| | Pre-festival - Bob and Jane, Janie's parents. |
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| | Janie by the canal in Lowell. |
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| | Los Macondos de Colombia, at the Market Mills stage. |
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| | Wonderful music from Colombia, great percussion. |
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| | The Los Macondos accordion player. |
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| | Cheick Hamala Diabete from Mali. |
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| | Cheick is from one of the families that does this type of music in Mali. |
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| | Kostas Taslis Greek music. |
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| | The band, at the JFK stage at City Hall. |
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| | Nate tries his hand at this. The guy with the red shirt was the best! |
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| | Nate and his Greek krewe. |
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| | The men, doing some solo Greek moves. |
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| | Aaron Flagg Jazz Quartet at Market St. stage. |
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| | Kids gardening in the kids area. |
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| | John Jackson, a national treasure. Wonderful Piedmont music. |
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| | Cheick Hamala Diabete at the banjo workshop. |
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| | Seamus Egan of the great Irish band Solas. |
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| | Slovenian polka queen LynnMarie from Cleveland. |
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| | LynnMarie and her guitar player. What a showwoman! |
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| | She got out in the crowd at JFK to play polka music. |
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| | Janie and our friend Ron swinging on the plaza. |
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| | Dr. Ralph Stanley, another national treasure. Ralph is 74 now and still great. |
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| | Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. |
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| | Mingo Saldivar y sus Tremendos Cuatros Espadas, a conjunto legend. |
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| | Mingo Saldivar. I've wanted to see him for years. |
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| | This was his first trip to Massachusetts. |
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| | These government employees are having entirely too much fun! |
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| | Nate dancing with a park ranger. |
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| | Jesse Garcia, Mingo's guitar player. |
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| | The conjunto music was one of our favorites, and we danced a lot. |
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| | The Bahamas Junkanoo Revue from Miami. Junkanoo is a festival in the Bahamas. |
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| | The parade at Boarding House Park. |
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| | Great fun for everyone. Junkanoo in the Bahamas is a parade from 1 AM to 9 AM! |
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| | Adults and kids alike loved it. Junkanoo is named after a slave John Canoe(sp?) |
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| | Janie joining the Revue. This guy saw she could dance and grabbed her! |
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| | Dancing in front of the Boarding House Park stage. |
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| | Twirl that woman, Mr. Junkanoo! |
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| | Michael Doucet, fiddler extraordinaire. The brothers Doucet were a treat! |
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| | Michael and brother David, an incredible guitar player and singer. |
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| | John Jackson with a big respectful crowd at St. Anne's Churchyard, another stage |
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| | Michael and David again, at the same venue. |
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| | In 20 years of seeing BeauSoleil, I've never seen the brothers alone. |
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| | David again. Like Michael, he closes his eyes while singing. |
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| | Michael. Not shown: the fabulous Holmes Brothers, Nathan & the Zydeco Cha... |
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