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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE---
KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FIFTH NASHVILLE REUNION NOV. 5 NASHVILLE, Tenn.
--- The Kerrville Folk Festival, celebrating it's 25th birthday with a
crowd of 40,000 this year, is holding it's fifth annual reunion of
Nashville songwriters and special guests at The Bluebird Cafe on
Hillsboro Road starting at 9:30 p.m. on election day night, Tuesday,
November 5. For the past several years, the event has been standing room
only. Hosted by festival founder-producer Rod Kennedy, the performers
will appear in the followiing order beginning at 9:30 p.m.: John McVey
(1996 New Folk Award Winner), Tim Bays, Tanya Savory (1996 New Folk Award
Winner), Rick Beresford, Kate Wallace, Michael McNevin (California),
Karen Taylor Good, Dana Cooper, Gail Davies, Michael Johnson, newcomer
and concert harpist Dee Carstensen (New York) who will play the 1997
festival, Tom Prasada-Rao (Takoma Park, Md)), Mike Lille and Tom
Kimmel.
Eight of the performers are former Kerrville New Folk winners and Rick
Beresford is director of the festival's songwriters school now in it's
17th year. Other former New Folk winners at Kerrville include Hal
Ketchum, Nanci Griffith, Robert Earl Keen, John Gorka, Steve Earle, Tish
Hinojosa and Lyle Lovett. All of the performers are main stage artists at
the 18 day festival which starts on Memorial Day weekend each year.
The reunion is open to the public with a $7 cover charge. Information and
reservations are available by calling The Bluebird starting at Noon on
Monday, November 4, at (615) 383-1461.
The 26th annual Kerrville Folk Festival is May 22-June 8, 1977. Festival
information may be obtained by calling 1 (800) 435-8429 during business
hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
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