Garner Winter Music Festival

[WV Mike]

FYI on an upcoming indoor mostly old-time music festival with performances and workshops. #Everything's free for musicians, including supper. #Only $3 for others. #

This will be my first trip. #

Here's the link.

http://www.gwmf.org/

Hope to see some of you there. #

Mike

[garyblanchard]

This looks great. I'm kinda close but kinda far away. I might see if there is some way for me to get there for at least one day. Thanks for sharing this.

[WV Mike]

Gary, I sure hope you can make. Where do you live?

Mike

[garyblanchard]

I live in Annapolis, MD. Probably about a 3-4 hr drive. I just got a fiddle and that fiddle workshop sounds good.

[garyblanchard]

Well, I shared the website with my fiance and she suggested we go. We're coming up Saturday morning and will stay overnight at the Holiday Inn. (I'm afraid I'm not bringing my mandolin. I'm bringing my new fiddle for the workshop and my cookie-tin banjo for jamming.) Hope to run into you there. Thanks for making me aware of this.

[garyblanchard]

I'm afraid I'm not bringing my mandolin. I'm bringing my new fiddle for the workshop and my cookie-tin banjo for jamming.

Gee, I used the "B" word and now no one else will talk to me.

[WV Mike]

Gary, glad ya'll can make it and hope to meet ya'll. I'll be carrying a MK mando in a gig bag and a dulcimer. Hope we get to chat.

Mike

[garyblanchard]

I'll look out for you. If my cookie-tin banjo doesn't give me away, look for 50ish couples. When you ask, "What's a woman like that doing with that dork?," come up and introduce yourself.

[WV Mike]

Gary, I'll be on the lookout. Ya'll have a safe trip to Mo-town.

Mike

[garyblanchard]

Hey, Mike

I didn't run into you (at least that I knew) but had a great time and learned a lot, especially at the fiddle workshop. Did you attend the mandolin workshop? I sat in to watch some but didn't have my mando. Just as well, 'cause I never woulda kept up.

[WV Mike]

Gary, sorry we didn't get to meet. #I couldn't believe the turnout..over 600 on Saturday. #Yes, I was in the mandolin workshop. #I had the MK mando and sat next to the guy with the Gibson F-2. #

Were were you setting?

I also taped over 3 hrs of the stage performances on Saturday. #I listed to it today while driving to Richmond. #Some incredible stuff.

For those of you who haven't attended this festival. #I would highly recommend it next year..same time...same place.

I'm really pumped-up on Old Time now!

Mike

[garyblanchard]

I came in a couple of times and stood by the wall by the doorway. (Wearing a red stripe shirt and braces with beard and wire-frame glasses.) It was neat to see so many different mandolins. I spoke to one guy who had a mandolin made by someone on Oakland, Maryland. It was nice to play but at $1200.00 was way out of my league.

Who knows, I might head up to Patty Fest this June. Maybe I'll run into you there.

[WV Mike]

Gary, too bad we didn't get to meet. #I will try to make it to PattyFest and we should post a thread on it soon. #Hey, if you want to converse via email my email is michael.plumley@occ.treas.gov. #I'm listening to tape right now im my hotel room from the festival. #I can send you some tape after i get my deck fixed.

Mike