Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival

**AlanN** · Aug-31-2014, 7:50pm

Drove up to Woodstown, NJ for the 43rd annual fester. Great time, perfect weather, saw many old friends and picked with some new ones. Stage acts were Ralph S., Rhonda, Grass Cats, many others.

Boy howdy, has that festival grown since the last time I was there, 1997. The campground picking was in full force, everything from The Grillbillies to Grateful Dead-type stuff to the real hard-core. I jammed with Bill Runkle - good banjo man, to a fiddle-centric thing, to my old pal Pete Becker, to you name it. Met FredG from this here cafe board. He has a nice Gold Rush with the small f-holes. Supposedly, 2 Loars were in play, I missed them. Great fun all around.

Next up, IBMA!!

**Willie Poole** · Sep-03-2014, 8:08pm

Alan, glad to here that the festival is still going strong....I had it in the back of my mind to go but I had to come down to Florida to take care of some things at this house that we have up for sale, good thing I did as the AC wasn`t working and it has been in the high 90`s for quite some time.....My next festival will be at Arcadia Md in mid Sept...

Willie

**High Lonesome Valley** · Sep-16-2014, 11:53am

That's where I first heard "Pig in a Pen", bought a banjer, and embraced Old Time music. Got Ricky Skaggs to sign my Telecaster B-Bender. One of the things I miss being out here in So. Colorado, the Bluegrass scene in Salem County, home of some really great players.

I remember best going from camp fire to camp fire, standing in on guitar and sippin' the shine. What a wonderful time.