PEI Bluegrass & Oldtime Music Festival 2010

PEI Bluegrass & Oldtime Music Festival 2010.
Director: Paul Fraser, Writer: Paul Fraser, Release 7.37minutes, Country: Canada, Color:Color, Language: English, Aspect ratio
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The 25th Annual PEI Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival will be held July 2, 3 and 4, 2010 at the Festival Grounds in Rollo Bay. With many US, Eastern Canadian and Island bands putting out over 30 hours of great music on our main stage, The Buzz Music Workshops where artists share their skills with budding musicians, Bluegrass songwriter's circle, the ever popular Open Mic on Wednesday and Thursday night preceding the main stage events, new talent showcases, children's program, and more concessions this year's event promises to be the biggest and brightest Festival yet.

Over 500 recreational vehicles are expected to attend from all over Eastern Canada and the US to hear great bands and enjoy our genuine island hospitality.

This year's main stage event will feature special guests Ralph Stanley II from Virginia, Tennessee's Barry Scott & Second Wind, and one of the finest up and coming bands in bluegrass music, Brand New Strings.


A native Virginian from Coburn, Ralph II is the son of Ralph and Jimmi Stanley. Ralph II is an accomplished songwriter, having penned many of the songs that are included on his albums. In August 2000, Ralph II was married to Kristi Ison of Pikeville, Kentucky. The couple currently resides in Coburn, Virginia with their daughter Taylor Brooke and son Ralph Edmond Stanley III. As one might expect for the son of a renowned banjo player, the first instrument Ralph II ever held was a banjo. At the ripe old age of three, Ralph, (or simply Two as he is called by his fellow bandmates in the Clinch Mountain Boys), had his first lesson from the elder Stanley, learning a simple finger roll. It turned out, however, that he would not be following in his father's footsteps when it came to choice of instrument. He soon fell under the spell of the undisputed king of boyhood musical desires, the guitar. He spotted one under his sister's bed, and, according to Ralph, "I wanted to play that. When I was five years old, I started with the guitar, and I've been with the guitar ever since." But despite his interest in the guitar, and the fact that he was occasionally travelling with the Clinch Mountain Boys on the road, he had not yet developed an ambition to play professionally. It took until age 12, and an old 1970's video of the late Keith Whitley during his tenure as lead singer for the Clinch Mountain Boys, to inspire him to become a professional musician. After seeing Whitley he was hooked and spent hours in the basement honing his skills, and weathering the comparisons to his late Uncle Carter. His persistence paid off, and he took the stage as lead singer with Ralph Sr. and the Clinch Mountain Boys in June of 1995. Since then, he has earned the respect of Stanley fans everywhere, and has garnered praise as a strong new artist in his own right.

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[Haywirecanada]

it was the best!

[3391Dave]

Looks like a really good festival...great crowd.