Bath International Banjo Festival

June 27-29 2008

 

FRIDAY 27th

All day at The Little Theatre (which is mainly used as a cinema) several pubs within staggering distance.  Tables outside The Little where we can sit and chat, have a beer or three, and make a merry noise!  Experience shows that we get a significant number of musicians coming by, who join in the jam session.  A good way to make street music.

During the afternoon we shall be screening Bluegrass Country Soul.  This is the first feature film ever made about bluegrass music.  Shot on Labor Day Weekend in 1971 at Camp Springs, NC, it documents the first Bluegrass Festival.  Live performance, commentary, interviews, history.  With Ralph Stanley & his Clinch Mountain Boys, Earl Scruggs, JD Crowe and many more. 90 minutes of Banjo Bliss. First screening in the UK!

In the evening, a Grand Concert with Clarke Buehling, Kate Lissauer, Dan Walsh, Jürgen Kulus and the Bath Banjo Club.  In the tradition of the Festival, there may well be others who turn up for the gig and add to the evening’s entertainment.  It might be you . . . !?

Evening until midnight - Session at The Raven. Nicely central (see the map on their website) it’s a very friendly place. An excellent pub in the middle of Bath, with its own beers. The nearest car park is Charlotte Street, but you might just as well come by bus from your B&B/hotel. The Raven serves excellent food, so you can get your evening meal there as well. The Raven is a well known music pub (I’ve played there several times with our band Ere Whacks) We’ll have guitar and mandolin there as well, so we can have a full string band. Not just banjos.http://www.theravenofbath.co.uk/http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/nr/rdonlyres/b6babe57-c40e-49a2-877b-c01ca2f350cf/0/busmapbathcitybusnetwork.pdfhttp://visitbath.co.uk/site/where-to-stay/bed-and-breakfast-in-bathhttp://www.erewhacks.co.ukhttp://visitbath.co.uk/site/where-to-stay/bed-and-breakfast-in-bathshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3

SATURDAY 28th

SUNDAY 29th

Concert at The American Museum, Claverton Down, starting at 2.00 pm. Most of the performers from the Saturday evening concert will be there, but in an even more relaxed atmosphere. In addition we will have Cyril Wickham who will give an illustrated account of minstrel shows. Light refreshments available.http://www.americanmuseum.org/http://www.janetdavismusic.com/Bluegrass_Country_Soul.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0