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April/May 2021 A publication by the Southwest Bluegrass Association SWBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Bluegrass Soundboard STAFF President Vice-President Terry Brewer Marc Nelissen Managing Editor Terry Brewer 661-364-9321 909 289 8730 661-364-9321 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Associate Editor Treasurer Secretary Sheila Brewer Paula De Bie Missy Lyn Gibson 951-934-3478 774-248-4128 Regular Contributors [email protected] [email protected] Terry Brewer, Bert Luontela, Ann Smith, Membership Connie Tripp Chris Jones, Wayne Erbsen, Eric Nordbeck Sheila Brewer 661-305-1554 Distribution 661-364-7415 [email protected] Flo De Bie, Carol Lister, Frank & Patsy Abrahams, [email protected] Susan Brown, Ella Carter, Paula De Bie Louie De Bie The Bluegrass Soundboard Deadlines 951-934-3478 [email protected] DECEMBER JANUARY issue November 1st FEBRUARY /MARCH issue January 1st APRIL MAY issue March 1st COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS JUNE JULY issue May 1st AUGUST SEPTEMBER issue July 1st OCTOBER NOVEMBER issue September 1st Soundboard & Web manger Terry Brewer Terry Brewer Missy Lyn Gibson ADVERTISING RATES Julie Ann Evans Single Issue Yearly SWBA Host Full page $65 $350 Sheila Brewer Advertising Half page $35 $190 $25 SWBA Jam Host Missy Lyn Gibson Quarter page $130 $10 $60 Howard Doering Terry Brewer Card size Marc Nelisse Foe more information concerning advertising Mark Shutts Campout Hosts (including special rates and discounts) Contact Terry Brewer René Baquet Paula De Bie 661-364-9321 [email protected] SWBA School Program Sheila Brewer SWBA Membership For member information, change of address, phone and emails. Eric Nordbeck, Scott Contact Sheila Brewer 661-364-7415 [email protected] Sandoval, Bill Inger, Mike SWBA Trailer Johnston, Art Tate, Marina Louie De Bie SWBA DIRECTORY Send $10.00 check or money order Kranz, Toni Clegg made payable to Southwest Bluegrass Association to SWBA Directory, Social Media PO Box 55 Mira Loma CA 91752 TREASURER'S REPORT Send $5.00 to Treasurer Report, PO Box 55 Mira Loma CA 91752 BOARD MEETINGS: All members are encouraged to attend board meetings. To attend, call a board member for the date, time and place. The information in this publication is supplied by an all-volunteer effort and SWBA works hard to keep it accurate and up-to-date. We encourage those whose events listed in this publication to keep your information current – if you have any changes, additions or edits, please let them know by submitting an updated event info. VISIT US ON THE WEB AT Neither the Southwest Bluegrass Association nor the people involved in providing information on this website can be held responsible for www.southwestbluegrass .org any result stemming from errors in information found on the Southwest Bluegrass Association website. Please check with the actual venue before traveling long distances to bluegrass events. Views expressed in these pages are not necessarily those of The Bluegrass Soundboard, Southwest Bluegrass Association, it's Board of Directors or the Editorial Staff. The Southwest Bluegrass Association, is dedicated to the preservation Pickers and grinners promoting Bluegrass and promotion of , has been designated by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Contributions are deductible for music and those involved in it. Federal or State income tax purposes. weekend and your hospitality. And yes, that included you Don Branson. Summergrass is still on and Yvonne Tatar says they are in need volunteers and if your interested contact Jim Henderson by email at [email protected]. The next newsletter will have the Board election ballot for the upcoming fiscal year. There are currently 7 board Hello SWBA members and friends, I members and we can have up to 9. The current board hope this newsletter finds you well! members have volunteered to run again, and we invite you Well, it has been a year since the to volunteer and help us through the upcoming year. pandemic started and who knows what Best Wishes and God Bless ~ Terry Brewer things are going to be like for the upcoming months. Restrictions are For those interested in some great music slowly changing, but the is still almost non-existent in California. Several states are allowing festivals to happen, but the numbers are low.

The past year has truly affected our association and others. Our membership has dropped not only with new members, but several members have not renewed. Hopefully, this will change in the coming months.

So, with that being said I need your help encouraging others to renew or join, not only SWBA, but other associations as well. As an organization we have members in several states around the USA and Canada. And I would like to thank you all for your continued support.

SWBA Super Jam Campout: With state mandates still restricting group camping, the group sites are still closed at Mojave Narrows. If things change and they open in April. SWBA will reserve group sites 1 and 2 for May 27th - 31st, but I am thinking this is not going to happen. If it does, I will send out an email blast and update the website. We are still on hold and if not in May maybe we can do a campout in October. Mike Nadolsons CD “Quicksand” is available to A few have decided to reserve spots in the Mojave help Mikes family with medical costs, You can mail Narrows Regional Park campground for that weekend $20.00 to Mark Shutts 15481 Electronic Lane, and cancel if SWBA can get the group sites. I have Huntington Beach CA Unit C 92649 and Mark will mail reserved #19A. At this time because it is a holiday it to you. weekend, campsite reservations are going fast and there are only 6 RV Dry camping spots left. The cost for 3 days dry is $130, and there are several tent camping sites available at $130 for 3 days. You can reserve online at https://www.sbcountyparks.com/reservation/camping/ind ex.asp or by phone 760-245-2226. The Topock AZ campout had a turn out of around 50 RVs, and it was nice to see old friends again and meet new ones. The wind at times was a pain, but we still got some much-needed picking in. Cliff Simpson, camp host I invite you to join me online for 3 hours of Bluegrass gets a huge thumbs up for his hard work and an awesome and Bluegrass Gospel for Hocked On Bluegrass with event with folks showing up from several states and Terry Brewer, Thursdays 10 AM - 1 PM pacific and associations. Our Topock friends and the Community Sundays 3 to 6 PM for The Bluegrass Cafe. Listen center made everyone feel welcome. Barbecue hamburgers on Saturday night and breakfast burritos on online at thebluegrassjamboree.com or download the Sunday morning for a very reasonable price. To all our free Bluegrass Jamboree phone app for Android or friends in Golden Shores and Topock thank you for a great iPhone FUNNY BLUEGRASS You Never Even Called Me By My Name by David Allan Coe - The perfect country and western song --- (AND OTHER) SONGS: it has it all: mama, trains, trucks, prison, getting drunk. By Phoebe Leigh-Suelflow “I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, and I I’ve been criticized for not taking went to pick her up in the rain/ But before I could get Bluegrass seriously and to the station in my pickup truck/ She got run over by disrespecting the music because a damned .” Classic poetry. good bluegrass music makes me want to dance. It’s Put Another Log on the Fire - by Tompall Glaser – fun music. Not just fun, it’s also funny. Bluegrass has Why would someone leave this guy? “Don’t I let you a well-established sense of humor. To prove it, I asked wash the car on Sunday? Don’t I warn you when some of its practitioners to provide me with their you’re gettin’ fat?” favorite funny songs . These are all real songs (and And a Johnny Cash favorite: Flushed From the no complaining that some aren’t strictly bluegrass). Bathroom of Your Heart . “At the Indianapolis of your Thanks to everyone who contributed a favorite. This heart I lost the race.” list is FAAAAR from complete! Gwen Koyanagi and Claire Wagner remind us that Mother’s Not Dead, She’s Just Playing Possum old timey music has some great titles: Sal’s Got Mud by The Rarely Herd, a happy classic, this came from Between Her Toes, Shove the Pig’s Foot a Little player Rita Ponder. Mama is alive and well. “We Closer to the Fire, I Buried My Wife and Danced are not sad because mama did not die.” on Her Grave, The Cow That Ate the Blanket, Good You Can’t Have Your Kate and Edith Too, a Statler Morning to Your Nightcap, Pull the Knife and Stick Brothers favorite, contributed by Phil Salazar. A It In Again, If There Weren’t Any Women in the double date creates problems: “I found your big hairy World, Touch Me If You Dare, Lost in the Loop (Liz hand holding on to the hand I was trying to hold.” Phil Carroll), Fanny Power, The Floating Crowbar, also recommended I’ve Got Tears in My Ears (From Upstairs in a Tent (Finbar Dwyer), The Fiddler’s Lying On My Back in My Bed While I Cry Over Drunk and the Fun’s All Over (Henry Reed). Who You). There’s the epic line “If I should get water on comes up with these names? Drunk musicians? the brain, you will know you’re the one who is to blame.” And finally, there is the Tongue-in-Creek Band I’m My Own Grandpa – by Ray Stevens - this song www.tongueincreek.com. They bill themselves as about a dysfunctional family was a favorite at the Weird Al Yankovic meets The Grand Ol’ Opry. Their Blythe festival several years back. Ray Stevens is hits include the perennial favorite I’ll Wear Your also responsible for the Mississippi Squirrel Revival Underwear Tonight, Keep on the Funny Side, and wherein a squirrel runs up a parishioner’s pant leg, Man of Constant Borrow. and “Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his So who says Bluegrass has no sense of humor? Fruit-Of-The-Looms”. Five Pounds of Possum – I learned this at Merlefest some years ago, a song about the culinary delights Shutts Fabricators of Road Kill. “I think the time has come now to go from Dim to Bright.” Another Merlefest favorite is I Met My WE BUILD COOL STUFF! Baby in the Porta John Line, about a true life adventure at a bluegrass festival. “My eyes were 15481 Electronic Lane, Unit C, floating with love on my mind.” Huntington Beach, CA. 92649 A Matter of Policy is a favorite by Bluegrass, Etc. 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By Rod Tripp TO THE TUNE OF “MOUNTAIN DEW” Ever think about writing your own LYRICS BY ROD TRIPP song? If you have, now is a great G C time to start. Oh yes, you can! First, Down in Mexico theres a plant they grow, an Agave get an idea in mind of what your song will be about. Next, get yourself some paper, a pencil and a big C G Cactus that's blue eraser! Those of you, who know me, know that I love to take an existing song and either write some extra G verses for it or change the words and make it a new You run it through the still and your cup you can fill song. D G And they call it that good ol’ Cactus Dew So, think about a song that you like with an easy melody—then take that song and reword it. Next, give CHORUS: it a name, maybe a spinoff of the original title or a G something totally different. This is important. Once the They call it that good ol” Cactus Dew, song has a name it will begin to come together. You G C G can get some ideas by thumbing through a magazine And you think you can drink just a few and just looking at the titles of articles. I did this once G and came upon an article about a small town. The title But you can’t turn it down when that glass comes was “Well Hello.” I thought to myself, “Well Howdy” around and the song developed from there. G D G Now, start putting words to your song. It’s great if they And its filled with that good ol’ Cactus Dew rhyme but they don’t have to. It’s your song and no G one else will hear it unless you choose to share. Just And if you wander back to the Bottom Feeders make sure the words fit into the framework of your camp “tune.” Once you write a verse, decide if your song G C G will have a chorus. That’s optional, but it adds to the There's a crowd that’ll welcome you fun if others will be singing along with you. Sing your G song to yourself. Practice it until it flows. Love it! It’s They’ll find you a spot, and they’ll pour you a shot your song! Here is one that I wrote about the Bottom G Feeders and their love for tequila. It is sung to the Of that music smoothin’ good ol’ Cactus Dew tune of “Mountain Dew.” So you see from my earlier CHORUS point—that was the original song. I just reworded it G and gave it a new title, “Cactus Dew.” It has six So don’t hesitate if the hour is late verses—here are just a few. G C G They’ll be jammin till half past two G If the drink gets too much you can sleep in the brush G D G And just dream about that good ol’ Cactus Dew

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CACTUS DEW The Little Blonde Girl So many members of the bluegrass community have made a huge impact on my life and there are just too By Maddie Nunley many to list without leaving anyone out and I am If you have ever been to a forever grateful. bluegrass festival and remember a But nothing could ever replace the bond I share with little blonde girl walking into jams my grandpa and the love for the music and going out with a Cinderella wanting jamming with him till 2 am. everyone to play Two Dollar Bill At Bluegrass On The Beach in 2019 with my mom (Long Journey Home) that was me Amanda on my right, my sister Abbie on my left and Madaline Nunley. Emma in front. My love for bluegrass started at a young age when I used to sit on my grandpa’s lap and he would let me play while he would sing. But I really fell in love with music, when my grandparents Terry and Sheila Brewer took me to Parkfield Bluegrass Festival when I was 4 years old. I remember getting to go to kid camp with Joy Williams and learning to this day my favorite song Long Journey Home. After that, I was always wanting to go. The last year of the Route 66 Bluegrass Festival, I was jamming one morning with my Cinderella guitar in hand with the SWBA Bluegrass Kids. And when me and grandpa were walking back to the campsite a couple stopped him and gave him money to help go towards my first real guitar, in which I got a JR Martin. I also attended SWBA campouts, Calico Bluegrass In The Spring and many Great 48’s. I would stay out late with grandpa until I would fall asleep on my guitar. I always knew when I would walk into the Bent Beak Pickin Pallor, Marc Nelissen would always make sure I was up in the circle and everyone would play Long Journey home. Then…it had to cease due to Covid-19. The live performances stopped. The lessons and workshops stopped. The only thing Mandell can do, for the time being, is to revert to being just a retail store. “California and L.A. are like the [COVID-19] hotspots of the world right now,” Mandell said. Because of this, he goes above and beyond to assure the safety of his customers. Even though local regulations allow more, Boulevard Music: Not Just Any Music Store Mandell restricts customers to six at a time. He said people are more than glad to wait outside until their by Kara M. Bachman thebluegrassstandard.com time comes, to find the instrument and advice they “A lot of stores are strictly retail, but we have a music expect to find at Boulevard. school with 15 or 20 teachers,” Mandell said. Mandell hopes things will get back to normal soon, He is of course one of the teachers of the classes but in the meantime, offered a bit of timely advice he available through the shop. He’s been teaching music hoped The Bluegrass Standard would spread to for over 50 years and has produced too many music readers who are owners of music venues. events to count, including the annual Culver City “A venue can apply for the ‘Shuttered Venue’ grant Music Festival. He’s created arrangements and through the SBA,” he said, suggesting the added orchestrations for the L.A. Philharmonic, Rochester support that has just been made available. Symphony, and more. He teaches in all styles, We’ll all just continue to keep our fingers crossed…for including bluegrass. In addition to Mandell, other the future of venue owners, music store owners, instructors will provide lessons at all levels, from musicians, producers, and everyone who makes a beginner to advanced. There are lessons. living from music. Banjo lessons. Harmonica. “For guitar, we teach virtually any style you can Store Hours imagine,” he explained. There’s bluegrass. Folk. Mon-Thurs.11am-7pm Rock. Classical. You name it. Friday 11am-6pm Saturday 10am-6pm Mandell knows his way around the music biz and is Sunday 1pm-5pm just as active in producing events as he is in making music and selling its tools. Store Location Boulevard Music “From 2001 until 2019, I produced the Culver City 4316 Sepulveda Blvd Music Festival,” he said, noting that the only reason Culver City, CA 90230 it didn’t happen in 2020 was due to Covid-19. He said (310) 398-2583 he was rolling with the punches of the pandemic, but then when this past year’s event had to be canceled, it really hit home. “Now, this was becoming personal with me,” he said. “This would have been my 20th year.” Missing that milestone — or, just delaying it for another year — isn’t the only way Covid-19 has affected Mandell’s normal routine. We are "the standard" in bluegrass! “We had the longest-running open mic variety night The Bluegrass Standard Magazine where we cover in the L.A. area,” he said. He said the main room of everything in and around bluegrass, Americana, folk, and the shop converts into a concert hall, and it has gospel music. thebluegrassstandard.com featured so many performers; there would be no way to count them, from beginners to big names. Special Consensus has performed there. John Jorgenson and his bluegrass band. “We featured bluegrass on a regular basis,” Mandell said. snbms.org Jim Bob Tinsley the ground as the men double-checked their Cowboy Singer & firearms, fed the bloodhounds, and mounted their Mountain Lion Hunter horses. Along the way, Jim Bob’s horse stumbled and threw him off. His ribs were injured, but he By Wayne Erbsen nativeground.com climbed back on his horse as if nothing happened. No one could beat my old buddy, About halfway up the mountain the hounds picked Jim Bob Tinsley, when it came time up the mountain lion’s scent and went howling up to sing an old-time cowboy song. Not only could he through the wilderness, with the men following render the best versions of authentic cowboy songs, closely on horseback. At last, the dogs spooked the but he was also an ace researcher. In fact, he once mountain lion, who quickly climbed a tall Jack Pine. bragged “I could have found the Rosetta Stone, but With the hounds surrounding the tree and barking I didn’t know they were looking for it.” Besides having ferociously, the cougar was clearly out of reach, but been a working cowboy and educator, he wrote two addled. But a second later, the limb he was standing of the best-researched books on cowboy music, He on gave way, and the mountain lion came crashing Was Singing This Song and A Cowboy Has to Sing. to the ground. The dogs were all over him like white Of course, some of my fondest memories of hanging on rice. Of course, the lion fought back, clawing and out with Jim Bob revolve around cowboy music. We’d biting at the dogs. Among all the hunters, Jim Bob sit around and trade verses of songs like “The Old was closest to the chaotic fight in front of him. Not Chisholm Trail.” There was no shortage of verses to wanting to see any of the dogs get tore up, Jim Bob trade, because Jim Bob claimed that if all the lyrics jumped off his horse. With his left hand, he grabbed were laid end to end, they would reach from the the lion’s tale and with his right hand he pulled the border of Mexico clear up to Canada, and maybe the 44/40 western six-shooter out of his holster and North Pole! Ah! And the stories he told were killed the lion with a single shot to the head. spellbinding and had me glued to my seat. When Jim Bob finished telling this amazing true The crazy thing is that some of the wildest tales (lies) story, I piped in with “…and then you all went out to he told turned out to be the gospel truth. Take his story lunch,” and we all had a big laugh over that. about his shooting a mountain lion at close range with Of course, the professional hunter was so grateful a handgun. This story goes back to the 1940s and that Jim Bob had killed the cougar and helped save had all the makings of the tallest of tall tales except his valuable hounds that he allowed that Jim Bob for one big thing – it was true. As Jim Bob was telling deserved to take his trophy home. Before leaving me his mountain lion tale, we were standing in his Colorado, Jim Bob had the animal stuffed and it personal cowboy museum in Brevard, North Caronia. came back with him on the train to Florida, where He created the museum about 1995 because he had Jim Bob was living at the time. so much dang cowboy artifacts and memorabilia that Just today, some 75 years later, Jim Bob’s wife he needed a place to showcase them. As Jim Bob Dotty Tinsley added more details as she recounted started telling me his tale, I glanced behind him. There this amazing story. She said that for many years, the in a glass case, was a full-sized stuffed mountain lion. mountain lion was a rug on their living room floor. This, in fact, was the very animal the tale was about, The head was on the far end of the living room, so it so I knew he was a straight shooter if there ever was was out of the way. Knowing that my own spouse one. would never have let me go off on a mountain lion So, best as I can remember, here is my retelling of hunting adventure, I asked Dotty what she thought Jim Bob’s story of the mountain lion. Somewhere about Jim Bob saying he was going to Colorado to along in the 1940s, Jim Bob became acquainted with hunt down a mountain lion. She shrugged and said, a professional hunter from the Colorado mountains “Jim Bob assured me it was no big deal, and that he who specialized in tracking down mountain lions. One wasn’t in danger.” “Oh yeah,” I thought. Like any particular lion was raising all kinds of hell, killing spouse would believe that! scores of sheep and leaving their bodies just lying on the ground, otherwise undisturbed. The lion hunter needed help tracking him down, so he got in touch with Jim Bob, who jumped at the chance to track down this marauding animal. Taking a leave of absence from work, Jim Bob boarded the next train and made his way to Craig, Colorado, where the lion hunter had set up a base camp. At daybreak, there was snow on Here are the words and music of “The Old Chisholm Trail,” much as Jim Bob and I used to sing it. I Had A Dream The Old Chisholm Trail By Brad Rowland Well, come along boys and listen to my tale, So… I’m dreaming: I'll tell you of my troubles on the old Chisholm Trail We’re leaving in the morning for the camp- Coma ti-yi yippee, yippee yea, yippee yea, out. I pull up in front of the house and see Coma ti-yi yippee, yippee yea! Mark and Shirley’s camper in front of the house. On a ten-dollar horse and a forty dollar saddle I started out to punchin' them longhorn cattle. You can’t miss Mark and Shirley’s camper- Huge Blue Truck with a HUGE cab-over I started up the trail October twenty-third, camper. (now that I think about it, that thing I started up the trail with the 2U herd. was so big, it wouldn’t fit anywhere but a dream.) I'm up in the morning before daylight, And before I sleep the moon shines bright. Anyway… I start thinking about the last trip, when Mark and Shirley forgot their fishing pole It's bacon and beans most every day; and net and had to go all the way… CRAP! I We'll soon be a-eatin' prairie hay. just realized I forgot my fishing pole and net at work. With my seat in the saddle and my hand on the horn, I'm the best damned cowboy that ever was born. I start preparing to give my wife the bad news. I’m going to have to go all the way back down Woke one morning on the old Chisholm Trail the hill to get our stuff.. With a rope in my hand and a cow by the tail Then slowly I start to come out of my dream. Old Ben Bold was a blamed good boss, I didn’t know Mark and Shirley were coming But he'd go to see the girls on a soreback hoss. on this Bluegrass camp-out. I don’t remember them ever coming to a bluegrass thing. And The wind began to blow and the rain began to fall, then… Relief! I don’t need my fishing stuff. It looked by damn like we was gonna lose them all. we’re going to Topock AZ to pick.

No chaps, no slicker, and it's pourin' down rain; As I continue to wake up I realize I couldn’t I swear I'll never night herd again. have left that stuff at work anyway, I have been retired for four years! I went to the boss to draw my roll And he had me figured out nine dollars in the hold. Finally l opened my eyes… CRAP, its only 3:30 am and we don’t know anyone named I'll sell my horse and I'll sell my saddle; Mark and Shirley. You can go to hell with your longhorn cattle!

Wayne Erbsen is a musician, author, radio host, educator and publisher. He is the author of Cowboy Songs, Jokes, Lingo ‘n Lore along with a number of bluegrass, old-time, railroad, gospel and Civil War songbooks. Check out his instruction books for bluegrass and clawhammer banjo, mandolin, , guitar, and ukulele at www.nativeground.com FOR YOUR back and his final words to the audience at the Opry and live over clear channel 650AM FOR BREAKFAST was "and we love you". 28 minutes after By Tom Isenhour opening the show, Monroe would walk off the On this night in 1996 at stage of the Opry for the last time. 8PM, Hairl Hensley, for His blood pressure had been high lately, the the Maxwell House next morning he complained of a severe Coffee/Rudy Farms Sausage portion of the headache and he was rushed to the Baptist Grand Ole Opry announced for the last time Hospital in Nashville. He died on Sept. 9, 1996. their host "The Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys" with the band playing their theme song "Watermelon on the Vine" in the background.

Monroe was the Opry's Showcase Artist this weekend (see program on next page). Monroe said " Howdy, howdy, howdy. I'm glad that I originated the music, “bluegrass music" and they ripped into the old fiddle number "Down Yonder" with twin fiddlers, Robert Bowlin; Tater Tate; guitarist Tom Ewing; banjoist Dana Cupp and the newest member, Ernie Sykes on bass. Monroe took a strong break on his old faithful, the 1923 Gibson mandolin. On the show with Monroe were Jumpin' Bill Carlisle; Skeeter Davis and Del Reeves.

The middle song Monroe introduced was "Stay Away From Me, You're Causing Me Trouble". The last song was a duet with Tom Ewing, "True Life ", a song he wrote with Pete Pyle in early 40's and recorded in 1945. It was Monroe's first song to feature a banjo break. Right after this song, Dana Cupp dropped his banjo D string to C to get ready for what would be the final theme song Monroe would perform in public from the stage of the Opry.

Monroe talked about being there again for Saturday night and would the fans want them

From The Side of the Road… can Can this approach be taken by bluegrass you not be in two places at one time? artists and musicians? In the past year we’ve By Chris Jones Opinion / Humor used the livestream concert as a medium for bluegrasstoday.com providing some entertainment, raising some When COVID relief has been badly needed cash, and showing off our debated in the past year, there favorite pajamas. Maybe this was the wrong has been some concern in congress that the approach. Maybe we simply needed to be government might be creating an incentive not holding fundraisers with promises not to to work by paying people too much while perform at various locations where we had they’re idle. For now we’ll just leave aside the previously been scheduled. thick irony of politicians complaining about other people being paid too much to bother In future years, when live music is once with honest work, but as I thought about this again part of our lives (hallelujah!), we can a little longer, I began to take it personally. still raise funds to support our absence at Isn’t every dollar spent by people on the music festivals and concerts we would like to have they love going to support full time musicians played but weren’t invited to. This will be in going another year without having to get a real essence a promise not to perform, with job? Is this not a worthy cause? I realize that payment for services not rendered, and it will many bluegrass musicians have some form certainly take the sting out of rejection. of day job, too, so in that case, money spent This would also not preclude actually playing on their music goes to ensure that they remain events where we’ve been booked while stressed out while trying to juggle two careers. raising funds for events we aren’t playing on This is also a worthy cause, since I can say the same dates. This would be a form of from experience that those jugglers wouldn’t double-booking, though, and perhaps it know any other way to live. would be wise not to have these twin I will say as a side note, though, that if you bookings within a 100 mile radius of each can see your way to invest even more money other. Otherwise we’d be in the position of in these particular multi-tasking musicians’ explaining to the promoters that we’re happy careers, they might eventually quit their day to play their show but that we’re also not jobs, thereby opening up positions for other playing a similar event just 75 miles away. deserving workers in traditional musician day Just think, next year could be your best year job areas like coffee baristahood (not a word), ever, with a calendar that’s simultaneously pizza delivery, and personal injury law, which empty and full. I’m feeling optimistic about helps in turn to create jobs and stimulate the the future. economy. The pandemic has taken this all a step further, though, and fundraisers are now happening to support bluegrass music events that aren’t taking place. I don’t just mean livestream versions of events. I mean non- events. I was recently notified about another fundraiser being held for a festival that won’t be happening this year. This former festival will be holding its non-event August 12-15 (it’s expanded to four days this year); make plans now not to be there—tickets and non- campsites are going fast. arizonabluegrass.com Life And Times Of By Gary Reid April 11, 1952: The Stanley Brothers recorded four songs for . The session was held at Castle Studios which was located in the Tulane Hotel in Nashville. Only four songs were recorded: “A ,” “Sweetest Love,” “The Wandering Boy,” and “Let’s Part the Best of Friends.” The session was the group’s last for Columbia and came at a time when the label’s country division was in a state of transition; veteran producer Art Satherley (who had signed the Stanley Brothers to Columbia in 1948) was on the way out and his spot was being taken by his protégé . Columbia seemed intent on devoting its energies to the label’s other bluegrass group, Flatt & Scruggs. As such, only one single was released from the session: “Sweetest Love” / “The Wandering Boy.” “A Life of Sorrow” later surfaced on a 1961 that was released on Columbia’s subsidiary Harmony label while “Let’s Part the Best of Friends” first appeared on a 1976 Japanese anthology. Appearing on the recording session with the Stanley Brothers were fiddler Art Wooten and bass player George Shuffler; it was Shuffler’s first session with the Stanley's and – coincidentally – his 27th birthday!

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Most events, festivals and jams have been canceled or postponed. While I'm rying to Aug 4th - 8th Appalachian String Band Music Festival in Clifftop WV stay up with the changes for the events and jam pages it has Aug 6th-7th Sugar Maple Traditional Music Fest in Madison Wisconsin became a huge task. Always verify dates and times, sometimes Aug 4th-7th Colt Adams Memorial Cam Fest in Grayson Kentucky scheduled events change or we may not have listed everything correctly. For more Info on events listed below and others visit Aug 6th-8th Rocky MountainFolks Festival in Lyons, Colorado southwestbluegrass.org for one click links Aug 7th-8th Keystone Bluegrass & Beer Fest in Keystone Colorado Aug 6th-7th Dillard Bluegrass & Barbeque Festival in Dillard Georgia April 9th - 10th Bristol Bluegrass Spring Fest in Bristol Virginia Aug. 5th - 8th AFBA Bluegrass Festival in Wind Gap PA April 10th - 11in Tucson Folk Festival in Tucson, Arizona. Aug 5th-8th Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Fest in Richmond MiN April 9th -10th Florida State Bluegrass Festival in Perry Florida Aug. 9th - 14th Old Fiddler’s Convention in Galax, Virginia April 23rd-25th Bluegrass Heritage Festival in Farmers BranchTexas Aug 12th-14th State Bluegrass Fest in Marion NC May 13th- 16th Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival in Gettysburg PA Aug 12th - 15th Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival in Hebron CT May 15th -16th in Bluegrass in the BottomsKansas City Missouri Aug 13th Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival in Medical Lake Washington MAY 27th -29th Lil John’s Mountain Music Festival in Snow Camp NC Aug 13th-15th Red River Bluegrass Fest in Red River New Mexico May 26th-29th Dr. ’s Hills of Home Festival in Coeburn VA Aug 19th - 21st LarryFest in LaFarge, Wisconsin. May 27th - 30th Salmon Lake Park Bluegrass Gospel Festival in Grapeland TX Aug 20th-22nd Summergrass San Diego in San Diego California June 3rd - 6th Back Forty Bluegrass Festival in Curryville Missouri. June 4th - 6th Pickin’ on the Plains in Colby, Kansas. Aug 19th-22nd Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival in Gettysburg PA June 3rd-5th HOBA’s Spring Bluegrass Festival in West Plains Missouri Aug 19th- 22nd Winding Creek Bluegrass Festival in Russiaville IN June 10th-13th Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival in Wind Gap PA Aug 20th-21st Wyoming State BBQ Championship & Bluegrass in Worland WY June 11th- 13th Palisade Bluegrass & Roots Festival in Palisade CO Aug 26th - 29th Pickin’ in the Pasture in Lodi, New York. Aug 27th-28th Ocean Lakes Bluegrass Festival in Myrtle Beach SC Jun 17th-19th Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Music Fest in Cross Fork PA Aug 26th-29th Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Fest in Litchfield ME June 17th -20th Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival in Litchfield Maine June 17th -20th Moccasin Creek Festival in Effingham, Illinois. Aug 26th - 28th Bluegrass In The Pines in Rosholt, Wisconsin. Aug 25th-29th Lakes Bluegrass Festival in Pine River Minnesota June 17th - 19th Tug Hill Bluegrass Festival in Lowville New York Aug 26th - 29th Rainier Bluegrass Festival in Rainier Washington Jun 18th-20th Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival in Cashmere Washington

June 23rd-26th Rudy Fest Bluegrass Festival in Grayson Kentucky Sept 1st - 5th SamJam Bluegrass Festival in Piketon Ohio. June 5th-7th Susanville Bluegrass Festival in Susanville California Sept 3rd - 5th 4848 Festival in Snowshoe, West Virginia. June 6th & 7th Prescott Bluegrass Festival n Prescott, Arizona. Sept 3rd- 6th North Cascades Bluegrass Festival in Bellingham WA Sept 2nd-5th Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick ME June 9th -10th Charlotte Bluegrass Festival n Charlotte, Michigan Sept 3rd-5th Delaware Valley Bluegrass Music Fest in Woodstown NJ June 3rd -6th ROMP Fest n Owensboro, Kentucky. Sept 3rd-5th Four Corners Folk Festival in Pagosa Springs Colorado. June 25th-27th Back Home Music Festival in Martinsville WV Sept 3rd-6th North Cascades Bluegrass Festival in Bellingham WA June 26th Wylie Jubilee Bluegrass on Ballard inWylie, Texas Sept 10th - 12th Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Bristol, Virginia July 1st- 4th Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival in Centre Hall PA Sept 16th - 18th Mohican Bluegrass Festival in Glenmont, Ohio. Jul 1st-3rd Starvy Creek Bluegrass Festival in Conway Missouri. Sept. 16th - 19th Merlefest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. July 2nd & 3rd Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree in Smithville Tennesee Sept 16th - 18th Dailey & Vincent Land Fest in Hiawassee, Georgia. July 9th - 11th Lost River Bluegrass Festival in Merrill, Oregon. Sept 17th - 19th Pickin in the Pines in Flagstaff, Arizona July 8th-10th Shriners Bluegrass Festival in Olive Hill, Kentucky Sept 15th - 19th Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas

Jul 8th - 11th Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon, Vermont. Sept 16th-18th Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Fest in Kodak Tennessee

Jul 8th-11th High Mountain Hay Fever Festival in Westcliffe Colorado Sept 16th-18th Blazin’ Bluegrass Festival in Whitley City Kentucky July 8th - 1th Pickin’ On Picknic in Saint Clair Missouri. Sept 16th - 18th Watermelon Park Fest in Berryville, Virginia. Jul 15th-18th Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in Oak Hill New York Sept 17th-19th Millpond Traditional Music Festival in Bishop CA July 14th - 17th Wayside Bluegrass Festival in Stuart, Virginia. Sept 21st -26th Berkeley Old-Time Musc Convention in Berkeley, CA

Jul 22nd-25th Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Fest in Stevenson Washington Sept 23rd-25th HOBA’s Fall Bluegrass Festival in West Plains, Missouri

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Newhall, Ca: Every 2nd Sunday BASC Jam from Noon to 4PM Vincenzo's 24504 Lyons Ave Newhall CA Arroyo Grande CA: Tuesdays Bluegrass Jam 1-4pm. Heritage San Diego, CA: 3rd Monday 7 - 8:30 PM SDBS Bluegrass Slow Square Park (sm Gazebo behind lg Gazebo between the Historical Jam Learning session, Our Savior Lutheran Church (in the back) Library and Museum Buildings 126 S Mason St., Contact: Yael 4011 Ohio St, San Diego, CA [email protected] Gott (805) 450-7571. Please bring a folding chair. San Diego, CA 4th Tuesday 6:30 – 8 pm SDBS, Open mic and Arroyo Grande CA: 1st Thursday Branch Street Deli 3-6 p.m. pick up bands 8 – 9 pm Featured Band Lots of jamming outside 203 E. Branch St.,Arroyo Grande Village; Contact: Yael (805) Boll Weevil Restaurant 9330 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego 450-7571 San Diego, CA: San Diego Bluegrass Society's 3rd Monday Arroyo Grande CA: Lightning Joe's Guitar Heaven: 2nd Saturday instructed Slow Jam, 7:00-8:30pm at Our Savior's Lutheran of the month 1-4 PM in the village. Plenty of stools but bring music Church 4011 Ohio St. more info: [email protected] stands. Go up the stairs to the left of Lightning Joe's. 100 East San Diego, CA: Walt Richards SLO Jam 6:20 PM 3rd Friday Branch Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 San Carlos Recreation Center, 6445 Lake Badin Ave., 6:30PM- Arroyo Grande CA: 1st Sunday Nipomo Community Presbyterian 9PM SDBS Open Mic, Pickup Bands, Featured Band Church 5:30 PM. 1235 N Thompson Rd, Arroyo Grande, Ca 93420 San Juan Capistrano: SJC Bluegrass Pickers meet every Bakersfield, Ca: 1st Monday of the month, 6-9 PM, Rusty’s Pizza, Saturday under the Oak trees 9 am – 12-noon at Historic Town 5430 Olive Drive contact: S. C. "Slim" Sims [email protected] Center Park 31852 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano, CA 760-762- 6828 Santa Margarita CA: 2nd & 4th Wednesday The Porch Cafe Covina, Ca: Open mic night, 1st Saturday of the month, 8PM, The 22322 El Camino Real, (805) 438-3376 http://theporchcafe.com/ Fret House Music Shop, 309 N Citrus. Entrance fee is $2.00. Call host: The Toro Creek Ramblers & the BMSCC (626)339-7020 Santa Monica CA: 4th Wednesday Finn McCool's: The Bill Covina, Ca: 3rd Sunday every other month from 2-5pm at The Cheatham Bluegrass Jam / Chris Murphy. 8:30 PM. Finn McCool's Fret House Music Shop, 309 N. Citrus Ave., Covina. (626) 2702 Main Street Santa Monica 339-7020. René Baquet jam host Temecula CA: “The Third Jam"6:30-9 PM every Third Tuesday Encinitas, Ca: Thursday nights, 6-9 PM, Round Table Pizza, hosted by Bill Frisbie. Come join the fun at Round Table Pizza 1321 Encinitas Blvd. behind McDonalds near El Camino Real 27644 Ynez Road Temecula, CA Escondido, Ca: 3rd Wednesday of the month 6 PM San Diego Temecula CA: Third Tuesday of every month 6:30 pm to 9:00 No. County Bluegrass & Folk Jam, Round Table Pizza, 1161 E pm Burgers & Beer, 41577 Margarita Rd Suite 101, Temecula, Washington CA 92591 No admission charge, all levels welcome. Fresno CA: Santa Fe Basque Restaurant: The Fresno Folklore Contact: Bill Frisbie, (631) 804-0146 [email protected] st Society has a weekly jam. It's the friends of Kenny Hall Memorial Torrance, CA: EL CAMINO College Bluegrass Jam, 1 Sunday jam at the Santa Fe Basque Restaurant every Wednesday from of the month 1-3 PM 16007 Crenshaw Blvd, Jam Host - Phoebe 5:30 - 7:30 pm. 424-903-6892 [email protected] Fountain Valley CA: Every Saturday 10 am - noon+ Bluegrass for West Hills CA: Acoustic Jam 1st Sunday of the month Noon - 3 Beginners, Mile Square Park 16801 Euclid St. Fountain Valley, pm Guitar Merchant 22807 Saticoy St. Hosts Norman and Oleeta CA 92708, Lot A on the left side of the park road, about 300 ft Igar 18-884-5905. All levels invited. West Hills, CA: 4th Sunday, Jam 1-5 PM The West South of the Euclid entrance. Valley Music Center, 24424 Vanowen St. 818-992-4142, Henderson, NV: Tuesday Night Bluegrass & Old Time Music Jam, Everyone Welcome! Join the Jam or just listen 5-8 PM, Heritage Park Senior Facility, 300 Racetrack, Henderson 702-267-2950 . For details call Betty Bess (702) 564-1630. Yorba Linda, Ca: Thursday Jam 6-9 PM Main Street Restaurant, 4902 Main St., (714) 777-9427, Jan host Barney Barnhouse. Huntington Beach Ca: 4th Sunday jam, 1-5 PM, Shutts nd th Fabricators 15481 Electronic Lane, Unit C, Huntington Beach, CA. Ventura, Ca: 2 & 4 Wednesday, Grapes and Hops Wine Bar. 92649 (562) 432-4648 SWBA Jam Host Mark Shutts 454 E. Main Street, Ventura, CA 93003 Contact: La Mesa, Ca: SDBS Open mic & jam, 2nd Tuesday of the month [email protected] 805-340-2270 6:30-9 PM Fuddrucker’s, 5500 Grossmont Center Dr., For info Vista, CA : Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum stage at the call Fuddruckers at (619)589-6144 or SDBS info line at (858) big green lawn is usually available for jamming. For jam days, 679-4854 Sponsor - San Diego Bluegrass Society times & updates visit northcountybluegrass.org Las Vegas, NV: Thursday night Bluegrass Jam, 6 - 8:30 PM, NW Tucson AZ: 1st Sunday, 4 pm Year-round Saddlebrooke Mountain Crest Park Community Center, 4701 N. Durango Rd., Clubhouse Jam Agave Lounge howardjamesk@gmail 64500 E. call Vera Vann-Wilson (702)875-3579. Saddlebrooke Blvd. Tucson Loma Linda, Ca: Jam American Traditional Music Tuesdays, 7 Apache Junction AZ: 1st & 3rd Sundays October – April Elks PM, Loma Linda University,Patio Pantry, Anderson St. at . Call Club Jam 2455 N. Apache Trail. all skill levels. Galen at Galen Don Hergert (909) 796-8812 for info & directions. at [email protected] Lonpoc, Ca: 2nd and 4th Wednesday Southside Coffee Co 105 Tempe AZ: 1st & 3rd Monday 6-8 pm year-round Bluegrass & So. H St 7-9 PM: LOMPOC: evening jams, 7-9 PM for more info American Roots Music Inter.- Advanced Shalimar Golf Course 2032 call Bill at (805) 736-8241. E. 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