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2008 Performers Archive
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![A.G. Olmstead Closes ANE with Memories of Jimmy Rodgers
[from August 2008]
Remember Peach Pickin’ Time In Georgia? In The Jailhouse Now? Keep On The Sunnyside? California Zephyr? Or Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing?
If you love the songs of Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family and Hank Williams, Sr. then you’ll revel in the Atlantic National Exhibition’s Closing Concert [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Adam Olmstead")
Adam Olmstead
Posted on October 22, 2009 | No CommentsA.G. Olmstead Closes ANE with Memories of Jimmy Rodgers [from August 2008] Remember Peach Pickin’ Time In Georgia? In The Jailhouse Now? Keep On The Sunnyside? California Zephyr? Or Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing? If you love the songs of Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family and Hank Williams, Sr. then you’ll revel in the Atlantic National Exhibition’s Closing Concert [...] -
Stew Clayton’s Yodeling My Way Back Home CD Released!
Posted on February 15, 2009 | No CommentsSeldom have I seen an audience rise so quickly to sweep in a wave across an auditorium floor to a CDs for sale booth than at intermission during the Stew and Juanita Clayton Concert at Exhibition Park, September 1. The nearly 800 rose almost as one to meet the father and daughter duo as they reached it and, at 5 a.m. when we drove them to the airport their CD cases were all but empty. -
Patti Page Sold More Records Than any Woman In History!
Posted on February 15, 2009 | No CommentsHow could anyone not know of the singer who in the past 60 years has sold more recordings than any woman has in history? I talked with Patti for an hour a few days ago and her voice was so vibrant and young it amazed me. -
Buffy Sainte-Marie to Open 51st Miramichi Folksong Festival
Posted on February 15, 2009 | No CommentsEntrancing, wild, jubilant ... like no voice I had ever heard before! So beautifully controlled yet so primitive in its passion, evoking visions of native village fires of long ago!
I have been a writer/columnist for oveer thirty years. My focus have been folk and country music in the Maritimes, but I have also been involved in writing for the Atlantic Advocate, Canada Folk Bulletin, Canadian Bluegrass Review magazine ![Sean Eyre just called from Rocklands Entertainment in Peterborough to say that Gerry’s column about Charlie Pride and “THE ROCK” portraying him in Charlie Pride’s life story has been picked up by 150 newspapers and radio station across North America and as far away as Australia. His column [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CharliePride1-36x36.jpg "DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON TO PLAY CHARLIE PRIDE"){kind=small}
