Apple Festival 2008 Music
Apple Festival 2008 Music
The 2008 Newark Valley Apple Festival will be held on October 4th and 5th at the Bement-Billings Museum Farm, located on Route 38 just north of the Village of Newark Valley, NY. The Festival will be open from 10:00am to 5:00pm each day. The Apple Festival is sponsored by the Newark Valley Historical Society. Admission for the day is $6 for Adults, $4 for Students and Senior Citizens, and children 5 and under are free. Parking is also free.
This year's Apple Festival will feature 18 bands; nine on Saturday and nine on Sunday. Each day will feature a headline act; Pat Kane and Amy Lange on Saturday and City Fiddle on Sunday. Lots of acoustic musical styles will be featured throughout the weekend, such as Bluegrass, Folk Music, String Band Music, Fiddle Music, Gospel, Barbershop, and more.
The Apple Festival Music main page is: http://tom-marie.com/apple_fest.html.
Information on Saturday's bands, can be found at: http://tom-marie.com/AF_Saturday.html. Saturday's schedule is located at the bottom of the page. The page has been updated to include links to the bands' websites.
Information on Sunday's bands can be found at: http://tom-marie.com/AF_Sunday.html. Sunday's schedule is located at the bottom of the page. The page has been updated to include links to the bands' websites.
A new page has been added so that you can review the Apple Festival's brochure, found at http://tom-marie.com/AF_Brochure.html. The brochure contains additional information about the festival.
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Pat Kane and Amy Lange
Pat Kane is a seasoned showman, being a singer, dancer, actor, and instrumentalist since childhood. On his farm in the hill country of the Canisteo River, he was raised in the traditions of the Grange and of his Irish family. Pat’s cousins still run the family farm in West Clare, Ireland, which Pat visits often. Hence, the name of the band, and his company, West o’Clare.
PAT KANE IS A HARDWORKING, FULL TIME SOLOIST who may entertain for hours without a break or repeat. On fiddle, guitar, and bodhran, he plays jigs, reels, square dances, and hundreds of ballads from Ireland and America.
He has written many fine songs and knows a host of modern selections as well. Pat is often called “the best there is” and has twice won first place for singing at the NYC Fleadh Cheoil. He has produced a good number of albums, hosts a weekly radio show in Elmira, New York.
Pat is a gifted dance instructor and caller, for squares, ceili, and other styles. He often dances and calls at the same time, or can also fiddle and call at once.
Amy has been active in the arts since elementary school. She began her musical training on piano in second grade, and then progressed on to the bassoon and many other instruments in middle and high school. Her various performances in local community pit orchestras led her to pursue acting and singing as well as instrumental music throughout her high school years. Amy then trained as an orchestral bassoonist and instrumental music teacher at the Eastman School of Music on a full tuition scholarship, and afterwards spent a year performing bassoon with the Irving Symphony in Texas. Currently she teaches instrumental music at Coburn Elementary in Elmira and performs as principal bassoonist with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. You may also recognize her from being involved in numerous community theater performances with Elmira Little Theater and the Market Street Irregulars mystery dinner theater.
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