Scots-Irish Festival
Great News! BBC Ireland will be taping our festival and doing
interviews for a show to be produced later. We'll post more info as
available but here is the website to see when and where the show will air once
it is produced.
Dandridge Scots-Irish Festival
Received word today (8/27/2010) that BBC Northern Ireland is taping for their
radio show called "A Kist o Wurds" at this year's Festival. Trip Rogers from
Thistledown Tinkers will be one of the roving reporters, conducting interviews
and collecting music and stories for the folks in Ireland.
See their website at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007d4s0
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The Standard Banner
Hometown Newspaper of Louise McDaniel, Jefferson City, Tennessee
Thursday, May 27, 2010
www.standardbanner.com
by Gayle Page, Standard Banner Staff Writer
The BBC/Ireland comes to Dandridge working on a documentary about Scots-Irish
music evolution in the Appalachians.
They were referred by the Thistledown Tinkers who have played at our Scots-Irish
Festival the last three years.
