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    Scuttlebuttin' 2012

    Friday, January 27, 2012

    NCBS Bluegrass on Broadway - This weekend, the Northern California Bluegrass Society (or NCBS) presents the Fifth Annual Bluegrass on Broadway Festival in Redwood City. Scheduled to run from Friday night through Sunday afternoon, the festival is open to the general public and is FREE. A host of talented Northern California bands will be participating, including Bean Creek, Dark Hollow, The Abbott Brothers, Windy Hill, and Snap Jackson & the Knock on Wood Players. The event features the NCBS Northern California Bluegrass Awards Ceremony from 3-5pm on Saturday, along with a bluegrass film series on Sunday. More details here .

    Lovely Rita - The lovely and talented Rita Hosking and Cousin Jack perform along with Misner and Smith for a benefit concert to raise money for the Davis High School Drama Department tonight at the DHS Richard Brunelle Performing Arts Theatre,  8:00pm show, $15 general, $10 student, available at Armadillo Music in Davis and at the door, and here .

    Natural Drift House Concert in Folsom - The Natural Drift bluegrass band will play a house concert tonight at the home of John & Loretta Hettinger, 113 Puffer Way, Folsom, on Friday, January 27. Natural Drift is Wyatt Dietrich (gtr), George Goodell (b), Dan Bernstein (m), Samantha Olson (f), & Rick Dugan (bs). Opening for Natural Drift will be Fiddle, Flash, & Friends, a newly formed Sacramento area band composed of Larry Kuhn (g), Caroline Disney (f), Joe Jimenez (f), & Kathy Randles (bs). The music starts at 730 PM; door opens at 700 PM. Seating is limited; call 916-990-0719 or Email bluegrass@shaunv.com for reservations to assure your seat.

    Sam's Place - There's always some seriously hot bluegrass music happening at Sam's BBQ in San Jose, each and every Tuesday and Wednesday night from 6-9pm. This coming week, Sam's presents Windy Hill and The Country Classics on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.


    Be sure to send along your latest scuttlebutt to me at scuttlegrass2011@gmail.com.




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    (Editor’s Note: A couple of days ago I spoke to J.D., just called him to catch up. Our friend told me that he was having houseguests this weekend. He said the fella ‘wanted to ask me about my music’l career. Now, whadday you think he meant by that?’ Having known the ‘fella’ for quite a few years and being very much aware of his work, I told J.D. to expect more than a couple questions. Well, anyways that got me to thinking about the old mountain man and his contributions to this spot on the CBA web page, so I figured it would be nice to re-run one of his earliest columns. Oh, and to the ‘fella’ and his wife: above all else, save room for dessert.)

    Over the years I have been privy to many a gathering of Bluegrass luminaries backstage, at several different festivals, and I only wish that I could've been able to video tape a lot of those times. I'm not here to tell stories "out of school" so to speak, I'm just reminiscing about times that are past and gone forever. Times that belong to the ages now, but are still fun to recall. I guess that the one particular instance that I wish I could've taped, was the year that we had Rose Maddox, Jim Eanes, and Chubby Wise at our Fathers Day festival.

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