Bluegrass

Thanks for visiting my Travel Pod page for my jaunt to South America-March 07. I hope my stories & postings make you feel like we are backpacking together. This trip is special to me. I'm visiting Argentina for the first time. Since 2001 I have hosted ...

... in a flash (even after a few glasses of wine) and proceeded to do the “scorpion stomp”!!!! (Kinda like a new bluegrass dance.) Took 3 stomps before the fellow was considered dead and not harmful. Gord was raised on the shoulders of all those ...

... holding my mandolin. 'Charlie' finally came over to see what I had and was excited because as I gathered, their's was a Bluegrass Band!! I understood this word, but everything else was Czech... I couldn't believe it, a bluegrass band in Kutna ...

  This was a truly beautiful weekend and a fabulous fireworks show that went off without a hitch. The pyro crew included Jerry Mignano as Lead Pyro assisted by Jackie Whedbee, Larry Mattingly and Sam Amoto. Photos ...

Jan. 19-23, Blythe, California. Yahoo, another bluegrass festival!! Blythe is a 2 hour drive from Yuma. Fun to be back again and see some of the folks we met last year. Opening ceremonies consisted of sky divers. The fellow who jumped is 70 years old and ...

... on this area.  Then back to the RV park via Silverhill, the nearest hamlet and post office for the park. The bluegrass concert that delayed our departure from this park did not disappoint.  People arrived from far and wide - Gulf Shores, ...

... bears were big and entertaining. Then we got to take pictures with a nine month old baby bear. Too cure!  Last stop was a bluegrass cruise by the Pictured Rocks. Thank goodness for the bluegrass. I just wasn't feeling the rocks. Sure there were a few ...

... We walked around Nenana, had an ice cream cone and decided there wasn't much else to keep us here and thought the Bluegrass Festival sounded inviting.    This Festival is sponsored by the local Lions Club. They were a generation younger than our ...

... .  I saw my first kudzu patch, so I know I'm in the South.  At Bowling Green we cut up to the Bluegrass Parkway, which was stunning, rolling through horse country with rock walls and beautiful vistas (again, no safe photo ops).  We ended ...

... on the Saturday. We dry camped for two nights. Met some nice folks from California and two couples from BC. They are doing to bluegrass circuit too so we shall hook up with them at the next one later in February. Nice grassy spot for the festival. Sat ...

... conspicuously like Celtic or old-time Appalachian mountain music, so come September, if the funding comes through, I'll be taking a group of bluegrass and old-time musicians here to jam with the locals. Hopefully we'll raise enough money to send a few of ...

... being shuttled back to McMurdo we went to the coffee house to listen to musicians at open mic night.   On Friday there was a bluegrass concert at one of the two bars here. It consisted of two singers, a guitar, bass guitar, banjo, mandolin, and ...