Name: Irish band Slide performs to a full Community Center house, 2008
Start: 2008-09-08
End: 2008-09-08
Location: Beaver Island Community Center building

Event

Date: 2008-09-08
Kind: Concert
Where: Beaver Island Community Center building
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: musicperformancecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Irish band Slide performed at the Beaver Island Community Center on Monday, 8 September 2008, after a Traverse City show. The September notice announced the concert; the October 2008 report describes a full house and the group’s contemporary versions of traditional Celtic tunes, including newly written material.

Evidence limits

The newspaper does not provide a ticket count, complete set list, or recording of the performance.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "Slide in Concert."
Announces Slide's September 8 concert at the Beaver Island Community Center, with the public ticket price and the band's Irish-music descriptions. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, September 2008, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held September issue scan confirms the concert announcement.
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Beaver Beacon, October 2008, "Slide from Ireland to the Beaver Island."
Reports the five-member Irish band Slide performing before a full Community Center house, using fiddle, guitar, whistle, bouzouki, flute, concertina, keyboard, and drum. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 2008, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the concert report.
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Beaver Island Forum, "SLIDE on Beaver Island," September 6–10, 2008.
Organizer Ann Partridge announced the September 8 school performance and public concert, Island Airways transport, post-concert gathering at Donegal Danny's, and Community Center logistics; the Chamber later wrote that the band was great. The forum confirms the realized visit and public-program structure, while the Beacon remains stronger for its full-house report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Irish band Slide performs to a full Community Center house, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-slide-irish-band-concert-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "Slide in Concert." (and 4 further sources listed on the page).

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