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Recent Bluegrass Fest

baregrass — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:05:25 +0000

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Our bluegrass music fest we undertook last week was a great success. Many thanks go out to the local KOA Campground for hosting the Fest! That sure made it nice for the attendees that had trailers and RV’s. There were over 400 people attending which was amazing because the weather was not too good; it was quite cool and a little windy. There was a lot of good music from the various bands which came from New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.

Bluegrass Fest

baregrass — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:16:08 +0000

Well, here I am 2 months later and finally writing something here. Tonite is the first night of the Bluegrass Fest in Tucumcari and I am getting ready to get up on stage in a few hours with my bandmates and open the show. Little nervous but not too bad. We will be opening for some professional bluegrass bands so I hope we don’t screw up too bad. I am fighting a case of pneumonia and our harmonica player has been having trouble with his diabetes so it might be interesting.

Getting Lazy Again

baregrass — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:22:36 +0000

Looks like I have abandoned this blog again but to tell the truth I just haven’t had a lot to say lately and I’ve been rather busy with other interests. My bandmates and I have been getting ready for the bluegrass festival coming up in May in Tucumcari, New Mexico so it’s been practice, practice. Strange thing I have noticed; it’s not as easy to learn new songs as it was 30 years ago. I really don’t know why. But it is still fun!

Oh, and by the way concerning New Mexico native Americans, Santo Domingo Pueblo has reclaimed its original name and is now officially Kewa Pueblo. Good for them.

Bluegrass And Rain

baregrass — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:44 +0000

I have to say May turned out to be a wonderful month. It started hot but then turned cool, some days only in the high 50′s, and finally at the end of the month we got some very nice rain. Things are greening up and looking nice. What will June bring? I guess we will see.

June is typically a hot and dry month here on the Southern High Plains. The farmers are out of luck this year so far because there is no irrigation water because of the general drought. I decided against all logic to plant a garden this year and had to haul water from town to get it going. My well water is so alkaline it will kill anything that I put too much water on. If it weren’t for a reverse osmosis unit we couldn’t even drink it.

We had a great Bluegrass festival here last weekend! Wonderful bands too. The Alan Munde Gazette, The Batten Family and Bluegrass Odyssey performed. They were all great sounding groups. I would recommend them to any and all. A group of us local club members did a 45 minute opening act and then some of the members of the Amarillo Bluegrass Club did another 45 minutes. Then it was on to the bands. Of course there was a lot of jamming going on and some of the jammers didn’t finish up until 2AM both nights, but that’s one of the real reasons to go to a Bluegrass Festival. Lots of fun for all.

More on Bluegrass music later but for now dear hearts, thaaaat’s all.