The Oct/Nov 2019 A 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 Editors Treasurer Secretary Sheila Brewer, Mark Shutts Paula De Bie Missy Lyn Gibson 951-934-3478 774-248-4128 Regular Contributors [email protected] [email protected] Eric Nordbeck,Terry Brewer, Jeanie Stanley, Membership Connie Tripp Bert Luontela. Chris Jones, Wayne Erbsen Sheila Brewer 661-305-1554 Distribution 661-364-9321 [email protected] Flo DeBie, Tom & Carol Lister, Frank & Patsy Abrahams, [email protected] Susan Brown, Dale & Cindie Linton, Ella Carter, Paula DeBie Tony Pritchett Paul Haas 661-305-7866 [email protected] The Bluegrass Soundboard Deadlines [email protected] DECEMBER JANUARY issue November 1st Louie De Bie 951-934-3478 [email protected] 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 Social Media Terry Brewer Terry Brewer ADVERTISING RATES Missy Lyn Gibson Single Issue Yearly SWBA Host Julie Ann Evans Full page $65 $350 Sheila Brewer Half page $35 $190 Quarter page $25 $130 SWBA Jam Host Advertising $10 $60 Howard Doering Missy Lyn Gibson Card size Marc Nelisse Martha Hall Foe more information concerning advertising Mark Shutts (including special rates and discounts) Contact Terry Brewer René Baquet Campout Host 661-364-9321 [email protected] SWBA School Program Paula De Bie SWBA Membership For member information, change of address, phone and emails. 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Eric Nordbeck and Connie Tripp will work the booth at Blythe Bluegrass Festival in January. Hello Southwest Bluegrass Association members and Anyone that is interested in helping In the SWBA friends. booth at Blythe other upcoming festivals, even if just for an hour or two to give is a break in the boot to eat Well as summer ends and fall brings colder weather, or even just to get away for a little bit to jam or listen the holidays are fast approaching and a time for to the music. Please call or email me. family, friends and a time to give thanks. The P. T.S.D. Awareness Program "PICKING & I sit here with no clue of what to say in this letter, but JAMMING AMERICA" at American Legion Posts things that I am thankful for is on my mind. I thank organized by Jerry Turner kicked off in Norco God for everything in my life, his blessings, my family California in June. Since that time Jerry has worked and friends. hard to add more locations to this program. This is a As a Southwest Bluegrass Association member, I am great program for SWBA members and the bluegrass community to support and give back to our veterans thankful for all your support for SWBA and your who have given so much to us. I encourage you to involvement in the bluegrass community this year. attend these jams as a picker or a grinner, check out With most of our members located in the the flyer in this newsletter for dates and locations. For southwestern United States, there are several in other more information about the program and starting one states and Canada. We thank you for your continued in your area contact Jerry Turner support and membership. Emaial - [email protected] In August Sheila and I attended Summergrass and There are several of our friends who are dealing the that was great to see so many SWBA members in the loss of loved ones, illness and health issues. Our campground! Lots of folks out jamming into the early thoughts and prayers are with you all morning hours and a chance to see old friends and meet new ones. The festival presented an awesome Hope to see you at the fall campout or in the near lineup, pickers boot camp, workshops, slow jam, pie future, Happy Thanksgiving! God Bless Terry Brewer tasting and a kid’s music camp. Thumbs up to the Summergrass board and all the volunteers who make The Bluegrass Soundboard this festival enjoyable for all who attend. Thank you for your many hours of planning, hard work and is made posible by dedication to this event and the bluegrass community. SWBA Membership While at the festival I met some folks that were experiencing their first bluegrass festival and it was Thank You! nice to hear them say “This is a great event everyone Pickers and Grinners here is so friendly and I’m looking forward to attending other bluegrass festivals and looking forward to promoting returning here next year”. Bluegrass music Jerry Turner and Connie Tripp worked the SWBA booth at Summergrass and we thank San Diego And those involved in it. North County Bluegrass and Folk Club and the San Diego Bluegrass Society for sharing their booth space. Jerry Turner also took the SWBA booth to Pickin in the Pines in Flagstaff Arizona and signed up 16 new members from Arizona and Utah. Thank you Bert and Rita Luontela for helping in the SWBA booth. The SWBA booth returns to Huck Finn Jubilee with the help of Lori Kiesling. Mark Shutts, Julie Marquez and Paul Haas will also help out. SUMMERGRASS..summer school.. Fidelity you’re really, really good…but…well…you know “It’s A Small World After All” how it goes. The bands were great but with all going on I didn’t have a By Bert Luontela chance to catch all the bands. Chris Cerna & Bluegrass Oh how I hated summer school. It served Republic was there and they never disappoint. The Old no useful purpose just a form of purgatory Blue Band did a rendition of “Just A Closer Walk With Thee” as my friends where surfing, riding motorcycles, involved styled and arranged much in the way that Patsy Cline had in summer sports, on holiday with family and friends while recorded it; if there where others in the crowd, “long in I sat in class watching the clock on the wall. Like a tooth”, then they to probably got a little misty eyed as well. metronome, tick-tock, tick-tock, marking time without music The feature band was David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition. or meaningful purpose, wasted time until first break and Only one-way to describe them, smooth. They’ve been then to the end of the class day with the ringing of the playing for many a moon and it shows in their performance. school bell. To this day, when I hear Seldom Scene’s Using a single mic they move in and out as needed for “Doing My Time”, I think of summer school. Fortunately vocals and breaks with unbelievable instrument clarity and those days are long gone, well almost. vocal range. To add levity and “shtick” to the performance It’s been awhile since the Prescott Arizona Festival and Ron Spears, bass and vocals, interjects comedy and, at I’ve been watching the clock on the wall and “doing my times, politically incorrect lyrics…great stuff. time”. Reta too has been getting a little antsy and looking High Fidelity is a very accomplished band that runs like a forward to Summergrass and the cooler temps in Vista Swiss watch with great musicianship, tight vocals and California harmony’s. They are definitely up and coming and it would Summergrass’s venue is both unique and antique as it’s be a joy to see more of them on the “left coast”. That said, held on the grounds of the Antique Gas & Steam Engine they were also tasked with sewing the seeds of their own Museum. The place covers fifty-five acres filled with an destruction; the band was the “lead teaching faculty” for assortment of relic tractors, steam engines, blacksmith the Kids Camp and what a great job they did.