Sooner Acoustic Music in Oklahoma City hosts an acoustic jam every Friday night 7pm - 10pm. You can find out more by visiting their site at http://www.sooneracousticmusic.net/.

Sooner Acoustic Music is located at 709 S Air Depot Blvd, Midwest City.

Another season of the Festival of the Bluegrass in Lexington, Ky has come and gone but this year’s event was a great one. The festival featured some of its recurring favorites again this year such as:

• JD Crowe and the New South
• IIIrd Tyme Out
• Mountain Heart
• Dry Branch Fire Squad
• Seldom Scene

Friday night was featured not only JD and the New South but a lot of thunderstorms. While the crowd was down a bit at the venue, most were back at the camper listening on the radio. One of the highlights Friday night was when JD joined IIIrd Tyme Out on stage and played a few tunes with them while Steve Dilling stood back and enjoyed seeing one of his favorites play.

On Saturday the weather changed, the sun came out and so did the rag-heads. The venue was packed with lawn chairs and people of all sizes, shapes and sobriety. Saturday not only featured Mountain Heart and Seldom Scene (who always closes out the festival Saturday night) but also some new bands for the festival.

The Wilson Family featured Clint Wilson, 2006 Florida State Sr. Division Banjo Champion, and his family of very talented musicians and singers. One of their songs that was particularly well done was won written by Clint and a friend, called My Old Kentucky Home. While its not on their latest album its a good one.

Another new band for the festival is one that all of us have come to enjoy over the past few years, The Grascals. I particularly enjoyed the band’s energy and interaction with the audience. During their first set they said they’d been calling the Cornett’s to get on the stage at the Festival of the Bluegrass for the past seveal years (did he say 5?) but this year the Cornett’s called the Grascals. Why did it take so long to get this band on the stage in Lexington?

The guys from the Grascals stayed around their CD table until the last fan was gone. As I saw their bus preparing to leave, I saw Terry Eldredge still talking with friends and fans in the parking lot. These guys seemed to enjoy what they do and their fans.

A few bands were also missing from the line up this year. Blue Highway with Rob Ickes’ dobro were missed as well as Phil Leadbetter’s Grasstowne.

The NKBMA has announced that its annual festival dates have changed for 2008. According to the web site

Pickin’ For Memory

2008

NKBMA Bluegrass Festival

In Sparta Kentucky

Our Festival has been moved this year to:

June 26th, 27th, and 28th!

BABA
The Texas State Mandolin Championship will be held in League City, Texas on Saturday, July 21, 2007. Location: 300 W. Walker at the Johnny Arolfo Civic Center. Competition starts at 6:00 PM, contact person if you want to enter is Rick Kirkland, see our website for details at www.bayareabluegrass.org for this event and all kinds of others too. If you don’t surf, Rick’s phone is 281-488-2244 and if you do have email his address is crk5820@msn.com

THE SAME NIGHT!! A workshop AND a stage show by the incomparable Daniel Carwile, 6-time National Champion fiddle player. Tasty, inexpensive food and soft drinks are available for sale in the BABA kitchen in case you like dinner with your music.

Come and check out the show, you’ll be glad you did.

BABA presents Bluegrass stage shows and jamming sessions on the third Saturday of each month excepting May (Fire on the Strings Festival) and December (Christmas). Admission to the shows is free, and the buiding is open for jamming starting @ 4:30 PM while the stage shows start @ 6:30 or 7:00 PM. The whole family is welcome - pickers will have plenty of folks for jamming and non-pickers can enjoy the music and raffle items and the good people of the bluegrass community.

Thanks to this list site for the great opportunity to pass on information!
Judy Sturgeon, Bay Area Bluegrass Association.

Bluegrass Anonymous is the Louisville, Ky bluegrass association. Their web site is located at http://www.bluegrass-anonymous.org.

NCBAMA has a monthly meeting and jams located at Rose Hulman Institue of Technology in Terre Haute, IN. Located about 5 miles East of Terre Haute on US Hwy 40. The meeting and jams are the last Saturday of the month, Oct. thru May, except Dec, starting at 7:00 P.M. till 10:00 P.M.

There will be a Featured band on stage first for 45 mins, then a couple of Guest bands for 45 mins. each, then the Featured band is back on stage for another 45 mins. There is also plenty of jamming going on in the halls and various rooms that are available in the building.

There are also consessions available that are very cheap. Best of all this is all FREE, that’s right I said FREE! Now that is very hard to beat, anywhere. We provide a family friendly atmosphere. So bring all your family and friends and join in on the fun. Oh yeah, don’t forget to bring your instruments too. Who knows you might be in one of the guest bands! For info contact Jack Derry at 812-232-8720 or email him at jder8745@aol.com

Bay Area Bluegrass Association (BABA) would like to invite you to our Free Bluegrass music show & Jam January 20th, 2007 and on the 3rd. Saturday each month. (except Dec. & May)

This months line up features;

Steve Kaufman

Also

The Lonestar Bluegrass Band
Please visit our web site for details http://www.bayareabluegrass.org

Location Johnny Arolfo Civic Center

300 W. Walker, League City TX

The Bay Area Bluegrass Association known as BABA, was organized in early 1986 and incorporated in 1987 under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act. The primary purpose of BABA is to preserve, encourage, and promote Bluegrass and Bluegrass Gospel music as an American art form. BABA promotes Bluegrass through being active in community events, fund raisers, festivals, and monthly shows.

We are proud to have supported our community in a variety of functions, fund raisers, festivals and shows. A few of these events have included: teaching beginning musicians of all ages in our slow jams, furnishing bluegrass bands with a place to perform and polish their skills, support to KPFT (listener-sponsored radio); The Seabrook Rotary; Crime Stoppers fund raiser; Armand Bayou Nature Center’s Fall Festival; the Annual Fire On The Strings Bluegrass Festival; Bluegrass In The Park at League Park; Dickinson Parks Dept. concert series; and providing entertainment for area nursing homes, churches, and service organizations.

The monthly show is held on the third Saturday of each month at the Johnny Arolfo Civic Center (except December) at 300 W. Walker, League City, Texas and the FIRE ON THE STRINGS FESTIVAL at Haven’s Landing Resort the third weekend of May. The monthly show is free and features Bluegrass from the local and national scene. The stage show begins at 6:30 PM, but pickers are welcome to bring their instruments and come earlier. The BABA kitchen provides tasty, inexpensive food and beverages (NO ALCOHOL). Door prizes are offered at every show.

Rick Kirkland

Publicity Committee Chairman

crk5820@msn.com

713-249-2986

League City TX 77573

Every Saturday night, the Old Star Mall in Dry Ridge, Kentucky features a bluegrass concert. Various local bands perform from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. You can view the most recent schedule at www.nkbma.com. The site also hosts local country acts on Friday nights.

From Cybergrass.com,

Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival November 17 & 18, 2006 at the Roberts Convention Centre Wilmington, Ohio.

The Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival one of the Midwest’s premiere Bluegrass events is now being held twice annually at the Roberts Convention Centre in Wilmington, OH. You can now enjoy some of the finest Bluegrass performances in November and in March. Featured performers include:Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, IIIrd Tyme Out, James King Band, Blue Highway, Wildfire, Don Rigsby and Midnight Call and MORE! In addition to great Bluegrass performances there will be workshops. All-Night Jam Sessions welcome! Free parking including RV space. Completely handicap accessible. Smoke and alcohol free concert area. For tickets and more information see www.somusicfest.com.

Spring Summer and Fall every Fri. night at the Historic town square. 7:00 pm Til ?, Winter Months at the Episcopal Church on Houston Levee Rd.