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Lowell Folk Festival loses NEA funding |
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Friday, May 9, 2025
Lowell Folk Festival loses NEA funding, shares a "Call to Action"
Friday, April 18, 2025
Lowell Folk Festival starts revealing their performer lineup for 2025
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Lowell Folk Festival |
- BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet – celebrating their 50th anniversary with Louisiana’s irresistible Cajun music
- Cécilia – bringing Québécois and Celtic music from Eastern Canada
- Crooked Road Revival – honoring Virginia’s Crooked Road with bluegrass, old-time, and gospel
- Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials – classic Chicago blues and house-rockin' energy
- LOS RICOS featuring Sonia & Ismael – intimate, graceful, powerful flamenco traditions
- Red Baraat – a huge brass band sound fusing South Asian, Bollywood, jazz, and hip hop
- Solas – a force in the Irish music scene since debuting at the 1994 Lowell Folk Festival
- Yeison Landero – carrying the legacy of Andrés Landero, king of Colombian cumbia
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Lowell Folk Festival brings a wide variety of folk music from around the world to Lowell, oh and for FREE!
2024 Lowell Folk Festival Announces Full Performance Schedule - Music, Food, and Crafts From Around the World Showcased Throughout Lowell, MA July 26-28 #lowellfolk
LEARN MORE: https://t.co/kmTYf6WgMD or -> https://lowellfolkfestival.org/Shared from -> https://t.co/3y6TNI2VIw
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Lowell Folk Festival scheduled for July 28-30 - a great free event
"Here's a schedule.
Save it for a handy reference! Lowell Folk Festival July 28-30. #lowellfolk https://t.co/7yqRjfOy3r"Visit the Festival page for additional info -> https://lowellfolkfestival.org/
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Lowell Folk Festival scheduled for July 28-30 - a great free event |
Monday, July 25, 2022
Providence, Lowell & Boston offering free outdoor performances
Providence, July 28, 2022
Summertime is a good time for outdoor performing arts. And when the location is the Waterplace Park in Providence for a performance by Trinity Rep, put it on the calendar!
"Meet the cast of "La Mancha!" This Spanish/English bilingual adaptation of "Don Quixote" is part of Teatro en el Verano, produced by @rilatinoarts in association with Trinity Rep. It features local Latinx artists, and is completely free to attend."Don Quixote" ... closes with a special performance on the Waterplace Park in Providence on July 28.
For more information, visit trinityrep.com/lamancha."
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Spanish/English bilingual adaptation of "Don Quixote" |
Lowell Folk Festival Returns July 29-31, 2022
The 35th Anniversary Lowell Folk Festival, a staple cultural event of the region since its inception in 1987, will take place in person on July 29, 30, and 31. The 2022 festival will feature close to 20 performing groups sharing their unique musical traditions on stages throughout downtown Lowell. The Lowell Folk Festival attracts more than 150,000 people for three days of music, food, and art.
Ethnic food vendors will serve traditional dishes representing over a dozen different cultures. In the Folk Craft Area, the theme is Crafting Sound: Making & Restoring Musical Instruments, which will feature demonstrations playing and building the instruments. The Foodways Area will explore comfort foods from an array of communities. Art In The Courtyard will offer the opportunity for visitors to view and purchase some of the finest art and craftwork. The Family Fun area is back on Shattuck Street.
Check this site to stay up to date on all Lowell Folk Festival updates.
The Lowell Folk Festival is produced by the Lowell Festival Foundation, the City of Lowell, Lowell National Historical Park, the National Council for the Traditional Arts, the Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce, and the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau.
For more information visit -> https://lowellfolkfestival.org/
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35th Anniversary Lowell Folk Festival |
Monday, July 31, 2017
"there is some hope when it comes to partisan blindness”
"UMass Lowell senior Hannah Daly helped conduct a nationwide political survey whose results were anything but surprising: the two major political parties just don’t trust each other.
The results of the 1,000-person, nationwide survey offer a glimpse into how political differences skew our view on the founding principles of democracy. Through her research, she discovered that, over the years, opposing parties have lost faith in each other’s respect for core democratic values. In other words, political parties have trouble believing the opposing party will uphold the standards of democracy properly.
“We were expecting to see something like the results looked like,” said Daly, a Franklin native.. “In previous work on democratic tolerance, commitments to values like free speech have been much higher percentage-wise, like, in the 90 (percentile). So, it was kind of interesting to see that our results were in the 80 and 70 (percentile).”
Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/entertainmentlife/20170730/franklin-native-helped-coordinate-nationwide-political-survey
For more info on the results of the UMass-Lowell polls, follow the link
https://www.uml.edu/Research/public-opinion/polls/
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UMass-Lowell polls |
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Lowell Folk Festival
Saturday, July 24 | Boarding House Park | STEEP CANYON RANGERS | 12:00 noon |
Saturday, July 24 | Boarding House Park | JOSHUA NELSON | 1:00 p.m. |
Saturday, July 24 | Boarding House Park | MARIA DE BARROS | 2:00 p.m. |
Saturday, July 24 | Boarding House Park | BUA | 3:00 p.m. |
Saturday, July 24 | Boarding House Park | DE TEMPS ANTAN | 4:00 p.m. |
Saturday, July 24 | Boarding House Park | THE BRUCE DAIGREPONT CAJUN BAND | 5:00 p.m. |
The Steep Canyon Rangers play bluegrass, Joshua Nelson sings kosher gospel, Maria De Barros sings Cape Verdian, the BUA group is Irish, De Temps Antan plays Quebecois, and Bruce Daigrepont is a Cajun Band.
Six different kinds of folk music over six hours in one place!
Follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/LowellFolkFest
Franklin, MA