Press Release - Wednesday, September 07, 2005
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TRADITIONAL MUSIC & BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 9 - 11 AT LINCOLN'S NEW SALEM
PETERSBURG, IL -- More than 100 traditional and bluegrass musicians are expected to participate in Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site's 25th annual Traditional Music and Bluegrass Festival set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 9, 10 and 11. The Festival is free and open to the public.
Traditional, folk and bluegrass musicians are invited to participate in the weekend impromptu jam session. A bluegrass stage show will be held from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, September 9 and 10 on stage in the outdoor theatre, with the Festival in full swing in the village from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, September 10 and 11.
Performers from all over the Midwest will entertain on such instruments as mountain and hammer dulcimers, concertinas, bones, autoharps, fiddles, banjos and guitars. There will be a large clogging platform 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 of the village will be open and staffed by costumed interpreters depicting 1830s lifestyles. The New Salem Museum Shop and the New Salem Lincoln League Souvenir Shop and Book Store will both be open during the event.
The festival is sponsored by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (www.Illinois-History.gov), 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, and is open Wednesday through Sunday for free public tours.
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