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Volume 38, No. 10 © Central Bluegrass Association October 2016 The Earls Are Coming to Farmers Branch!

believe this is the seventh year for the Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival at Farmers Branch His- I torical park, and it just gets better each year. It’s hard to see how Alan Tompkins and the Bluegrass Heritage Association could top this. The festival is Friday and Saturday, October 14- 15, and the real excitement will happen at 6:30 PM on Saturday evening with what I’m calling the “Early” show. The Earls of Leicester cleaned up at last year’s IBMA awards show, and they’ve done pretty well at this year’s show as well, winning the Entertainer of the Year award as well as three of the instrumental awards (Charlie Cushman for banjo, for do- bro again, and for bass). They were also nominated for Vocal Group and Instru-

From the historical photo archive: Sharon White and Cheryl White Warren at the Kerr- ville Bluegrass Festival, September 2, 1978. Photo by K. Brown.

October birthdays: Martha Adcock, Bob Amos, , , Ray Deaton, To- ny Furtado, Eric Gibson, Leigh Gibson, John Hickman, Clay Jones, Vic Jordan, Curtis McPeake, Bud- dy Merriam, , Sonny Osborne, Don Parmley, , Jim Shumate, Blaine Sprouse, Blake Williams, .

CTBA board meeting: Sunday, October 16, 3 PM at Hill’s Café (board meetings are open to all CTBA members).

The Central Texas Bluegrass Bulletin is published by the Central Texas Bluegrass Association, a 501(c)(3) tax- exempt Texas nonprofit corporation. Contributions are deductible as charitable and educational donations. Work published in this Bulletin is used by permission of the writers, artists, and photographers, who retain all copy- rights. Jamie Stubblefield, president Jason Pratt, vice president Central Texas Bluegrass Association Box 9816 Sam Dunn, board member Austin, Texas 78766 Mike Hurlbut, membership chair Nan Hurlbut, board member www.centraltexasbluegrass.org/ Alice Moore, secretary Lenny Nichols, treasurer , webmaster Tim Towell, board member Ken Brown, hapless newsletter editor Bob Vestal, board member

2 mental Group of the Year (but those went to Flatt Lonesome and Frank Solivan, respectively). They’ve got two absolutely outstanding albums to their credit (see the review of Rattle and Roar in last month’s issue). If you’re too young to have seen Flatt and Scruggs in action, here’s your chance to recreate the experience. Watch Jerry Douglas receive his well-deserved Blue- grass Star award Saturday afternoon.

But that’s not all. Also on the bill are the Herrins, Gold Heart, Texas and Tennessee, the Gib- son Brothers, and the Rage, Sister Sadie, Tim O’Brien, the Band of Ruhks, and tagging the Saturday evening show, the Del McCoury Band with guest David Grisman. On Saturday morning, the day’s events begin in downtown Farmers Branch, at the rose garden near City Hall, starting at 9:30 AM with an open jam with Gold Heart, followed at 11 AM by a performance by Augusta Road. Augusta Road is an east Texas band featuring Jed Mobley, Dennis Clute Julie Tucker, Mike Tucker, and Lynn Gray. Some of you probably remember Dennis (one of the best dobro pickers in Texas) and Lynn (from Grapeland, one of the best flatpickers). At noon on Saturday, the music resumes at the Historical Park.

Texas and Tennessee (from Hendersonville, actually) features John Bowman (a veteran of Quicksilver, AKUS, the New South, and the Boxcars) and Steve Huber (builder of the Huber banjos and tone rings, and banjo picker for Kenny and Amanda Smith). Sister Sadie is a fairly new supergroup consisting of Dale Ann Bradley, Tina Adair (), Deanie Rich- ardson (), Gena Britt (banjo), and Beth Lawrence (bass). They have a CD by the same name, available from Pinecastle. The Band of Ruhks is another supergroup of sorts con- sisting of , , and . Their album Bowman, Rigsby & Smith is on 101 Ranch Records.

Schedule

Friday, October 14 5 PM Gold Heart 6 PM Texas & Tennessee 7 PM The Gibson Brothers 8:30 PM Rhonda Vincent and the Rage

Saturday, October 15 9:30 AM Open jam with Gold Heart (City Hall) 11 AM Augusta Road (City Hall; remaining shows at the Historical Park)

Noon The Herrins 1 PM Gold Heart 2:15 PM Sister Sadie 3:45 PM Tim O’Brien 4:45 PM Bluegrass Star award to Jerry Douglas 5 PM Band of Ruhks 6:30 PM Earls of Leicester 8 PM Del McCoury Band with David Grisman

Except for the Saturday morning events, all this takes place at Farmers Branch Historical Park, 2540 Farmers Branch Lane, Farmers Branch, Tx 75234.

3 The festival officially opens at 4:30 PM Friday and runs until 10 PM Saturday. Having attended all but one of these festivals since they started, I can testify that the vendors’ food is a cut above the usual festival fare. I’m not sure who they’ll have this year, but there’s usually Mexican food from Nuevo Leon Restaurant.

To get to the Historical Park, take I-35E north from Dallas, exit at Exit 441 just past the I-635 cloverleaf. Go east on Valley View Lane, turn right (south) on Denton Drive, turn left (east) onto Villa Creek Drive, crossing the DART tracks, turn left on Ford Road, then turn right into a large parking lot (12300 Ford Road), where you can catch an open-air shuttle to the park. Be aware that this lot fills up quickly on festival days. The shuttle is very efficient and runs every couple of minutes, and there’s plenty of room to carry folding chairs onboard.

This festival is probably the biggest, best-organized and most efficiently run bluegrass event in Texas. And did I mention it’s free? That’s right, no tickets, no wristbands, and no admission fee to see some of the top bluegrass acts in the country. When the festival first started seven years ago, there was little in the way of daytime jamming in the park, but it has increased over the years, and now you can find multiple jams all over the grounds. But with a lineup like this, how are you going to drag yourself away from the stage? http://www.bloominbluegrass.com/

4 Above, the daytime crowd spreads over the lawn; below, vintage buggy in the freight depot at the histor- ical park. Photos by K. Brown.

5 The Gibson Brothers at Farmers Branch, 2014. Photo by K. Brown.

Rhonda Vincent at Farmers Branch, 2014. Photo by K. Brown.

6 Sunday, November 6: Annual Membership Meeting; Officers and Bylaw Amendments

ere’s an early heads-up. The annual CTBA membership meeting (required by our bylaws) Hwill take place on Sunday, November 6, at 2-6:30 PM, beginning with a short business meeting, and then some live music and, if past history is any indication, lots of jamming. Loca- tion to be announced later. Before the meeting, you’ll receive an E-mail ballot listing nominees for open slots on the 2017-2018 Board of Directors, as well as an opportunity to vote on a few minor tweaks to the CTBA bylaws. Officers are selected by the Board of Directors at their ini- tial January meeting. More details to follow in the November issue. Saturday, October 8: Bluegrass in Burleson

nd here’s another promising event co-sponsored by the Bluegrass Heritage Association. ABluegrass in Old Town Burleson, 124 W. Ellison Street. It’s free, rain or shine. Here’s the schedule:

10 AM Phil Ferguson and Texas True 11 AM Bobby Giles and Music Mountain Noon Quibble Brothers 1:45 PM The Herrins 2:45 PM Downtown String Band 3:45 PM Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Bluegrass Band Saturday, October 22: Tomball Bluegrass Festival

ocated at the historic downtown depot, 201 South Elm St. in Tomball, this free festival Lstarts at 11:30 Am and features David Davis and the Warrior River Boys, and the Border Town Ramblers. Check out the ice cream parlor while you’re downtown. 2016 IBMA Awards

Male vocalist: Danny Paisley Female vocalist: Emerging artist: Mountain Faith Instrumental group: Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen Vocal group: Flatt Lonesome Album of the Year: Flatt Lonesome, Runaway Train Song of the Year: Flatt Lonesome, “You’re the One” Banjo player: Charlie Cushman Dobro player: Jerry Douglas

7 Bass player: Barry Bales Mandolin player: Fiddler: Becky Buller player: Bryan Sutton Entertainer of the year: Earls of Leicester

And congratulations to Jake Workman (you may remember him from the BABA contests at the KOA campground in Montgomery a few years ago), one of three instrumentalists selected for an IBMA Momentum Award. Texarkana Fall Jam, October 9-15

he fall multi-day jam at Texarkana RV Park will take place Sunday through Saturday, the Tweek of October 9-15, if you happen to be up in that corner of the state. It’s at 64 Sam Thomas Rd, Texarkana 75951 (formerly the Strange Family Bluegrass Park). For more infor- mation, call (903) 255-0011. Bluegrass Photo Exhibit Runs to End of October

ictures of Pickers is the name of an exhibit of bluegrass concert photos. The photos P(mostly from Texas) include , Hot Rize, Della Mae, , Jack Cooke, Danger in the Air, the Stringdusters, , the Gibson Brothers, the Toy Hearts, , Del McCoury, Kati Penn and NewTown, Rhonda Vincent, , and many others, including some local pickers you’ll recognize. It all happens at Precision Camera, 2438 West Anderson Lane, Suite B-4, Austin 78757. That’s in a large shopping center near the intersection of Burnet Road and Anderson, on the north side of Anderson. The exhibit will be toward the back of the store. The web site is www.precision-camera.com. Store hours M-F: 10-7; Sat. 10-6; Sun. 1-5 PM. The photos will remain on display until the end of the month.

8 October 27-29: Coushatte Ranch Festival, Bellville

ere’s another one of my favorite festivals, held at Coushatte RV Ranch, about five miles Hsoutheast of Bellville, midway between Brenham and Sealy. Staged in late October when the weather is usually cool, on a sandy site with plenty of post oak and blackjack oak shade trees, and with lots of RV pads to attract campers, the jamming prospects are usually pretty good here. There are several buildings scattered around the site in case the weather turns in- clement, and there’ll be food and craft vendors onsite. This festival has a long pedigree. For many years it was sponsored by the Spring Creek Bluegrass Club, but for the last several years has been continued by Colee Biller, Scott Armstrong and the Texas associa- tion.

This year’s festival will be headlined by Darin and Brooke Aldridge and Chris Henry and the Hardcore Grass. Also on the bill, Trinity River, the Farm Hands, Dylan Hall and Pure Tradition, and some Texas bands (Sabine River Bend, Jeff Robertson and Friends, Pine Island Station, and Southern Style). Chris Henry will conduct some workshops. Advance tickets (by October 15) are $40 for a weekend pass (Friday and Saturday single-day, $20 each). The festi- val is at 2812 Nelius Road, Bellville 77418. The map shows my favorite route, but you can also come in from the south via Highway 36. For information contact [email protected] or on the web, www.TXBluegrassMusic.com

9 Tentative schedule (subject to change)

Thursday evening (starting 6:30 PM) Saturday afternoon (starting 1 PM)

Southern Style Pine Island Station Jeff Robertson and Friends Dylan Hall and Pure Tradition Sabine River Bend Sabine River Bend Trinity River Chris Henry and the Hardcore Grass Brooke and Darin Aldridge Friday afternoon (starting 1 PM) Saturday evening (starting 6:30 PM) Sabine River Bend Southern Style Dylan Hall and Pure Tradition Trinity River The Farm Hands The Farm Hands Brooke and Darin Aldridge Chris Henry and the Hardcore Grass Pine Island Station Chris Henry and the Hardcore Grass Friday evening (starting 6:30 PM)

Pine Island Station Trinity River Jeff Robertson and Friends Dylan Hall and Pure Tradition The Farm Hands

Darin and Brooke Aldridge (seen here at Grapeland in 2013) headline the Coushatte Ranch festival. Photo by K. Brown.

10

Bluegrass News

ongratulations to the two Texans who placed in the top three at Winfield this year. If Cyou’ve been to the instrument contests sponsored by BABA at League City over the last few years, you’ve seen these guys battling it out onstage and you’ll probably recognize the names. Holten Doucette of Waller took second place in the 2016 national mandolin champion- ship, and Eric Welty of Argyle took third place in the national banjo championship. Pretty darned good, when you’re up against the best pickers in the country. And these guys aren’t giv- ing up. You can bet they'll be back next year. Steve Lewis of Jefferson, North Carolina, took home the flatpicking guitar trophy.

Last month, Austin mayor Steve Adler announced a mini-bond program to raise $10 million to purchase and preserve endangered music venues. Austin will “create a program to crowdsource private investments to buy local music venues” (“Music venues get unexpected boost,” Austin American-Statesman, September 23, 2016). Too bad this proposed program wasn’t created in time to save ArtZ Rib House, although I don’t think ArtZ Rib House failed because of rising rents, and even this new bond program might not have saved it. Our hopes that a new bluegrass- friendly venue would arise to replace it have not developed. The site is still a weed and concrete rubble-filled vacant lot.

The Gibson Brothers will play Saturday, October 15, 8:30 PM at the Dosey Doe Barn in The Woodlands. According to the web site, tickets range in price from $58-$98. Or you can see them for free on Friday, the 14th, at the Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival in Farmers Branch.

11 October is Octoberfest month, so you know the Sieker Band is going to be busy in the wurst way. They’re at the Walburg Restaurant (6:30 PM each evening) on October 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, and 29. They’ll also be at Threadgill’s South on October 2, at Craft Pride on the 9th, at Hill’s Café on the 16th, and at the Green Mesquite (Barton Springs Road loacation) on the 30th. Sounds like a beer, sausage and barbecue overload to me. The Texas Honeybees will be at Hyde Park Grill (Westgate location) on the 2nd. Max Zimmet will be at Linda’s Fine Foods in Wimberley on the 6th, at Elgin Local Goods in Elgin on the 22nd, and One Eye Open will be at the Owl Wine Bar in Elgin on the 8th and at Botticelli’s on the 15th. Botticelli’s on South Con- gress isn’t usually a bluegrass venue, but they’ve had bluegrass bands like Chasing Blue there on occasion in the past. Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,

We have a looming problem in our bluegrass band. Our banjo picker has taken to wandering off heedlessly during band practice to play Poky Mango on his selfiephone. How can we put a stop to this?

Nimrod Bartleby Curbfeeler III Catwater, Texas

Editor: Try practicing right next to a bus stop or a busy highway. Sometimes these problems solve themselves, given enough time. And anyway, the Poky Mango fad will eventually pass.

Chris Hirsch banjo workshop at Fayetteville, September 10. Photo by K. Brown.

12 CD Review: Catahoula Drive, “Catahoula Drive” (no label, no catalog number, no date) Reviewed by K. Brown Lady Like You /Love Her More Each Day / 32 Acres / Colleen Malone / Roll on Muddy River / Together Again / Take Me in Your Lifeboat / My Heart Skips a Beat / Careless Love / Little Bessie / Then and Only Then / Daystar

f you read this newsletter regular- Ily, you may know that I’m a big fan of this traditional, four-piece Louisiana band. Everybody knows about , but if you went to Louisiana bluegrass festivals in the 1980s, you probably saw the South- land Bluegrass Band, a project of the Nugent family (and yes, Alecia Nugent is a part of that, too). Bass player Tres Nugent comes from that same source.

This CD was released this past spring (although there’s no actual date anywhere on the CD it- self) and it’s rock-solid (in fact, I’d say Catahoula Drive put the “lid” on “solid”). Along with Tres Nugent, it seems Greg Stewart (banjo), Dennis Stewart (mandolin) and Jamey Alwell (guitar) have put together a tightly knit team that’s got everything you’d want in a hardcore en- semble: virtuoso picking, perfectly meshed vocal harmonies, good arrangements, and a good ear for selecting a variety of material. The tracklist cuts across a wide swath of the bluegrass landscape. There are several originals, a couple of songs associated with the Bluegrass Cardi- nals (32 Acres, Roll on Muddy River), a Pete Goble-Leroy Drumm composition popularized by Tim O’Brien and made into a jam session standard (Colleen Malone), a couple of chart-toppers (Together Again, My Heart Skips a Beat), a couple of traditional standards asso- ciated with or the Seldom Scene (Little Bessie, Take Me in Y our Life- boat), and an old folk song that everyone knows (Careless Love). Some bands have lead vocal- ists who get the job done competently, singing on pitch and on time, and they fall in the “adequate” category. And then there’s a much smaller quotient who have the potential to bring you out of your seat at a festival. They have the gift, and I think lead singer Jamey Alwell be- longs in this latter group. I think you’ll like this CD, but you really need to hear these guys live at a festival to see how inspired they are. I hope they can fight their way onto the national blue- grass stage, because I have no trouble envisioning them as IBMA Emerging Artists of the Year at some future point. For $15 you can get this from Jamey Alwell, Box 277, Libuse, Louisiana 71348.

13 Wood and Wire at the Burnet Bluegrass Festival, September 17. Photo by K. Brown.

Instruction for Banjo, Guitar, and mandolin Private Lessons in North and South Austin Eddie Collins www.eddiecollins.biz 512-873-7803 14 Southern Anthem at the Burnet Bluegrass Festival, September 17. We sent Logan, Mikaela, and Derek to the Acoustic Music Camp in Arlington this past August. Photo by K. Brown.

Curbfeeler’s Bluegrass Supplies Bass capos, cowbells, banjo mutes (e.g., nine-pound hammers), earplugs, lini- ment, bait, snuff, muleshoes, ostrich jerky. Instructional videos for zither, spoons, cowbell, and lawnchair. Otis Curbfeeler, Prop. Catwater, Texas

15 16 17 18 CTBA Artists and Bands

Cole Anderson Eddie Collins Rod Moag & Texas Rusty Razors (Fayetteville, Arkansas) (512) 873-7803 Grass Patrick Davis (512) 802-7438 [email protected] www.eddiecollins.biz (512) 467-6825 https://

[email protected] [email protected] rustyrazors.bandcamp.com Better Late Than Never Concho Grass Alan Munde Shawn Spiars (512) 627-3921 Duane Calvin (512) 835-0342 Randy Blackwood (325) 227- [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 2074

https://www.facebook.com/ One Eye Open Black Diamond ConchoGrass Max Zimmet (512) 924-0505 The Sieker Band Chuck Middleton www.OneEyeOpenBand.com Rolf & Beate Sieker (512) 733-2857 (512) 203-4574 David Diers & #910 [email protected] Out of the Blue www.siekerband.com Train (512) 814-5145 [email protected] Jamie Stubblefield Blazing Bows [email protected] (512) 923-4288 Cara Cooke (512) 280-9104 [email protected] The Stray Bullets Bob Cartwright (512) 415-8080 [email protected] Four Fights Per Pint www.outoftheblue.ws [email protected] Jay Littleton (512) 848-1634 Blue Country Grass [email protected] Pearl and the Polka Ben Buchanan (512) 263-7193 String Beans Dots Rachel Bates Mike Montgomery (817) 2239-5624 High Plains Jamboree [email protected] Blue Creek Bluegrass [email protected] Brennen Leigh Gospel Band [email protected] Texas Honeybees Bing Rice (830) 253-7708 highplainsjamboree.com The Pickin’ Ranch Leslie Collier (512) 328-0144 bluecreekbg.com Ramblers [email protected] [email protected] Richie Mintz

Hill Country Harmo- [email protected] Woodstreet Blood- Bottom Dollar String nizers hounds Elise Bright (817) 501-1172 Band Pine Island Station (Oak Park, Illinois) [email protected] John Ohlinger (512) 431-5150 Gary & Janine Carter Robert Becker (708) 714-7206 bottomdollarstringband (936) 520-2952 robertbecker1755 @gmail.com [email protected] Kid on a Pony @sbcglobal.net www.pineislandstation.com Don Douglas (512) 608-3859 David & Barbara West of Waterloo [email protected] The Piney Grove Brown Michael Sanders (512) 673-9095 (361) 985-9902 Ramblers [email protected] [email protected] Lone Star Swing Wayne Brooks (512) 699-8282 Gary Hartman (979) 378-2753 (877) 899-8269 Max Zimmet Carper Family Band [email protected] www.pgramblers.com [email protected] Jenn Miori www.maxzimmethotpickinblu [email protected] Los Bluegrass Vatos The Prime Time egrass.com Danny Santos Ramblers (512) 924-0505 Chasing Blue [email protected] Jacob Roberts (512) 963-7515 [email protected] [email protected] The Lost Pines www.chasingblueband.com James Reams & the Talia Bryce (512) 814-5134 Christy & the Plowboys [email protected] Barnstormers (718) 374-1086 Dan Foster (512) 452-6071 www.lostpinesband.com [email protected] [email protected] www.jamesreams.com Missing Tradition Fletcher Clark Diana & Dan Ost Redfire String Band (512) 376-0340 (512) 850-4362 Molly Johnson [email protected] [email protected] molly@integratedmotion- FletcherClark3.com studio.com

19 CTBA Area Jams and Events

AUSTIN AREA GARLAND Every Sunday, 3 PM-??, CTBA Sunday jam Bluegrass on the Square: Every Saturday, SCHULENBERG at Hill’s Café, 4700 S. Congress; (512) 851- March- November between Main and State 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 6 PM, jam at Schu- 9300. Sts. At 6th, 7:30 PM to 1 AM lenberg RV Park Community Center, 65 N. Kessler Ave. Laretta Baumgarten (979) 743- 2nd and 4th Saturday, 3-5 PM, beg./int. jam GLEN ROSE 4388; [email protected] at Wildflower Terrace, 3801 Berkman Drive; 3rd Saturday, Oakdale Park, Paluxy River Steve Mangold (512) 345-6155. Bluegrass Association, free stage show and TOMBALL jam; potluck and jam Friday night before. Jim 4th Saturday, 4 PM, bluegrass jam at Kleb 1st and 3rd Thursday, 7-9 PM, beg./int. jam, Chapman (469) 231-6616. Woods Nature Center and Preserve, 20303 Northwest Hills area; Steve Mangold (512) http://www.paluxybluegrass.com Draper Road, Tomball. (281) 373-1777 or 345-6155. (281) 910-4396. HOUSTON Every Thursday, 6-9 PM, beg./int. jam, 1st Tuesday, Fuddruckers, 2040 NASA Rd Texican Café, 11940 Manchaca Road; Dave 1 Stritzinger, (512) 689-4433. (281) 333-1598

2nd Thursday, bluegrass jam at Texas JOHNSON CITY Barber Services, 2301 E. Riverside Dr, 3rd Saturday except in December, 2-6 PM, #400A; Kurt Phillips (512) 330-4895. jam at The Dome, 706 W. Main St., Hwy 290

W; Charlene Crump, (512) 632-5999. Every Tuesday, 8-10 PM, Texas Old Time Fiddling, Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto; (512) 474-1958. LEAGUE CITY (BABA) 3rd Saturday: Jam 5 PM, Stage show 6:30 PM Jan- Nov., League City Civic Center, 300 BANDERA W. Walker St. (281) 636-9419. Sponsored by 4th Friday of each month except Good Bay Area Bluegrass Association. Friday, November, and December at Silver Sage Corral – east of Bandera. Starts at 6 PM. Curbfeeler’s Sundries. LILLIAN For more info call (830) 796-4969 2nd Saturday, 4 PM jam, 7 PM show, First silversagecorral.org Baptist Church, $4; contact Dale Brawner Emu jerky, live crawdads, (972 935-4525. bear traps, jawbreakers, BELLVILLE Texas Bluegrass Music jam/show Jan. through milled flooring, cane fish- September, 4th Sat; 4pm jam, 6:30 pm show. LLANO Coushatte Recreation Ranch, 2812 Nelius Rd. 2nd Monday, 7 PM, jam at Fuel Coffee ing poles, pickled eggs, (936) 697-5949 [email protected] House, 106 East Main St.; (325) 247-5272; overalls, shotgun shells, www.TXBluegrassMusic.com www.fuelcoffeehouse.org sorghum molasses, lottery

Plenty of RV camping, restrooms, showers. tickets, barbed wire, MEDINA BLANCO 2nd Tuesday, all gospel jam, 6 PM at First cattle guards, beans, kero- First Saturday, 2-5 PM at Buggy Barn Muse- Baptist Church; contact Linda Barton (830) sene, outboard motor oil, 589-2486. um, 1915 Hwy 281 N; contact Deanna Dosser, inboard motor oil, harness (830) 554-0006 2nd Friday, jam at 6 PM, Masonic Lodge; contact Maude Arnold (830) 796-8422. and tack of all kinds, pe-

cans, chilipetins, japa- CUERO PEARL First and 3rd Thursday, 5-8 PM, acoustic 1st Saturday: Jam all day/night, stage leeno candy, gingham jam at The Emporium, 417 E. Newman St.; show, 12:15 PM-6:15 PM; food and RV curtains, lag bolts, car- Darrell Ferguson (256) 714-0766 hookups available. Pearl Community Center, riage bolts, gravel by the on FM 183, 7 mi. south of Purmela; contact DRIPPING SPRINGS [email protected]. Check web site for cubic yard, weedeater Last Saturday of each month, 3 PM, jam at show schedule: www.pearlbluegrass.com line, surfcasting weights, Hudsons on Mercer St.; contact Cliff at (701) flaxseed poltices. 770-8962 or [email protected] ROUND ROCK 3rd Saturday, 2-5 PM except November and FAYETTEVILLE: December, jam at Danny Ray’s Music, 12 Rufus Curbfeeler, Prop. 2nd Saturday, Fayetteville Picking Park Chisholm Trail; (512) 671-8663. jam Jan.-Nov. beginning at 1 PM on the court- www.dannyraysmusic.com Catwater, Texas house square. Acoustic instruments only. SAN ANTONIO For info: [email protected] Every Monday, 6:30-8:30 PM, at The Barbe-

cue Station, 1610 NE Loop 410 at Harry Wurzbach exit; (210) 824-9191.

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Pine Island Station *Janine Carter, mandolin * Gary Carter, bass * Brian Meadors, guitar * * Scott Sylvester, banjo * Ken Brown, dobro * www.pineislandstation.com