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| | NWBN North West Bluegrass News Mag online: Jan 1999 -Edale BG Festival hot news! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In that same village hall where the festival began in 1976, I took pains to impress upon members of the Parish Council and representatives of the National Trust the importance of Edale to the world of Bluegrass music - how the name of their village was now synonymous with Bluegrass in the UK. |
 | | Knowing that Bluegrass music, at its present state of development, is not a commercial proposition, it was my intention to attempt to duplicate the Edale experience by attracting the same heady mix of juxtaposed people - to create that tension which, together with exhilarating Bluegrass music, makes for atmospheric fireworks. |
 | | Bev Williams, of Milnrow, who was MC from the first Edale festival up to 1990, and again in 1998, has sworn that he will not let Edale die. |
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