April 30th
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A Trip to Merlefest
Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Larry.
Categories: General Family Talk, Larry and Carole.
As an “old” guitar picker (old as distinct from “good”) one of my favorite things is to go to Merlefest, Doc Watson’s bluegrass festival held every year in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Here are a few of my favorite photos from this weekend.
Little Pickers: musicians of every age gather around for jam sessions that go on all day and night for three days.
Old Timers:
Doc Watson on stage at the age of 84 years and can still play a million times better than I can.
One of the great things about Merlefest was seeing some of the fantastic young groups who are preserving the best of the old time country and bluegrass music traditions. Her are a couple:
Uncle Earl (yes, four young women!) Excellent CD’s, and the banjo player, Abigail Washburn also has a great CD.
New generation jam session on the Watson stage with some chaotic combination of Uncle Earl, The Duhks, Crooked Still, and The Infamous Stringdusters. It was a great session at 11 in the morning.
Crooked Still
The great old Del McCoury Band performing on the Watson stage with 70 thousand in attendance.
One of the eight stages has continual instruction workshops. Here is Roy Bookbinder, Happy Traum and John Hammond. Roy is no doubt telling one of his stories which comprise about half of his act.
