Fw: The Stan Rogers Folk Festival announces exciting line up of performers for 13th annual event, July 3 to 5

[Tim Jaques]

For Immediate Release
Wednesday,
April 22, 2009
The Stan Rogers Folk Festival announces exciting
line up of performers for 13th annual event, July 3 to 5
( Canso , NS )
- The 2009 Stan Rogers Folk Festival, an award-winning festival of songwriters,
is once again set to showcase a stellar line up of international, national and
regional talent.  This year’s headliners include legendary
“American Pie” songwriter and national Academy of Popular Music Songwriters ’ Hall of Fame inducteeDon McLean, Canadian Country Music Award
winner Corb Lund, and JUNO
Award-winning songstress Sarah Harmer. 
The renowned three-day event takes place in Canso , Nova Scotia 
from Friday, July 3 to Sunday, July 5.
Artists performing
include, multi-award-winning Canadian songwriters Bruce Guthro, Jimmy Rankin, Lennie Gallant, James Keelaghan, Bill Bourne, Thom Swift andDave Gunning; Nova Scotia’s ECMA
award-winning pop artists Christina Martin andMelanie Doane; Canadian female folk
veterans Cindy Church, Susan Crowe and Raylene Rankin; Newfoundland multi-instrumentalist Allan Ricketts;  Halifax-based
songstress Amelia Curran;
Montreal-based Annabelle Chvostek;
Cape Breton’ s up-and-comer Chad
Tetford; Guysborough County’s Emmy Alcorn; 14-year-old zydeco prodigy from Louisana Hunter Hayes; Canso’s Irish Mythen; North Carolina’s Kellin Watson; singer and pianist Kim Dunn; Ontario chanteuse Lynn Miles; Nashville-based Canadian
songwriter MikePlume; MikeTrask of Mud Hill fame; Antigonish-based
teen songwriter Molly Thomason;
folk up-and-comer  Nathan Rogers;
pop-folk songwriter Steven Bowers;
PEI jazz-folk and children’s artist Theresa
Doyle; US folk icon Vance Gilbert;
and instrumentalist-songwriter Wil.
Groups performing
include, Amherst’s young and high-energy bluegrass quartet Blue Horizon; Moncton based blues-rock trio Chris Colepaugh and the Cosmic Crew;
celebrating 25 years this year, duo Evans and
Doherty; PEI string bands Grass
Mountain Hobos andSaddle River
String Band; Montreal-based Ladies
of Canyon; cowboy country foursome Nudie
and the Turks; Guysborough County husband & wife duo Paradise Public Radio; folk trio Po Girl; Ontario Celtic band Poor Angus; folk-songwriters Porkbelly Futures; Newfoundland-folk
ambassadors Shanneyganock;
country-rock bad boys The Divorcees;
bluegrass veterans The Spinney Brothers;
Cape Breton’s folk-rock circus Tom Fun
Orchestra; and Acadian group Vishten.
 “When we started the
festival I always dreamed that someday we would be able to present the
songwriting legends of our generation.  It’s really come true with
artists like Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, Richie Havens and now Don
McLean,” said artistic director Troy Greencorn . 
“Besides penning the iconic American Pie there’s so many other
hits, songs like “Crying,” “Castles in the Air,”
“Vincent,” “And I Love You So” and
“Everyday”. Heck my wedding waltz was “To Have and to
Hold” a lesser known Don McLean gem.”
StanFest is a
celebration of musical talent honouring one of Canada ’s most prolific
songwriters, Stan Rogers.  The weekend-long musical adventure, features a
variety of genres including folk, country, jazz, swing, blues, rag, gospel,
pop, rock, bluegrass and world music and has won the East Coast Music Award for Event of the Year three times
(2002-2004).
During each day of
the festival, six daytime stages operate concurrently from 11 a.m. to 6
p.m.  The evening stage begins at 7 p.m. and stretches into the wee hours.
Thousands camp in on-site and nearby campgrounds.  
Advance
tickets are now on sale.  Weekend passes are $80, Friday tickets
are $32, Saturday tickets are $36 and Sunday tickets are $36 (plus tax). 
Tickets are available at all Ticketpro Outlets, by phone at 1-866-311-9090 and
online atwww.ticketpro.ca.  Major
credit cards are accepted and services charges apply.  
Campsites are available via the
festival office.  All campgrounds are open at 12 noon on Thursday, July 2
and close at 12 noon on Monday, July 6. Thursday night accommodations range
from $10 to $15 (plus tax) and weekend accommodations are $45 for tents and $60
for RVs (plus tax).  
For full event details and
camping information, contact the festival office at 1-888-554-7826 or visit: www.stanfest.com.  
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Artists web links:
Allan Rickets:  www.myspace.com/allanricketts 
Amelia Curran:  www.ameliacurran.com 
Annabelle Chvostek:  www.annabelle.org 
Bill Bourne:  www.billbourne.com  
Blue Horizon:www.bluehorizonmusic.com 
Bruce Guthro:  www.bruceguthro.com 
ChadTetford:  www.chadtetford.com 
Chris Colepaugh and the Cosmic Crew:  www.colepaugh.com 
Christina Martin:  www.christinamartin.net 
Cindy Church:  www.cindychurch.com 
Corb Lund:  www.corblund.com 
Dave Gunning:  www.davegunning.com 
Don McLean:  www.don-mclean.com   
Emmy Alcorn: www.emmyalcorn.com  
Evans and Doherty:  www.evansanddoherty.com 
GrassMountainHobos:  www.grassmountainhobos.com 
Hunter Hayes:  www.hunterhayes.com 
Irish Mythen:  www.myspace.com/irishmythenmusic 
James Keeleghan:  www.keelaghan.com 
Jimmy Rankin:  www.jimmyrankin.com 
Kellin Watson:  www.kellinwatson.com 
Kim Dunn:  www.kimdunn.ca 
Ladies of Canyon:  www.myspace.com/lotcmusic 
Lennie Gallant:  www.lenniegallant.com 
Lynn Miles:  www.lynnmilesmusic.com 
Melanie Doane:  www.melaniedoane.com 
MikePlume:  www.myspace.com/steelbeltedradio 
MikeTrask:  www.miketrask.ca 
Molly Thomason:  www.myspace.com/mollythomason 
Nathan Rogers:  www.nathanrogers.ca 
Nudie and the Turks:  www.nudieandtheturks.com 
PoGirl:  www.pogirl.net 
Poor Angus:  www.poorangus.com 
Porkbelly Futures:  www.porkbellys.com 
SaddleRiverString Band:  www.saddleriverstringband.com 
Sarah Harmer:  www.sarahharmer.com 
Shanneyganock:  www.shanneyganock.ca  
Steve Wright:  www.stevewrightmusic.com 
Steven Bowers:  www.stevenbowers.com 
Susan Crowe:  www.susancrowe.com 
The Divorcees:  www.thedivorcees.com 
The Spinney Brothers:  www.spinneybrothers.com 
Theresa Doyle:  www.theresadoyle.com 
Thom Swift:  www.thomswift.com 
Tom Fun Orchestra:  www.tomfun.ca  
Vance Gilbert:  www.vancegilbert.com 
Vishten:  www.vishten.net 
Wil:  www.ibreakstrings.com 


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