THE LARRY GORMAN FOLK FESTIVAL

THE LARRY GORMAN FOLK FESTIVAL celebrates one of the Island's most famous (and infamous) songwriters. The Festival has just completed its 10th year, with a wonderful programme in July 2003. Details of next year's programme will be posted here as they become available.

2003 10th ANNIVERSARY SCHEDULE!
BRITANNIA HALL, TYNE VALLEY

Friday, July 26, 2003

7:30 p.m.
My Island Songs
featuring singer/songwriter Allan Rankin in concert with Brad Fremlin and Perry Williams

Saturday, July 27, 2003

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Gorman Bus Tour
with John Cousins
Leaving from Britannia Hall, the Gorman Bus Tour features stories and songs of the lumbering, fishing, and farming traditions of West Prince, proceeding by way of Grand River and Lot Seven, with lunch at the West Point Lighthouse

7:00 p.m.
Folksongs of the Island
with Norm Bowser, John Cousins, Teresa Doyle, Roy Dyment, Ed and Ruth Fitzgerald, Roy Johnstone and Steve Sharratt, Faye Pound and Mike Mooney, and Kathy Wedge-Bernard.
Emcee: Myles Ellis

ADMISSION

Friday and Saturday Concerts $10, Saturday Bus Tour $35, including lunch

Tickets available from the Britannia Hall, 902 831-2191

ABOUT LARRY GORMAN

Born in Tyne Valley in 1846, Larry Gorman was well-known in Prince Edward Island, the Miramichi and Maine for his satirical songs. No one was spared: friends, relatives, co-workers, enemies. He "made songs" about shortcomings in human nature, about people he considered lazy, miserly, abusive, or just plain stupid. He made songs about people he worked with in the lumberwoods, and he wrote about people at home on the Island. Folks would go out of their way to be pleasant to Gorman, for fear that he would "song" them. The words were clever, and many of them, such as "The Shan Van Vogh" and "The Baptists," are still sung today. Larry Gorman died in Maine in 1917, at the age of 70.