2009
Winter Festival of Acoustic Music

The Winter Festival of Acoustic Music will be held on February 6 & 7, 2009 at the First Methodist Church in Irving, TX.

The Festival will feature a series of concerts of nationally known performers. The concerts will be featuring acoustic instruments, including Hammered Dulcimer, Mountain Dulcimer, Autoharp, Harp, Fiddle, Guitar, Banjo, and others. Daytime concerts will be held each day from 11:30 to 5:30. Evening Concerts will start at 7:00. Workshops will be held each day from 9:00 to 4:30 with a break for lunch.

It’s Winter Festival time again! We think we have a great festival planned for you in 2009. Our ’09 headliners will be:

Ken Kolodner with Elke Baker,
Banshee in the Kitchen with Brenda Hunter,
Tull Glazener,
Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly

We have also assembled another first-class “local” staff, many of whom are in demand as headliners at other festivals around the country. Put it all together and you have a weekend filled with informative workshops, outstanding concerts and good times. We hope you’ll be able to join us. We have a few openings for Volunteers in the registration booth, staff booth and Sat. night cleanup crew. We are unable to offer any ticket discounts to our volunteers, but you will
earn our eternal gratitude, and we reserve the first couple of rows in the concert area for you, so you’ll have the only reserved seats in the house! To join our crew, call Joe at 972-986-6371. The workshops are, for the most part, hands-on, so bring your instruments. Audio
recorders are permitted in workshops, as long as it’s for your own use. Do not sell or distribute anything recorded at Winter Festival. No video recording allowed without prior express written permission from each individual staff member who will be taped. No video/audio taping allowed in concerts.

At the FLEA MARKET TABLE, you can place used instruments for sale. This will be near the staff booth. LSSDS and WF will not participate in the transaction and can’t be responsible for instruments there, but we’ll all try to keep an eye on them and we’ve not lost
anything from there, yet.

PLEASE NOTE: We have two deadlines for ticket orders this year. Orders that include t-shirts or sweatshirts must be postmarked by Jan. 27th to be honored. Orders for tickets only must be postmarked by Jan. 31st. Orders mailed after these dates will be subject to “At the
Door” prices. We are once again using the Super 8-Irving Motel. The Super-8 is on the NW corner of Hwy 183 (Airport Fwy) and Esters Rd. For reservations, call 972-257-1810. Ask for the Winter Festival group rate, which is $40 per night plus tax. They have a meeting room that should be available for jamming after the festival. There are a number of other hotels/motels in the South D/FW Airport area, but we only have arrangements for a special rate at the Super-8.

ATTENTION RVer’s and CAMPERS! There is no overnight camping at the festival site. The limited space available is reserved for a couple of our crafts vendors. No other campers will be allowed. There are nice rv parks/campgrounds at Trader’s Village in Grand Prairie and at Cedar Hill State Park. Both are about 20-30 minutes away, depending on traffic. Food will be available at the church during the day as well as dinner each night. This, however, is subject to change. You must make a reservation at the festival entry desk for the evening meals. McDonalds and Arby’s are across the street from the church and other restaurants a short drive away.
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Tickets

Advanced Ticket and General Info:Call: (972) 986-6371, Write 2624 Quail Ridge, Irving, TX 75060

Download Ticket Order Form (Acrobat PDF file)

E-Mail jmm1@flash.net
or
llt6@earthlink.net

Concert Schedule

The Festival will hold a series of workshops for Hammered Dulcimer, Mountain Dulcimer, Autoharp, Fiddle, Guitar, Banjo and others featuring the headliners listed above, and these additional clinicians: Linda LoweThompson, David Moran, Joe Morgan, Dana Hamilton, Russell Cook, Charles Whitmer, Scott Odena, Guy George, David and Annette Lindsey, Gerald Jones, Cheryl and David Turner, Mark Shelton, Noel Tardy, Debby Porter, Albert Alfonso, Fred Moss, Nancy Price, and Denise Holland.

Friday Workshop Schedule
***Tentative Schedule****

Saturday Workshop Schedule
***Tentative Schedule****

The Festival will be held at:

First United Methodist Church
211 West 3rd St.
Irving, Texas
(one block south of Irving Blvd and one block east of O'Connor Rd.)

Map to First Methodist Church, Irving, Texas

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