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• The Skamania County Pioneer 2010 Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival July 21, 2010

Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival

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The 2010 Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival all-star line-up includes a legendary group, Longview, plus The Freight Hoppers, newcomer Sierra Hull, the Josh Williams Band, perennial favorite Bryan Bowers, and long-time festival bands Prairie Flyer and the Great Northern Planes.

Join the instrument contests, try your luck on the instrument raffle, and hone your chops during workshops for all ages and instruments.

Saturday morning workshops feature a guitar session with Josh Wil-liams of the Josh Williams Band, and an old-timey fiddle class with Frank Lee of the Freight Hoppers. The amazing talents of the Chick Rose Kids and the Bluegrass Academy will give your ears something fresh to listen to.

The workshops are an opportunity for the entire family to learn new skills from the best talent in bluegrass.

As always, the jam scene is one of the highlights, with aficionados of everything from timeless gospel to Texas swing congregating in various corners to try their talents in never-ending combinations.

The complete festival schedule is available at: www.columbiagorgebluegrass.net/schedule.htm.

Instrument contest 10:00 at The Rock Creek Center

Workshops schedule will be posted at the FestivalWorkshops will be held between 10 and 1 Saturday

A tip of the hat to the late John Hlavka, whose dedication to bluegrass and music in general was responsible for the founding of this festival.

July 21, 2010 2010 Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival The Skamania County Pioneer •

— 2010 Music Lineup—Longview began with a chance meeting at a 1994 North

Carolina festival. The combination of Dudley Connell (Sel-dom Scene, Johnson Mountain Boys), James King (record-ings with Ralph Stanley), and Don Rigsby (Midnight Call) came together for the first time on the Stanley Brothers’ “The Angels Are Singing in Heaven Tonight.”

Moving on to other climes, Connell had a similarly inspir-ing Ohio encounter with Glen Duncan (noted Nashville ses-sion player) and Joe Mullins (Radio Ramblers). In Decem-ber 1995, the whole bunch got together with bassist Marshall Wilborn to see what would happen.

The result was the eponymous “Longview,” recorded in 1997 with all six members combining for their first “su-pergroup” recording, compared to “catching lightning in a bottle.” It was named the recorded event of the year by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA).

1999 brought out “High Lonesome,” which includes the title tune by Randy Travis as well as “Angels are Singing (In Heaven Tonight),” the tune from the 1994 jam session that started it all. Although they also continued their individual careers, each outing brought their voices together as seam-lessly as if they’d been singing together from birth.

2002’s “Lessons in Stone” takes some tunes from off the beaten path and gives them whole new meaning.

Their amazing vocal coalescence was followed by a six-year silence broken by “Deep in the Mountains” in 2008, which includes the old warhorse “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” as well as the righteous “Baptism of Jesse Taylor,” and the forth-right “I’m Gonna Love You One More Time.”

Now the band members are again combining in glorious three-part harmonies --- doubled. Don Rigsby also contrib-utes mandolin and vocals, James King and Lou Reid (Con-nell’s bandmate in Seldom Scene) are each on guitar, J.D. Crowe (of the newgrass band New South) is on banjo, Ron Stewart plays fiddle (six years with J.D. Crowe & New South), and Marshall Wilborn (Lynn Martin, Jimmy Martin, The Johnson Mountain Boys) is on bass.

Whatever they do together, it comes out as pure music.

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Josh Williams Band

Great Northern Planes

You can take the boys out of Kentucky, but you can’t take Kentucky out of the boys, though they may live in Tennessee.

Born in 1980 in Murray, Kentucky, Josh Williams’ grandmother noticed his interest in music. She often sang at civic clubs and charitable events, accompanying herself on the ukulele, and she was also a competent guitar and mandolin player. She taught him some ukulele when he was five years. A short time later, his dad began showing Josh chords on the guitar. The family often had friends and relatives over to make music and sing in their home. He started taking banjo lessons at age eight, then taught himself to play mandolin, dobro, and guitar.

The lessons stuck. Williams was named the IBMA “Guitar Player of the Year” in 2008. After graduating from high school he spent five years on the road with Special Consen-sus, followed by four years touring with The Rage, notable for its appearance here at Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival in 2009 with headliner Rhonda Vincent.

Williams’ band includes Nick Keen on mandolin and vocals as the newest member of the group. Banjo player and vocalist Jason McKendree grew up in western Kentucky, where everyone sang in local churches learning the basics of harmony, plus some great old gospel tunes. His family bluegrass band, “The McKendrees,” began performing at lo-cal jam sessions, festivals and churches. Then Jason was asked to join the Josh Williams Band, although he also has a masters of science degree in mathematics and teaches at Murray State University.

Bassist and vocalist Randy Barnes was born and raised in Richmond, Kentucky, but now makes his home in Tennessee. He can play almost any acoustic musical style, spe-cifically bluegrass, gospel and classic country. His father, Earl Barnes, passed his love of music on to Randy and his brother Danny, who each began playing at a young age. Barnes’ vocal range is quite flexible, able to blend in nearly any harmonic combination. He is a veteran of the studio and the bands of such road veterans as Charlie Sizemore, Larry Stephenson, Lou Reid and Carolina, and Rhonda Vincent and NFR.

Great Northern Planes is probably the only Northwest bands ever to be mistaken for a golf course. The bluegrass bands from Portland was formed out of the ashes of a former Portland band called Pumpkin Ridge. The band was forced to split after too many people called at 6 a.m. on weekends to ask for a teetime.

However, a new sound was born, a successful combination that has taken the band to new places. Whether you want traditional bluegrass or a bluegrass free-for-all that’s guar-anteed to get you arrested, The Great Northern Planes will make it happen.

They have the crowd laughing and smiling through every performance. The band in-cludes former fiddler Rob Hokanson on mandolin, Jim “Jimbo” Hancock on banjo, Doug Hancock on guitar, and Steve Bond on upright bass.

They all can harmonize from the lowest of low notes, to the highest of the highs. They pilot their sets to a smooth landing, with all the passengers aboards offering their applause in appreciation.

Afterward, they love to chat with admirers or playing with their fellow musicians. They also love to jam. They’re so dedicated to their music, they can play during the most difficult distractions, such as a motorhome catching fire at a previous festival.

These boys are so hot, at another festival, another trailor caught fire. (Neither situation was their fault, just a coincidence. ) However, the temperature

surrounding the stage was certainly elevated.


“I can’t wait to hear what Sierra comes up with next. Every so often, a talent comes along that makes us sit up and take notice. That time is now for Sierra Hull.” That quote from Sam Bush, himself no slouch on the instrument, sums up the buzz on 16-year-old mandolin phenomenon Sierra Hull, one of the headliners at Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival.

Sierra began playing mandolin at age eight, and is now heard on festival stages across the U.S. and as a featured performer on the Great High Mountain Tour. Known for her dexterous fingers, delightful personality and sweet voice, Sierra is the next generation of bluegrass, fully materialized.

She plays and records using a Weber, a distressed “Fern” model given her by the company. The Tennessee teen’s album “Secrets” was released in 2008, and features Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, Clay Hess, Barry Bales, Tony Rice, Cory Walker, Stuart Duncan, Rob Ickes, Dennis Crouch, Jason Moore, Jerry Douglas, Chris Jones, and Jim Van Cleve. All that firepower!

Now she’s wrapped up another album recorded in Nashville with guys from her band: Jacob Eller, Clay Hess, Cory Walker, Christian Ward. According to reports, also on the album are guest artists Barry Bales, Stuart Duncan, Bryan Sutton and Randy Kohrs, plus friends from previous collaborations, Ron Block, Shawn Lane, Alison Krauss and Ronnie Bowman..

For several years already, she has been playing with 17-year-old banjoist Cory Walker. In 2007, she was one of 15 young mandolinists on “An American Tradition.” Then there’s “Angel Mountain,” released in 2002, with a photo of Sierra in bangs, holding a mandolin and surrounded by pink daisies.

She’s now attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, under a Presidential Schol-arship bringing great young musicians to study there. Sierra recently completed a new instructional mandolin DVD for AcuTab, “Sierra Hull - Secrets Songs & Tunes.”

A member of the International Bluegrass Music Association, Sierra has been perform-ing in IBMA convention showcases since she was 10. In February 2008, she joined Ron Block, Bobby McFerrin, and Edgar Meyer onstage; the New York Sun praised her as a “wonderfully adapt” mandolin player and “a lovely singer.”

Sierra is not dependent on her virtuousity; instead she delves into more mature emo-tions and the textures of songs, creating a sound that includes vocals at once tender and eloquent, delivered with honesty. Her album was recorded with co-producer Ron Block (Alison Krauss and Union Station). “Sierra is a remarkably talented, beautiful human be-ing,” said Krauss. “Success could not come to a more worthy person. I adore her.”

As a crowd favorite at previous Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festivals, Bryan Bowers has the ability to hold an audience in the cupped hand that holds his autoharp, coaxing forth their rapt attention and participation.

Born in 1940 in Virginia, Bowers was raised in New Bohemia. As a child, Bowers tagged along with the field workers and gandy dancers, learning old call-and-response songs. He said, “I just thought that music was something that everyone did. It was years later that I realized what I’d been raised around.”

Three hours short of earning a degree in Spanish, Bowers dropped out of college in the late ‘60s, discovering his calling when he took up guitar. Then he encountered the autoharp in the hands of another performer. “It opened my eyes and my ears. I went out and got one the next day.”

Bryan moved to Seattle in 1971, playing as a busker on the streets and in bars, passing the hat. He headed back east in his van, ‘Old Yeller.’ The Dillards heard him play the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” in Washington, D.C. at the Cellar Door. The Dillards took him to a bluegrass festival in Virginia, pulling him onstage for their for their second encore.

Since that beginning, Bowers has won induction into Frets Magazine’s First Gallery of the Greats after five years of winning the stringed instrument, open category of the magazine’s readers’ poll. In 1993, Bryan was inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame.

Bowers has redefined the autoharp and is known as astoryteller nonpariel. The singer-songwriter has the uncanny ability to enchant a crowd in nearly any situation. His towering six-foot, four-inch frame belies a gentle soul combin-ing warmth of expression with professionalism.

For nearly three decades, Bryan Bowers has been to the autoharp what Earl Scruggs was to the five-string banjo. He represents harmony with his instrument.

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Freight Hoppers

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Freight Hoppers fiddler David Bass has survived a heart transplant.Bass and the band’s banjo player and singer, Frank Lee, are putting the Freight Hop-

pers back on track. And they’ve graduated from the club car. Joined by Isaac Deal on guitars and vocals and Bradley Adams on stringbass, they’ve

ventured from the rails in North Carolina to whistle stops all over the country, from the Podunk Bluegrass Festival at Martin Park in East Hartford, Conn., to Pickin’ in the Pines in Flagstaff, Ariz.

The Freight Hoppers have a lot of bluegrass fans jumping onboard for their mix of ‘20s and ‘30s string-band music. Don’t be surprised to see some fans dancing in the aisles.

Bass first took his music on the road playing for coins as a busker on the streets of New Orleans and New York, often for people who knew nothing about the stringband tradition, but who knew good music when they heard it.

Part of the southern heritage is clog dancing, which Bass has evolved into a unique style honed on the streets, in spite of the congenital heart defect that limited the amount of oxygen flowing to his limbs.

In 2000, Bass’ heart was not cooperating, although he still continued fiddling. With a new heart beating in his chest, the way was cleared for a Freight Hoppers reorganization,this time with a replacement for one of the original members, Cary Fridley, who decided to return to her day gig as a teacher after touring with the band coast to coast and singing and playing guitar on two albums.

Now the heart of the band holds together thanks to the fiddle and banjo of Bass and Lee, while the ryhthm section of Deal on guitar and Adams on upright bass keep the rhythm moving along.

With Lee and Deal on vocals, you have a a chance to hop a car headed by a steam locomotive barreling out of the Smoky Mountains to you.

Youthful enthusiasm is the hallmark of Northern Departure, a new bluegrass featuring four young men from Seattle.

Derek Gray on upright bass can drive the tunes home with his definitive bass groove. He is a former member of Three Generations bluegrass band.

Austin McGregor on five-string banjo tears it up on the instrumentals and fills in on vocals with some tasty licks. He was also a key member of Three Generations.

Nick Dumas is already a master of fiddle and mandolin who has been playing most of his life. His playing can be soft and sweet, or riproaring and his vocals are an integral part of the group’s sound. He is the third generation of the Three Generations band.

Chris Luquette on guitar and mandolin is a regular on the Seattle acoustic scene, equal-ly at home in genres from worldwide folk, jazz, even rock, playing drums, bass, electric guitar, banjo and bouzouki.

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Old Circle came together in 2007, although they have shared the stage with each other in various combinations throughout their bluegrass careers. The Eugene band presents a taste of traditional bluegrass, a glimpse of a bygone era. If you’re looking for paint peel-ing, in-your-face, foot-stompin’ bluegrass music played by real people, for real people, you need look no further than Old Circle.

Dennis Berck on guitar, lead and harmony vocals is originally from Omaha, Nebraska. He has an eclectic musical background and is a veteran of Russ T. Axe, the Knott Broth-ers, The Berck-Pearce Band, McKenzie Crossing, and the Green Mountain Bluegrass Band. When he isn’t picking and grinning, he repairs fretted instruments for a living.

Nikki Clevenger on bass and vocals spent the first part of her life as an Army brat, then as an Army wife. She started playing folk guitar in high school, then went right into bluegrass. She has played bass for the Barley Brothers, Prairie Flyer, Zach Driscoll & 3/4 Time, and the Emerald Valley Boys. She is a multi-instrumentalist more likely to be seen playing fiddle in a jam these days. She is also a past board member of the Oregon Blue-grass Association and the Inland Bluegrass Association.

Clyde Clevenger on mandolin and vocals hails from Texas. Clyde started playing guitar in high school, moving from folk to rock to country to bluegrass. He joined the Union Hill Bluegrass Boys in 1978, and has played with numerous bluegrass bands since then, including Gordon Mitchel and Scott, Cowboy Clyde and the Bluegrass Allstars, The Clevenger Family Band, Blue River, Zach Driscoll & 3/4 Time, and the Emerald Valley Boys. Play hard or stay home describes his mandolin playing.

Chuck “Chainsaw” Holloway on five-string banjo and lead & harmony vocals is nicknamed “chainsaw” because of his aggressive playing style. Chuck started playing guitar in the 60’s, but is most comfortable now playing five-string banjo. He is a former president of the Oregon Bluegrass Association, and has played with a a roster of regional bluegrass musicians. Chuck has played with Cold Thunder, Blue River, Russ T. Axe, the Emerald Valley Boys, Zach Driscoll & 3/4 Time, the Cascade Colonels, and the Green Mountain Bluegrass Band. For five years, Chuck was a DJ for KRVM, broadcasting three hours of bluegrass every Monday night. When not performing, he teaches guitar, mandolin, and five-string banjo at the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts in Eugene. Twelve years ago, Chuck founded the Tuesday night bluegrass jam at Sam Bond’s Garage in Eugene, and you can still hear him there.

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Prairie Flyer

Runaway Train

Prairie Flyer’s a train, and it’s also an eclectic collection of high-powered musicians who like to travel nonstop across the boundaries of bluegrass, folk and Americana.

Prairie Flyer started its run in eastern Washington a number of years ago in the belief that honest music and tight harmony will take you just about anywhere.

Jim Faddis learned music from his mom, who played fiddle, taught him about hard work in the California cotton fields, and made sure he knew music is the one thing a person can’t get along without. He sings lead vocals, is a songwriter, and occasionally contributes har-monica. He was a finalist in 2003 and 2004 at the Sisters Folk Festival Songwriting Contest. If it has strings, Andre Vachon can make them sing --- mandolin, fiddle, resophonic guitar and banjo. Originally from Texas, Andre played guitar, fiddle, and steel guitar with Reba McEntire almost a year and with Gene Watson for two years. He has a sheer enjoyment of making music that literally lights up his face...and the whole stage, too.

Jason Stewart comes from East Tennessee, where he started playing banjo at the age of eight. He moved to Nashville in 2001 and got his first professional break playing with James Monroe and the Midnight Ramblers. Most recently, he has performed with Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale. He played on the Grand Ol’ Opry with Jim and alongside the legendary Ralph Stanley. But he returned to the Pacific Northwest, and was quick to reunite with Prairie Flyer.

Dave Hackwith, the bass player and bass singer, too, holds the train on the tracks. A native of Idaho, Dave’s been playing bluegrass a long, long time. He played with Custer’s Grass Band and likes to tell folks that he backed up Mark O’Connor when Mark was just a teenager. Dave’s hidden in the back on stage, but the train gets nowhere without him.

Steve Blanchard has been playing guitar nearly 40 years. Blanchard is known for his driving rhythm (do I hear a train coming?) and tasteful solos. When not playing bluegrass, Steve travels around the West as a cowboy performer. He is also studying mandolin and teaches guitar, and has performed with Steve Blanchard and the Open Range and with the Jake Henry and Bill Jolliff Band.

“If you’ve never seen Prairie Flyer before, head for (the next festival) and catch them. I’ve seen few bands who could move from a Stanley Brothers song to a Townes Van Zandt, from their own solid bluegrass instrumentals to Steve Earle to Fred Eaglesmith and back to traditional bluegrass with such ease and grace. I hope I never grow up, but if I have to, I want to be able to sing like Jim Faddis and play rhythm guitar like Steve Blanchard,” said Jim Kelly, of the Clatskanie Bluegrass Festival in Oregon.

Runaway Train is picking up speed as it brings its powerful bluegrass to Northwest stages. Greg Linder plays guitar and sings lead and harmony vocals with Runaway Train. He is a native of Washington and lives in Union on Hood Canal . He was introduced to bluegrass in 1980 attending the nearby Tumwater Bluegrass Festival. Icons such as Tony Rice and Charles Sawtelle have heavily influenced his music. He.

A member of Runaway Train since August 2005, Kent Powell is a veteran of bluegrass music having performed for many years with the very popular band Crossfire. That band won the Pizza Hut Bluegrass Showdown a few years ago in Louisville, Kentucky. He now plays standup bass and adds to the band’s sound with powerful harmony and lead vocals. He makes his home in Tacoma.

Nolan Elwell plays mandolin and sings lead and harmony, and has been a member of Runaway Train since December 2006. He is originally from Des Moines, Wash., and lives in Bonney Lake with his wife and four kids. He played four years with Tacoma’s Knaughty Pine. Influences on his musical interests are Bela Fleck, Alison Krauss, and the Cox Family, among others.

Although only 16, Luke Dewhirst is no stranger to the Northwest bluegrass stage. As well as being the newest member of Runaway Train, he is a member of Dewgrass and the Bluegrass Regulators. He and his family band, Dewgrass, have played at the Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival both in competitions and onstage. Luke is sponsored by OME banjos and is the 2009 Rockygrass Banjo champion. His influences are absolutely any-body he can listen to. If you’ve seen him around, you might know him as “the kid with the hat.”


The BucklesThe Buckles left dancers and listeners wanting more after the 2008 and 2009 festivals.

Hear the classics of honky-tonk, performed by staunch country traditionalists. Their hard-core Bakersfield twang is right out of the playbooks of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, unlike homogenized, country-pop.

The Liverpool influence becomes apparent later in the evening as “The Buckles” serve up a highly listenable, danceable set. Harley (his real name) James puts the pedal steel to the mettle and hits the road with his interpretations of classic Ray Price hits. K.C. Wait of Pioneer Music fame brings a tender touch to the Fender Telecaster. With his bass and vocals out of Bakersfield, Pete Wolfe finds the right harmony with Willard Bethje, whose drumming has the ring of the early 1960’s. The Buckles enter a multi-decade time warp, bringing the audience with them.


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Thursday7-11 pm Jammers

JamboreeFriday4pm5pm6pm7pm8pm9pm10pm

Runaway TrainPrairie FlyerThe Josh Williams BandThe Freight HoppersLongview

Country Dancewith The Buckles

Saturday9am - Finish10am11am - Finish

1pm2pm3pm4pm5pm6pm7pm8pm9pm10:30pm

Northern Departure Old CircleGreat Northern PlanesRunaway TrainPrairie FlyerDinner BreakBryan BowersSierra HullJosh Williams Band

Band Scramble

Old Timey DanceFreight HoppersCalled by Bill Martin

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Gospel ShowGreat Northern PlanesBryan BowersSierra Hull

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