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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 and promotion of , has been Pickers and grinners promoting Bluegrass designated by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Contributions are deductible for Federal or State income tax music and those involved in it. purposes. to benefit SWBA funds mainly due to recent new and renewal memberships for 1 or 2 years. Hello Southwest Bluegrass Association members and friends! SWBA Booth: New shirts are in the works by Cruizin T’s and you lose your pick, need strings, a kapo or even a tuner dont With 38 Rv’s, Tents and 70 Happy campers the Fall campout fret just visit the SWBA booth at Blythe, Bluegrass on the Beach was an Awesome event! Thanks to everyone who attended and Superjam. While your there you can purchase a hat, shirt the campout and welcomed pickers and grinners into there and a stack of raffle tickets and renew your membership or join. campsites to jam, and listen. The days were warm and the We are seeking event sponsors, donations and reshearching nights were cold, but the picking was great and the fire pits a the grant process to fund campouts, concerts, jam programs, welcome site. To our friends and members who couldn't make public and school based programs, worshops and more. it to this event, we sure missed you all and we hope to see ya Fundraiser's: In this newsletter you will find a mail in form to soon! purchase raffle tickets for the SWBA 2019 Fundraiser Congratulations Fall Campout Drawing winners, Rod & Connie Instrument drawing. Mail the form in with a self addressed Tripp - tickets for 2+camping to the Blythe Bluegrass Festival stamped envelope and Sheila will add your info to the tickets January 18th-20th, 2019. Phoebe & Gerry Leigh-Suelflow - and send you your half back in your SASE. The winning ticket tickets for 2+camping to Bluegrass on the Beach March Will be drawn at SuperJam in May on Sunday for a CF 1st-3rd, 2019. Martin HD-28V w/case. Help make this fundraiser a Special Thanks goes out to: My wife Sheila for all her hard work and her dedication to this success by making copies and give them to friends, family, event as camp host to get everyone checked in and into there pass them out at jams, church or leave a stack at your local sites. This is for sure no small task. music store. Also visit the SWBA booth at the festivals and purchase more from Hope. Mighty fine job by the Porta-pottie inspector :} Jerry Rutch SuperJam: The last 2 campouts at Mojave Narrows proved to Blythe Area Chamber of Commerce and Larry & Sondra Baker be a success and a great location to bring SWBA members, at L&S Promotions for their support and generous donation. friends, and family from Arizona, California, Nevada and beyond And North County Bluegrass and Folk Club for their help together for a great weekend of music and fellowship. With getting the word out and adding our Fall Campout flyer to their good turnouts to these events we are able to cover cost and monthly newsletter. raise a few dollars to pay the bills. On Saturday at the campout the SWBA Board of Directors met Save the date May 23rd – May 27�� we have reserved group for a short 2 hour meeting topics covered: camps 1 & 2 for SuperJam. Sites 1 & 2 are located next to the SWBA Budget - lowering yearly expences. The newsletter is park entrance and on the east side of the trees which should one of our highest exspences for the year, with printing cost provide afternoon shade. With plans for workshops, slow jams, of $4000 a year and postage cost of $1200 a year to mail them showcase bands, kids activities, games, potluck with SWBA out at a total of $13.50 per membership and 3000 chicken, the annual membership meeting and the instrument Soundboards prined this year. To lower costs the board wil drawing. set new rates for the newsletter, website and start selling Volunteers are needed for this event for welcoming, check in, advertising. SWBA canopy setup, workshops, and potluck setup. Contact a board member to volunteer to help out or schedule a band Curently all SWBA members recieve a printed Soundboard showcase. in the mail and some have reqested to recieve the online Soundboard pdf version. We are now ready to offer the SWBA House Concert: On November 7�� Sideline made a stop newletter by us mail only or email only. The email version is at Tony Pritchett's house in Rialto, CA. With around 45 attending a full color newsletter with one click links to the SWBA this event for an evening of Awesome bluegrass music and Website, festival websites and advertiser sites. To receive the Southern style cooking prepared by Martha Hall. Thanks to email version please contact us at everyone who supported this event and donated and purchased [email protected] so we can update your info in CDs to help cover the bands road costs. Special Thanks goes out our database for email only. to: Martha Hall for spending the day in the kitchen and the use of the chairs provided by The Belle. And to Tony Pritchett for Membership: With new members joinning SWBA this year, the use of his home and the time spent to book the band, setup, we still have serval that havnt renewed. When your clean up and a great event to promote bluegrass and our membership is up for renewal you will receive 1 Soundboard association. before and 1 after your membership expires, both will have a If you plan to attend The Great 48 in Bakersfield make sure you red stamp on the back page. After that we will send you a visit the SWBA suite to say hello, jam and support the SWBA reminder that your membership has expired. Sheila will also showcase bands. Its always a awesome weekend for all and send out reminders to past members over the last year or two. great opportunity to meet new friends. With SWBA’s yearly expenses going up and our membership Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! dues staying at the price for several years. The Board of God Bless Terry Brewer Fall Campout West Palms Conservatory By Brad Rowland Our beginning bluegrass class at West Palms Conservatory, in The firewood’s in buckets, the food’s stowed away Victorville, performed their end of the trimester concert for the RV’s comin’ in from all different ways parents and other students on November 7. The highlight was a rousing rendition of “This Little Light of Mine”. Most of the Soon we’ll be pickin’ and swappin’ new lies, group has chosen to move on to the next level with Mr. Scott With old friends and new ones, we’ll laugh til we cry Sandoval. We will have two bluegrass classes going for the second trimester as Mr. Sandoval leads the beginners and I take on a new group of more experienced kids. We will continue to Chorus: need our Southwest Bluegrass Association helpers on Mondays, We’ll put the bottles in the buckets when the firewood’s Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. Let me know if you all gone would like to help with this rewarding program. Eric Nordbeck 760-265-3868 Put the away and wind up the song We’ll say our goodbyes and hug all our friends And cherish our memories til we all meet again

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Pass the word along to other bluegrassers HUNGRY FOR BLUEGRASS? new ones, there’s a wonderful educational opportunity available at the festival that being the workshops put on by the professional girls By Bert Luontela and boys who make the wonderful noise. For me it’s always surprising Then try a little Hogslop, screaming Del McCoury, that so few avail themselves of the opportunities to learn from the artists and music masters. You don’t have to bring your instrument, I two scoops of Della Mae, generous portions of the don’t. You don’t have to ask a lot of questions, I usually ask one or two Seldom Scene, then polish it off with some Infamous Stringdusters that concern me at the moment. But by listening to the questions of and Bela Fleck on the rocks and, oh yes, meet the future, Tillie J. It others, the responses to those questions and the musical was all there at the 13th Annual Pick’n in the Pines Bluegrass Festival. demonstrations you gain a wealth of information, learn new concepts This festival, located at one of our favorite venues, is in northern and techniques you’d not thought of. For me it’s free manna from Arizona’s high country south of Flagstaff. It is a natural amphitheater bluegrass heaven. surrounded by tall Ponderosa Pine stands. The stage is set back in a This year’s mandolin workshop was a joint effort by Billy Parker and natural bowl covered with two rising stage canopies that channel Mark Miracle. Billy, whom I’ve met before, had just returned from sound while providing great views of the stage. The sound passes seventeen days of gigs in Ireland. Mark I’d not met prior but is a very over the audience seating and large grassy sitting area before accomplished musician with a great personality and insights. Both entering tall pines and passing into the camping area that is nestled mandolinists live in Arizona, both began playing in their teens, both in yet another deep pine forest. From this pine stand pick’n can be have a wealth of experience that they are more than happy to share heard around the campfires late into the night and early morning. and pass on. However, their personalities are polar opposites that The festival is unlike those we’ve attended in the flatlands. Perhaps don’t clash but rather compliment each other. Mark has a dry sense it’s the setting making it more like a mountain man’s rendezvous as of humor and is very quick with a quip followed by animated campfires burn in open-pits mixed between camping tents and expressions nothing gets past him. Billy, on the other hand, is more trailers, the smoke rising though the tall pines. Folks can be seen laid back and rolls with the punches. The two personalities feed off standing and sitting around the fire’s glow pick’n and singing in the each other back and forth be they answering questions or providing still mountain air. Beyond the immediate campsites shadowed a musical demonstration. The workshop’s informative but also part figures, illuminated by moonlight, transverse along the trails to some pure entertainment as the two feed off each other laughing and joking far off campfire, another destination, and some more pick’n in the along the way. As one of the attendees noted after the workshop, “it’s pines. one of the best workshops I’ve attended”. I wholeheartedly agree. On Thursday it was like a wagon train arriving and setting up camp. Thanks Billy and Mark. But thereafter it became an encampment with folks from Arizona, Workshops come in different flavors including “Hogslop”. It was billed California, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia and Canada not to mention as “Old Time Music Discussion and Jam” but it turned out to be much some lost soul from Sweden. The participants mixing and mingling, more. Gabriel Kelly the bands front-man provided some history as to making music, telling stories, the sounds of laugher and music heard how this type of music developed generally on the front porches in all around. blue collar (working folks) neighborhoods where family and friends For Arizona it is a major festival. This year’s line up certainly didn’t gathered to play in the evening and weekends for their own personal disappoint, it never does, filled with powerhouse national and local enjoyment. The workshop participants were then invited to gather in acts like The Del McCoury Band, Bela Fleck, The Infamous String a circle and participate in playing some typical, well-known, tunes. Dusters, Della Mae, Seldom Scene, Hogslop, over sixteen acts in all. Gabriel assured the crowd if you don’t know the tune you’ll know it soon enough as everyone plays the melody together repeating it over We all have favorite bands maybe it’s their style, their hard driving and over. No worries if you hit a bad note, no one cares with everyone sound, perhaps the tight harmonies or even their quirky on stage playing no one will know. The band and participants played a number musical personalities and the back and forth hot licks. But in the end, of tunes. As the workshop was ending a request by a very special when all is said and done, what we take away are the musical participant, Tillie J., was made. She sat there with her father strumming memories overlaid by the sights and sounds, a multi-track collage in a blue ukulele with one of her father’s mandolin picks. She’s a stunning our minds. dark haired beauty with deep piercing eyes. We all participated in Sometimes bands lesser known to us become more deeply etched singing “I’ll fly away” the song of her request. Meet the future of in the mind’s eye; perhaps it is their sound, drive or material. And so Bluegrass, Tillie J. is four years old. it is with Della Mae. It’s a women’s band not a ”chick” band, no Sunday’s at many festivals tend to be low keyed but not at Pick’n in shaking the peaches on the tree here, but rather a hard driving, the Pines as the day was packed with top acts including Della Mae, sometimes Muscle Shoals (Rick Hall like) greasy sound, laid down by The Infamous Stringdusters, Seldom Scene and Bela Fleck hitting the Celia Woodsmith. The songs and ballads set in life’s reality, material stage at 3:45 PM, the closing act. composed, played and song by women who have lived it while blazing Monday morning brought an end to the musical mountain their own musical trails together or sometimes individually. rendezvous, the tents were taken down, kitchen kits packed away, Then there’s, how can I say this gently, “Hogslop” a somewhat quirky trailers hitched and RV awnings drawn in. In much the same way as non-conventional, sort-of kind-of, old time string band. This is their the caravans came they lift in a long slow procession. Before leaving I second foray to Pick’n in the Pines and, as last year, are a very hard had a chance to talk with Mark Miracle and thank him for participating working band doing a main stage set, contra (barn) dance and an Old in the workshop. He headed south towards Phoenix, we headed east Time Music Discussion and Jam. My better half loves this band and to spend sometime with family in Kansas. proudly wears their namesake ball cap. She delights in watching the The music in Arizona’s pine country has ended for now but it still lives eyes and expressions of people as they read the band’s name as many on in our minds, the times we had, the people and things we did. But are bewildered, confused and much too polite to ask, “what the h*ll in the main it’s the love of the music that’s the common thread that is that?” weaves and binds the fabric creating the music, the festivals, events Beside the music, the entertainment, meeting friends and making and all that we call Bluegrass. Bert By Ann Smith Last month, I presented a broad overview of bluegrass in the USA. This time, I’ll do something a little different. Some of our members were in the military and some of you were in Japan. I doubt bluegrass was played in Japan during World War II & the Korean War. I’m including a few You Tube videos from Korea in this article but frankly, I found few specifics about bluegrass in Korea; although they do have festivals. Who would have thought bluegrass was played in Japan and that Japanese pickers were as enthusiastic as we in Not related to bluegrass per se, it’s interesting to note that the USA are? It’s all about the music! If you are reading the print Japan became enamored of the American and European jazz edition of the newsletter, go to You Tube and search for scene and has been heavily influenced by European jazz. They bluegrass Korea, Japan, etc and the song title. have some amazing jazz violinists in Japan. Have you noticed According to NPR, and I quote, “Japan's robust bluegrass scene that western music and culture absolutely permeate world - considered the world's second-largest, according to the cultures? International Bluegrass Music Museum - started with two Moving forward – bluegrass festivals in Japan, few and far brothers, Yasushi and Hisashi Ozaki. They formed the country's between. first bluegrass duo back in 1957”. These 2 guys are in their 80’s today. Remember my comment about those of you in the Takarazuka Bluegrass Festival is probably the oldest festival in military? That’s kind of how it started – sort of. These 2 Japan. It’s about 47 years old (1971). It appears they operate in characters began listening to country and folk music after the Hyogo, by brothers Saburo and Toshio Watanable, who were war. Their father had brought back a LP from his time working known for their own band, Bluegrass 45. I could not find any in the US, prior to the end of World War II. To this day, they still record of any other festival. This is the big one. There are have that record. Over time, both brothers got “day jobs” and however, a number of very popular venues that feature worked in the US. Life always seems to get in the way. Any bluegrass almost exclusively. bluegrass picker will tell you that. Now, this kind of makes me wonder. We have tons f bluegrass During the 1970’s bluegrass enjoyed a surge in popularity and associations throughout the USA, I wonder about the some of the recordings made in Japan even got some air time international scene? I’ll find out. So much to know, so little time in the US. Brothers Asushi and Hisashi Ozaki still play in their to check it out! Until next time - Ann own band, Bluegrass Police. Since they’re antsy about flying, they probably won’t be at a state side festival any time soon. Here’s a timeline with some little known facts: Bluegrass in the USA – about 70 years old () 1958 - Approximate start of bluegrass in Japan 1958 – Mountain Boys of Kyoto bluegrass band started perfuming Monroe music 1959 - East Mountain boys were a hit with “Western Carnival” 2018 - Pre-eminent bluegrass band at this time Bluegrass Police There are a number of videos on You Tube featuring different groups, many unnamed bands or musicians. The same enthusiasm we see in US pickers is evident in these Asian counterparts. According to the Hortena Bluegrass Blog “Since 1960, Japanese bluegrass community has been created and raised mostly by college kids till now”. Because of the economy in post war Japan, music was more or less a luxury. So for about 40 years, you didn’t hear much about bluegrass. However, in ARTIN PRESS the 1970s and 1980s, it resurfaced. American rock and roll PRINTING AND DESIGN SOLUTIONS was in its real hey day. 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This method involves individual effort over and over. - wood shedding. I love learning ... Got anything to add? Band selects songs, and distributes necessary recordings and if needed charts, arrangements, etc to all band members. This keeps everyone learning the same music and arrangement from the master musicians that wrote and performed the song. Song can be modified for creativity after the song is learned correctly and absorbed into the brain to the point of it be The Great 48 Hour Jam 2019is set to take place during the 2nd week coming your own. Musical ideas will evolve naturally from this of January 2019 beginning on Thursday, January 10 and ending Sunday, January 13, 2019. Our event is hosted at the Marriott strong foundation. Convention Center, 801 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield California, 93301. Each Musician comes prepared to rehearsal having memorized The Great 48 Hour Jam is an amazing place to kick off the 2019 their individual part, the chord progression and arrangement. bluegrass season. Literally, indoor, non-stop jamming to the wee hours This enables the ability to work up repertoire with musicians coupled with workshops, showcase bands and the annual Friday night who live remote from each other. bluegrass concert held in the Marriott ballroom. When you learn from the recordings by ear, the memorization Volunteers are being sought to coordinate organized activities such comes during learning. Most will not be playing with feeling if as workshops, kids on stage, band scramble, etc. Please contact Jack staring at a chord chart or arrangements. Great music is played Pierce at [email protected] if you are interested in helping with using ears not eyes. the Great 48 Hour Jam 2019. Rehearsal time can then be spent on arrangements and desired The Great 48-hour 2019 jam promises to be another memorable weekend for all lovers of bluegrass! creative changes. January 11th Friday night concert featuring The Bow Ties and High Individuals who come prepared won’t have their time wasted Country. Doors open at 6:00 and the Concert starts at 7:00 in the by others learning their parts at rehearsals. Marriott Ballroom, Tickets are $25 and $30 at the door It is important to understand that rehearsal is not the place to learn your own individual parts. You do that at home out of Respect for the other musicians. It is disrespectful of other musicians to come to rehearsal without making individual effort of practicing. You rarely learn a song correctly based on a faulty memory of hearing someone else at a jam playing a song wrong. Bands that don't gig multiple times a month tend not to remember home made arrangements. This is avoided if musicians refresh themselves before a gig by playing along with the recordings. Or use arrangements based on generalized rules instead of a song specific arrangement. Bluegrass Brethren For covers, first learn a song playing along with the original artist recording. This also develops your ear so you learn to The Bluegrass Brethren ministry began in the spring of 1977. hear chord changes and melodies. It also gives everyone an Since that time they have performed their down-home country excellent arrangement to play along with. The arrangement, music at churches, retreats, concerts, and festivals. On stage, chords and melody gets memorized automatically when their tasteful humor and spiritual emphasis make for a find, learning with recordings. It also keeps everyone in sync on the Christ-centered event. Bluegrass Brethren current members, same version. each have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. They have Always record rehearsals. Study rehearsal recordings to find committed their talents to the sharing of the gospel through your weak spots that need fixing. Then fix it in the wood shed. music and to the encouragement of believers everywhere. If a recording mp3 is needed, find it on YouTube and use a Long Beach, CA 562-428-6179 converter like Peggo.com to extract .mp3. Run Mountain J.E accompanied him on the . Before long, J.E. took up the and eventually became known as a skilled but rough and © 2017 By Wayne Erbsen Ready hoedown fiddler who seemed to follow in the footsteps of Among the more bizarre songs in old-time and both Gid Tanner and Fiddlin' John Carson. When J.E. was only 12, early is one called “Run Mountain.” he went with his father W.J. (William Joseph) Mainer (1850-1947) The song is curious both for the melody and because some of the to live in Glendale, South Carolina, where the boy worked in a lyrics are rather mysterious. The melody is set in the key of G but cotton mill long before child labor laws were even seriously it starts in the key of A. By the time the chorus comes around, it considered. Eventually, J.E. moved to Concord, , to is in the key of G. Are you confused yet? If so, join the club! As if work in a larger cotton mill. He remembered earning about $5.50 the melody and the key changes are not strange enough, what a week, but his board was $1.75 a week. In 1923 J.E.'s little brother really takes the cake are the words to the chorus. More on this Wade moved to Concord and got a job in the same mill where J.E. later. worked. Wade remembered that “we would play music in our “Run Mountain seems to have originated with the North Carolina spare time, for parties, corn shucking, lassy pullings (molasses fiddler J.E. Mainer, who recorded it several times starting as early making) bean stringings and fiddlers conventions.” In 1932 the as 1949. J.E. most recently recorded it on April 7, 1963 for Arhoolie brothers formed a band with Howard and Lester Lay, who both Records. Introducing the song, J.E. said, “Well, friends, here comes played . They were soon playing on radio WSOC in Gastonia, an old number called “Run Mountain, Shake a Little Hill.” So are North Carolina. to believe it is an old song or a new one? The answer seems to be In 1934, the banjo player Fisher Hendley encouraged the pair of “both.” The melody is unlike anything else in the old-time brothers to audition for J.W. Fincher's Crazy Barn Dance radio show repertoire, so it should be called “new.” At least one of the verses that was broadcast on WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina. WBT (“If I had a needle and threat”) is common in any number of songs. beamed a strong signal to much of western North Carolina The rest of the verses seem to be J.E. Mainer originals. The main Sponsoring the show was Crazy Water Crystals, a compound that thing that's so bizarre about the song is the chorus: promised relief for constipation. Fincher was delighted with the sound of the group and named the band “The Crazy Sometimes he appears to sing it like this: Mountaineers.” This powerhouse radio show had the financial Run mountain, take a little hill, moxie to ensure that the Mainer brothers could leave the security Run mountain, take a little hill, of working at the mill and become professional musicians. Run mountain, take a little hill. The Crazy Mountaineers consisted of J.E. on fiddle, Wade on There you get your fill. banjo, Claude Edward “Zeke” Morris on guitar and Daddy John However, some of the verses sound like he's singing “run Love on guitar. In 1935 Boyden Carpenter replaced Love. In mountain, chuck a little hill” or “run mountain, shake a little hill.” addition to the Saturday night Crazy Barn Dance, The Any way you look at it, the chorus makes no sense. The line that Mountaineers also played early morning radio shows on WBT. This says “There you get your fill” seems to suggest the song is widespread radio exposure ensured that they played to capacity somehow about moonshine. But what does “take, chuck or shake crowds who filled up rural Grange Halls and schoolhouses. a little hill” means? No one seems to know. Admission was normally 15 to 25 cents. The band moved briefly to WWL in New Orleans and then to WPTF in Raleigh, NC. In 1937 About twenty years ago I had the pleasure of being at an old-time Wade and Zeke Morris had a bitter dispute over money with J.W music camp in Tennessee where Wade Mainer, J.E.'s younger Fincher, and they left and formed the band known as “Buck and brother, was visiting. I managed to sit across the table from Wade Buddy, the Little Smilin' Rangers.” at lunch one day, and grabbed the opportunity to ask him exactly What is unique about J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers has little to do what his brother was singing on the chorus of “Run Mountain.” with the song “Run Mountain.” Instead, it is important to recognize Looking exasperated, Wade confessed that he didn't know what that it was this band that captured the original sound of bluegrass in the world J.E was singing about. I found out that when Wade music with their earliest recordings in 1935. Listen, for example, recorded it after his brother did, he sang “run mountain, sugar in to “Lights in the Valley,” on Youtube. If you do, you'll hear what the hill.” Without getting clarity on the meaning of the chorus sounds like a traditional bluegrass gospel quartet with 2 finger from Wade, the mystery very much remains intact. banjo, fiddle, and two . The 1935 date is important to keep Putting “Run Mountain” to the side for a moment, J.E. Mainer in mind because this was 10 years before Bill Monroe and the should be remembered not so much for this crazy song, but for Bluegrass Boys made their historic performances on the Grand Ole being in the group that basically invented bluegrass music. Whoa Opry or their legendary recordings. Wade Mainer once confided Nelly! Did I really mean what I just said? YES! Am I claiming that to this author that he feels like they were playing bluegrass music someone besides Bill Monroe invented bluegrass music? Yes I am. but didn't know it. Zeke Morris once told me that “I seriously Hear me out. If you don't believe me when I'm finished explaining believe that without us, I don't think bluegrass music would exist this, I'll go slither under the rock I crawled out of. at all.” I rest my case. J.E. (Joseph Emmett) Mainer (1889-1971) born in a one-room log Wayne Erbsen has been chasing songs and their background cabin near Asheville, North Carolina. Like must rustic cabins in that histories for close to fifty years. He has written over thirty song area, it had no electricity or running water. He remembered taking and instruction books for bluegrass and clawhammer banjo, fiddle, his Saturday night bath in a galvanized tub. At the age of nine, J.E. mandolin, guitar, and ukulele. He claims he can teach even a frog began playing the banjo with the help of his older brother-in-law to play. See for yourself by visiting www.nativeground.com Roscoe Banks. Banks played fiddle left handed, and even as a lad, Run Mountain Help a brother out Went up on the mountain, during the holidays Give my horn a blow. By Chris Jones Opinion / Humor Bluegrass Today bluegrasstoday.com I thought I heard my true love say, At some point in the holiday season, somewhere between "That's comin' from my beau." attending school Christmas concerts and swilling egg nog at some other social get together, some choose to make annual Run Mountain, take a little hill, charitable donations. There are a few reasons for doing this in December, from embracing the Christmas spirit of giving, to getting a Run Mountain, take little hill, needed tax deduction because you’ve had such a good year (this is a good Run Mountain, take a little hill, time to laugh just a little bitterly). There you'll meet your fill. If you’re planning to do some of this year-end giving yourself, are you aware that there are several bluegrass-related charity options that have recently Went up on the mountain, started up? This is a great way to help those who are less fortunate while Get me a load of pine supporting the music you love. Here are a few of the lesser-known yet worthy Put it on the wagon, organizations you might consider supporting: Roadside Rescue I broke down behind. This is a group dedicated to helping bluegrass bands who have broken down Me in the field hard at work, while en route to a gig and who need transportation immediately to make their 4:00 p.m. set 200 miles away. After the toll free number is called, a I set down to play vehicle, or fleet of vehicles is dispatched to the scene to load up the band While thinkin' of my own true love, and their instruments and drive them to their show. Because most bands are She's many miles away. barely making enough at these shows even if nothing goes wrong, Roadside Rescue does not charge for this service, though it may in some cases take a Me six miles from my home, percentage of merchandise sales. It also provides financial assistance for the Chicken's crow 'for day, repairs that may be required for their bus or van that was left behind. Bands receiving the service must demonstrate financial need, and are also obligated Me upstairs with another man's wife, to discuss bluegrass music with the Roadside Rescue driver for the entire Better be getting' away. length of the trip. No Spouse Left Behind I f I had a needle and thread, This charity provides a live-in companion for the spouse left behind by a As fine as I could sew traveling bluegrass musician. The companion can be called on to do domestic I'd sew my true love to my back chores, handle parental obligations, and even participate in “romantic And down the road I'd go. activities” as required. A review of this service came from Denise Parker of Jackson, MS: Me in the field hard at work, “No Spouse Left Behind has changed my home life completely while my husband is away with his band Lonesome Quandary. My substitute I set down to play. companion cooks, does dishes, gets along great with the kids, and is a Me running around with another fantastic kisser. When my husband used to discuss his upcoming tours, I man's wife, would dread a three-week run, and I told him so; now I encourage him to go out for as long as he needs to. I’m a lot more supportive of the band than I Better be gettin' away. used to be.” Bluegrass Work Study Many modern day bluegrass songs cover subjects that most singers and songwriters today have little or no direct experience with, such as moonshining and coal mining. In order to make these songs more authentic, Bluegrass Work Study offers free seminars to needy bluegrass artists that include class study and real life or simulated real life experience in these areas. For example, in the moonshining program, students learn the fine art of distilling their own liquor, building their own still, and hiding their operation from the authorities. Proficiency with the use of a sawed-off shotgun is also taught. During class sessions they will learn the actual meaning of words like “G-men” and “revenuer’ so they can sing about them with conviction. Many graduates go on to earn a modest side income in this field to supplement their meager music earnings. Some even go into the lucrative drug trade. Bridge the Gap By Terry Brewer This is an organization that supplements the concert fees for TIME THAT I WAS LEAVIN' bluegrass artists who do their own booking but who have terrible negotiating skills. Many of these artists habitually make Brandon Lee Adams Tritium Music errors like asking for much less than the promoter was already With a style of his own and carrying on the planning to spend, or actually talking a promoter down instead bluegrass tradition. Brandon Lee Adams of up. Bridge the Gap steps in and covers the shortfall, singer-songwriter and bluegrass guitarist contributing up to 20% of what the final price should have been. releases a concept album, centered A demonstration of poor negotiating technique may be required. around the idea of leaving and the reasons why we do it. Road Food Intervention Favorite tracks: 1- Time That I Was Leavin, 2 - 30 Long Years, 4 Road musicians are known for their poor diet. Often the closest - Lessons Learned, 5 - Leaving Carolina, 6 - Seranade Sara, 9 - thing resembling something that was actually grown or raised Vagabond, 10 - Yesterday Is Gone by a farmer is the toppings on a sandwich at Subway. Asking to Each track tells a story, though the lyrics backed up with dome remain anonymous, one bluegrass musician confessed to having mighty fine picking and vocals. Smooth, relaxing to toe tapping, lived for three straight weeks on nothing but black coffee and a good one for sure! Visit Brandon’s website at fried pies. Road Food Intervention meets these musicians while on tour and provides nutritious meals consisting of minimally brandonleeadamsmusic.com processed, recognizable food, none of which has been deep- "Time That I Was Leavin'"single release on August 1, 2018 and fried, microwaved, packaged in plastic, or all of the above. Menu a September 15, 2018 album release. Live studio recording, 11 items include beef, chicken, non-french-fried potatoes, salads, new songs written and performed by Brandon Lee Adams, with and even green vegetables (a recent survey showed that almost guest , , Forrest O'Connor, Robert 30% of bluegrass road musicians had never had one of these). Sledge, John Mock, Zachery McLamb, Aaron Balance, and The organization’s goal is to provide at least one wholesome Meade Ricter. meal per month to every needy road musician. About Brandon Thank you for your generosity. Developed from a lifetime of diverse musical influences, Brandon’s music fits equally into singer-songwriter, bluegrass, Americana, and folk. He is equally at home fronting a full band at a festival or playing solo for house concerts and small clubs. His first foray into learning an instrument himself came when he started to play the guitar at the age of eight when his grandfather Robert Adams put his old Martin D-28 in his grandson’s hands saying, “Learn G,C and D. You’re playing in church this weekend.” At the age of seventeen, Brandon began to showcase his talents after winning a local talent contest which catapulted a milestone allowing him to perform at the Ryman Auditorium. Won or placed in guitar competitions from W. Va to Ky from 16 to 18. He participated in several songwriter rounds in Lexington Ky and part if the first Songwriter Showcase for IBMA in Nashville. Brandon’s musical ambition began to grow, he got to meet and share the stage with such heroes as , JD Crowe, Kitty Wells, , , , Art Stamper, Ernie Thacker, and many more. Brandon has recorded with for, Tony Rice, Scott Vestal, Jesse Cobb, Randy Kohrs, and Luke Bulla. Brandon was on the IBMA award winning album “Celebration of Life” for Skaggs Family Records. He has performed at such venues as The Ryman Auditorium, Musicians against childhood cancer festival, Ohio Mountain Arts Center, University of Tennessee, Wimberley Bluegrass Washington State Sacageweah bluegrass festival, Washington State Casmier blugrass festival, Minnesota Creek House, House Concert Wimberley Bluegrass Band is comprised entirely of four series St Paul ,NYC Hotel Pennsylvania concert series to name a siblings based in Southern California! They provide fun few. He has toured the USA, Canada and Ireland. Brandon not only and wholesome musical entertainment, and strive to keep likes to perform and write songs. He also has written articles for "Bluegrass Today" and " Prescription Bluegrass" Brandon has his the traditional sounds of bluegrass music alive and well new album. “Hardest Kind of Memories” is coming out if February by taking it to new audiences. 2014. It was voted number one in Alt Country on Ourstage by fan vote. Brandon is the first acoustic and Bluegrass Artists to get his Santa Ana CA 714-538-8321 music played on Radio in South Africa.

Member Bands Directory Back Porch Bluegrass Phelan CA 760-868-2850 Bill Dempsey Music San Juan Capistrano CA 949-357-7333 Blue Creek Band San Diego CA 760-659-0094 Bluegrass Brethren Long Beach CA 562-428-6179 Chris Cerna and The Bluegrass Republic Loma Linda CA 808-782-1275 Cornbread Washtub Band Corona CA 951-372-8266 Flint Hill Special Arizona 575-740-1563 Frequent Flyers Blue Diamond NV 702-875-3579 Grasslands Fountain Valley, CA 714-454-1976 Grinder Country Orange CA 714-865-9729 Highview Barstow CA 760-953-8520 Lilies of the West Anaheim CA 714-635-5834 Marty Warburton & Home Girls Cedar City UT 702-232-5016 2 Murphy Family Band Culver City CA 310-559-3095 Old Blue Band Littlefied AZ 970-260-7873 Out of the Desert Las Vegas NV 702-521-5615 Portneuf Gap Bluegrass Arimo, ID 208-251-0575 Sagebrush String Band Las Vegas NV 702-373-1926 Stillhouse Road St. George UT 435-674-1226 Stuck In Reverse Henderson NV 702-361-21163 Sweet Tidings Gospel Jam Loma Linda CA 909-796-8812 The Bladerunners San Bernardino CA 714-323-8065 The Brombies Los Angeles CA 323-874-0583 The Kody Norris Show Mountain City TN 423-213-0554 Virtual Strangers Poway, CA 858-679-1225 Wimberley Bluegrass Santa Ana CA 714-538-8321 Newhall, Ca: Jamming from Noon to 4 PM, Vincenzo's Newhal, 24504 Lyons Ave. 661-259-6733 Palos Verde, Ca: Jam 1- 4 PM, Amuse Music Center, 43 C Peninsula nd Atascadero, Ca: 2 Wednesday of the month, 6-9 PM, The first Center This is technically on Indian Peak Rd, a block from Silver Spur hour is easy slow jam with sheet music provided. The second hour (which intersects Hawthorne Blvd) can be a more advanced jam. The third hour is open mic. Last Stage San Diego, CA: 3rd Monday 7 - 8:30 PM SDBS Bluegrass Slow Jam West, Hwy. 41,15050 Morro Road, Lloyd (805) 441-7463. Learning session, Our Savior Lutheran Church (in the back) 4011 Ohio Bakersfield, Ca: 1st Monday of the month, 6-9 PM, Rusty’s Pizza, St, San Diego, CA [email protected] 5430 Olive Drive San Diego, CA: Poway Folk Circle 3rd Saturday Bluegrass Slow Jam Canoga Park Ca. A group of musicians who play Bluegrass, with Janet Beazley, 9:30-11am at Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Traditional, Folk, County and some rock & roll. They meet once a Community Room, 10301 Scripps Lake Drive, srfol.org, meetup.com, month. Canoga Park Jaam on meetup.com/Canoga-Park-Folk-Music Please contact Janet for more info: [email protected]. st rd th Corona, Ca: Bluegrass Jam. The 1 , 3 & 5 Thursday of the month., San Diego, CA: Walt Richards SLO Jam 6:20 PM 3rd Friday 6-9 PM, Crown Pointe Retirement Home 737 Kellogg Blvd Contact: San Carlos Recreation Center, 6445 Lake Badin Ave., 6:30PM-9PM Bill K. 951-907-7156 SDBS Open Mic, Pickup Bands, Featured Band Covina, Ca: Open mic night, 1st Saturday of the month, 8PM, The San Juan Capistrano: SJC Bluegrass Pickers meet every Saturday Fret House Music Shop, 309 N Citrus. Entrance fee is $2.00. Call under the Oak trees 9 am – 12-noon at Historic Town Center Park (626)339-7020 31852 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano, CA Covina, Ca: 3rd Sunday every other month from 2-5pm at The Fret Temecula CA: “The Third Jam"6:30-9 PM every Third Tuesday House Music Shop, 309 N. Citrus Ave., Covina. (626) 339-7020. hosted by Bill Frisbie. Come join the fun at the Irish Pub, “Bridge on René Baquet jam host, Next jams - Apr. 23 & Jun 25 Third Street.” 41915 Third Street Temecula, CA Diamond Bar, CA: New bi-weekly beginning level Jam We are Torrance, CA: EL CAMINO College Bluegrass Jam, 1st Sunday of trying to see if anyone in the Diamond Bar area would like to start a the month 1-3 PM 16007 Crenshaw Blvd, Steve Barilovits beginning level Jam. If interested, Contact Greg Horton by email: 310-367-8975 [email protected] [email protected] West Hills,Ca: Jam, Fourth Sunday of the Month, 1-5 PM The West Encinitas, Ca: Thursday nights, 6:30-9 PM, Round Table Pizza, Valley Music Center, 24424 Vanowen St. 818-992-4142, Everyone 1321 Encinitas Blvd. behind McDonalds near El Camino Real Welcome! Join the Jam or just listen Contact: Vic (888)481-2100 Escondido, Ca: 3rd Wednesday of the month 6 PM San Diego No. Yorba Linda, Ca: Thursday Jam 6-9 PM Main Street Restaurant, County Bluegrass & Folk Jam, Round Table Pizza, 1161 E 4902 Main St., (714) 777-9427, Jan host Barney Barnhouse. Washington Ventura, Ca: 2nd & 4th Wednesdays 6-11 PM. Grapes and Hops, Henderson, NV: Tuesday Night Bluegrass & Old Time Music Jam, 545 E. Main St. Ventura, CA 93001, Parkin in the rear . Gene Rubin 6-8 PM, 5795 Sandhill Road, Las Vegas, NV. For details call Betty 805-340-2270 [email protected] Bess (702) 564-1630. The Long Beach/Orange County Bluegrass for Beginners Los Angeles, Ca: Bluegrass Thursdays at the Grand View Market, Meetup Is pretty much what it sounds like. Some members do gig, every 2nd Thursday of the month a dinner-time concert, 6:30-9 PM & but most only play for fun and camaraderie. It is a very good place every 4th Thursday of the month a bluegrass jam 7-10 PM, 12210 to get your feet wet with bluegrass and to make good friends in the Venice Blvd. For Info: Jeff Fleck (310) 773-6753 process, all in a low pressure environment. If you want to contribute facebook.com/BluegrassThursdays or burningheartbluegrass.com to the fun, that's great, but no one will think any different if you nd La Mesa, Ca: SDBS Open mic & jam, 2 Tuesday of the month just want to sit back and take it all in. They get together every 6:30-9 PM Fuddrucker’s, 5500 Grossmont Center Dr., For info call Saturday morning at 10 am and jam till noon or sometimes later. Fuddruckers at (619)589-6144 or SDBS info line at (858) 679-4854 The Meetup location alternates between the Long Beach Dog Park Sponsored by the San Diego Bluegrass Society (Recreation Park on 7th Street just west of PCH) and at Mile Square Las Vegas, NV: Thursday night Bluegrass Jam, 6 - 8:30 PM, NW Park (on Euclid a block south of Heil) in Fountain Valley. Be sure Mountain Crest Park Community Center, 4701 N. Durango Rd., call to check the LB/OC BfB Meetup "Home" page for that week's Vera Vann-Wilson (702)875-3579. location at meetup.com/bluegrass-125/ So come out and join them, 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. The Bluegrass Special Lonpoc, Ca: Evening jams, 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 7-9 PM, with Wayne Rice Southside Coffee Co., 105 So. “H” St, for more info call Bill at Sundays 10pm to Midnight (805) 736-8241 KSON FM 97.3 Lonpoc, Ca: 2nd and 4th Wednesday evening jams, 7-9 PM at Southside Coffee Co., 105 So. “H” St, for more info call Bill at (805) 736-8241. Long Beach, Ca: Tuesday’s Soup Jam 6:30 PM, 2420 Gundry St in Signal Hill , Contact: Don Rowan (562)883-0573, open to everyone (this jam is held in an industrial building) Shutts Fabricators Long Beach, Ca: Open Bluegrass Jam 2nd Thursday of the month 7-10 PM Red Leprechaun 4000 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA WE BUILD COOL STUFF! [email protected] Long Beach, Ca: 4th Sunday jam, 1-5 PM, Shutts Fabricators 1632 1632 West 15th St., Long Beach,CA W 15th St., 562-432-4648 SWBA Jam Host Mark Shutts www.shuttsfab.com (562) 432-4648 Mission Viejo, CA: 1st and 3rd Thursdays from 6-9:30pm 25782 Obrero Dr. 949-916-6855 Open to all - pickers and grinners! Free! April 25��-28�� MerleFest Wilkesboro, North Carolina May 2ⁿ�-4�� Little Roy & Lizzy Music Festival Lincolnton, GA Always verify dates and times, sometimes scheduled events change or we may May 2nd-4�� Twin Oaks Spring Bluegrass Festival - Hoboken, GA not have listed everything correctly. For more Info on events listed below and May 15��-19�� Outer Banks Bluegrass Island Festival Manteo, NC others visit southwestbluegrass.org for one click links May 19�� Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival Agoura Hills CA Sundays: The Bluegrass Special with Wayne Rice 10 PM to June 7��-8�� Bluegrass & Old-Time Fiddlers Convention Mount Airy NC Midnight KSON FM 97.3 June 13�� - 15�� CBA's Father's Day Bluegrass Festival Grass Valley CA st rd 1 & 3 Monday: The Brombies @ Viva Rancho Cantina, 7:30 July 3-7 Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival Centre Hall, PA PM, 900 Riverside Dr., Burbank, CA 91506, 818-515-4444, Jo Ellen Doering 323-874-0583 [email protected] Every Saturday: ME-N-ED’S Pizza Parlor Bluegrass Concerts Classifieds 6:30 PM –10:30 PM Me N Ed's Pizza Parlor 4115 Paramount Blvd., Lessons Lakewood, CA 90712 562-421-8908 Guitar, Banjo & Harmonica: Bill Dempsey, San Juan Capistrano Every 2nd Monday: BASC Bluegrass Night at Viva Rancho (949)357-7333. Cantina, 900 Riverside Drive, Burbank. Free parking at the bowling Banjo lessons: Bill Purcell, Bluegrass banjo all levels Riverside CA alley. You can order off the menu which includes some of the best (951)231-7321 [email protected] Mexican food in town. Socalbluegrass.org Every 1st Tuesday 7 – 9 pm San Diego No. County Bluegrass Fiddle lessons by Shelah Spiegel, Fountain Valley CA, (714) 454-1976, & Folk Club Live bluegrass bands, local & regional. Jamming on e-mail: [email protected] the patio from 7 pm – ?? Round Table Pizza 1161 E. Washington Fiddle lessons with Phil Salazar: Ventura, CA (805) 701-2508 Escondido, CA northcountybluegrass.org fiddlelessonswithphilsalazar.com Every 4th Tuesday: SDBS presents a featured band, a top local or Guitar & Banjo lessons: Pete Roehling, teaches most styles of guitar, regional band in concert. Open mic & pickup bands from 6:30 to 8:00 flat & finger picking, old-time & bluegrass banjo. Luthier & instrument PM; featured band from 8:00-9:00 PM. Boll Weevil Restaurant, 9330 Clairemont Mesa Blvd # E, San Diego, CA Sign-up for open mic by re-pair man Redlands CA (909) 794-6125 email at [email protected]. Old time banjo & Mountain dulcimer: Doug Thomson Ranco Cucamonga CA (909) 987-5701 Bluegrass Festivals December 1�� Honeymoon Island Bluegrass Festival Dunedin, Florida December 5��-8�� Bluegrass Christmas in the Smokies Pigeon Forge, TN Repairs January 3�� -5�� 2019 New Year’s Bluegrass Festival Jekyll Island, Georgia Block's Musical Repair Lake Elsinore, CA 951-283-8955 Jan 11��-12�� SPBGMA Bluegrass Music Awards & Midwest Convention blocksmusicalrepair.com January 18��-20�� Blythe Bluegrass Festival Blythe, California Classic String Repair Hesperia CA 760-949-2266 January 15��-20�� YeeHaw Junction Bluegrass Festival Okeechobee, Florida January 25��-27�� UllrGrass Golden, Colorado Folk Music Center Claremont CA 909-624-2928 January 26�� Rock Crusher Canyon Bluegrass Festival Crystal River, Florida McCabe’s Guitar Shop Santa Monica CA 310-8284497 January 27��-28�� Agri-County Bluegrass Festival Casa Grande Arizona January 18��-20�� BayGrass Bluegrass Festival Islamorada, Florida Keys Roll Over Beethoven’s Music Store Hesperia CA 760-244-8822 Jan 16��-27�� Agri-County Bluegrass Festival Casa Grande, Arizona Sorensen Mandolin & Guitar Co Santa Clarita, CA 661-345-6684 January 31��-February 3�� SPBGMA Music Awards & National Convention February 18��‐22ⁿ� Danny Stewart’s Bluegrass Cruise California The Fret House Covina CA 626-339-7020 February 14��-16�� Palatka Bluegrass Festival Palatka, Florida February 22ⁿ�-23�� Winterfest Bluegrass Festival Wichita, Kansas February 22ⁿ�- 24�� Bluegrass First Class Asheville, North Carolina February 15��-17�� Mid-Winter Bluegrass Festival Denver, Colorado February 21��-24�� Winter Grass Bellevue, Washington February 18��-24�� Florida Bluegrass Classic Brooksville, Florida February 22ⁿ�-24��Winter WonderGrass Steamboat Springs Colorado Feb 22ⁿ�-24�� Joe Val Bluegrass Music Festival Framingham Manie Feb 28��‐March 2ⁿ� Cabin Fever Pickin’ Party Chesapeake, Virginia March 1��-3�� Bluegrass On The Beach Lake Havasu City, Arizona March 2ⁿ�-3�� Glendale Folk & Heritage Festival Glendale, Arizona March 9�� Snoma County Bluegrass and Folk Festival Sebastopol CA March 14��-17�� Withlacoochee River Bluegrass Festival Dunnellon FL March 20��- 24�� Sertoma Spring Bluegrass Festival Brooksville FL March 22ⁿ�-23�� Bristol Bluegrass Spring Fest Bristol, Virginia March 22ⁿ�-24�� Temecula Valley Bluegrass Festival Temecula, CA March 29��-31�� Tempe Festival Of The Arts Tempe, Arizona Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival Wilmington, Ohio April 11��-13�� Georgia State Bluegrass Festival - Folkston, GA April 11��-14�� Bender Jamboree Las Vegas, Nevada April 12��-14�� Wilmington Bluegrass Festival - Claymont, DE April 17��-21�� Mossy Oak Daughters of Bluegrass Festival Guyton GA

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