah, what fun is that? :)
Frankly, they've had the exposure. They've more than paid their dues in the folk circuit, the Celtic circuit, the pop circuit, you name it. If they were going to break big in the US, they would have done so already.
They don't need more exposure. Frankly, I think they're happy with what they have -- a large following in Canada. Also... let's say they do the folk festival circuit. The best that happens is that they get paid significantly less than they're accustomed to and maybe they become as famous in the US as Dan Bern. Woohoo.
They are no louder than EFO and not as loud as Richard Thompson with his band. They'd fit right in.
The problem is that they know that I'd kidnap Murray and keep him playing at the budgiedome the entire festival.
i know they didn't play in '00. i'm pretty sure they didn't play in '99 either.
I think 99 was my first year to FRFF - the one with Fruvous, Susan Werner, the Nields, EFO and the debut summer of the Killer Tents Song.� The day we got back from the festival my dad had printed off a picutre from the FRFF website with GBS on it and asked how we like them. I told him they didn't play but that the picutre was most likely taken the year before...can anyone confirm if they played in 98?
I so should have gone then. I'm pretty sure Christine Lavin played there too. I just didn't want to go there alone. I didn't know anybody else then. The next year I decided to go by myself. One of the best decisions I ever made.
honestly, I found Richard Thompson way too loud, too. I was up in the Budgiedome during his set and thought he was too loud, even. He must have been even louder for the people on the hill actually watching his set. and EFO used to be quieter and folkier - not so much with the electric guitar.
You old people just don't get Rock 'n ' Roll.
Although getting that accordion player ready is going to take a few more years I suspect... David Matheson might be available in the meantime. ;-)
It was, indeed, 1998, that GBS energized the FRFF crowd. They opened the Friday evening session, the same slot� that EFO would play the following year...the slot that Mike Clem would refer to as "the get-em outta the mess tent slot". Patty Larkin closed the festival on Sunday, if my memory serves me.
However, if they had to choose between playing a big venue in Canada where they'll be paid much more than FRFF and playing at a little folk festival in back-ass nowhere, what do you think they'd probably choose?
Lack of success in the US does not make an act small or indie. Implying that this is the case is rather ethnocentric.
Ani is neither small nor indie nor does she suffer from lack of success in the US.
I also wonder if FRFF was able to offer her the money she usually pulls in. I wonder why she chose to go? Musicians at camping-type music festivals I have been to seem to go for the atmosphere, to perform to the type of crowd that will go to a three-day music event. This may not apply to all of the artists, only the ones that I have personally spoken to. 
This husband of a classically trained singer and son-in-law of a voice teacher also respectfully disagrees. A lot.
Julie's singing would make jan cry. :) 
Actually by definition Ani is in fact indie since she is on her own independent label.
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 18 years, 11 months ago
Shawn Colvin.
FRFF is trying to book my high profile acts this year because of hte new location. Shawn is one of them.
trunger is counting...
· 18 years, 11 months ago
...maybe they should just go to FRFF just to go and camp with the lot of us....wouldn't that be a neato thingie something...
is girlyman gonna be there? i'm kinda on a girlyman binge atm 
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 18 years, 10 months ago
I saw Taxi Chain and a Canadian Music event at Lincoln Center once and they rocked. Anyone else know them?
Eric Schwartz is playing Yee Ha!
john r
· 18 years, 10 months ago
I hope FR adds The Waifs. There are not many folk rock bands, and I happen to like a full band show, especially as an eveneing closer, at FR. The Waifs are not touring right now (maternity leave)...but I plan to put them down on my list of suggestions for next year.
john r 
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