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Friday
& Saturday, September 26/27, 2008, with a |
"I don't know, it's just something about it... a woman can always sing the blues better than a man can." Ida Goodson |
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The National Women in Blues (NWiB) Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina, started as an idea in the Fall of 2006. WiB events up in Oregon gave reason to think it could work in the South. Women from all around the country came to play the 1st WiB Festival. That event went so well that it stirred up passion and fire in performers and audience alike , creating the need for more. Please take a quick tour of the site and learn more about this event and our mission, the artists and visit our sponsors sites.
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This year's Friday night will only include
2 acts. Our region's Grandmother, Rose of Rose
and Charlie Lucas (The South Eastern NC Regions Grandparents of
the Blues) will do a short set to open the festival as she has each
year and will continue to do so as long as she is able.
Before you think this will be a short night...it
won't! After Rose opens Gaye Adegbalola is doing a TWO PART show!!! First
we will get to see her documentary on the History of Women in Blues
as she narrates, and then there will be a short intermission while
she and her players get ready to bring down the house with great
tunes from the past and we hope several selections from her new material
too! The length of the night will be nearly what it was last year.
Saturday's show will start around noon, with
acts soon to be announced.
ADDED THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER is
the Sunday Invitational Jam (Free and Open to the Public at a 2nd
location TBA). Noon until 6ish or a tad
later!
This year we have an added component. WFOS has
offered to come here and BROADCAST the show LIVE via cell
phones
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Contact Festival Producer Michele
Seidman for a Sponsorship package
for the NWiB #3 in 2008. Serious
inquiries only. |
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