From Jigtime at jigtime.com Wed Oct 8 14:07:33 2003 From: Jigtime at jigtime.com (Jigtime at jigtime.com) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:07:33 -0400 Subject: [Jigtime] Welcome to JigTime News 2 Message-ID: <005701c38dc7$0cb1e7e0$6400a8c0@computername> Welcome to JigTime News, our regular look at all the news that's fit to dance to. This is our second mail and we hope you are enjoying our new service If you are, please email your friends and tell them to sign up. So far we are sending to a select few so if you want to stop receiving these then use our manual version of the unsubscribe button and tell me NOOOOOOOOOOOO. In this Issue Moya Brennan- Two Horizons The new album from the Donegal songstress takes a look at the past with her musical feet firmly planted in the modern world. This is her fifth solo album and is a diversion for her musically in the album's style and it's intent. http://www.jigtime.com/horizons.htm MagnoliaFest Well the tent is all packed again and ready to go to Florida for Magnoliafest. A line up that includes Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and Jim Lauderdale is worth the trip alone but when you set the event in Florida on the famed Suwannee river then some sort of magic is bound to happen. I cant wait. http://www.jigtime.com/magfest.htm The IBMA Awards The Awards have been handed out and once again I have been passed over. Despite my own campaign to have a special award for untidiest car or worst Southern accent they gave away all the good awards to some so called musicians For a full list of who won check out. http://www.jigtime.com/ibmaawardswinners.htm Pictures, Pictures, Pictures We have lots of new pictures on the site for you from Blues legends BB King and Jeff Beck to Altan and our huge Merlefest section. There will be more coming soon too with picture albums from shows by Ricky Skaggs and the Chieftains and pictures from Harvestfest 2003. Once again I must apologize for the delay in the Harvestfest pictures but these will be online and ready for your viewing pleasure as soon as I can get to them. http://www.jigtime.com/jigpictures.htm Guide to Irish Music Check out an old article of mine about the history of Irish Traditional music in modern times. It will be following it up with a list of recommended albums for those of you new to Celtic or Irish sounds. Then in the coming weeks I will be doing similar things with Americana and Bluegrass music. http://www.jigtime.com/tradmusic.htm Coming up soon on JigTime New Albums from Tim O'Brien, No River City and many more Also in our next issue; Return to Camden Town That's it for now folks. Don't forget if you know of anything that you think JigTime should know then email me at info at jigtime.com Slan John * To protect your privacy you cannot reply or post to this mailing list. * JigTime will not share your email or personal details with any third party * If you have any comments or questions or just don't want to hear from * me any more please email me info at jigtime.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: