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Finding new ways to stay in touch with current and past members via the use of Mailchimp for updates Hello Southwest Bluegrass Association members and on events, and SWBA news that was not published in or happens before the next to newsletter. friends.Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out the ballot and vote for the new SWB A Board Of All of the above and everything we did this year seem to work and we had a successful year. Directors 2019/2020. Thank you Carol Elmore for your time and the counting of the votes. In March Jerry Turner told me about the P. T.S.D. Awareness Program "PICKING & JAMMING The new Southwest Bluegrass Association board met AMERICA". This program is a great opertunity for online via Google meet on July 23, 2019 and the SWBA to get others involved in bluegrass and support election results were approved and new board our vetrans. Marc Nelissen and Paul Haas have members welcomed. Officers were elected and volunteered to help get the program off the ground and get the pick’in started. Southwest Bluegrass approved. Terry Brewer – Pres., Marc Nelissen – VP, Association & Norco American Legion P. T.S.D. Missy Lyn Gibson – Sec., Paula De Bie – Treas., Awareness Program "PICKING & JAMMING Sheila Brewer – Membership, Louie De Bie, Connie AMERICA" is the 1st Sunday Of Every Month at 3888 Tripp, and Paul Haas. Hamner ( I-15 & 6th Street) in Norco CA. If you are Missy presented the minutes from the annual interested in starting a SWBA jam at your local American Legion.. Let me know and I will get in membership meeting conducted at SuperJam in May contact with Jerry. at Mojave Narrows and approved by the new board. On July 27th Frank and Patsy Abrahams hosted a Paula De Bie presented the treasurers report for SWBA Potluck and Jam at at their home in August 2018 – June 2019 and was approved by the Wrightwood CA. Thank you Frank and Patsy fot time new board. and all you do for SWBA and bluegrass music in your area. I am happy to say that with one month to go until our fiscal year which ends on July 31st, SWBA will finish SWBA Potluck and Jams are a great way to help SWBA grow and introduce friends & family to the year in the black or on the plus side. bluegrass music. If your interested in hostins a SWBA Sheila Brewer presented the membership report and jam at your home, church or local park, give me a call our membership has increased over last year's total or send me an email. with new and renewing Southwest Bluegrass Nothing that we have accomplished this year or in Association memberships. the future would be possible without you, our SWBA Fall Campout date was discussed and an members and the bluegrass community. approved for October 17th – 20th, 2019 at Mojave So I congratulate you all and thank you for your Narrows Regional Park in Victorville California group support, membership, involvement, attendance at sites one and two, same location as Superjam. campouts, concerts, festivals, and jams. The SWBA hospitality suite for the Great 48 Hour Jam Pickers and grinners promoting Bluegrass music and was discussed and funds approved for this event those involved in it. God Bless Terry Brewer hosted by the California Bluegrass Association set to take place during the 2nd week of January 2020 September 27th-28th Huck Finn Jubilee in Ontario CA beginning on Thursday, January 9 and ending Sunday, January 12, 2020 at the Marriott Convention SWBA Members Center, 801 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield California. SAVE $10 To make reservations, directly contact Sara Walker at the Bakersfield Marriott Convention center (661) SWBA members use promo code SWBAHFJ 323-1900. To save $10 off of any Online Huck Finn Jubilee purchase. The meeting was adjourned and the board plans to Offer expires 9/15/2019 meet again in early September. Visit huckfinn.com “STEP INSIDE THIS HOUSE” our R-pod travel trailer from Havasu’s, Bluegrass On SWBA’s Super Jam the Beach Festival, since we were camped literally “on the beach” on the channel side. Oddly enough By Bert Luontela they were going to Walmart and asked Reta if we When you have an obsessive/ needed anything. When Reta told me about their offer compulsive personality you never my compulsive mind was already racing off the tracks run out of things to obsess over, and into the weeds thinking, does anybody ever go lately it’s been a song written by Guy Clark, “Step to a bluegrass festival without stopping at Walmart on Inside This House”. the way, before, during or after a festival? Me thinks not. Step inside this house girl, I’ll sing for you a song I’ll tell you about just where I’ve been, it shouldn’t Thursday had been a travel day, set up day and a take too long chance to meet the new neighbors as the modern day I’ll show you all the things that I own, my treasures gypsy caravans rolled into the oasis. The Narrows you might say had become a transient home of the southwest It couldn’t be more than ten dollars worth, they bluegrass gypsies, many retirees escaping urban brighten up my day humdrum and riding the summer bluegrass circuit, still others, the hard core, would arrive on Friday to As members we’ve been standing on SWBA’s front play, jam and partake and be back to the grind on porch for some time peering through the open front Tuesday after Memorial Day. “Play gypsy play”, just door that says Welcome One and All. From that make it Flatt and Scruggs or a hot version of “Big vantage point we can see the musical paintings on Spike Hammer”. the wall and some of the other treasures, the music, Friday morning we burned a lot of daylight sleeping like refracted light from a prism, forming a rainbow in. As I stuck my head outside the trailer door I noted within and the songs read like a book of life’s poems. that others were probably doing the same save for We’ve heard the music and poetry from the front porch some hardy soul who’s stomach must have gotten the but now it was time to step inside. better of him as that bacon sure was smelling good. Soon I stumbled out the door with a cup of coffee to SWBA held it’s Super Jam and annual meeting at greet the day and sauntered over to talk with Terry, Mohave Narrows Regional Park, the site of the Sheila and company at the check-in booth where I original Huckfinn Jubilee. The Mohave Narrow’s is met Paula, SWBA’s Treasurer. Paula has a lively literally an oasis in the high desert formed by a gap personality and is a lot of fun to joke with. Hope, the through which the Mohave River passes. Once part gal that always mans the SWBA booth at the festivals, of large ranch and farming operation the park has two was also there. She’s the first SWBA member we met lakes, large grassy areas, camping accommodations back some moons ago. I asked her, what’s a SWBA and generous areas of shade under old growth and the rest is history. More caravans where arriving Cottonwood and Elm trees. Our camping area as I headed back for breakfast consisted of a grassy field bordered by Elm and Cottonwood trees to the west and east. After breakfast we headed off to buy tickets for the guitar raffle. Scott and Patty had arrived and where Most of the motorhomes, trailers and other forms of setting up so we went over to visit. We had met them creature comfort had California plates. We really at Havasu as they to own an R-pod, affectionately, didn’t know many of the folks there. Scott and Patty some times called “frogs” owning to the side decal on would arrive later. We set up camp next to a travel the trailer. Scott asked me if I was going to jam that trailer that had just arrived. Didn’t take long before evening and I told him that I’d never jammed, more we met Mike, our new neighbor. Mike’s a local living or less, indicating my status as being limited to the in Victorville, great that would make it easy to find out closet. Scott in a very tactful manner indicated that, where Walmart was located. that was about to change. Mike’s a great guy, easy going, lots of fun to be with. It wasn’t until early evening and all was quiet on the He also works with Eric Nordbeck in the SWBA western front that I pulled out the mandolin and started Bluegrass Kid’s Program at the local school. Best of to pick. Mike, from next door, came over and said all, he plays mandolin so maybe I could hit him up for play me a tune; shortly thereafter Scott and Patty some tips as I’m a beginner. We talked, I asked lots walked over from the direction of the Bottom Feeders of questions (probably too many) and inadvertently camp. The die was cast we were all going to jam over mentioned I was a closet player. at Scott and Patty’s camp. Walking over, I remember Later in the day Reta met a couple two doors “up thinking, “boy, I sure hope I don’t step into too many town” from our camping space. They remembered musical cow patties tonight”. “ The jam atmosphere was calming and easy going, and mandolinist, has a laid back look as does the Scott had the trailer awning extended and solar lights guitarist. Back Porch Bluegrass is more traditional in strung alone the perimeter creating a soft evening like style and music. During one of their numbers a rider glow against the darkened background. Mike kicked was taking a short cut near the band stage and it off, as I recall, with a train song. To stay out of the decided to tie his horse to a tree, sit, relax and enjoy musical cow patties I decided to mute the strings and the music. Chris Cerna and the Bluegrass Republic chop the up beats, in essence I was the snare drum was the closing act. Chris and company have taken without sounding the cord changes. My task was their performance to a whole new level with the simple enough, chop on beats two and four and don’t musicianship and vocals as well demonstrated with drop the pick. To my utter amazement all went their version of “Big Spike Hammer”. well…how cool is that! As we played our slow jam Sunday was cool and breezy, we stayed until the kept expanding, folks were bringing their chairs or just guitar raffle (congratulations to the winner) then standing. We started off with four instruments, one decamped and headed east toward the Colorado guitar, one uk and two mandolins but somehow it River. We left, in many ways, richer for the expanded to include two banjos more guitars and a experience than when we came. harmonica as the evening went on. At some point Reta had enough grinning in the cool night air and Step inside this house girl, I’ll sing for you a song went back to the trailer; I just kept chopping. We I’ll tell you about just where I’ve been, it shouldn’t take called it quits somewhere north of eleven o’clock. I too long was too wired to sleep so I sat down and devoured Till next time, Bert the better part of a container of Oreo Cookies while Postscript: A special thanks to Mike, Scott and recalling the evening, the music and friends I’d made Patty, as well as, the others for the Friday night slow and asking myself why I’d not done this sooner…oh jam. All are more proficient with their instruments well, than I and could have played at other faster jams of the past is just the past”, have another cookie, their choosing boom-chuck-boom-chuck. What was that song again, “Train 45”? Eventually I dossed off to the muted sounds of a train and the steel rails singing though the bend as the BNSF track lies just off the western edge of the park. Beyond the jams and fellowship Saturday is the main event. In the morning SWBA held it’s annual meeting introducing the officers and all the folks that work behind the scenes to make things happen by investing their time, energy and resources, into the metaphoric building or structure, the treasure that brightens up our day, that we call the Southwest Bluegrass Association. Thanks to all that give or have given of themselves so generously. After the meeting it was time for vittles, potluck galore, with salads, plenty of the starchy stuff that’s so tasty, "PICKING & JAMMING AMERICA" as well as, pies, cakes, cookies and other deserts. 1st SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH SWBA provided the protein, lots of fried chicken. Lunch was consumed under the shade of some old Norco American Legion & Southwest Bluegrass Association Cottonwood trees in an area that would double as the P. T.S.D. Awareness Program "PICKING & JAMMING AMERICA" stage and seating area for the night’s band showcase. Come Sarly for breakfast at 11 AM Saturday evening was a grinner’s delight with three Bring your instrument and jam at 12 Noon bands on the menu, Honey Buckets, Back Porch Bluegrass and Chris Cerna and the Bluegrass PICKERS AND GRINNERS WELCOME Republic. The Honey Buckets are an up and coming local band with a, kind-of-sort-of, So-Cal look and BEGINNERS TO ADVANCED flavor to it. The bassman looks like someone out of a Cheech and Chong movie, the banjo player could NORCO AMERICAN LEGION POST 328 double for a moonshiner or a 60’s style hermit from 3888 Hamner ( I-15 & 6TH Street), Norco CA Topanga Canyon and Devin, the band’s front man . Jam, Music Venue, Concert, Festival Open Mic Jam along with the concert. Food and Why You Should Go! drinks are usually available. These bands are generally touring whether it's local, regional or By Ron Ackerman TheBluegrassJamboree.com national. You have a chance to talk with the band Jam, Music Venue, Concert, Festival, members and purchase CDs or other merchandise. why you should go! Each has its positives. Let’s start How is a concert different from a music venue? out with a jam and why you should go. If you have Although the concert is somewhat the same, in never been to a jam then you are missing out. There many respects it’s different. A concert may be at a are several types of jams from what we call Circle location where a lot of people pay to see the band. Jams to Open Mic Jams. During a circle jam the Fans can jammers generally sit around in a circle and each jammer is encouraged to start a song. For musicians, number in the hundreds or even thousands. The this is a great way to play with others in a group and band comes out plays and you leave and most times will help to hone their skills and learn new skills. no interaction with the band members. Drinks and Many times, jammers will help other jammers with snacks may or may not be available. Being able to different aspects of their instruments. For non- interact with the band is almost impossible musicians, it can be very entertaining. Although not depending on the concert venue. as polished as a concert. You’ll hear a lot of old-time Festivals give you a total music immersion from and bluegrass standards. These types of jams are one, two or three days to a week. From four or five normally free. bands to 10, 20 or 30 bands over many days. You may see some of your favorite bands and some bands you may not know as well. Some include a combination of national touring bands, regional bands and local bands. Many times, there is a lot of jamming going on all day and all night. So, if you happen to camp at the festival be prepared to hear music all times of the day and night. After each performance, the musicians will come out for a meet and greet and you can buy their CD’s and other For Open Mic Jams it’s more about jammers who merchandise. It’s a great way to get a lot of music may play together on a regular basis or even play in a short amount of time. There is usually lots of as a band. This is more like a concert yet still food and other vendors. The cost of most festivals considered a jam. They go up on stage or specified ranges from $25 to $75 per day with a break for area, play together and may invite others jammers multiple days. Considering how much music you get to play with them. You may have several groups during a festival it is well worth the cost. signed up to play. This is probably considered a step Last, I want to talk about a new trend called the up from a circle jam and gives the jammers a chance House Concert. The House Concert is a concert to play as if they were playing at a concert. For this where the host invites fans to attend the concert. type of jam, there may be a slight cost, anywhere These can also be advertised but the band performs from about $4.00 to $8.00. Again, this can be very for a very small number of fans, anywhere from 15 entertaining. Food and soft drinks may be available to 50. The cost ranges from $30.00 to $50.00 and and depending on the location of harder drinks. may include food and drink. The House Concert is an intimate experience where fans sit in whatever is available, couch, chair, bean bag and even stand. Fans should be encouraged to purchase the bands CDs and merchandise. I encourage you to attend these jams, music venues, concerts, festivals, and even house concerts. Keep the music alive no matter what Then there’s a music venue. Bands are paid to genre. Failure to attend results in the loss of these perform. Admission can be anywhere between venues. $10.00 and $25.00. Many of these types of venues Ron Ackerman is a DJ for The Bluegrass Jamboree. give you a pretty up close and personal experience Ron hosts “Off The Beaten Path “on Wednesday and to the hired bands. Some venues will include an “Up On The Ridge” on Saturdays What is The Nashville Number System? Imagine if you had a band in which the bass player was playing in B, the guitar player was capoed on the second By Chris Jones Opinion / Humor fret, playing out of A, and the banjo player was capoed Bluegrass Today bluegrasstoday.com on the 4th fret playing out of G. Then suppose not one of I have recently been asked to address the these pickers actually knew the song (you think this hasn’t issue of the number system, or as it’s happened?). This would leave someone, a mandolin sometimes called, “The Nashville Number player perhaps, or maybe someone in the audience, to System” (note that in Knoxville, it’s always call out three different chords every time a chord change referred to as “The Knoxville Number System”). happens. You can see the musical mess this would make. I was a little reluctant to deal with this subject because The number system eliminates all of that because it brings back some painful memories of trying to instead of calling out the chord, you would be calling out remember what a “3” chord is in the key of B flat, so I the number of the chord, which is universal, regardless could cue the bass player, who not only didn’t know the of how you’re voicing the chord. Not to get theoretical on number system, but who also apparently had never heard you, but the number represents the root note of the chord Old Home Place. It’s harder to do than you think, when based on where it is in the scale of the key you’re in. For you’re also trying to remember what happened after you example, in the key of G, G equals “1”, C is the “4 chord,” “ran away to Charlottesville.” By the time I had shouted and D is “5.” In formal music circles, the “1” is also known out “D Flat!” I was already working in a sawmill and it was as the “tonic,” or sometimes the “quinine.” All you have time for the chorus (with the bass player starting that to do is learn what the 1,4,5,2, etc, in every key you chorus with a big sour D flat instead of an F). normally play in is, and you’ll never have to hear the name The number system is something everyone needs to of a chord again (and aren’t you just sick of chord names know. We who play bluegrass music need it more than anyway?). people in other genres of music because of our heavy The other beauty of the number system is that you can use of the capo. silently signal the chord changes just by using your For those who are new to the music, or who may have fingers, which is so much more subtle than having to arrived at Bluegrass Today.com by an erroneous link that shout, “Hey buddy! It goes back to G here!” This only was supposed to direct them to chewinggumfacts.com, requires the ability to count to seven with your hands, a little explanation and history of the capo may be in and with the majority of bluegrass songs, only one hand order: The capo is a device, usually metallic (the cloth is needed. capos that were experimented with in the 1970s were a Anyone playing music in Nashville knows this system; spectacular failure), that is used to raise the pitch of a it’s taught in the schools there in kindergarten (usually stringed instrument, enabling the player to use open- right before nap time). It’s also the accepted method for stringed chords further up the neck. charting in Nashville studios or on live shows. This is why, The capo was originally made by accident by a drunk as mentioned above, it’s often called the “Nashville welder in 17th century England, who was attempting to Number System.” Any musician in The Music City who make a hair clip for his wife. He liked it so much, he made doesn’t know the numbers is sent to a high-security 100 of them, but still had no idea what they were (nor did detention center in Las Cassas, TN (which is exactly 15 his wife, who left him for the local farrier later that year). miles from nowhere, at least according to Jim and Jesse). The pilgrims, who also had no idea what they were, took Classical musicians and composition majors would them along to the New World, where they attempted to normally approve of the number system, since it’s based sell them to the Indians in exchange for what is now on solid music theory. However, in country and bluegrass Massachusetts. After five minutes of hearty laughter on music, we take a few liberties with the theory. For the part of the Native Americans, the pilgrims offered to example, when we refer to a “7” (i.e. the Love Please settle for a small plot of land that is now the site of a Come Home chord), we really mean a flat 7. If you Friendly’s restaurant in Braintree, MA. attempt to play a major 7 where a flat 7 should go, well, just don’t. If a song has an actual major 7 in it (e.g., an It wasn’t until the late 1700s that James Madison, our F# in the key of G), it would be referred to in Nashville as nation’s fourth president, attached one to the neck of his a “flat 1,” a term which would make most classical guitar on a whim (he was feeling pretty good after having musicians cuss a blue streak in 18th century German. If put in a long day of drafting constitutional amendments), you do have a formal composition background, please and was heard to exclaim, “What a wonderful little item. don’t approach a bluegrass jam session and say “That’s Now I can be in the key of B and still play a G-run!” really a flat 7,” or “That’s not a 2, it’s really the 5 of 5.” No But we were talking about the number system, weren’t we? one cares. The point is, if you have one or more musicians using capos, and some of those musicians have those capos placed on By the way, if you want an example of great use of a “flat different frets from one another, it’s as if you have people 1” chord, listen to the chorus of Larry Cordle’s The Fields playing in a host of different keys (even though they aren’t, of Home. If you’d like other examples, you may have to or so we hope). This creates a huge problem if you’re in a write them yourself. situation in which not everybody knows the song. Chris Jones Website : www.chrisjonesgrass.com The Truth About with his performance of Jimmie Rodgers’ song “Mule The Lester Flatt G Run Skinner Blues.” For this number Bluegrass Boy Cleo Davis chorded Monroe’s mandolin and Bill played © 2018 By Wayne Erbsen nativeground.com guitar and used a run very similar to the Lester Flatt Bluegrass hero Lester Flatt had a lot to G Run. Bill also played the run when he recorded this be proud of. One of his most lasting song with the Blue Grass Boys on October 7, 1940 achievements was the G run that bears for RCA Victor Records. his name. You can hear this distinctive guitar run in practically every traditional bluegrass song that can be In comparing these early versions of played on the guitar using a G shape chord. In its original the G run, the thing they all have in form, it is basically a two note run that is played at the end common is that the run is commonly of a verse or chorus. It consists of playing the D string of played at the end of a verse or a the guitar at the second fret followed by the G string open. chorus and it culminates with the It more or less punctuates the song and serves the same open G string of the guitar. What purpose as an exclamation point at the end of a paragraph. Lester apparently did was streamline In the mid seventies I was lucky enough to become it down just to the two notes, an E friends with the legendary fiddler Jim Shumate, who and a G which he was able to hit joined in Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1945 just when the band was going 90 miles weeks after Lester Flatt joined the band. In a 1976 an hour. As Brian Sutton once said, interview here is how Jim explained it: “It was Lester Flatt who put it on the map.” And for Lester had just started working with Bill when I joined the that, we are grateful. Thanks, Lester! band. He’d been with Bill two or three weeks. He’d been singing tenor with Charlie Monroe. So he left Charlie and If you’d like to try the Lester Flatt run on the guitar, went with Bill at the Grand Ole Opry. I had met Lester take a peek at the guitar tab, below. The tab is written when he was working with Charlie, so I was glad he was in the style I use in my book, Flatpicking Guitar for the with Bill. We were both rookies. I remember that Lester Complete Ignoramus. The letters on the strings always had a funny run on the guitar, and we used to kid represent the name of the note on that string. The about that run. I accused him of doing it just to let people arrow represents a strum down. The feet give you an know that he was still there. That’s about the truth, idea of the timing. Of course, Lester played with a because we’d be going so fast, he’d just hit one string thumbpick, but you can certainly do it with a flatpick here and there and then every chance he’d get, why he’d run something in there. if you wish. That “something” was Lester's signature guitar run. The Blue Grass Boys may have kidded Lester about his little run, but Lester’s G run is no laughing matter to died-in-the-wool fans of traditional bluegrass. In this article I may question whether or not Lester actually invented that run, but no one can argue with the fact that he gave it its biggest audience when he played it week after week on live appearances and on most Saturday nights on WSM’s Grand Ole Opry. Of course, Lester continued to play his G run over Wayne Erbsen is a musician, author, teacher, radio the course of his long career with Earl Scruggs and host and publisher. He has written over 30 song and the Foggy Mountain Boys and later with the instruction books for bluegrass and clawhammer Nashville Grass. banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, dulcimer and ukulele. We can trace the origins of Lester’s G run back at Check out his web site at www.nativeground.com least as far as the mid 1930s when Riley Puckett played a version of it on the August 8, 1935 recording of “Blue Ridge Mountain Blues.” On June 15, 1936 Zeke Morris played his version of the guitar run when he and Wade Mainer recorded “If I Can Hear My Mother Pray Again.” If you listen close to Monroe Brothers’ October 12, 1936 recording of “Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms,” you can hear Charlie Monroe playing something that approaches the Lester Flatt G Run. On Oct. 28 th 1939 in Bill Monroe’s very first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry Bill amazed the Summergrass San Diego This years main faculty band is High Fidelity, pictured above. All three fun-filled days will include instrument classes and August 16-17-18, 2019 stage performance classes. Kids Camp will conclude on Oh, Brother! That’s Good Bluegrass! 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Confirmed registrants Porch Music Preservation Society, Vulcan Mountain Boys, will receive detailed information about the camp, what to Prairie Sky, and MohaviSoul. Great entertainment coming to bring, etc. the 2019 festival! Registration by June 29. 2019 is $55. After June 29, IT'S TIME TO VOLUNTEER! registration is $65, until July 29, 2019. Sign up to be a Summergrass Volunteer and earn Free Tuition includes instructional materials and admission for admission! the entire festival... Scholarships are available for kids who need them - just check the scholarship box in the registration Summergrass San Diego LOVES their volunteers and can't form to apply and a Summergrass Board member will contact do the festival without them! We still have some openings you for further information and details on scholarship funding. for volunteers to help in a variety of areas. We only ask that you perform your volunteer time before you claim your ticket. For more information, go to www.summergrass.net or Be sure to sign up soon!. Contact volunteer Coordinator Jim send us an email at [email protected] or call Henderson for more info. Send an email to: Gerry at (310) 261-5798. [email protected], or call (760) 301-6626 Bluegrass Boot Camp with the Grascals!! August 16, 2019 "TICKETS, TICKETS, TICKETS" Summergrass San Diego announces a very special On sale now! Bluegrass Boot Camp, which will take place 9:30 am to 2:00 SG stage-crowd sized Summergrass - It's a Great Value! pm on August 16, 2019, to start off the Summergrass Keeping costs down isn't easy these days. Summergrass is bluegrass music festival at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine a great value and is virtually in your own "backyard" - we're Museum in Vista, CA. within one tank of gas for many folks. Many loyal Summergrass fans already know that our festival is an ADULT INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED PLAYERS affordable getaway where you can enjoy all the festival has ARE WELCOME PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!! to offer, and relax with family and friends. Shucks, it's almost REGISTRATION CLOSES AUG. 9, 2019 & CLASSES a family reunion! Come on out to Summergrass and make WILL FILL UP FAST SO REGISTER NOW some memories that won't break the budget! p.s. Check out our advance ticket prices to save even more $$$. CLASS LIMIT: 10 PARTICIPANTS; OPEN TO AGE 17 AND UP "How do I get my tickets?" Well, we're glad you asked about that! Tickets now on sale at: The fun-filled time will include a 4 hour instrument class summergrass.eventbrite.com with one of our master Drill Instructors - The Grascals. or Each camp registrant will sign up for one of the following www.summergrass.net instrument classes. Have questions, send email to [email protected]. Banjo ­ Jason Davis Lead Guitar ­Terry Eldredge NOTE: CAMPERS, ELECTRIC IS SOLD OUT! SORRY. Fiddle ­Adam Haynes Mandolin ­Danny Roberts waiting list for electric available on dry camping order form Bass ­Terry Smith Teaching Your Child to Play Bluegrass Music Your "Summergrass Kids Music Experience" Bluegrass Boot Camp will include 4 hours of instruction Bluegrass Camp for Kids August 16-17-18, 2019 beginning Friday morning August 16 at 9:30. Class size is Kids ages 6-16 are welcome limited to 10 students to give each of you more access to Sumergrass San Diego announces a very special Bluegrass your Drill Sergeant. Confirmed registrants will receive Kids Camp, which will take place August 16-17-18, 2019, detailed information about the camp, what to bring, etc. during the Summergrass Bluegrass Music Festival at the Registration is $80 and registration closes on Aug. 9, 2019. Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, Ca. Tuition includes instruction and instruction materials. PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!! REGISTRATION For more information, see Summergrass Website at CLOSES JULY 29, 2019. www.summergrass.net. REGISTER BY JUNE 29, 2019 Email contact at: [email protected], FOR TUITION DISCOUNT or call Jeff at (760) 644-4910. Back Porch Bluegrass Phelan CA 760-868-2850 Blythe Chamber of Commerce Bill Dempsey Music 400 W. Hobsonway, Blythe, CA 92225 (760) 922-3181 blythechamber.yumawebteam.com San Juan Capistrano CA 949-357-7333 Billy Proulx & Tommy Too Claremont CA 909-268-9878 Old Blue Sound Old Blue Inc.. 520 S 9th St Grand Junction, CO 81501 (970) 260-7873 Blue Creek Band San Diego CA 760-659-0094 Oldbluesound.com Bluegrass Brethren Long Beach CA 562-428-6179 Shutts Fabricators Chris Cerna and The Bluegrass Republic 1632 W 15th St Long Beach, CA 90813 (562) 432-4648 Highland CA 808-782-1275 Siteshuttsfab.com Edgar Loudermilk Band, feat. Jeff Autry Susanville Bluegrass Festival 706-768-1503 Lassen County Fairgrounds Fair Market Band Claremont CA 909-358-1669 195 Russell Drive Susanville, CA (530) 251-8900 www.lassencountyfair.org Flint Hill Special Arizona 575-740-1563 Frequent Flyers Blue Diamond NV 702-875-3579 Classifieds Grasslands Fountain Valley, CA 714-454-1976 Lessons Grinder Country Orange CA 714-865-9729 Guitar, Banjo & Harmonica: Bill Dempsey, San Juan Capistrano HAWAIIANS @ HEART Washtub Band (949)357-7333. Banjo lessons: Bill Purcell, Bluegrass banjo all levels Riverside CA Corona CA 951-372-8266 (951)231-7321 [email protected] Highview Barstow CA 760-953-8520 Fiddle lessons by Shelah Spiegel, Fountain Valley CA, (714) 454- Honey Buckets Rancho Cucamonga CA 909-957-8470 1976, e-mail: [email protected] Lilies of the West Anaheim CA 714-635-5834 Fiddle lessons with Phil Salazar: Ventura, CA (805) 701-2508 fiddlelessonswithphilsalazar.com Marty Warburton & Home Girls Guitar & Banjo lessons: Pete Roehling, teaches most styles of Cedar City UT 702-232-5016 guitar, flat & finger picking, old-time & bluegrass banjo. Luthier & MOHAVISOUL SAN DIEGO, CA 619-379-3288 instrument re-pair man Redlands CA (909) 794-6125 Murphy Family Band Culver City CA 310-559-3095 Old time banjo & Mountain dulcimer: Doug Thomson Ranco Cucamonga CA (909) 987-5701 Old Blue Band Littlefied AZ 970-260-7873 Repairs Out of the Desert Las Vegas NV 702-521-5615 Block's Musical Repair Lake Elsinore, CA 951-283-8955 Portneuf Gap Bluegrass Arimo, ID 208-251-0575 blocksmusicalrepair.com Sagebrush String Band Las Vegas NV 702-373-1926 Classic String Repair Hesperia CA 760-949-2266 Folk Music Center Claremont CA 909-624-2928 Stillhouse Road St. George UT 435-674-1226 McCabe’s Guitar Shop Santa Monica CA 310-8284497 Stuck In Reverse Henderson NV 702-361-21163 Roll Over Beethoven’s Music Store Hesperia CA 760-244-8822 Shinbone Covina CA 626-337-0071 Sorensen Mandolin & Guitar Co Santa Clarita, CA 661-345-6684 Sideline Raleigh NC 919-398-0366 The Fret House Covina CA 626-339-7020 Sweet Tidings Gospel Jam For sale: Loma Linda CA 909-796-8812 2016 Martin HD28 with Martin The Bladerunners San Bernardino CA 714-323-8065 hard Case in excellent The Brombies Los Angeles CA 323-874-0583 condition. Asking $2,600 or The Kody Norris Show Mountain City TN 423-213-0554 best offer. Contact Bob Pilgrim 760-447-8623. Virtual Strangers Poway, CA 858-679-1225 Wimberley Bluegrass Santa Ana CA 714-538-8321 Aug 29th - Sept 1st Hermit Music Festival Kuna, Idaho Aug 30th-Sept 1st Four Corners Folk Festival Pagosa Springs, CO Always verify dates and times, sometimes scheduled events change or we may Aug 28th - Sept. 1st SAMJAM Bluegrass Festival Piketon, Ohio not have listed everything correctly. For more Info on events listed below and Aug 31st-Sept. 1st Hovander Homestead Bluegrass Festival Ferndale WA others visit southwestbluegrass.org for one click links Sept 5th-the 8th Oldtone Roots Music Festival North Hillsdale, NY Sept 17th-21st Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival Morehead KY SWBA Fall Campout October 17th – 20th, 2019 Sept. 12th-14th Mohican Bluegrass Festival Glenmont, Ohio. Every Saturday ME-N-ED’S Pizza Parlor Bluegrass Concerts Sept 12th-15th Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Festival Rosine, Kentucky. 6:30 PM –10:30 PM Me N Ed's Pizza Parlor 4115 Paramount Sept 12th-14th Dailey & Vincent Land Fest Hiawassee, Georgia. Blvd., Lakewood, CA 90712 562-421-8908 September 13th-15th Pickin in the Pines Flagstaff, Arizona. September 18th-22nd Walnut Valley Festival Winfield, Kansas. st 1 Sunday Of Every Month Sept. 18th-22nd Berkeley Old-Time Musc Convention Berkeley, CA Norco American Legion & Southwest Bluegrass Association September 20th-22nd Millpond Traditional Music Festival Bishop CA P. T.S.D. Awareness Program "PICKING & JAMMING AMERICA" Sept. 27th-28th Huck Finn Jubilee Ontario, California. th 3888 Hamner ( I-15 & 6 Street) Norco CA Sept 24th-28th World of Bluegrass (IBMA) Raleigh, North Carolina. 1st & 3rd Mondays The Brombies @ Viva Rancho Cantina October 4th- 6th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival San Francisco, CA 7:30 PM, 900 Riverside Dr., Burbank, CA 91506, 818-515- Oct. 3rd- 5th Great Southern Music Festival Ochlocknee, Georgia. 4444, Jo Ellen Doering 323-874-0583 [email protected] Oct 3rd-5th Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival Guthrie, OK Oct. 3rd-5th Amelia Bluegrass Festival Amelia, Virginia 1st Tuesday San Diego No. County Bluegrass & Folk Club Oct 4th-5th 3 Sisters Bluegrass Music Festival Chattanooga, TN 7 – 9 pm Live bluegrass bands, local & regional. Jamming on Oct. 11th-13th The Festy Experience Arrington, Virginia the patio from 7 pm – ? Round Table Pizza 1161 E. Oct. 10th-13th Hillberry Harvest Moon Festival Eureka Springs, AK Washington Escondido, CA northcountybluegrass.org Oct 9���� Turkey Track Harvest Time Bluegrass Festival Waldron Ark October 10th-13th Suwannee Roots Revival Live Oak, Florida. 2nd Tuesday San Diego Bluegrass Society Music Nights Oct. 12th Lester Flatt Celebration Sparta, Tennessee. 6:30 – 9 PM Open mic and pick up bands, Lots of jamming Oct. 16��20�� Rebecca Rose Memorial Bluegrass Festival Guyton, GA outside. Food and beverages are available for purchase. Oct. 18th-19th Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival Farmers Branch, Texas. Guests welcome. Fuddruckers, 5500 Grossmont Center Oct. 19th Cartersville Bluegrass & Folk Festival Cartersville, Georgia. Grossmont Center Dr La Mesa, CA sandiegobluegrass.org Oct. 24th-26th Anderson Bluegrass Festival Anderson, SC 4th Tuesday 6:30 – 8 PM Open mic and pick up bands Oct. 24th-26th Pickin’ & Grinnin’ Festival Bellville, Texas. 8–9 PM Featured Band Lots of jamming outside, Food and Oct. 31- Nov 2nd Honey Creek Resort Bluegrass Festival Moravia, IA beverage available for purchase. Boll Weevil Restaurant 9330 Clairemont Mesa Blvd #E San Diego CA sandiegobluegrass.org Bluegrass Nights @ Saddle Sore Eatery & Saloon Wendenday August 28th at 6 PM – 9 PM Wendenday September 25th at 6 PM – 9 PM Saddle Sore Eatery & Saloon 343 6th St, Ste A Norco CA 92860 Bluegrass Festivals Aug 1st-3rd PreddyFest Bluegrass Festival Franklinton, NC August 2nd-3rd 7 Mile Bluegrass Festival Greenfield, Ohio August 2nd-4th Winlock Pickers’ Festival Winlock, Washington. August 3rd-4th Keystone Bluegrass and Beer Festival Keystone, CO August 5th-10th Old Fiddler’s Convention Galax, Virginia. Aug 8th-11th Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival Richmond MI August 8th-11th Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival Hebron, CT. August 9th-11th Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival Alta, Wyoming. Aug 9th-11th Mount St. Helens Bluegrass Festival Toledo Washington Aug 9th-11th Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival Medical Lake Washington Auguat 16th-18th Summergrass San Diego Vista California August 15th-18th in Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival Gettysburg, PA August 15th-17th North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival Marion NC Aug 15th-18th Winding Creek Bluegrass Festival Russiaville, Indiana. August 16th-18th Hickory Fest Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Aug 16th-18th Bannock County Bluegrass Festival Pocatello, Idaho August 16th-18th Rocky MountainFolks Festival Lyons, Colorado. August 16th-18th Bowers Mansion Bluegrass Festival Reno, Nevada. Aug 22nd-24th Central City Bluegrass Festival Central City, Iowa Aug 21st-25th Rainier Lions Bluegrass Festival Rainier, WA Aug 29th-Sept 1st Labor Day Bluegrass Festival Grapeland, Texas Aug 29th-Sept 1st Four Corners Folk Festival Pagosa Springs, CO Aug 28th- Sept. 1st SamJam Bluegrass Festival Piketon Ohio. Aug 29-Sept 3rd North Cascades Bluegrass Festival Bellingham WA Mission Viejo, CA: 1st & 3rd Thursdays from 6-9:30pm 25782 Obrero Dr. 949-916-6855 Open to all pickers & grinners! nd Atascadero, Ca: 2nd Wednesday of the month, 6-9 PM, The Newhall, Ca: Every 2 Sunday BASC Jam from Noon to 4 PM first hour is easy slow jam with sheet music provided. The Vincenzo's 24504 Lyons Ave Newhall CA second hour can be a more advanced jam. The third hour is Palos Verde, Ca: Jam 1- 4 PM, Amuse Music Center, 43 C open mic. Last Stage West, Hwy. 41,15050 Morro Road, Lloyd Peninsula Center This is technically on Indian Peak Rd, a block (805) 441-7463. from Silver Spur (which intersects Hawthorne Blvd) rd Bakersfield, Ca: 1st Monday of the month, 6-9 PM, Rusty’s San Diego, CA: 3 Monday 7 - 8:30 PM SDBS Bluegrass Slow Pizza, 5430 Olive Drive Jam Learning session, Our Savior Lutheran Church (in the Canoga Park Ca. A group of musicians who play Bluegrass, back) 4011 Ohio St, San Diego, CA [email protected] Traditional, Folk, County and some rock & roll. They meet once San Diego, CA 4th Tuesday 6:30 – 8 pm SDBS, Open mic and amonth.CanogaParkJaamonmeetup.com/Canoga-Park-Folk-Musicpick up bands 8 – 9 pm Featured Band Lots of jamming outside Corona, Ca: Bluegrass Jam. The 1st, 3rd & 5th Thursday of the Boll Weevil Restaurant 9330 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San month., 6-9 PM, Crown Pointe Retirement Home 737 Kellogg Diego, CA Blvd Contact: Bill K. 951-907-7156 San Diego, CA: Poway Folk Circle 3rd Saturday Bluegrass Slow Jam with Janet Beazley, 9:30-11am at Scripps Miramar Covina, Ca: Open mic night, 1st Saturday of the month, 8PM, Ranch Library Community Room, 10301 Scripps Lake Drive, The Fret House Music Shop, 309 N Citrus. Entrance fee is $2.00. Call (626)339-7020 srfol.org, meetup.com,Please contact Janet for more info: [email protected]. Covina, Ca: 3rd Sunday every other month from 2-5pm at The San Diego, CA: Walt Richards SLO Jam 6:20 PM 3rd Friday Fret House Music Shop, 309 N. Citrus Ave., Covina. (626) 339- 7020. René Baquet jam host, Next jams - Apr. 23 & Jun 25 San Carlos Recreation Center, 6445 Lake Badin Ave., 6:30PM-9PM SDBS Open Mic, Pickup Bands, Featured Band Diamond Bar, CA: New bi-weekly beginning level Jam We are trying to see if anyone in the Diamond Bar area would like to San Juan Capistrano: SJC Bluegrass Pickers meet every start a beginning level Jam. If interested, Contact Greg Horton Saturday under the Oak trees 9 am – 12-noon at Historic Town by email: [email protected] Center Park 31852 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano, CA Encinitas, Ca: Thursday nights, 6:30-9 PM, Round Table Temecula CA: “The Third Jam"6:30-9 PM every Third Tuesday Pizza, 1321 Encinitas Blvd. behind McDonalds near El hosted by Bill Frisbie. Come join the fun at Round Table Pizza Camino Real Contact: Vic (888)481-2100 27644 Ynez Road Temecula, CA Escondido, Ca: 3rd Wednesday of the month 6 PM San Torrance, CA: EL CAMINO College Bluegrass Jam, 1st Diego No. County Bluegrass & Folk Jam, Round Table Pizza, Sunday of the month 1-3 PM 16007 Crenshaw Blvd, Steve 1161 E Washington Barilovits Henderson, NV: Tuesday Night Bluegrass & Old Time Music 310-367-8975 [email protected] th Jam, 6-8 PM, 5795 Sandhill Road, Las Vegas, NV. For details West Hills, CA: 4 Sunday, Jam 1-5 PM The West call Betty Bess (702) 564-1630. Valley Music Center, 24424 Vanowen St. 818-992-4142, Los Angeles, Ca: Bluegrass Thursdays at the Grand View Everyone Welcome! Join the Jam or just listen Market, every 2nd Thursday of the month a dinner-time Yorba Linda, Ca: Thursday Jam 6-9 PM Main Street Restaurant, concert, 6:30-9 PM & every 4th Thursday of the month a 4902 Main St., (714) 777-9427, Jan host Barney Barnhouse. bluegrass jam 7-10 PM, 12210 Venice Blvd. For Info: Jeff Ventura, Ca: 2nd & 4th Wednesdays 6-11 PM. Grapes and Fleck (310) 773-6753 facebook.com/BluegrassThursdays or Hops, 545 E. Main St. Ventura, CA 93001, Parkin in the rear . burningheartbluegrass.com Gene Rubin they would love to have you! Visitors are welcome. nd La Mesa, Ca: SDBS Open mic & jam, 2 Tuesday of the AND IT'S FREE! month 6:30-9 PM Fuddrucker’s, 5500 Grossmont Center Dr., Vista, CA : AGSEM stage at the big green lawn is usually For info call Fuddruckers at (619)589-6144 or SDBS info line available for jamming 1:00 pm. No cars/vehicles on the at (858) 679-4854 Sponsored by the San Diego Bluegrass grass, please. Bring a chair, liquids. For jam days, time and Society updates, please visit www. northcountybluegrass.org Las Vegas, NV: Thursday night Bluegrass Jam, 6 - 8:30 PM, (AGSEM ) Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, 2040 N. NW Mountain Crest Park Community Center, 4701 N. Durango Santa Fe Ave., Vista, CA 92083, the same location as Rd., call Vera Vann-Wilson (702)875-3579. Summergrass. Loma Linda, Ca: Jam American Traditional Music Tuesdays, 7 PM, Loma Linda University,Patio Pantry, Anderson St. at . Call Don Hergert (909) 796-8812for info & directions. Lonpoc, Ca: Evening jams, 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 7-9 PM, Southside Coffee Co., 105 So. “H” St, for more info call Bill at (805) 736-8241 Lonpoc, Ca: 2nd and 4th Wednesday evening jams, 7-9 PM at ARTIN PRESS Southside Coffee Co., 105 So. “H” St, for more info call Bill at PRINTING AND DESIGN SOLUTIONS (805) 736-8241. Quality printing for today's freshest Long Beach, Ca: Tuesday’s Soup Jam 6:30 PM, 2420 Gundry designs St in Signal Hill , Contact: Don Rowan (562)883-0573, open to everyone (this jam is held in an industrial building) 958 N. Grand Avenue, Covina, CA Long Beach, Ca: Open Bluegrass Jam 2nd Thursday of the 626-915-4255 www.artinpress.com month 7-10 PM Red Leprechaun 4000 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA [email protected] Long Beach, Ca: 4th Sunday jam, 1-5 PM, Shutts Fabricators 1632 W 15th St., 562-432-4648 SWBA Jam Host Mark Shutts

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SWBA Fall Campout October 17th –20th, 2019 Mojave Narrows Regional Park 18000 Yates Road Victorville CA Mojave Narrows Regional Park Gate Hours 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The SWBA group camp site 1 & 2 are dry camping, if you need hock-ups you may contact the park at (760) 245-2226 to reserve a site ASAP for $40 a night. Dogs Must be on 6' leash at all times. Campfires must be off the ground. Camping: Tell ranger at gate Southwest Bluegrass Group camp 5 Check in with SWBA camp host on arrival please. Not Camping Day use fee is $10 per car pay at the gate. For more info email: [email protected] (661) 364-9321 Early Bird Camping Registration $15.00 A Night Prepay and SAVE $5.00 A Night $20.00 a Night at Campout Also Available Online at southwestbluegrass.org JOIN US FOR A GREAT WEEKEND OF BLUEGRASS JAMMING AND FELLOWSHIP

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Deadline to return advanced reservations is October 10th 2019 Please don't arrive before 8 am on Thursday October 17th Bluegrass Association member SWBA Other ______We will be camping these nights (please circle) THURS FRI SAT Type of rig? Motor home Truck/Trailer/5th Wheel Tent Car Other Will you have a tow car or extra vehicle? YES NO Total nights camping_____ x $15.00 = $______{ }Check here for Associate membership and include $5.00 Associate Member Name______All Non-Bluegrass Association members wishing to attend MUST purchase an Associate membership. Make Checks Payable to Southwest Bluegrass Association Mail to: SWBA 7216 Cranbrook Ave Bakersfield CA 93308 PLEASE NOTE: We will not be sending receipts. Your name will be added to the reservation list and checked off at check-in.

SWBA FALL CAMPOUT AGREEMENT, WAIVER AND RELEASE I have carefully read the description of the SWBA event for which I/We are registering and in consideration for being permitted by Mojave Narrows Regional Park, the County of San Bernardino and the Southwest Bluegrass Association to participate in the (above) activity, I hereby waive, release and discharge any and all claims for damages for personal injury, death or property damage which I may have, or which may hereafter accrue to me as a result of participation in said activity. This release is intended to discharge in advance Mojave Narrows Regional Park, the County of San Bernardino, their officers, employees and agents and the Southwest Bluegrass Association from any and all liability arising out of or connected in any way with my participation in said activity. It is further agreed that this waiver, release and assumption of risk is to be binding on my heirs and assigns. I agree to indemnify and to hold the aforementioned persons or entities free and harmless from any loss, liability, damage, cost or expense which they may incur as a result of my death or any injury or property damage that I may sustain while participating in said activity. I HAVE CAREFULLY READ THIS AGREEMENT, WAIVER AND RELEASE AND FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS CONTENTS. I AM AWARE THAT THIS IS A RELEASE OF LIABILITY AND A CONTRACT BETWEEN MYSELF, THE HESPERIA RECREATION AND PARK DISTRICT, THE CITY OF HESPERIA, AND THE SOUTHWEST BLUEGRASS ASSOCIATION AND I SIGN IT OF MY OWN FREE WILL.

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COMPLIMENTARY COPY Your membership is invited! SWBA membership makes this publication possible. Thank you! SWBA Membership Form Please Print Definition of memberships Family: Parents and all children under the age of 18 (over 18 are considered adults and must have their own membership) Band : A group of 6 (max) persons performing bluegrass or related music for monetary compensation (single membership for one band member, band listing in Soundboard and on SWBA website. If you have Any questions, contact the Membership Chairman. Canadian residents are required to ad 1st class postage

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