Re: I still don`t believe it...
Growing up well before the internet, learning to play a non-mainstream instrument was a daunting task that required a lot of searching to find information. Heck, I had to hitchhike twenty miles just to buy a pitchpipe so I could tune the blessed thing - after I had finally found through a roundabout route how it was even tuned. These days, it's so easy to find instructional videos or just performance videos on the web that it must be really easy to get started. Also, one can find instructional books and videos etc that can be ordered and delivered to your doorstep. While this is very helpful in enabling people to find what they want, I think this breeds a tendency to seek out only what they want and not dig deeper, into the catalogue or the history of the instrument. I imagine a lot of people figure they've got all they need to go out and play with others, when there is still so much more out there.
Originally Posted by
Bertram Henze
I packed and got up and he laughed "you're leaving because of me, aren't you?" It's a good thing I can count to one hundred, slowly, quietly, albeit steaming slightly.
I think saying "Yes" would have been fine and fitting. Perhaps "Yes, show-off" would have worked, too. You could have substituted something else for "show-off," of course.
Originally Posted by
foldedpath
I remember one yearly local festival. Not sure it's still there anymore.
Perhaps that is the South Florida Folk Festival. I went the first two years I was here, whenever that was, a dozen years ago. Not a bluegrass festival by any means, but they had a decent lineup. You're right about central and north Florida. It's a different state, almost, a lot more conservative, redneck even - heck, it's cattle country - and I wouldn't be at ll surprised if there were a fair amount of pickers living there.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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