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Page 1: The N. Ireland Shows!

Craver, Hicks, Watson, Newberry
14th Annual Appalachian & Bluegrass
Music Festival
Ulster American Folk Park
Omagh, County Tyrone, N. Ireland 
September 3-4, 2005

Sunday (9/4) - Bill Hicks, Jim Watson, Mike Craver, and Joe Newberry perform an acoustic show at the barn in the New World section of the Ulster American Folk Park

Read the short blog of the trip

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Friday, September 2 - Live Radio
Bill and Joe do a live tune for the listeners then Bill joins Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group for an a cappella  song.  Bill was asked to give them a starting note so he plucked his E string.  The locale is the recreated 1850 Irish village in the Park.
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Finding a place outside to warm up
Saturday, September 3
Morning Set

 

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The Set List
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The big tent stage was known as "The Marquee"
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Warming up then waiting in the wings
 Saturday, September 3
Evening Set
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(click pics for larger views) Our guys are lined up "backwards," a rare formation with Mike on the left, Joe right 

Relaxing after the show.
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Sunday, September 4
At the "Barn" in the New World section of the Ulster American Folk Park
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After the show
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Finale
Sunday, September 4
O'Blurs and Robin & Linda Williams
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Our guys with Robin & Linda Williams, Lena Mae Perry and the Jerusalem Travelers
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Some of the other folks on the bill
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Wilbur Tharpe and Lena Mae Perry
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Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
(Jimmie Gaudreau on the left, Jim Watson on the right)
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The Jerusalem Travelers with Lena Mae Perry
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King Wilkie


Page 2: Scenes around Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Read the short blog of the trip
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The pictures were taken by Anne Berry.
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