Laura Barber, Jay’s daughter and the Ramblin’ Rose’s first bass player, sent me this funny one.
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Jack Mauer’s blog for Wapiti Waters
Here’s a post from Sept 20, 2008 on MRBA member, Jack Mauer’s, blog for his business Wapiti Waters:
A Bluegrass Band, Pinegrass – One of Jack’s other hats
View 2007 Bitterroot Bluegrass Festival Album
Today Jack is performing at a wedding in Belgrade, MT with his band, Pinegrass. It is a welcome break in the fly fishing guiding season when he can play music in this kind of venue. Here is a slide show from a wedding in Missoula, MT in September of last year.
View Wedding in Missoula Album
Today Jack is performing at a wedding in Belgrade, MT with his band, Pinegrass. It is a welcome break in the fly fishing guiding season when he can play music in this kind of venue. Here is a slide show from a wedding in Missoula, MT in September of last year.View Wedding in Missoula Album
Carter Family performing Wildwood Flower on Grand Ole Opry
Here’s some vintage video of the Carter Family performing their biggest hit ever “Wildwood Flower” on the Grand Ole Opry. There’s a great close up of Maybelle doing her famous solo at 1:07. My brother, Charley, tells me that she called her technique of pickin’ the melody with her thumb pick and struming with the other picks the “Carter scratch”.  I was surprised to see that Maybelle did this in the key of D. I had always thought she did it in C. She does switch to the alto part when it goes up to the higher part.
I’ve really enjoyed seeing Ariel perform this song at Wheat Montana at the Kid’s Open Mic. It’s amazing to see the next generation coming along to keep the tradition going.
Alaska Bluegrass Cruise 2009
Alaska Bluegrass Cruise 2009
Happy New Year from the Alaska Bluegrass Cruise. The 2009 cruise will be a very special event this year. It’s the 30th Anniversary of Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. This year you will be entertained by one of the finest groups in bluegrass while enjoying the majesty of Alaska. This year we will also have a talent show with 1st,2nd and 3rd place prize money for our participants.Â
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
Solos, duo’s, trio’s and groups can participate. The contest will be held before Doyle’s performances, so even if you don’t place in the top 3 you can always tell your friends you opened for Doyle Lawson. This will be great fun and all you have to do to be eligible for the contest is to sign up for our cruise. 2009 is Your year to join us for this awesome cruise experience! We still have a few spots left…don’t miss the boat! Contact us with any questions you may have and we will be more than glad to assist you.
Greg & Carla
cottagemusic.net
www.alaskabluegrasscruise.com
    1-888-509-8163
A bluegrasser’s Guide to Digital Conversion
Here’s a really good tutorial for you bluegrassers on how to convert over to digital TV.Â
Thanks to Lori Silcher for sending me this. It helped me to get my good belly laugh in for the day.
Laughing Babies
Thanks to Larry Wade for passing this along to me.
Mandatory Bluegrass content – these babies could be their own bluegrass band someday.
MRBA Newsletter Vol 11 Issue 1 (Jan-Feb 2009)
MRBA Newsletter Vol 11 Issue 1 (Jan-Feb 2009)
Missoula First Night makes MSN city guide
LIVE at 6:30 at the UC Lounge
Missoula First Night, a wonderful celebration of music an arts on New Years Eve, made the big time yesterday in the MSN City Guide article on First Nights in America. Â
Curtis and I have attended the performances of various MRBA artists at First Night religiously over the past 6 years. This year we will be performing our show as a duo as Rambin’ Rose at the UC Lounge at 6:30pm. Check out First Night Missoula website to see the amazing line-up of performers.Â
Admission to the 100+ events is only $15 ($12 in advance)
Happy New Year!
It was Curly
- It was Curly
Now we know the real culprit in the shoe throwing incident. IT WAS CURLY!!
nyuk, nyuk, nyuk
New Website release
Dear Members,
When Ben asked me to do a little write-up for the Newsletter about the new website that I’ve been working, I assumed that the Newsletter would go out on Jan 1st. Imagine my surprise when I received the newsletter in the mail this week. Well, as you have figured out by now. The new website is NOT online yet. … best layed plans…
If you’ve arrived here before Jan 1, thank you so much for coming by to try out the new site.
The next 2 weeks are dedicated to beta testing the site and the more testers the better. Thank you very much for coming here to help out with this step. Your feedback will be crucial to getting everything as good as possible. The site will be changing continually over the next 2 weeks.  I’ll keep you posted with comments here when I make changes.
Thanks again for stopping by.
Now to get started beta testing go ahead and Register on the site. After you’ve registered, I’ll setup your rights to be an “Author”. That means that you will be able to contribute articles on the site. This may take me a few minutes (especially if it’s in the middle of the night). Once that’s complete, you can Post Articles.
Ok…. let’s hit it … 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a Register.
Your trusty Webmaster,
Phyllis Erck