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Music Starts:8:00 pm
 Punch BrothersPunch, brothers! punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
So goes the annoying jingle from Mark Twain’s amusing story of an early ear worm that spawned the name for virtuoso mandolinist/composer/singer and Grammy winning Nickel Creek-er Chris Thile’s latest project: Punch Brothers (formerly the How to Grow a Woman from the Ground Band), where Thile on mandolin and vocals is joined by Greg Garrison (Leftover Salmon, Ron Miles, Tony Trischka) on bass, Gabe Witcher (Willie Nelson, Randy Newman, Beck, Jerry Douglas) on fiddle, Chris Eldridge (Infamous Stringdusters, and son of the Seldom Scene’s Ben Eldredge) on guitar and Noam Pickelny (Leftover Salmon) on banjo. The project is an ambitious one, with the group’s debut release Punch (Nonesuch) a song cycle featuring at it’s core a 40-minute four-movement chamber bluegrass suite called The Blind Leaving the Blind, chronicling the story of Thile’s marital breakup and its aftermath through impressionistic lyrics that fall somewhere between a confession (directed, variously, to his listeners, to his ex, and to God), and an impassioned, late night, barstool soliloquy. Together, these performers helped Thile to realize the most conceptually daring, emotionally cathartic work of an already impressive career. Bluegrass, jazz, chamber and pop—all come together in a complex, but highly rewarding work that lead the New York Times to proclaim “expands the frontier of an emerging style of what might be called American country-classical chamber music.”
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09 / 6
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09 / 10
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 Plastic People of the UniversePrague's Plastic People of the Universe, and the band they later became, Pulnoc, remain one of rock & roll's great stories of triumph and how great music can be produced and survive even in the most hostile of environments. The band was founded in 1968 soon after 500,000 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia. With the Kremlin not being particularly fond of Western-style rock that wasn't sanctioned by the state, the Plastic People, to paraphrase the Jefferson Airplane, quickly became outlaws in the eyes of Moscow (and the ruling Soviet government in Prague). From 1970 until the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989 that ended Soviet domination, the Plastic People lived a mostly illegal existence, with two of their members, Ivan Jirous and Jaroslav Vozniak, doing lengthy stretches in prison. Influenced by Zappa, English progressive rock/radical politicos Henry Cow, Captain Beefheart, and the Velvet Underground, the Plastic People appropriated the avant-garde leanings and anti-authoritarian outrage of these bands while working in their own sense of dread and desperation. (John Dougan, All Music Guide)
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09 / 11
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 One of Hungary’s most popular contemporary bands, Little Cow was conceived by László Kollár-Klemencz and his creative partner Igor Lazin in order to provide songs for their ‘Little yellow cow’ animations. From that auspicious beginning, the band in its current line-up began in 2005, brought to prominence by the incredible success of their song Szájbergyerek (Cyber boy). Although the video clip was not broadcast by any commercial channels, it became wide-known and popular via the internet. The song become a huge hit in the Hungarian music industry and was chosen as the ‘Song of the year in Hungary’ in the Fonogram Awards.
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09 / 12
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09 / 14
Music Starts:8:00 pm
 Balkan Beat BoxBBB are Tamir Muskat and Ori Kaplan, along with the gifted musicians/composers Itamar Ziegler, Dana Leong, Tomer Yosef and other greats. Both Tamir and Ori have been active for a decade in NYC's premier underground bands like Firewater, Gogol Bordello, J.U.F, Big Lazy, Shot'nez, Victoria Hanna. and DJing around the world. Collaborating with VJ's and MC-Vocalist, Percussionist Tomer Yosef, the BBB show came to life.NEW MEDITERRANIOBBB is a natural reaction of musicians who wanted to erase political borders (as our ears don't have them, why should we?) On the dance floors from NYC to Middle East. From Berlin to Macedonia to Bloomington Indiana to Tokyo to Jerusalem to San Francisco to Bordeaux and Brussels. People are listening and moving to the new BBB sound.PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!
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09 / 17
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 Dougie MacLeanDougie MacLean is one of Scotland's most successful, respected and popular musicians. Singer-Songwriter, Composer and 'magical' Performer, he is also a fine guitarist and fiddle player. From his home base in Butterstone near Dunkeld in the beautiful Tay Valley in Perthshire Scotland, MacLean tours the world with his unique blend of lyrical, 'roots based' songwriting and instrumental composition. His moving song Caledonia and melody The Gael (used in The Last of the Mohicans) have been recorded by hundreds of artists and enjoyed by millions worldwide.
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09 / 18
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko Spaghetti Western String CoAn evening of musical journeys across continents and through time, with a focus on that much-loved (and occasionally ridiculed) construct of wood, skin, metal and strings that we have come to know as the banjo. Canadian banjoist (and 2008 Juno Award winner) Jayme Stone went to Africa to immerse himself in the high-spirited soundscapes, the daily life and lore. What he came home with was knowledge of two banjo ancestors never revealed before in the West, aspects of African music that eluded its American counterparts, and musical friendships that reached across continents. The outcome of this journey is Africa to Appalachia, a collaborative album Stone recorded with Mansa Sissoko, a Malian griot singer and master-player of the kora (a 21 string African harp). On Africa to Appalachia, Stone and Sissoko blur the lines of time and location. Africa and America come closer together with the banjo being the bridge. The unshackled American banjo has gone back to Africa and returned with many stories left to tell.
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09 / 19
Music Starts:8:00 pm
 Rachel Unthank and the Winterset"Intimate, epic, overflowing with feeling and musical intelligence" The Independent
Nominated for Best Group, Best Live Act and Best Album in the forthcoming BBC Folk Awards.
Winners of the BBC Horizon Award at the BBC Folk Awards 2008
Described as "a bewitching, dream-like, down-to-earth masterpiece" in the Observer Music Magazine's Top 50 Albums of the 2007, The Bairns is already a classic in its own lifetime.
Dancing down the leftfield and singing in their own lilting Geordie accents, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are the "inheritors, curators and gleeful distorters" (Ian MacMillan) of Tyneside's traditions.
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09 / 20
Music Starts:11:00 am
 Ralph's WorldThese days there may be lots of rockers making kid-friendly records, but there’s only one Ralph Covert, an irrepressibly enthusiastic performer who rocks just as hard for kids as he does for grown-ups. Perma-grin on his face, lime-green Chuck Taylors on his feet—even at the Grammies! —his traveling circus of catchiness known as Ralph’s World is equally loved by cool-seeking parents as it is by children, fortunate to be living in an era where their music both rocks and respects their intelligence and curiosity.
Music Starts:3:00 pm
Ralph's WorldThese days there may be lots of rockers making kid-friendly records, but there’s only one Ralph Covert, an irrepressibly enthusiastic performer who rocks just as hard for kids as he does for grown-ups. Perma-grin on his face, lime-green Chuck Taylors on his feet—even at the Grammies! —his traveling circus of catchiness known as Ralph’s World is equally loved by cool-seeking parents as it is by children, fortunate to be living in an era where their music both rocks and respects their iintelligence and curiosity.
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09 / 21
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 BaBa ZuLa: Photo by Alexander HackeBy mixing oriental instruments such as the darbuka, electric saz, and spoons with electronics and modern sounds, Turkish alternative music group BaBa ZuLa creates a sound all their own called "Oriental Dub". While a ney can represent the past Sufi-Islamic tradition, and a clarinet is the symbol of the music of the Turkish gypsies-an electric saz together with a wooden spoon can serve as musical compass to Turkish musical roots going as far back as pre-Islamic, shamanic times, through Anatolia reaches all the way up to present-day Istanbul. Despite sounds that might initially come to mind when one hears the phrase "Oriental Dub", Baba ZuLa’s music is in fact rock’n roll that rolls in a way that westerners haven’t heard since the late ’60s rock era. Baba ZuLa share their legacy through their music, a music born out of Istanbul and influenced by the memories of Istanbul passed on to them from generations past.
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09 / 25
Music Starts:8:00 pm
Music Starts:09/25/2008 - 8:00pm
End: 09/28/2008 - 11:00pm
 Please join us for the tenth and final annual Nordic Roots Festival. Artists scheduled to perform in 2008 include many of the artists who have transformed this weekend into an annual pilgrimage of Nordic bliss for so many people: Väsen, Ranarim, Hedningarna, Detektivbyrån, Triakel, Frigg, Waltz With Me, Timo and friends, Hoven Droven and Hurdy Gurdy.
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09 / 26
(all day)
Music Starts:09/25/2008 - 8:00pm
End: 09/28/2008 - 11:00pm
Please join us for the tenth and final annual Nordic Roots Festival. Artists scheduled to perform in 2008 include many of the artists who have transformed this weekend into an annual pilgrimage of Nordic bliss for so many people: Väsen, Ranarim, Hedningarna, Detektivbyrån, Triakel, Frigg, Waltz With Me, Timo and friends, Hoven Droven and Hurdy Gurdy.
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09 / 27
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Music Starts:09/25/2008 - 8:00pm
End: 09/28/2008 - 11:00pm
Please join us for the tenth and final annual Nordic Roots Festival. Artists scheduled to perform in 2008 include many of the artists who have transformed this weekend into an annual pilgrimage of Nordic bliss for so many people: Väsen, Ranarim, Hedningarna, Detektivbyrån, Triakel, Frigg, Waltz With Me, Timo and friends, Hoven Droven and Hurdy Gurdy.
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09 / 28
End: 11:00 pm
Music Starts:09/25/2008 - 8:00pm
End: 09/28/2008 - 11:00pm
Please join us for the tenth and final annual Nordic Roots Festival. Artists scheduled to perform in 2008 include many of the artists who have transformed this weekend into an annual pilgrimage of Nordic bliss for so many people: Väsen, Ranarim, Hedningarna, Detektivbyrån, Triakel, Frigg, Waltz With Me, Timo and friends, Hoven Droven and Hurdy Gurdy.
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Music Starts:11:00 am
 SteveSongsSteve Roslonek of SteveSongs has been writing/performing award-winning music for families for ten years. A rising star on the national kids music scene, Steve blends smart lyrics, catchy melodies and thoughtful messages into fun participatory songs that kids love and adults find irresistible. He has delighted audiences coast to coast with his engaging and entertaining shows, including at the White House, the Kennedy Center, and Boston's Fenway Park. Steve has earned numerous awards, including 2 Parents’ Choice Gold Awards, a Nappa Honor, an iParenting Media Award, and a Children’s Music Web Award. Since May 2008, Steve has taken on an exciting new role on national TV as "Mr. Steve," cohost of the PBS KIDS morning preschool destination featuring preschool favorites Curious George, Clifford, Dragon Tales, and Super Why. Don’t miss Steve and his band as they celebrate the release of their brand new DVD Marvellous Adventure!
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