The Skirtlifters in Europe

Switzerland, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, United States

Clarke Buehling & The Skirtlifters
P.O. Box 744
Fayetteville, AR 72702-0744
479-442-536
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The Skirtlifters in Europe The Skirtlifters played a 3-week, 5 country tour in July, 2004. Performances in Switzerland, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the United States introduced thousands of new listeners to their authentic ragtime, minstrel era and old time music. To the right, the crowd at the Brosella Festival in Brussels gets their first taste of a ragtime string band.	(C) 2004 The Skirtlifters
Schaffhausen, Switzerland hosts the Over Easy Bluegrass Festival, where you might hear anything from an Irish jig to the classic high lonesome sound performed in German. You might even hear four guys from the States singing about a 'possum hunt.	(C) 2004 The Skirtlifters
After a four-day stint at the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh, Northern Ireland it was time for a few days traveling around the island. Here is the band at Castle Dunleigh on the northern coast. To the right is a shot Thom took of the clearest rainbow he had ever seen. It lasted almost an hour, and a lighter second rainbow is just to its right.	(C) 2004 The Skirtlifters
Before the concert in the Minimes church in Brussels, we timed the echo at around 8 seconds! Fortunately a full crowd cut that down to a manageable reverb. We sold out of our short run of "A Ragtime Episode" here, with one more performance to go before we met the major run of the CD at the Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival in Boulder, Colorado.	(C) 2004 The Skirtlifters
Just as Thom was getting the hang of announcing songs in French, we crossed into Dutch speaking Flanders in eastern Belgium, for our final performance in Europe. Louvein, Belgium is a beautiful old city of 80,000 and the second oldest university in Europe. "Zomer van Sint Pieter" presents midday concerts in the cathedral in the old city center. The stage was set at the feet of a 12th century sarcophagus, with the audience set around its head and sides. Quite an odd setting in which to play "Maple Leaf Rag", but we were again received very well by the crowd.	(C) 2004 The Skirtlifters

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