It’s hot inside the small bus, and the air smells of sticky vinyl. “Where to?” the driver asks, pulling away from Pickering Square in Bangor. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
Julia Olin first saw Bangor in the winter. Covered with snow. And icy. But Olin is a woman with vision and was instantly able to imagine the river rumbling along in summer, the trees in immense green fullness, and a cool breeze rolling the water against the shore. Read More
High fliers to take a dive for Bangor’s folk festival Pole dancers are one of five newly signed acts
BANGOR – There will be high-flying excitement at this summer’s National Folk Festival. Ninety feet high, to be exact. The air-diving Papantla Flyers, who will scale a 90-foot pole and dance as part of their traditional ritual, are one of five new acts announced for… Read More
BANGOR – National Folk Festival organizers said Friday that with the receipt of an $80,000 federal grant, fund raising for the first year of the much-anticipated event has reached the halfway mark. “We’re getting there,” said Donna Fichtner, executive director of the Bangor Convention and… Read More
BANGOR – Piedmont blues masters John Cephas and Phil Wiggins gave “a bit of the blues and a blessing,” along with a preview of the caliber of performers lined up for the National Folk Festival, at a press conference Tuesday morning. Their rendition of “Amazing Grace,” sung to… Read More
BANGOR – The National Folk Festival is expected to attract tens of thousands of people to the city when it lands here in the summer of 2002. Count Kelcey Anderson among them. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More