Bluegrass Gospel Sing and Jam

Greetings from the 1/4 house:

Mike and I arrived home last evening after spending almost a week at Blistered Fingers in Sidney, Maine. Can we say, we really love our Maine Bluegrass friends! Unfortunately, like Wind Gap, the weather was much less than perfect and we did a lot of sloshing in the greasy mud as we tried to get around to visit with folks. It is hard to describe how tiring it is living in mud for six days. What we can say, is that Bluegrass folks are truly committed to the music and to the fellowship around the music and always make the best out of a bad situation. Some examples of that were a group, outfitted up and pretending to fly fish in the huge puddles that had accumulated where the “road” was suppose to be! (more…)

Greetings from “Camp Laramee”:

Mike and I pulled into Becky & Kevin’s around midnight last night after spending the weekend at Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. We decided to make a pit-stop back in Belchertown as we needed to de-mud our clothes and our camper. We pulled into Wind Gap on Wednesday and the person in charge of parking us wasn’t clear in his explanation of where he wanted us, and we ended up in the middle of a sinking mud hole. A tractor dragged us across the field to where we sat for the rest of the weekend in a mud pit until the tractor pulled us out yesterday afternoon. Needless to say, it made for a less than comfortable first New England Festival. We have several new events scheduled for this tour and the lesson learned in all of this is that not everybody who sits in a golf cart at a festival is as reliable as Harold or Buster, so we will be far more cautious with the other new festivals that we are planning on attending. (more…)