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Welcome to Issue 3 of JigTime News, our regular look at all the news thatâs fit to dance to.

I donât believe this is the third one already. We really do hope you like the newsletter and all the stuff it leads you to on our JigTime site.

Again for any of you who are bored with it just send me a mail and say ãJohn, I have a life now .. go awayä words I have heard all too often.

Anyway onwards and upwards

In this Issue

Mark OâConnor- 30 years on

The new album from the Mark OâConnor is set to be a good one and a very important release in the music world. The fiddle virtuoso celebrates his 30 years as a musician with some cool new stuff. Read all about it on JigTime

MagnoliaFest

Magnoliafest is just a couple of days away and soon we will jump in the car, dodge those crazy Atlanta drivers and head south to this cool festival by the Suwanee River in Florida. When we return we will be laden down with soggy clothes and lots of good pictures for you

Bays and Sproule add to the traditional music pool

Randall Bays and Altanâs Daithi Sproule have been playing together for a while now but are just about to release their first album on an eager public. More on this story

London Town gets Jiggy with it Karen Ryan and her team have once again put together an exciting mixture of dance, sessions, workshops, talks and concerts to make up the Return to Camden Town festival in London Donât miss a second of it

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

We have lots of new pictures on the site for you from Blues legends BB King and Jeff Beck to Altan and our huge Merlefest section. There will be more coming soon too with picture albums from shows by Ricky Skaggs and the Chieftains and pictures from Harvestfest 2003.

I have also added some pictures from last years amazing Music Midtown event in Atlanta GA. Some of them are far from traditional But so many people have asked to see them I decided to start putting them on the site. It is all music and some day the best of it will be the Trad music of tomorrow.

Coming up soon on JigTime

We are still waiting on the new release from the wonderful Tim OâBrien and as soon as we get it you will hear all about it. Also on our virtual turntable we should have new releases from Del McCoury and Solas and although that would be a very interesting collaboration they are sadly separate albums.

Audio and Maybe even Video

Our Audio page will soon be up and running with some radio reports and other goodies for you to sample. Stay patient and all will be revealed.

Thatâs it for now folks.

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Slan

John

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