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For the past year due to the pandemic there wasn't much for the board to plan. It seemed our hands are tied with all the restrictions and kind of disappointing with all that was going on, not being able to take the booth to festivals, raise funds or plan events. But we continued to meet bimonthly eager for things to change.
At the last board meeting the first week of May we decided it was best to cancel Super jam and a week later we got news that group camping was open. Excited to move forward at the last minute we brought disappointment once again. The group camping at Mohave Narrows was still restricted at least to large groups like ours. And their rules have changed for large groups. We must now file a special event application 180 days before the event date. That being said, I have the application and will submit it for a campout in October.
Now that things that are opening up and as the jams start to form again. We need your help letting us know about the jams in your area and info. The current let's go jamming to the best of my knowledge is incorrect and Robert Wheeler has volunteered to go through the list and contact Jam host for updates. SWBA members live in several states around the United States and even Canada. So please feel free to send this jam info in your area no matter where you live, and the Southwest or beyond. JAN VINCENT: BLUEGRASS WEBMASTER AND HISTORIAN
By Phoebe Leigh-Suelflow There wouldn’t be bluegrass without someone to play it, but there also wouldn’t be bluegrass without fans to hear it. Jan Vincent is a bluegrass fan who has made a difference. Her Jan’s World website https://jansworld.net/ has collected and preserved the performances and history of two important local bluegrass bands. We can now watch videos of The Grateful Dudes and Krazy Kirk and the Hillbillies (formerly Billy Hill and the Hillbillies). Jan grew up listening to bluegrass. Her father loved bluegrass and country-and-western music and played it all the time on the radio. Although Jan was a Beatles fan, she knew the songs. In 2000, Jan and her husband moved back to Anaheim, California. She had been an annual pass holder at Disneyland since 1986. But when they were back in Southern California, her son said, “Mom, remember that group you used to like didn’t have the time to handle the site, so he showed at Critter Country? They’re now at the Golden Jan how to do it. She has been growing the site ever Horseshoe.” So Jan went to hear the band, Billy Hill since. and the Hillbillies, and heard the songs she loved, and When Dennis suggested a fan site for the Billy Hill and ended up sitting and talking with one of the band the Hillbillies, Jan put one together and this became their members, Dennis Fetchet. It turned out that the two official site. Eventually she grouped her sites together had grown up within a few miles of each other and had into Jan’s World (https://jansworld.net/jans-world-home) a lot in common. He invited her to hear the Grateful Initially Jan took videos of the bands and posted them Dudes, another band that he played with, who to her sites. To provide more information for Hillbillies performed on Saturdays at Vincenzo’s Pizzeria in fans, she would talk to the band on their breaks and Newhall California. Jan went and was hooked. interview them to find out how they got started, and get Rodger Phillips formed The Grateful Dudes and other details. Jan would go to every Hillbillies show, up started playing at Vincenzo’s in the 1980s. to five shows a day and people began to recognize her. When they learned that she was the website person, The personnel has changed over the years but has they would share their own videos with her and provide included some amazingly talented musicians. Dudes links to their Youtube channels. Other fans would come and “sub-Dudes” have included Bill Bryson (bass), up to ask her questions about the band and Disneyland Herb Pedersen (guitar/banjo), Dennis Fetchet in general. (fiddle/mandolin), Dean Knight (bass), Dick Fegy Jan researched their questions, and aided by Disney (mandolin), John Schlocker (banjo), Bob Applebaum Archivist Dave Smith, started posting this information. (mandolin), Pat Sauber (mandolin), Tom Sauber She ended up creating websites for the Golden (fiddle), Ross Landry (guitar/mandolin), Bill Knopf Horseshoe History and Disney Ticket History (for those (banjo), Kenny Blackwell (mandolin), Tony Recuipido of us who remember the “E” tickets). Jan’s work has (guitar), Walden Dahl (guitar), Andrew Paddock appeared over the years on other websites and on (bass), Rudy Epstein (bass), Roger Reed (guitar), Wikipedia, although she doesn’t always get the work Chris Hillman (mandolin), Kirk Wall (guitar/fiddle), attributed to her. Ross Landry (mandolin), Leroy Mack (dobro). The Although Jan loves bluegrass music, she doesn’t own current line-up of the Dudes includes Rodger Phillips, a lot of bluegrass CDs. That’s because there has always Dean Knight, Phil Salazar, David Dickey III and Jerry been so much live bluegrass for her to enjoy. In fact, she Kincaid. holds the record for the most Hillbillies shows seen in a Dennis suggested that the band needed a website. row. One February Dennis Fetchet bet her that she Jan’s husband David built online computer systems couldn’t see every show they did for the rest of that for satellites, so he easily built a website for the year(remember, that was five shows a day!). He lost. Dudes(https://jansworld.net/grateful-dudes). Keeping Jan’s super-fan Saturday schedule was exhausting. She it up was another matter --- after a few months, he would be at Disneyland for the first show, either at 11:45 or 12:45, and stay to the last show at 5:30. Then she would run out the front gate of Disneyland, retrieve her car and drive to Newhall by 7:30 to hear the Grateful Dudes. She had a contest with Dennis to see who could get there first. After that show she would return to Anaheim at 10:30 to pick up her daughter (who was a Swing Dancer) back at Disneyland. And what is the payoff? She loves the fun she has from being involved, and the opportunity to meet so many wonderful people! Jan has stories of magical moments that she has been a part of. Chris Hillman, of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Kentucky Sky Bluegrass Band Brothers, was a good friend of Herb Pedersen, one of the Dudes. He came by Vincenzo’s every week Authentic Bluegrass Music Played From the Heart for four or five months. One night he and Herb and Bill Brysen did an acoustic version of “Eight Miles Kentucky Sky is a new traditional Bluegrass High” that had the audience spell-bound (you can band, featuring Randy Hackworth on guitar, Fred find the link on Jan’s website). Other times famous Frank on banjo, Emily Frank on bass and Chad musicians would come by to sit in and play with the Fadely on mandolin. band. Fred and Emily, a married couple have played Besides the Dudes and the Hillbillies, pre-Covid with Chad Fadely with the Fred and Emily Band she loved listening to Bill Knopf and Tom Corbett, for a number of years, but with the addition of who played together at Knott’s. Knott’s is scheduled to re-open on May 21 and despite the limited Randy Hackworth’s true Kentucky soulful reservations available, Jan will be there to catch the Bluegrass voice, it was felt that a new band music. She will be listening to the current version name was called for. of Krazy Kirk and the Hillbillies: Kirk Walls lead vocals, guitar and fiddle), Eric Brenton (fiddle, Both Randy and Emily also write a significant mandolin and guitar), Rick Storey (banjo and electric portion of the band’s songs in a traditional guitar), Anders Swanson (bass) and Brad Conyers Bluegrass style. This makes for a refreshing, yet (drums). She will be adding to the 30,000+ Hillbillies familiar sound the band offers. shows and 800+ Grateful Dudes performances that she has viewed over the past 21 years. SWBA Member Band from Pocatello, Iadho Jan says that this is her “retirement”, and she is Contact 208-251-0575 determined to do only the things she really enjoys. The website is one of them. Over the years her Facebook Page husband taught her everything she knew about computers. When he died in 2005, she had to keep www.facebook.com/kentuckyskybluegrassband up with those skills on her own and it forced her to learn. The band websites let her write, be creative, research history, and grow. Although she doesn’t play an instrument, Jan is an important part of the bluegrass support team. ARTIN PRESS PRINTING AND DESIGN SOLUTIONS Quality printing for today's freshest designs 958 N. Grand Avenue, Covina, CA 626-915-4255 www.artinpress.com How I Came to Write An, Oh so Pitiful Sad, Sad Song By Rod Tripp Hello pickers and grinners, strummers and hummers! Hope you are making good progress on those songs you’ve been writing ‘cause I’d like to hear some of them next time we’re together. Now I’ll tell you a story about how late one night at a festival camp out I was out pickin with a friend. He chooses to sing “Put My Little Shoes Away.”When we finished he said, “I just love those old sad songs.”I asked, “Why?” “Well,” he answered, “I just feel so good after I sing them..” It occurred to me then that I’d never written a sad song; I write ‘em for fun! I told my friend that I was going to write him a sad song. He just rolled his eyes because he knows me. This song is an original score written to sound like one of those old slow moanin’, groanin’ Depression Era songs I grew up with. In this song I’ve pulled, not words; but ideas from other sad songs we all know. Study the words, the meanings and the feelings of a song. Professional song writers do this. Learn how to express what you feel in song. And always have fun with it! Hope this tear-jerker brings you a smile. I like to watch people’s expressions when they begin to sense something just ain’t right about this song. FOR SALE: 2012 BOURGEOIS COUNTRY BOY GUITAR ADIRONDACK TOP, MAHOGANY BACK, HIDE GLUE MINT CONDITION , CASE INCLUDED $3500.00 CALL PHIL 619-743-1442 EMAIL [email protected] Silver Mining: Checking for forgotten coins in slot machines. Roving Gambler Skin: A dollar. Skin Game: A game having two or more collusion cheaters. By Wayne Erbsen nativeground.com Skinning the Hand: A cheater's technique to get rid of extra I've always felt a strange allure for songs cards. about ne'er-do-wells, rounders, ramblers, Skoon: A dollar. rascals and good for nothin' bums. The Tap Out: Losing all the bankroll while gambling. character depicted in the song “Roving Ticket : A card. Gambler” was apparently a smooth Wild Royal Flush: A Royal Flush that makes use of a wild card. talking, vest wearing, watchbob jangling, wax mustached dandy Roving Gambler Lyrics who specialized in raking in the poker chips and fast-talking the ladies. The song was first collected in America by Frank C. I am a roving gambler, Brown in 1915. It was a descendant of 19th century British I've gambled down in town. broadside ballads such as “The Roving Journeyman” and “The Wherever I meet with a deck of cards Roving Irishman.” The song has been collected under such titles I lay my money down. as “The Guerrilla Boy,” “The Gambling Man,” “The Journeyman,' “The Blue-Coat Man,” “The Roaming Gambler," “The Buckskin I’ve gambled down in Washington Shirt,"and “The Rustlin' Gambler." It was first recorded on April 22, 1924 by Samantha Bumgarner as “The Gamblin' Man-Two I’ve gambled over in Spain Step.” Over the years the song was recorded by Kelly Harrell, I’m going down to Georgia Land Norris and Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers. Vernon To gamble my last game. Dalhart wins the cake by recording “Rovin' Gamber” no less than eight times, each under a different alias for as many record I had not been in Washington companies. Many more weeks than three “Roving Gambler” can be found in my book, The Rural Roots ‘Til I fell in love with a pretty little girl of Bluegrass. By the way, if this song leads you down into a And she fell in love with me. smoky den of iniquity you might need to bone up on some select vocabulary words. Here is some slang from the lips of poker playing gamblers to keep handy in your vest pocket next to your She took me to her parlor single-shot Derringer pistol. She cooled me with her fan Poker Lingo Whispered low in her mother’s ear I love this gamblin’ man. Boat: full house (aka “full boat”): Three of one card, two of another. Broadway: Ace-high straight. Mother, oh dear mother Buck: A wager of hundred dollars. Bug: A joker You know I love you well Carpet Joint: A luxury gambling casino. But the love I have for the gambling man Croupier: Dealer No human tongue can tell. Dead Man Hand: A hand of two pairs, aces and eights. It is supposedly the hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was Daughter, oh dear daughter murdered in Deadwood, South Dakota on August 2, 1876. How can you treat me so Dime Bet: A one thousand dollar wager. Duck: A deuce, a 2. Leave your dear old mother First Base: The chair at the dealer’s left. And with the gambler go. George: A gambler who tips the dealer. Grease: Bribe offered to someone. Mother, oh dear mother Half Dollar Bet: A single bet of $50. I’ll tell you if I can Hole Card: The dealer's unseen card. If you ever see me coming back Juice: Commission taken by the casinos. Kicker: A high ranking card which doesn’t contribute to flush or I’ll be with the gambling man. straight in poker. Low Roller: A gambler who wagers small bets. I left her in Frisco Mechanic: A cheating dealer. I wound up in Maine Muck: Fold. Met up with a gambling man Nickel: $500 wager. We got in a poker game. Open:- The player who bets first. Paint:- Any Jack, Queen, or King. Pigeon: An uneducated, naive, or unsophisticated gambler. Pocket Cards: The cards which are dealt face down in a poker game. Quads: Four of a kind. Sawbuck: Ten dollars. Sawdust Joint: A low-life gambling establishment. Scared Money: The amount of money that players do not want to lose. Shark: A good player who acts like a newbie. “Everything in life was a challenge with Bill Monroe. It was like a boxing match with him, and every night I walked off that stage with a bloody nose.” “I never found a bottom to that old man’s talent,” he said, his voice almost glowing with the compliment. Things can often be complicated. Life is bittersweet and comes both with troubles and joys. This was certainly the case with his four years as a Blue Grass Boy. Robins said despite these early conflicts, he still considers BUTCH ROBINS Monroe to be one of two musicians he feels are true CHALLENGE CREATES TALENT “genius,” with the other being banjo player Bill Keith. By Kara Martinez Bachman thebluegrassstandard.com Those four years brought Robins far from the trailer parks. He performed on more than one occasion at the White Butch Robins was age 12 when his passion took hold of House, and once sat at a luncheon with President Jimmy him. That passion would bring him around the world, Carter. He of course performed at the Opry, Lincoln Center, landing him on stage with people such as Bill Monroe, Leon and appeared on Austin City Limits. Not only was he busy, Russell, and Jim & Jessie. It would also be connected to but he was always growing as a performer. In retrospect, years of distress that he’s only worked through as time has he acknowledges that the challenges and head-butting with passed. Monroe made him a better player. There was accidental Robins recalled where it began. mentorship in the battling. “Some guy came around that had an old banjo he sold my A final blow-up happened; he left the band, and the two dad for two dollars,” he said. “I played on that thing for six men were estranged for many years. He did make amends or eight months. I looked at Earl Scruggs on TV and I said, several years before the legend’s passing. hey man, I can do what that guy’s doing. That’s what can get me out of the trailer parks.” “When I quit you,” he said to the old man, one night just after a show, “it was the ugliest thing I ever did.” After six or eight months he won a contest for young musicians. His parents saw the potential. Following the reconciliation, Robins found a sense of peace that had eluded him for years. He also regained a “My parents paid a hundred dollars down and five dollars relationship with the man who may have done the most to a week for my first Mastertone banjo,” he said. push him to be the best banjo player he could be. It wasn’t long before the young man was winning more “For those last four or five years, he considered me his contests and found himself playing friend,” Robins reminisced. with the most famous guy in bluegrass, Bill Monroe. It didn’t While the Monroe chapter is just one part of an interesting work; they butted heads too often life as a musician, it’s the most colorful. And boy oh boy, and it was short lived. After a stint Robins can tell some interesting tales about his life in the in the military and a move to bluegrass world. Nashville, Robins picked up Those interested in hearing more might want to check out sessions playing with people such a series of videos he recorded six or seven years ago as multi-genre pop and rock forRadford University. Titled “Butch Robins Presents -- songwriter and performer Leon Blue Grass Music, its Origin and Development as a Unique Russell, known for his and Creative Art orm,” the series is available online. The collaborations with everyone from five interviews feature Robins walking through he The Beach Boys to Eric Clapton. background of bluegrass and giving his pinions and During the 70s, Robins gigged philosophies on what makes he music tick. with various outfits including Charlie Moore, Jim & Jesse, He readily admits that he is opinionated. It’s what caused Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, and the New Grass Revival, friction with another opinionated musician, Monroe, whose where he played bass. improvisational ways rubbed a young Robins the wrong In 1977, Monroe lost a banjo player and invited Robins to way. join in. Robins was skeptical and asked whether it was a “Monroe played all over the place,” Robins recalled. “With good idea. Monroe, that back beat chop he did was more reminiscent “We’ve both grown a lot since then,” Monroe said. of the jazz era in Chicago.” But had they? Robins said Chicago jazz influenced other things in the Robins’ four-year stint as a Blue Grass Boy came with both early days of bluegrass. headaches and triumphs. The two continued to push “Monroe was the first one at the Opry that had soloists go against each other, and an undercurrent of conflict up to the mic and play alone,” he said. persisted. The video series deals both with history and with ways of “He was a very strange individual,” Robins said. making strong music. “How do you make it sound like a freight train coming at you?” he asks. “That whole thing has been fascinating to The Bluegrass me, how you make power in the music.” Robins has been part of some powerful music, and he’s stood before big crowds. When he played with Leon Soundboard Russell, he’d pick before crowds of 60 to 70 thousand. Very few bluegrass performers ever get to experience is made possible by something that huge. “That year I worked for him, Leon was the top-grossing rock and roll act in the United States,” Robins explained. SWBA Membership He liked it just fine that way, supporting a big name. Not being at the front of the stage suited him. Thank You! “I never played into the popularity contests,” Robins said. “I’m an introverted person… I could be anonymous but be Pickers and Grinners part of that wonderful music that they played.” promoting Bluegrass music Despite feeling at home at back-of-stage, Robins has put out much material of his own over the years. With fourteen And those involved in it! albums to his credit, he might soon have another coming down the pike. He said he wants it to be musically “simple”, and maybe even have a “Lawrence Welk” vibe. “It’s a banjo music record that’s very, very different,” he said. “I want continuity of rhythm… I want it danceable… and I want discernible melody.” He played a few tracks he’s already completed: they almost sound like a blast from the past. They’re basic. Soothing in their simplicity. He read some lyrics, which he said are all about positivity. He said he’s not a “religious” guy so much as a “spiritual” one and hopes his simple music with a universal appeal will help lift spirits higher. A spirit lift came recently when a few months ago Robins received a prototype of the “Butch Robins Banjo” inspired by him and created by Davis Banjo company. “It’s one of the better banjos I’ve ever played,” he said. He’s come quite far from the days of playing that busted-up old thing that cost his dad two whole dollars. sandiegobluegrass.org
We are "the standard" in bluegrass! The Bluegrass Standard Magazine where we cover everything in and around bluegrass, Americana, folk, and gospel music. thebluegrassstandard.com FOR YOUR festival circuit. It would only last a few years BILL MONROE until Charlie died on Sept. 27, 1975. FOR BREAKFAST It was special for me to be able to see a few By Tom Isenhour of these shows during his final years. It was easy to see he held that Monroe greatness. Older brother Charlie Monroe knew little Here is a seldom seen promotion photo of Charlie Monroe in 1951. brother Bill was wanting to sing more lead songs, take more breaks on the mandolin, and speed the songs up a bit.
So when the break up of the Monroe Brothers came in 1938, Charlie was ready to hold his head high and keep a band (the Kentucky Pardners) together with revolving musicians (just like brother Bill was doing with His Blue Shutts Fabricators Grass Boys) up until 1956 when he officially WE BUILD COOL STUFF! retired as a touring/recording artist. He would do a few reunion shows with Bill and Birch 15481 Electronic Lane, Unit C, Monroe in the 60's. Huntington Beach, CA. 92649 (562) 432-4648 www.shuttsfab.com Then in 1972 Jimmy Martin got him to get back on the road and hit the now popular 2021/2022 SWBA Board of Directors Ballot VOTE FOR UP TO 9 Board Member Nominate a SWBA Member for the Board OR Volunteer on the write in line You Spouse Terry Brewer Marc Nelissen Sheila Brewer Paula De Bie Missy Lyn Gibson Louie De Bie Connie Tripp Robert Wheeler Patty Sullivan
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Please return ballot By mail No later than July 20th, 2021 to: SWBA Board Elections C/o Tabitha Lievanos 3815 Columbus St #63 Bakersfield, CA 93306 Thank you for voting, Your participation is very much appreciated! Comments: From The Side of the Road… Being able to avoid all in-person activities what we’ll miss when COVID is Here’s where the introverted and extroverted among us part company, but there’s a sizeable chunk of people, who may By Chris Jones Opinion / Humor have even been performers in their past lives, who are just bluegrasstoday.com not that thrilled about leaving the house and going out in the We’re all well aware at this point of all world again. Especially when this means going through we’ve been missing—in some cases checkout lines, going through security lines, trying on clothes starving for—during the year-long and in a change room, or just interacting with human beings counting COVID-19 pandemic. We miss bluegrass festivals, face-to-unmasked face. For some, it’s all so unclean, needless to say. Professional touring musicians miss at least awkward, and icky. some aspects of the road, playing music with bandmates, Not lugging heavy instruments around jamming with other musicians, singing Ruby Are You Mad without a mask on, and the list goes on. When musicians have to once again lug upright basses or banjos in flight cases (which weigh approximately 400 Something we think about less often, and in some cases pounds) from the parking lot to a faraway stage, there’s going may not want to admit to ourselves, is that when we’ve finally to be some wistful nostalgia for the COVID era. We’ll put this period in history behind us, there are a few things reminisce about the days when all you had to do was reach about the pandemic lifestyle we’re going to miss: for an instrument sitting on a stand. If it was just out of reach Not being on the road it was always possible to convince a family member to pick For musicians for whom being on the road was mostly a it up and hand it to you, avoiding the necessity of getting out chore, a means to an end, this will be especially true. It will of your chair. also be true, though, for some more experienced road Having too much time on our hands musicians who had started to get a little fussy about their Remember when our problem was running out of things to travel conditions: “If I can’t sleep in my own bed, and be in binge-watch? Some even had to resort to home renovation my own environment, I want to be in a 4-star hotel, and songwriting. Somehow the time vacuum always fills up, transported by limo from the airport, and served a high-quality even when unemployed, but when we’re out there operating meal before the show.” Or in more extreme cases (most often like our former over-scheduled selves again, we might just found outside of bluegrass music): “If I can’t sleep in my own miss that peaceful feeling of being bored. bed, I need to be in a 5-star hotel, served a gourmet meal of healthy, sustainable, locally and ethically-sourced organic Being bitterly divided food, plus some non-sustainable but outrageously expensive Whether it was complaining about pandemic restrictions or booze, and I need to be transported on a cloud. Also, no one complaining about other people’s unwillingness to follow may speak to me or look at me without my permission.” You those restrictions, whining about the government’s action or get the idea. For these people, every inconvenience of the its inaction, the pandemic has been a golden era for divisive road—and there are many, granted—has become just a little argument, righteous anger, and self-proclaimed expertise. more bothersome with each passing year, so when it’s time And this isn’t counting the effects of the fiercely contested to go back out there and experience this again, there’s going 2020 election at the same time. In what other period of our to be some serious longing for the days when we were all history have people walked up to perfect strangers in a public just hanging around the home place eating (a lot of) whatever place and taken them to task for what they were wearing or we wanted and operating a TV remote we actually understood. not wearing as the case may be? Sometimes there were even Related to the above: physical altercations that could then be recorded with people’s phones and posted to social media for an additional Being with family level of online disagreement and mutual hostility. It’s all been This was a revelation to many road musicians, but it turns out a huge adrenaline rush for some people, and it’s not so easy that many of us are married to fairly nice and attractive to let that go. What will we have to keep the indignation and people, and who knew our kids were this interesting? Or that division going? I might suggest one or more of the following we had so many of them? Getting to know them has been an topics to fight over: Scruggs or Monroe? Who really started unexpected bonus of the pandemic. this music, and what is bluegrass anyway? Is it okay to still Wearing the same clothes call a resonator guitar a “dobro,” and is it really a bluegrass instrument? Was the moon landing real? Is rhubarb a fruit or . . . day after day after day. Are we ready for a world in which a vegetable? Spam: yes or no? (the meat product, not your you have to change your pants periodically, or even wear junk email). These won’t inspire the same level of adrenaline- pants at all? It seems like such an ordeal. Those who have producing vitriol, but maybe they’ll help us gradually ween done livestream concerts have at least had to come up with from it so we won’t have to go cold turkey. a different shirt for the event, but many had stopped trying in that department, too. Shoes are also worn in the outside world, so that too will be an imposition on our pandemic lifestyle of convenience. Our society was the COVID era has determined the hands-down winner already skewing towards comfort over appearance, but of that contest. The first bluegrass band to play a festival’s nighttime headliner slot wearing pajamas and slippers will be setting a trend that may take years to break. arizonabluegrass.com Life And Times Of The Stanley Brothers By Gary Reid September 3, 1965: The Stanley Brothers performed at the first ever multi-day bluegrass festival, which was held at Cantrell’s Horse Farm near Fincastle, Virginia. It was day three of the festival, which included a Sunday morning gospel sing. Carter and Ralph’s set consisted of Shouting on the Hills of Glory, Angel Band, Mother Not Dead She’s Only Sleeping, Jordan, I Saw the Light, Cry from the Cross, and Let the Church Roll On. Later in the day, Ralph was one of three judges to sit in on an afternoon banjo contest. Soon afterwards, Carter and Ralph performed two of their most enduring selections: Little Glass of Wine and The White Dove. The highlight of the day was what promoter Carlton Haney called The Bluegrass Story in which various musicians were reunited with Bill Monroe to recreate the birth and progression of the music. Carter and Ralph Stanley and bass player George Shuffler appeared on stage with Bill Monroe and fiddler Gene Lowinger for several selections. Leading off were Cabin of Love and Sugar Coated Love, both of which Carter recorded with Bill Monroe in 1951. Other tunes and songs included Hard Times, Big Tilda, Mansions for Me, and What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul. The Stanley Brothers home county newspaper (Dickenson County) had announced that a Stanley family reunion was to take place on September 3 at the high school in Nora, Virginia, and that the Stanley Brothers would be providing musical entertainment. Given the full day of work at Fincastle and the nearly four-hour drive from Fincastle to Nora, it is doubtful that the Stanley Brothers made it to the reunion in time, if at all.
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Aug 13th-15th Red River Bluegrass Fest in Red River New Mexico June 3rd-5th HOBA’s Spring Bluegrass Festival in West Plains Missouri Aug 19th - 21st LarryFest in LaFarge, Wisconsin. June 10th-13th Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival in Wind Gap PA Aug 20th-22nd Summergrass San Diego in San Diego California
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Aug 4th-7th Colt Adams Memorial Cam Fest in Grayson Kentucky Sept 28th-Oct 2nd World of Bluegrass (IBMA) in Raleigh North Carolina Aug 6th-8th Rocky MountainFolks Festival in Lyons, Colorado 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: 2nd Sunday 1-3PM The Duck Foot Brewing Square Park (sm Gazebo behind lg Gazebo between the Historical Company 8920 Kenamar Dr #210, San Diego, CA 92121 Library and Museum Buildings 126 S Mason St., Contact: Yael San Diego, CA: 3rd Monday 7 - 8:30 PM SDBS Bluegrass Slow Gott (805) 450-7571. Please bring a folding chair. Jam Learning session, Our Savior Lutheran Church (in the back) Arroyo Grande CA: 1st Thursday Branch Street Deli 3-6 p.m. 4011 Ohio St, San Diego, CA [email protected] 203 E. 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Go up the stairs to the left of Lightning Joe's. 100 East instructed Slow Jam, 7:00-8:30pm at Our Savior's Lutheran Branch Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 Church 4011 Ohio St. more info: [email protected] Arroyo Grande CA: 1st Sunday Nipomo Community Presbyterian San Diego, CA: Walt Richards SLO Jam 6:20 PM 3rd Friday Church 5:30 PM. 1235 N Thompson Rd, Arroyo Grande, Ca 93420 San Carlos Recreation Center, 6445 Lake Badin Ave., 6:30PM- Bakersfield, Ca: 1st Monday of the month, 6-9 PM, Rusty’s Pizza, 9PM SDBS Open Mic, Pickup Bands, Featured Band 5430 Olive Drive contact: S. C. "Slim" Sims [email protected] San Juan Capistrano: SJC Bluegrass Pickers meet every 760-762- 6828 Saturday under the Oak trees 9 am – 12-noon at Historic Town Covina, Ca: Open mic night, 1st Saturday of the month, 8PM, The Center Park 31852 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano, CA Fret House Music Shop, 309 N Citrus. Entrance fee is $2.00. Call Santa Margarita CA: 2nd & 4th Wednesday The Porch Cafe (626)339-7020 22322 El Camino Real, (805) 438-3376 http://theporchcafe.com/ Covina, Ca: 3rd Sunday every other month from 2-5pm at The host: The Toro Creek Ramblers & the BMSCC Fret House Music Shop, 309 N. Citrus Ave., Covina. (626) Santa Monica CA: 4th Wednesday Finn McCool's: The Bill 339-7020. René Baquet jam host Cheatham Bluegrass Jam / Chris Murphy. 8:30 PM. Finn McCool's Encinitas, Ca: Thursday nights, 6-9 PM, Round Table Pizza, 2702 Main Street Santa Monica 1321 Encinitas Blvd. behind McDonalds near El Camino Real Temecula CA: “The Third Jam"6:30-9 PM every Third Tuesday Escondido, Ca: 3rd Wednesday of the month 6 PM San Diego hosted by Bill Frisbie. Come join the fun at Round Table Pizza No. County Bluegrass & Folk Jam, Round Table Pizza, 1161 E 27644 Ynez Road Temecula, CA Washington Temecula CA: Third Tuesday of every month 6:30 pm to 9:00 Fresno CA: Santa Fe Basque Restaurant: The Fresno Folklore pm Burgers & Beer, 41577 Margarita Rd Suite 101, Temecula, Society has a weekly jam. It's the friends of Kenny Hall Memorial CA 92591 No admission charge, all levels welcome. jam at the Santa Fe Basque Restaurant every Wednesday from Contact: Bill Frisbie, (631) 804-0146 [email protected] 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Torrance, CA: EL CAMINO College Bluegrass Jam, 1st Sunday Fountain Valley CA: Every Saturday 10 am - noon+ Bluegrass for of the month 1-3 PM 16007 Crenshaw Blvd, Jam Host - Phoebe Beginners, Mile Square Park 16801 Euclid St. Fountain Valley, 424-903-6892 [email protected] CA 92708, Lot A on the left side of the park road, about 300 ft West Hills CA: Acoustic Jam 1st Sunday of the month Noon - 3 South of the Euclid entrance. pm Guitar Merchant 22807 Saticoy St. Hosts Norman and Oleeta Henderson, NV: Tuesday Night Bluegrass & Old Time Music Jam, Igar 18-884-5905. All levels invited. 5-8 PM, Heritage Park Senior Facility, 300 Racetrack, Henderson West Hills, CA: 4th Sunday, Jam 1-5 PM The West 702-267-2950 . For details call Betty Bess (702) 564-1630. Valley Music Center, 24424 Vanowen St. 818-992-4142, Huntington Beach Ca: 4th Sunday jam, 1-5 PM, Shutts Everyone Welcome! Join the Jam or just listen Fabricators 15481 Electronic Lane, Unit C, Huntington Beach, CA. Yorba Linda, Ca: Thursday Jam 6-9 PM Main Street Restaurant, 92649 (562) 432-4648 SWBA Jam Host Mark Shutts 4902 Main St., (714) 777-9427, Jan host Barney Barnhouse. La Mesa, Ca: SDBS Open mic & jam, 2nd Tuesday of the month Ventura, Ca: 2nd & 4th Wednesday, Grapes and Hops Wine Bar. 6:30-9 PM Fuddrucker’s, 5500 Grossmont Center Dr., For info 454 E. Main Street, Ventura, CA 93003 Contact: call Fuddruckers at (619)589-6144 or SDBS info line at (858) [email protected] 805-340-2270 679-4854 Sponsor - San Diego Bluegrass Society Vista, CA : Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum stage at the Las Vegas, NV: Thursday night Bluegrass Jam, 6 - 8:30 PM, NW big green lawn is usually available for jamming. For jam days, Mountain Crest Park Community Center, 4701 N. Durango Rd., times & updates visit northcountybluegrass.org call Vera Vann-Wilson (702)875-3579. Tucson AZ: 1st Sunday, 4 pm Year-round Saddlebrooke Loma Linda, Ca: Jam American Traditional Music Tuesdays, 7 Clubhouse Jam Agave Lounge howardjamesk@gmail 64500 E. PM, Loma Linda University,Patio Pantry, Anderson St. at . Call Saddlebrooke Blvd. Tucson Don Hergert (909) 796-8812 for info & directions. Apache Junction AZ: 1st & 3rd Sundays October – April Elks Lonpoc, Ca: 2nd and 4th Wednesday Southside Coffee Co 105 Club Jam 2455 N. Apache Trail. all skill levels. Galen at Galen So. H St 7-9 PM: LOMPOC: evening jams, 7-9 PM for more info at [email protected] call Bill at (805) 736-8241. Tempe AZ: 1st & 3rd Monday 6-8 pm year-round Bluegrass & Long Beach, Ca: Tuesday’s Soup Jam 7PM, 2420 Gundry St in American Roots Music Inter.- Advanced Shalimar Golf Course 2032 Signal Hill , Contact: Don Rowan (562)883-0573, open to E. Golf Ave. Rich Ment [email protected] everyone (this jam is held in an industrial building) Peoria AZ: 1st & 3rd Tuesday 6 pm Peoria Library Jam 8463 Long Beach, Ca: Open Bluegrass Jam 2nd Thursday of the month Monroe St. Robert White [email protected] 7-10 PM Red Leprechaun 4000 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA Sun City AZ: Last Tuesday 6:30 pm First Christian Church 14001 [email protected] N. Thunderbird Blvd. Paul Wilson 623.341.9417 Long Beach CA: Every Saturday 10 am - noon+ Bluegrass for Beginners, Recreation Dog Park 5201 E 7th St, Long Beach, CA Willcox AZ: 1st & 3rd Wednesdays 2 – 4 pm Studio 128, Wilcox 90804 Theater 134 N. Railroad Ave. Ned Robbins [email protected] Glendale AZ: 2nd Thursday 7- 9 pm ABA Workshop jam Fray
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