Louisville is beautiful at night... the bridges
look great with all the lights. It's a shame that the convention is
leaving the city because it's a very nice place. Clean and safe in
the downtown area. Great to see a downtown area that isn't all run
down! Next year it's Nashville, and we can certainly understand the
move.
The young pickers at this convention were simply
amazing. It's so good to see kids and young folk loving the music
and bringing up the ranks. ENCOURAGE IT!!!!
Here is my blantant plug for my favorite banjos!
Yeah! it was great to meet Geoff Stelling again after 20+ years! Got
to pick the new Crusader banjo and get some new strings and a couple
stickers.
Big Banjo, Little Picker... But he was doing a
great job!
It was fun to talk with Geoff about my "girly"
banjo... he certainly remembered the hearts and flowers all over my
Bellflower.
This little dolly is getting her first fiddle!
How exciting!
Got to meet Neil Roseberg... his History of Bluegrass
book is a must reading for any fan of the music!
Bluegrass Music Profiles had bands picking at their
booth here and there and this is the group Pine Mountain Railroad
and they were flat laying it down. Great sounding bunch of guys! Take
a listen soon!
Dave had to play lots and lots of banjos! Me, too....
played Stellings and Hubers and Sonny Osborne's Cheif, Tennessee Crafters
and of course we had to visit the LouZee Lyre Banjos... those are
great sounding banjos!
Who says you can't make money in Bluegrass! A very
knowledge guy on the street said that this was Ricky Skaggs' new touring
bus! Shoooeeee! That must have set him back like 5 or 6 grand !
Horsies!!!!!
Picking Kids Jamming.... they were everywhere and
they were smoking... watch out in a few years, these kids are going
to be experts!
These boys from Indiana are called Troubled Waters
and they were really putting down some great music out in the lobby!
Hey, isn't that Lare Williams and bandmates from
Michigan????
