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Traditional Music and Bluegrass Festival this weekend at Lincoln's
New Salem
[September 05, 2007]
PETERSBURG -- More than 100 traditional and
bluegrass musicians are expected to participate in Lincoln's New
Salem State Historic Site's 26th annual Traditional Music and
Bluegrass Festival, set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The
festival is free and open to the public.
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Traditional, folk and bluegrass musicians are invited to participate
in the impromptu weekend jam session. Several bluegrass bands will
be featured on stage in the outdoor theater from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday
and Saturday, with the festival in full swing in the village from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Performers from all over the
Midwest will entertain on such instruments as mountain and hammer
dulcimers, concertinas, bones, autoharps, fiddles, banjos, and
guitars. A large clogging platform will be provided outside the
village, which will be filled with cloggers starting at noon on
Sunday. Songs and music of the 19th century will be performed in
the village Abraham Lincoln called home for six years. No
electrified instruments or equipment will be permitted.
The log buildings will be open and staffed by costumed
interpreters interpreting lifestyles of the 1830s. The New Salem
Museum Shop and the New Salem Lincoln League Souvenir and Book Store
will both be open during the event.
The festival is sponsored by the Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency, which administers Lincoln's New Salem, and the New Salem
Lincoln League.
Lincoln's New Salem
State Historic Site is located 20 miles northwest of Springfield
and two miles south of Petersburg on Route 97.
[Text from
Illinois
Historic Preservation Agency news release received from the
Illinois Office of Communication and Information]
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