Daily Homplohire Gazeit1l, Northampton, Mall., Thurs ., Nov. 20, 1980 IS Valley musicians to fiddle, pluck and stomp away at Sunday Jamboree

By BARBARA STACK HADLEY - It 's going to be a good time all day Sunday at the Quonset when the first Pioneer Valley Jamboree of Country, Bluegrass. and Old Time Music and Dance comes to town. This time it 's a winter festival, held indoors, but festival or,anizers hope to create the kind of friendly and relaxed atmosphere that has made Pickin' In the Pines at Look Park such a popular ga the rin g of coun try music fans lor the past four summers. Not only will the music be live as can be, but these historic per­ forma~ will be recorded by Pioneer Records, a brand new Country and Bluegrass label in the Valley. Art Steele of Audio Pro Media will record the day's music on sophisticated IS-track equipment, with the release of the first Pioneer Valley Jam­ boree record due for early 1981. The daylon! event, 2 p.m. 'til RAINTREE WILL BE one 01 the many groups playing traditional American music at midnight, wi I fealure a wide Sunda,..s PlonHr Vaney Jamboree. variety of music as well as demonstration and participatory dancing by more than 30 of the people who keep these American fiddle and ba njo styles which They have promised to explain Billings Gap, The Valley music traditions alive and kick­ gave bi rth to contemporary the styles to new fans. keep the Partners. Willow Creek , Nick ing in the Pioneer Valley. The forms like bluegrass, country show moving. and return lost Plakias. Roger Simpson and Jamboree is beIng produced rock, and cou ntry and Western children. Blue Country, Plain Dealing, jointly by BG Produ c tions music. We 'll see a number of Of special interest to local Ra i nt ree . R i ver Valley (that's the talented Bob Green local favorites showing what country and Western fans will be Ramblers. Poor Farm of The Valley Partners and they can do in the language of Ih e appearance of Blue Country . Ramblers. Quabbin Cloggers Raintree ) and the Pioneer t heir mu s ical roots. The featuri"g Roger Simpson of and the Last Call Cloggers. Sun­ Valley Folklore Society, wh ic h clawhammer or frailing style of Holyoke on electric gUitar and day the Pioneer VaJley is going is dedicated to the preservation banjo champ Diane Sanabria of vocals. Roger is bringing in the to celebrate itself as a hotbed of and perpetuation of traditional the River Valley Ramblers is phenomenal Kenny Kosek of country music . music and folk life. su re to bring dancers (and City on fiddle , Alien The Quonset Restaurant At a local pickin' pa rty last would·be dancers ) to their feet. Playboy Lionel Wendling of promises warm ~eather i.nside summer Bob Green approached The growing popularity of this Paris, France, on pedal steel. and is wheelchair acceSSible. Deb Radway, president of the music has given rise to the and the unavoidable James T. There will be discounts for folklore society, about trying to creation of two new local clogg­ Heffernan of Amherst. Jimmy senior citizens and kids under 12. brid$e the traditional American ing teams in the Appalachian also expects to be jamming with And Bob Green says that musIC fields which have been t radition . The La s t Call l4-year-o ld banjo whiz David everybody is going to have a fine flourishing in the Valley these Cloggers from Amherst and the Dick of West Brookfield. old time. past few years. Bluegrass was Quabbin Cloggers will try to out­ going strong, with new bands, a do one another in the flashy growing and enthus ia stic footwork and general nonsense audience, and local festivals. which make Southern square Wynn Fay's fiddle contests were dancing so irresistible. There attracting fiddlers and fans will be New England from all over the Northeast. Contradancing as well , with And the contradance scene with calling and instruction for both its live and lively music was experienced dancers and becoming a popular alternative Bluegrass and Country and to disco. Bob Green and Deb Western fans who want to cross Radwaydeclded that it was time over for the afternoon. for a celebration, a gathering of Emcee duties fo r the day will the finest trad itional musicians be split between the Pioneer in the Valley. And the Jamboree Valley patriarch of country and was born. . Wynn Fay. and The program will begin wIth the poJ?ular (and very funny) Qld time mU5It!, the trac.litional revivalist-songster Nick Plakias.