Arrived at Bardstown, Kentucky for the annual Kentucky Music Week yesterday afternoon. Good time catching up with several musician friends, and great fun in the opening jam session after staff introductions last night.....
Up early this morning to get my Owl Mountain Mercantile was set up in the vending area at Boston School, the location of all of the daily classes. Whenever I’m in the Midwest in the summertime, I am both surprised and reminded of how fertile this part of the country is! A similarity is that both here and in Colorado water is near the top of everyone’s list of concerns: in Colorado the questions are variations of will there be enough? (What is the snowpack from the winter? How will El Niño affect us? Will the drought continue as it has since 1998? How wet was the spring in both rain and snow?) In Ohio and Kentucky the concern is shaped in the opposite direction: How do I get rid of all of this water?! One dulcimer player said he finally had to install a sump pump in his garden to deal with what was becoming a rice paddy!....
I’m teaching 4 classes: Celtic Mountain dulcimer; Blues & Jazz Mountain Dulcimer; Blues & Jazz Hammered Dulcimer; Learning to find and play the songs we want to play for Beginning Mountain Dulcimer Players. In addition my concert set will be tonight.....
Today is Cowboy theme day, so I better saddle up and move out!....
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