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2005 Festival Scenes


Bill Stevens, Native Alaskan Fiddler
 Visitors admire a wooden boat Dancers enjoy the 2400 square foot dance floor
Bill Stevens plays for the crowd
 Admiring the hand built boats
Great fun was had in the Dance Tent
diouf from Quebec by way of Senegal A Participant talks about a knot board in the Maritime area Ron Paquin explaining his birch bark canoe
Diouf entertained with their "Quebecagalese" music Knot tying was part of the Maritime program Ron Paquin talked about hand building a birch bark canoe
A Taiko drum group, Kyoshi Nagata, thilled festival goers Georgia Sea Island Singers, performing in the Gullah language
Participant Mike Reed splicing wire rope
The Japanese Taiko drummers were crowd favorites The Georgia Sea Island Singers sang in their traditional style The art and craft of working with wire rope was demonstrated by Mike Reed
 

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