Any fellow Cafe'ers going to the festival this weekend? #I am in N. CA on business and am planning to go on Sunday for sure and maybe Saturday, too. Would love to connect with some fellow mando-heads.
Any fellow Cafe'ers going to the festival this weekend? #I am in N. CA on business and am planning to go on Sunday for sure and maybe Saturday, too. Would love to connect with some fellow mando-heads.
I plan on saturday and sunday too.You're lucky to be here for it.I think it is the best thing in the entire state all year. Not sure how anyone will be able to hook up,there are thousands people going.
Carrying a mandolin with you might be a start.Originally Posted by (testore @ Oct. 02 2007, 12:47)
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If you don't like the smell of reefer, bring a gas mask. It's abundant. A few years ago, Ricky Skaggs commented that he was getting a contact buzz from what the wind was bringing his way.
Dan
i wish i could attend, but my band is playing up the road at the auburn bluegrass festival that saturday...
If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone
I sure had a great time!
Two friends came to stay with us, so we enjoyed some picking at home in mornings and evenings and even learned a couple of tunes I'd always wanted to play (e.g. Last Train from Poor Valley).
With the dogs along, we needed some room. So we put down a ground tarp along the tree line by the Banjo Stage early in the morning to serve as Base Camp (Base Kennel was more like it).
We brought instruments on Sunday, and we played a bit during the breaks. I was surprised to see so many buskers out along the road.
Favorite acts (in no order, but all from the Banjo Stage):
Gillian Welch
David Grisman's Bluegrass show
The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers
Doc Watson
Emmilou Harris (w/ Carolina Star)
Saw a bunch random people I knew, but of course found no one I was actually trying to find. It figures.
- Benig
(Oink Johnson has got to be the ugliest ... )
<<A few years ago, Ricky Skaggs commented that he was getting a contact buzz from what the wind was bringing his way.>>
You got it all wrong......Ricky was talking about the BBQ pork smell wafting his way from the food vender area.
Geeze, and you call yourself BBQ King, how did you miss that one?
My favorite was the Hacienda Brothers...no mandolin but they rocked. #They had a guy playing pedal steel who was off the charts good. #The Banjo Stage audience where Grisman et al played must of had 7,000 folks. #We were at least 300 yards from the stage. #I thought Jim Nunanly on guitar was the highlight of of the Grisman group. #He plays so cleanly and his right hand seems to barely be moving as he blazed through breaks. #Lucklily we had a set of binoculars so we could see what was going down on stage.
Even though I haven't smoked reefer in many, many years, I sure enjoyed the smell of the weed! #Sure beat the smell of burning flesh (animals being smoked).
Dry Branch Fire Squad was a fun group to watch and the Blue Angels were zipping around overhead during their performance.
All in all it was a great time and I met some really cool folks.
We had a very good time at the at the Saturday shows. Bela Fleck was very interesting to see in person. They are for real.
Robert Earl Keen was lots of fun Saturday evening. Good mix of people. Lots of young (to me) people in their twenties. Even though there was lots of beer around, some were collapsing, did not see anyone in any kind of bad mood.
Who ever was playing Mando with Emmie Lou Harris Sunday was very enjoyable.
Arthur;
I stand corrected. #Any self respecting Bluegrass man would naturally be overpowered by the sweet smell of BBQ.
BTW - How's the Dude opening up? #
Dan
Dan
Sonomabob -- Jimmy Gaudreau and Rickie Simkins played with Emmylou. (Rickie played on her opening number, then switched to fiddle for most of the set.) They're part of the band Carolina Star.
EdSherry
And my personal variant on a classic fiddle tune:
Mmmmmmmm ... pig!
"mmmmmm...pig"
Wow, has this thread taken a turn for the worse. # The festival was fantastic regardless of your opinion on whether or not you eat muscle (animals). #My apologies for stating that I thought the reefer smelled better than the smoked flesh (research "Bar-B-Que and it's relation to aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons")..
I gave up smoking weed years ago, although I do still enjoy charred animal flesh -- although I used to eat a lot more of the latter shortly after smoking some of the former.
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My apologies Jim, I didn't mean to offend those who choose not to eat meat.
Carolina Star stood out to me for being such a tight band. They shifted grooves so effortlessly. Each song really had a unique feel to its tempo and swing. You cou,ld really tell those guys have been playing together for quite a while.
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