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Breaking Grass to headline the Harvest Jam Inside: From the Editor 3 | Grass Clippings 5 Cover Story-Breaking Grass 6 | Harvest Jam 8 | The Lost Snuffy Jenkins Tapes 10 Election Ballot 14 | Charlie Parr-a review 17 | Bluegrass Saturday Morning 19 MBOTMA Calendar of Events 21 | Coming Up 22 November 2016

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Page 1: Minnesota Bluegrass November

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to headline the Harvest Jam

Inside: From the Editor 3 | Grass Clippings 5Cover Story-Breaking Grass 6 | Harvest Jam 8 | The Lost Snuffy Jenkins Tapes 10

Election Ballot 14 | Charlie Parr-a review 17 | Bluegrass Saturday Morning 19MBOTMA Calendar of Events 21 | Coming Up 22

November 2016

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MBOTMA Hot Line(to subscribe and for other information)612-285-9133 or 800-635-3037 [email protected]. Box 16408, Mpls, MN 55416www.minnesotabluegrass.org Twitter: @mnbluegrass Facebook: minnesotabluegrass

MBOTMA Board of DirectorsPresident: Peter Albrecht, [email protected] President: Treasurer: Greg Landkamer Secretary: Mary DuShane

Board Members: Term expires 2016: Kenneth Bloch, Alan Jesperson, Philip NusbaumTerm expires 2017: Ann Iijima Youth Representative: Theo Hougen-Eitzman, 1 Seat vacantFor meeting minutes and other Board business, go to: minnesotabluegrass.org/as_Board

MBOTMA StaffExecutive Director: [email protected] Administrative Assistant: Bea Flaming, 612-285-9133

Minnesota BluegrassEditor: Doug Lohman, [email protected]: Wayne Erbsen, Martha Galep, Philip Nusbaum Coming Up: Loretta Simonet, John BrandbergY’All Come: Bill Lindroos Wordmark: Katryn ConlinPhotography: Doug Lohman Cover image: Back: Deadline for submissions: The 1st of the month preceding publicationSubmit content or request advertising guidelines at: [email protected].

Minnesota Bluegrass is published monthly by The Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association™, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation, P.O. Box 16408, Mpls, MN 55416. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without writ-ten permission from the publisher. The publisher is not respon-sible for the loss or return of unsolicited photos, recordings, or manuscripts. ©2016 Minnesota Bluegrass. All rights reserved. ISBN 0891-0537.

Thank you, MBOTMA members

Sustaining:Mary Ruth Alva Rod & Barb Anderson Paul Ashworth Kenneth Bloch Fred Boyer Mark & Erdyne Briere Susan Christensen-Wichmann Katryn Conlin Dan & Marilyn Cook Brian Cornell Bob & Vicki Dalager Hal Davis Doug Duncan Mary DuShane Matt Edwards Craig Evans Leon Evans Nathan Fjeld Jim Franczyk Warren Gumeson Timothy & Ginger Haaland Thomas Hollenhorst & Karin KraemerDavid Holm Steven Holste Dick & Sue Hopperstad Mark Johnson Chris Juettner

Patron: Peter & Bridgitt AlbrechtTony & Ann AnthonisenMary ArntsonLenny & Colleen, BaltusGary & Karen BartigRon & Kathy BladeBarry & Annie BrooksDoug ChasarPaul ChristiansonGary & Janet CobusLaura CooperBob & Marilyn DoddWilliam FancherJennifer FaulknerMark & Kathleen FisherJerry FrankDarrell & Marilyn FuhrTom FurrerJon & Sharon GaronArt GeffenDavid GlattDale & Diane E GruberMichael & Paula HildebrandtMabel HouleAnn Iijima & Myles BakkeDavid Johnson

November 2016Vol. 43No. 10Newsstand: $3Subscription: $35

Alan & Geriann Kagan Jim Lally Greg Landkamer & Jill StefansenDavid Lang James Lee Steve & Elaine LeVasseur Bill Lindroos & Rebecca ReiflerTravis Lockwood Rolf & Lisa Lund Michele Marshall Mac McKay Mary McSorley Bill Merrill Susan & Joe Meyer James Natwick Dennis & Jan O’Brien Linda & Tony Omann Dominic Orrico Bob Ostlund Dan Robinson Bryan Ronning Mark & Jan Rubbert Marty & Carol Schirber Wendy Schoen Howell Smith Lynn & Carolyn Thorson Ross & Elizabeth Vaughan David & Bonnie Warner Carole Wilson

Howie & Maggie JorgensonMaxine LarsonDouglas LohmanRichard LuckerothBob LundeenRudy & Jeanne MartiRodger McBrideDouglas & Georgene NesheimHarold PedersonDavid & Betty PfeifferLincoln Potter & Cecelia GreenDavid RogersTom & Cathy SchaeferThomas & Barbara SchommerThomas & Margaret SchuveillerPenelope SciallaDavid Tousley & Margaret BrandesMichael ValentinerDonna VelascoRebecca Wagner & Dan ForsytheTim WankelJane & Dobson WestJim WhitneyJohn Wilcox

Membership as of October 1, 2016: 979

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Individual $35Includes Minnesota Bluegrass, events discounts for one person, and a free classified ad.

Family $50Includes Minnesota Bluegrass, up to four discounted tickets per event, and a free classified ad.

Band $75

Includes Minnesota Bluegrass, advance booking information for MBOTMA events, a free classified ad, and listings in the MBOTMA member band directo-ry in print and on our website.

Sustaining Level $100Includes Minnesota Bluegrass, first-class postage, events dis-counts, two free concert tickets, and a free classified ad.

Patron Level $150Includes Minnesota Bluegrass, first-class postage, events dis-counts, four free concert tickets, and a free classified ad.

Go to minnesotabluegrass.org and select the Membership tab to join online and pay with PayPal. Or mail in your personal information and payment to:MBOTMA, P.O. Box 16408, Minneapolis, MN 55416

Call 800-635-3037 or 612-285-9133 for details or if you would like to join by phone.

Become a MemberThe Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association is open to everyone. Our members include people who love to listen to music and people who love to make music. As a member, you’ll be invited to participate in bluegrass and old-time music events and celebrations. You’ll receive discounted prices on admission to events and merchandise, and you’ll receive a subscription to Minnesota Bluegrass magazine.

Becoming a member of MBOTMA is easy and affordable. Your membership will not only nurture your own interests, but help to ensure that the bluegrass and old-time music tradition is sustained and grows in Minnesota.

Add $18 for First Class or foreign postage to individual, family or band membership.

Funding for MBOTMA provided in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and private donors

Inside: From the Editor 3Grass Clippings 5

Cover Story-Breaking Grass 6Harvest Jam 8

The Lost Snuffy Jenkins Tapes 10Election Ballot 14

Charlie Parr-a review 17Bluegrass Saturday Morning 19MBOTMA Calendar of Events 21

Coming Up 22

From the EditorSeasons change. The only thing we can really count on is

change. Change forces me to learn new ways of doing things. My computer and all of its programs are constantly updating them-selves, renewing themselves, and getting rid of bugs. I dare not become complacent and smug when it comes to my computer or it will surprise me. On the other hand, this constant change is good for me, invigorating and challenging, always spurring me to learn and grow. I choose to look at it as making my life more interesting and fun. One could look at MBOTMA this way, also.

Fall is here and the Harvest Jam is right around the corner. Breaking Grass is the headliner along with other fine bands, workshops, instrument vendors, Kip’s Live, and more jamming than you can stand!! Add to that the Race for Place Band Contest and we’ve got an exciting weekend coming up at the Harvest Jam. I hope to see you all there.

The Election Ballot is included in this issue. We have an extremely strong slate of candidates. Their depth and experience, with MBOTMA, is deeper than any slate in my memory. These are all dedicated, hard working MBOTMA volunteers.

MBOTMA is also taking applications for the position of Executive Director. You can submit resumes to the secretary, Mary DuShane, at [email protected] by the end of November.

Remember this is your magazine. Use it to promote your band, your gig, your favorite musical experience, or your favorite jam. I will always accept well written articles about the bluegrass, old-time, string band and acoustic music scene in our area.

See you at the Harvest Jam!!IBCNU, Doug Lohman

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November18-20, 2016

Mariott Minneapolis West Hotel

9960 Wayzata BlvdGolden Valley, MN

Saturday Night Ballroom Concert

Race for PlaceSaturday from 10AM to 5PM. Ten groups will have a chance to compete to win a spot on the Saturday Main Stage

of the 2016 MBOTMA Festival. Details at: www.minnesotabluegrass.org/race-for-a-place.html

FridayScrapegoat Skin and Bones - 7:30pm

Lost Tracks - 8:45pmMoss Piglets - 9:30pm

SaturdayRace for Place Band Contest - 10-4pm

Banquet Dinner - 6pmAnnual Membership Meeting - 6:45pm

Race for Place Winner - 7:30pmDouble Down Daredevils -8pm

Breaking Grass - 9:15pmSunday

Gospel Show 10:30 to Noonfeaturing

The Gloryland Gospel Band

Plus: Music Venders, Hayloft Jam Rooms, Band Workshops, Theme Jams, Kips Live!!

1-800-635-3037 www.MinnesotaBluegrass.org For Marriott Room Reservations: Call 952-544-4400

Sponsored by the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association

Breaking Grass

2016 Fall GMUG-Great MN Uke Gathering

at the Harvest Jam/Donegal Ballroom

FFI: http://www.bluegrassfun.com/

event-schedule.html

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Grass ClippingsThe Hellbenders present-TOMMY: A Bluegrass OperaThe Sheldon Theater in Red Wing, MN will present an interesting show on Nov 5, 2016; the Hellbenders present Tommy: A Bluegrass Opera. Rolling Stone Magazine says, “You haven’t heard ‘Acid Queen’ until you’ve heard it sung by a bearded man with a mandolin.” With a perfect mix of virtuoso musicianship and rock star vocals, The Hillbenders bring The Who’s famous classic rock opera, Tommy, to life in a new and exciting way. Pinball Wizard, See Me Feel Me, and Acid Queen are reimagined with banjo, dobro, mandolin, bass, and guitar, defying every notion you have about both classic rock and bluegrass.http://www.sheldontheatre.org/events/TommyBecky Buller releases “Phoenix AriseBecky Buller’s single “Phoenix Arise” was released in September. It’s a benefit project for the town of Madelia, MN, where many buildings were destroyed by a massive fire in February. Becky comes from St.James, her family lives nearby and her dad actually works in Madelia. Here is a link to a YouTube video on the song with a message from Becky, https://youtu.be/-tKELQbddugMBOTMA Fundraiser: January 28, 2017The MBOTMA Annual Fundraiser, last year known as Jed Fest, will be held on Saturday, January 28, 2017 at the Kraus-Hartig VFW in Spring Lake Park. Laura Cooper and Phil Nusbaum are co-chairing the event and need your help. Please let us know if you can participate in one of the following ways: 1) Your band/ensemble is available to play a set; 2) You have items to donate for the raffle; 3) You have items to donate for the silent auction; 4) You are available to help out before, during or after the event.MBOTMA has had a difficult year and is in dire need of an infusion of funds. Please help out any way you can and be sure to attend the fundraiser. Please contact Laura Cooper by email or phone ([email protected] or 612-414-2604).

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Breaking Grass to Headline Harvest Jam

With their fresh sound, original ma-terial, strong vocals and innovative musi-cianship, Breaking Grass is doing exactly what their name implies. Although not quite traditional, the music they present is without a doubt steeped in the timeless genre they grew up listening to. Com-prised of Cody Farrar on guitar, Tyler White on fiddle, Thelton Vanderford on banjo, Zach Wooten on mandolin, and Britt Sheffield on bass, this relatively new band formed with one goal in mind - to make music that all ages could enjoy. They are well on their way to becoming a household name and recently won the B.O.R.N. (Band On The Rise Nationally) award in June 2012.

2011 proved to be an exciting year for Breaking Grass with a string of wins at many of the southeast’s top music festivals including first place at the State of Mis-sissippi Bluegrass Band Championship

in New Albany, first place in the Athens Old Time Fiddler’s Bluegrass Band Com-petition in Alabama and first place in the Uncle Dave Macon Days Bluegrass Band Competition in Murfreesboro, Tennes-see. This was also the year Breaking Grass released their self-titled, debut album of all original music to a standing room only crowd at a CD release event presented by the City of Booneville, Mississippi. With a sense of excitement and drive from a very fruitful first year together, the band turned to producer Stephen Mougin for help with their next project, Running With The Moon, due for release in July 2012. This new project is a strong soph-omore offering from the group, showing their versatility as musicians and vocal-ists with 12 tracks of original songs, all written by the band’s main lead sing-er, Cody Farrar. Touching on sounds of traditional and contemporary bluegrass,

western swing and gospel, Breaking Grass is not only living up to their name, they are reaching far beyond the borders, bringing new fans to the world of acoustic music.

About the Band...Born in Alcorn County, Mississippi,

Thelton Vanderford was influenced most by his father, who played banjo and by the sounds of Chet Atkins’ guitar playing, which he grew up listening to. He was also quite the fan of old country music and the sounds of Paul Franklin on steel guitar. Being the elder of the band, Van-derford brings a wealth of music history to the group, having performed in many bands such as the Heismen Quartet, The Senators Quartet and the Hatchie Bottom Boys. When not playing banjo with Breaking Grass, Vanderford enjoys spending time with his family and work-ing on banjos and guitars.

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At only 18 years old and still in high school, Zach Wooten is already an ac-complished instrumentalist. The Dennis, Mississippi resident started playing guitar at the age of 8 and picked up the mandolin for the first time at 12 years old, winning the State of Mississippi Mandolin Cham-pionship in 2011. He credits his love of music to musicians such as Adam Steffey and Chris Thile but is quick to point out that his faith in God has influenced him more than anything else in his life.

When Tyler White begged his fam-ily for a fiddle after attending the Dixie Stampede at the age of three, who knew he would practically be a virtuoso by the age of 18? After giving in to his request two years later, then enrolling him in les-sons at the age of 7, Tyler has made it his mission to achieve success on his instru-ment of choice. Fiddle masters such as Stuart Duncan, Bobby Hicks and Michael Cleveland can be credited for inspiring Tyler resulting in his winning the Missis-sippi, Alabama and West Tennessee Ju-nior Fiddle Championships. He has also participated in the “Kids On Bluegrass”

program with the IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) for the past 7 years. When he doesn’t have a fiddle in his hands, the Jumpertown, Mississippi resident spends his time hunting, fishing and dreaming of fast cars.

Influenced most by his parents who spent hours singing together around the family’s piano, Cody Farrar comes by his love for music honestly. Raised on every-thing from Elvis to Ozzy, he developed a taste for all styles of music ranging from 50’s do-wap to classic country to heavy metal. It is exactly this upbringing that has given him the ability to compose songs in such varied styles. The Boon-eville, Mississippi resident is credited with writing most of the band’s original songs and fronts the group with a sea-soned voice that one finds almost unbe-lievable when you consider he is only in his twenties. When not writing new music for the band, Cody enjoys spending time with his wife and being outdoors fishing and camping.

Born in Tupelo but now a resident of Corinth, Mississippi, Britt Sheffield start-

ed playing piano at a young age and then added guitar and bass to his list of accom-plishments. While he readily admits he’s a bit of a newcomer to bluegrass, his stints playing in rock and country bands have molded him into a solid bass player. He enjoys listening to everything from John Mayer to Cadillac Sky to Hank Williams, Sr., and when not on stage, enjoys spend-ing time with his wife and is quite the avid duck hunter.

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MBOTMA is celebrating Give to the Max Day Thursday November 17!

Your contribution helps MBOTMA carry out all of its programs, including the Grass Seeds Academy,

which seeks to teach and inspire young people to explore, perform and, thereby, preserve bluegrass and old-time string band music.

Mark this Date and Contribute to MBOTMA! Keep our programs & festivals going strong.

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Harvest Jam Previewby Martha Galep

The Harvest Jam Acoustic Music Experience is scheduled for November 18 through 20, 2016, at the Marriott Minneapolis West Hotel. This eleventh annual event is produced by the non-profit Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association (MBOTMA) and will feature stage shows, featuring Breaking Grass, the Race For A Place Band Contest, Kip’s Live Open Mic, a “business of bands” workshop program, a Saturday night banquet dinner, music exhibitors, a Sunday morning gospel show, theme jams, and, of course, lots of impromptu jam sessions.

Stage ShowsThere will be stage shows on both

Friday and Saturday nights from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., and a Sunday morning gospel show from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., featuring The Gloryland Gospel Band. On Friday it’s Scrapegoat Skin and Bones, The Lost Tracks, and The Moss Piglets.

On Saturday we’ll feature this year’s Race champions, the Double Down Daredevil’s, and headliner Breaking Grass. Sunday morning it’s gospel starting at 10:30 a.m. with the Gloryland Gospel Band.

Race For A PlaceThe Race For A Place Band Contest

will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Ten groups will compete to win a $1,000 contract for a spot on the main stage of the 2016 Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival and other prizes. The Race champions will be announced about 4:45 p.m. and be invited to perform later that evening at 7 p.m. Already scheduled to compete are Mother Banjo, Olive Sings and the Biscuit Boys.

Kip’s Live Kip’s Live is an informal open mic

in Kip’s Irish Pub located within the Marriott Hotel. It all starts on Friday at 8 p.m. and on Saturday at 2 p.m. and finishes up about 1 a.m. both days. Mini-sets will be divided into a 20-minute set and a 30-minute set within each hour, allowing for a 5-minute emcee and setup time between sets. This odd set timing has

been designed to allow for some different impromptu acts that have a short list but would like some mic time. There will be a simple single mic setup. If you have interest or a unique idea or just want to get together with other band peers that you have always wanted to sing and play with, the Kip’s Live Open Mic may be the stage for you. To sign your group up for a slot prior to the festival, check out the schedule and Sign-up Genius link on the MBOTMA website. You can sign up to emcee, too! This is a great gateway to becoming a regular MBOTMA emcee at concerts and festivals.

Business of Bands Workshops

The Harvest Jam Acoustic Music Experience features a band development workshop series. You’ll usually find these workshops scheduled on Saturday morning and afternoon, with sessions designed specifically for bands and how to deal with the non-musical business side of being in a band as well as performing issues. We recently moved the workshops to a larger, more spacious location. Here is a sampling of the line-up of interesting topics for bands and musicians we have planned. We’ll post details on exact times as soon as it becomes available:

Instrument Tasting:A display of quality instruments for

you to sample, hosted by Ross Vaughn and David Vincent (MN State College Southeast)

Promoting Your Band:A workshop Hosted by Ann Iijima,

the ins and outs of the business of being a band.

How to Rehearse Productively:Breaking Grass will coach you on the

finer aspects of putting on a show, how to choose material and how to bring it to the public in the best possible way.

Plus other workshops TBA. Check the program when you arrive!

GMUG!The Great Minnesota Ukelele

Gathering will be held at the Harvest Jam.

Featured workshop/jam leader and concert performer will be Jim D’Ville. Jim is a music educator/facilitator. Over the last seven years he has taught his Play Ukulele By Ear workshops to thousands of players in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Jim is the author of the Play Ukulele By Ear DVD series and hosts the popular Play Ukulele By Ear website (www.PlayUkuleleByEar.com).

In addition to the Jim D’Ville jams, workshops and Saturday evening concert, there will be other ukulele workshops, organized uke jam sessions, as well as ukulele vendors. Plus, a Saturday ukulele open microphone and a Friday evening ukulele THUG band concert in the Donegal Ballroom. Questions about GMUG, contact [email protected]. For complete information, go to www.GreatMinnesotaUkeGathering.com.

Banquet DinnerAttendees to the Harvest Jam get a

chance to gather on Saturday evening for a grand banquet held in the main ballroom. Each year we celebrate our final event by feasting on a delicious meal while enjoying a dinner program that includes the results of the MBOTMA Election, a performance by the Race for a Place Contest winner and various tributes and recognitions of “our heroes!”

Savvy festival goers know that their ticket into the banquet affords them a chance to grab a great seat for the evening concerts to follow. The ballroom will open up at the end of the dinner but diners can keep their choice seats for the remainder of the evening.

As always, there will be a social hour prior to the banquet so diners can visit and enjoy some music while selecting their dinner seating. Those with banquet tickets will arrive prior to the banquet and check in with the seating volunteers who will provide a seating chart. The event organizers ask that diners present tickets at time of seat selection for ALL parties wishing to sit together, in order to guarantee that guests that wish to sit together can be accomodated. Please remember that this is a “first come” seating basis.

This year’s menu includes a garden

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salad, fresh baked goods, grilled chicken breast with wild mushroom sauce, vegetables and dessert with coffee or tea. The food is always delicious and the company excellent!

New this year will be the Annual MBOTMA Membership Meeting which will be conducted at the conclusion of the banquet. Hotel staff will open the ballroom to general admission and all attendees are invited to this open meeting. It is a chance to hear from our Board of Directors and ask questions about our organization. All are encouraged to attend.

Tickets for the banquet dinner are available by purchasing the VIP Ticket, which includes admission to the dinner. These tickets are limited and it is strongly encouraged that those wishing to attend the banquet purchase tickets early as they will sell out. See you there!

Music VendorsSomewhere in the flurry of activity,

you’ll need to find time to visit the

vendor room. Right across from the main ballroom, the vendor room will be open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. Scheduled to be there are Hinde Custom Instruments, Denny Mager, G. Edward Lutherie, Dave Bartig, Diff ley Guitar Studio, Groth Music, Bonanza Ukuleles, Earthway Farms Music, Blackbird Music, Survivor Girl Ukulele Band Project, and High Tide

Dyes and Designs.Theme Jams A very popular feature of last

year’s Harvest Jam, The Theme jams, will be back this year! With the Hayloft jam rooms upstairs, plus spaces in the hotel lobby, side rooms, the ballroom foyer, the workshop room at night, the ballroom late night, plus hallways and pool area, we count space for more than 20 simultaneous jams.

This is a picker’s festival, and there will also be several “theme jams” planned. New committee member Tom Peschges is arranging a variety of these. Americana Jam led by Tom Peschges of the Double Down Daredevil’s this popular jam lets you take a break from fiddle tunes and bust out a Bob Dylan song, enjoy some Emmy Lou, pull out your favorite John Prine, even do a John Denver.... it’s all good. Singers’ jam and harmony is welcome. Y’all Come; a Friday night jam led by the Biscuit Boys, Tim Wankel and friends, 3 and 4 chord songs, standards

that most people know or will catch up to real quickly. Great way to get the fingers loosened up and ease into the weekend. Old Time Fiddle Jam with Mary DuShane. Very popular jam last year. Rosin up that bow and jump in! Country Jam with Dan Fish of the Now and Then Band. Country classics you know and love. Gospel Jam with the Gloryland Gospel Band. Last year this jam was so popular they literally didn’t have room for every one so we are

going to find a bigger spot for them. New this year by request, a youth/teen jam held Saturday afternoon and hosted by ETSU (East Tennessee State University) Bluegrass Program student Sophie Galep. This jam is designed as a friendly, non-intimidating gathering to get our youngest jammers together to trade some tunes and fun! All levels invited. Locations to be announced. Contact Tom at [email protected].

Annual MBOTMA Membership Meeting:

6:45pm on Saturday, Novemeber 19, 2016 in the main ballroom.

Tickets & Lodging A weekend ticket that includes

everything except the banquet dinner can be had in advance for only $35 ($30 for members). A VIP ticket that includes the dinner along with weekend admission is $55 ($50 for members). Daily admission prices at the door will be $20 on Friday and $25 on Saturday. Teens are half price and kids are free. For more information

and advance tickets for the Harvest Jam Acoustic Music Experience call 800-635-3037 or visit www.MinnesotaBluegrass.org. For hotel reservations (you won’t want to go home) contact the Marriot Hotel at 952-544-4400 and ask for the Minnesota Bluegrass Festival rate. The Minneapolis Marriott West is located in Saint Louis Park, near the intersection of Hwy 169 and I-394.

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Starting in the early 1970s, almost every weekend in the summer I could be found going to an old-time fiddler’s convention or a bluegrass festival. Traveling from festival to festival in my 1964 Volvo sedan, I was rarely seen without a fiddle under one arm and a cassette tape recorder under the other. As the years rolled by, my collection of cassettes grew to be enormous. About a year ago I donated my trove of cassettes to The Southern Folklore Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This is a major repository of folk material, and I knew my tapes would not only be safe and secure there, but they would eventually be digitized and made available to the general public.

Recently, while rummaging though a storage closet at my home, I discovered yet another box with about one hundred worn and battered cassette tapes that I had completely forgotten about. In starting to go through this box of forgotten tapes, I discovered one that said, “Snuffy Jenkins Interview, 1/10/76.” Dang! I had all but forgotten all about that. Thinking back, I remembered that forty years ago I visited with Snuffy Jenkins at a TV station near Hickory, North Carolina, where I was living at that time. Snuffy was getting ready to record a TV segment for the local station with his old musical partner, fiddler Pappy Sherrill. Also on the program was another of Snuffy’s old sidekicks and a member of the Hired Hands, Greasy Medlin. Greasy, whose real name was Julian Leonard Medlin, had performed blackface comedy in medicine and tent shows as well as vaudeville. Also on the program that day were the Jones Brothers & the Log Cabin Boys out of

Charlotte, North Carolina. When I held the cassette tape of

Snuffy Jenkins in my hand, I knew this interview was important because many people have pointed to Snuffy Jenkins as the man responsible for influencing both Earl Scruggs and Don Reno to play in a three-finger banjo style. Below is an exact transcription of our conversation that day forty years ago.

Wayne Erbsen: Hey Snuffy, tell me how you got started.

Snuffy Jenkins: Well, I started with the guitar, I reckon, when I was about 12, 13, somewhere in that neighborhood. I’m from Harris, down there by the border. It wasn’t four or five miles from the South Carolina line.

WE: Did your whole family play?SJ: Yeah, most of them were

musically inclined. Of course, I was the youngest in the family. I heard these two fellows from down around Ellenboro and Mooresboro, North Carolina that were playing with three fingers, you know. I was playing guitar at the time. I liked the way it sounded, we had a banjo, I took to liking it. I tried it and liked it. I figured I could work three fingers as good as you could with two. At that time, most all of the people were frailing or playing two finger banjo. They put the third finger in

there, you know, you could get a lot more notes and it made it that much easier. so that’s where I got started. I don’t think I started the three finger style banjo picking, but I do claim that I was about the first one to go on the air with it.

WE: Who were the two guys?

SJ: That was Rex Brooks and Smith Hammett. They lived 25 miles from me.

They were closer to Earl Scruggs than they were to me.

WE: They didn’t start it, did they?SJ: I’ve heard so many tales...I don’t

know where it got started. I’d be afraid to say. It caught on like a wildfire and went all over the country.

WE: That’s probably because of you.SJ: I think Earl done more for it than

I did because he was on a bigger station in Nashville, while I was on a 5000 watt station in Columbia.

WE: How did you meet Earl?SJ: We were playing shows all

over North and South Carolina with the Hired Hands. Went under different names like J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers, Byron Parker and his Hillbillies, WIS Hillbillies. I started with J.E. Mainer in 1936 in Charlotte. I was playing banjo, J.E. played the fiddle, George Morris, and Leonard Stokes. We went from WSOC in Charlotte to Spartanburg. We didn’t stay there too long. Byron Parker got with us and we went to Columbia in 1937 and we’ve been there ever since. I stayed on that station for about 26 years. Television come in and show business wasn’t too good so I got to doing something else, and picking on the side.

WE: What have you been doing?SJ: Right now I’m a car salesman at

a Chevrolet dealership. I’ve been down

The Lost Snuffy Jenkins Tapesby Wayne Erbsen

Smith Hammett and unidentified man

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there about 18 years. WE: Let’s get back to Earl Scruggs.

How did you meet him?SJ: He would come around where we

were playing these shows. Me and him would get back stage. He was already playing. He had a brother that played some too. Junie. He got a lot of his stuff from Junie, and of course, me and him would play some stuff together. I don’t claim to have taught him anything...or Don Reno. But Don says I taught him. I can’t claim that. I didn’t do too much teaching.

WE: What was Earl’s style like when you met him?

SJ: Well, the same thing. He was playing with three fingers. He was just a young boy.

WE: Was he a great musician then?SJ: No, he was just starting out. WE: How often did you get together

with Earl?SJ: Just whenever we played in his

territory. WE: Did he ask you questions or did

you show him anything?SJ: No, not too much because he was

a little on the backwards side, you know. He was just a young boy and wouldn’t want to force himself, you know. He turned out real good. Laughing.

WE: He claims that he learned a lot

from you.SJ: He listened to me on the radio.

I noticed that me and him had about the same lick with the fingers. I don’t know whether he copied me. I guess he did, partly. I would love to play with him anyway.

WE: When I would see Scruggs on stage, he never seemed to smile.

SJ: He never did look like he was enjoying it too much, but he was. I like to look like I’m having a good time whether I am or not. That’s part of the game, you know. You can get by with a lot more like that. He’d just stand up there and pick and get more out of it than I can.

WE: How did you meet up with Don Reno?

SJ: He was about the same age as Earl. He was born and raised around Union, South Carolina. He’d come around when we was playing. He was using the two finger. I said “You can use three just as well as you can use two and get twice as much.” Don can play more banjo than me or Earl, either one, frankly. He does a lot more stuff. Somehow I like it clean. If you play too fancy a banjo, why you’re going to shoot over most people’s head, except musicians. That’s about all I can tell you right now.

WE: I notice you don’t use a capo.SJ: I never have.

WE: Don Reno doesn’t use a capo either. Do you reckon he got that from you?

SJ: I don’t know, he could have. WE: If you don’t capo up and play

other chords, what do you do about the 5th string?

SJ: I just don’t hit it. I just hit the string you want to bring out, you know.

WE: Besides Rex Brooks and Smith Hammet, were there other people around who played banjo?

SJ: That was about 1928 when I started. There wasn’t nothing happening back then. Just the depression.

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Saturday, November 5 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.

14th Annual Monroe Crossing-Cabin Fever Bluegrass ShowsMantorville Opera House, Highway 57 & Fifth Street Mantorville, MN 507-635-5625

Sunday, November 6 2:00 p.m. 5th Annual Monroe Crossing-Cabin Fever Gospel ShowMantorville Opera House, Highway 57 & Fifth Street Mantorville, MN 507-635-5625

Thursday, November 10 – 6:45 p.m.Friday, November 11 – 3:15 & 7:30 p.m Saturday, November 12 – 3:15 & 7:30 p.m

Mountain View Bluegrass FestivalOzark Folk Center Mountain View, AR 870-269-2542

Saturday, November 19 7:00 p.m Arts & Heritage Center of Montgomery Entertainment SeriesHilltop Hall, 206 First Street North Montgomery, MN 507-364-5933

Wednesday, November 30 11:30 a.m. City Center Holiday Concert SeriesCity Center Atrium, 40 South 7th Street Minneapolis, MN 612-384-1229

A Bluegrass Christmas

Friday, December 2 7:30 p.m. Marion Ross Performing Arts Center 147 North Broadway Albert Lea, MN 507-377-4371

Saturday, December 3 7:30 p.m. Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Avenue Lakeville, MN 952-985-4640

Thursday, December 8 7:00 p.m. Minden Opera House, 322 East Fifth Street Minden, NE 308-832-0588

Friday, December 9 7:30 p.m. West Point Community Theatre, 237 North Main Street West Point, NE 402-380-4886

Saturday, December 10 7:00 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Performing Arts Center 714 13th Street Worthington, MN 507-376-9101

Sunday, December 11 4:00 p.m. State Theatre, 88 East 4th Street Zumbrota, MN 507-732-7616

Wed, December 14 7:30 p.m. Bloomington Center for the Arts 1800 West Old Shakopee Road Bloomington, MN 952-563-8575

Friday, December 16, 7:00 p.m. Peace Lutheran Church, 400 Franklin Street SW Hutchinson, MN 320-587-3031

Saturday, December 17 8:00 p.m. Le Musique Room, inside the St. Michael Cinema 4300 O’Day Avenue St. Michael, MN 763-400-8006

Sunday, December 18 7:30 p.m. Pioneer Place on Fifth, 22 Fifth Avenue South St. Cloud, MN 320-203-0331

Go to www.MonroeCrossing.com for detailed information on all our concerts! Booking: Art Blackburn, 763-213-1349 [email protected]

Fall & Holiday Concerts with Monroe Crossing!

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Minnesota Bluegrass and Old-Time Music AssociationOfficial

Board of Directors Election BallotPlease read the instructions carefully.

Step 1: Remove the ballot from the center of the magazine. Loosen the center staples and it will come right out. (You will still have a complete magazine after it has been removed.)Step 2: Cut the ballot in half along the fold. Return just this sheet. Step 3: Mark the ballot. Vote for TWO officers and THREE At-Large Board Members.Step 4: Fold the ballot in thirds, with this side on the inside and the address on the outside. Do not place your return address on the ballot; your vote is confidential.Step 5: To vote by mail, staple or tape the ballot closed, apply a first class stamp, and mail. To vote in person, seal the ballot and bring it to the Harvest Jam, November 18–20, 2016

Mailed ballots must be received by Tuesday, November 15.Ballots must be handed in by 3 p.m. on Saturday, November 19th.

IMPORTANT Reminder: This page serves only as a Board Election ballot. Please do not include checks, membership renewals, or any other correspondence for MBOTMA. Ballots will not be opened until the Harvest Jam. Ballots received after the Harvest Jam will not be opened.

Returning Board members: Mary DuShane: Secretary, Greg Landkamer: Treasurer, Board member at Large: Ann Iijima

President: (Vote for 1)☐ Earl Jarosh☐ Laura Cooper

Write In:_____________________

Vice President: (Vote for 1) ☐ Jed Malischke

Write In:_____________________

AT-LARGE BOARD MEMBERS: (Vote for 3)☐ Brett Day☐ Dale Gruber☐ Alan Jesperson☐ Rudy Marti☐ Phil Nusbaum

Other (Write-in):____________________________________________________________________________________

This is your only ballot

Additional ballots will NOT be avail-able at the Harvest Jam

Mailed ballots must be received byNovember 15, 2016ORBring them to the Harvest Jam by 3 p.m., Saturday, November 19, 2016

Harvest Jam, November 18-20, 2016Marriott Minneapolis West9960 Wayzata Boulevard Just west of Highway 169 and north of I-394. Coming from I-394, exit at Hopkins Crossroad and go east on the north frontage road. For more information, visit minnesotabluegrass.org.

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I am running for an At-Large Board seat on the MBOTMA Board. I hope to strengthen the quality of our Association’s policies, process and leadership so that members can continue to participate in and enjoy and benefit from genres of mu-sic on which our association was founded. I have been a proud MBOTMA volunteer for 30 plus years, 29 years on the August Festival staff. I served a term on the MBOTMA Board in the 1980s and par-ticipated on our first strategic planning committee that outlined a need for an ex-ecutive director. I have served on an ad-ditional non-profit board of directors and a board of incorporation for a non-profit. I gained budget/finance, personnel, man-agement and communications experience over 36 years in not-for-profit, govern-ment and university environments. I love our Association and want to help increase the quality of MBOTMA’s administrative components in order to focus efforts on our membership by establishing a stable organization with qualified leadership that continues to grow and is financially viable. Thank you members and thank you volunteers for being the heart of our Association. Thanks for your vote.

For President: Earl Jarosh

For Vice PresidentJed Malischke

For Boardmember at Large:Brett Day

It has been several years since I was last on the board. I have decided to run as President of the MBOTMA organization. When I was last elected, I stated my bio as a mission, “ My desire to be part of the board is to make sure that as we deal with the opportunities and challenges of the rapid growth of Bluegrass and Old Time, that we continue to protect and grow the Educational and Family Friendly value set that is so much a part of MBOTMA and MBOTMA Festivals.” Our boards, via the bylaws, are supposed to set the only tenor of the organization.We are now facing some new challeng-es on the board. The board in the last few years has had some organizational changes that need to be reevaluated for the size of the organization. In addition it has begun to become too involved in the ongoing decisions of the different festival staffs. This has had a negative effect on our robust and highly needed volunteer staff.It is time for a MBOTMA reset and a plan has been drafted by Jed Malische to ac-complish this task. I will work carefully with Jed and the rest of the board to ex-ecute the plan, reevaluate the board to make it more effective, lessen the direct involvement of the board in day-to-day festival matters, lower the expenses of the board to put more funds back into the festivals, and make a priority to hire a dedicated Executive Director to take over the day-to-day matters. This way we can move forward in this new festival era with all the new festival competition and op-portunities.

For President Laura Cooper

I am running for president of MBOTMA. Our wonderful organization has been losing money and our reserves are limit-ed. In addition, the transition following Jed’s retirement has been fraught with challenges. MBOTMA needs effective leadership to survive and flourish. The strengths I would bring to MBOTMA, in the capacity of president, are those that have served me well in four decades of working with people, including effective listening, respectful communication, big picture thinking, facilitation experience, and conflict-resolution skills.

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As a candidate for the MBOTMA Board of Directors I think I can offer a unique perspective. I am not a musician and I am not in a bluegrass band. I sit in the audience enjoying and listening to all the different types of bluegrass music. I currently sit on two festival committees for MBOTMA, the Kickoff Festival and MBOTMA Festival. My wife and I have owned and operated our profitable busi-ness for over 30 years. What I can bring to the table is a working knowledge of ac-counting, marketing, public relations and people management. Volunteers are the key to MBOTMA’s success.

I share in the commitment and pas-sion that so many of our members have for the MBOTMA organization.

For Boardmember at Large: Phil Nusbaum

For Boardmember at Large: Alan Jesperson

For Boardmember at Large: Rudy Marti

I have been a Bluegrass fan for 5 decades and have played in a band, The Middle

I’ve been involved in bluegrass close to 50 years. How bluegrass fares matters to me as I am a bluegrass professional, combining broadcasting, performing, arts management and scholarship.

These are trying times for MBOT-MA. But the combination of experiences I offer give me a balanced perspective. Plus, I know personally many of the key figures in the communities that touch bluegrass to help MBOTMA make good decisions as we move forward. During my board tenure, I have helped MBOTMA raise money and served as an event MC. I help plan the Winter Bluegrass Weekend; in particular, the “Spotlight On” segment.

We must be true to our mission of serving bluegrass and old-time music while accommodating the recent changes in our music. Thanks to the many com-mitted volunteers, MBOTMA has an ad-mirable record of providing concerts and festivals and professional experiences for bands, statewide. The greatest challenge now is to maintain our quality level as we satisfy our core audience and serve the new audiences.

I have enjoyed serving bluegrass as a MBOTMA board member, and would like to think that the association has ben-efited, too. I am looking forward to con-tinued service.

My name is Dale Gruber and I would like to run for the board of Directors of MBOTMA. I have been involved with MBOTMA for 20+ years. For the last 15 years I have been on the festival staff working in reserved camping. Over the years I have donated my time, money and all the beautiful mulch we enjoy at El Rancho Manana. I have always been interested in helping to improve the fes-tivals in whatever way I could. As a busi-ness owner for the last 30 years, I have weathered the good times and bad and learned valuable lessons as we cut costs, developed processes and improved our company in general. I have strong lead-ership skills and am not afraid to make difficult decisions when necessary. I feel my experience and desire to see MBOT-MA become profitable would be a benefit to this organization.

For Boardmember at Large:Dale Gruber

Spunk Creek Boys, for most of that time. I was around at the beginnings of the orga-nization and have been a member forever.I have seen the unbelievable growth of MBOTMA and think it is one of the most well run clubs in the country. I feel my ex-perience in the history of the music makes me a strong choice to be part of the work-ings of the group.

I also have been the organizer of The Laughing Waters Bluegrass Festival since its inception so understanding what it takes to make a successful operation work is what I have to offer.

The dedication of the club officers is impressive and the variety of experience makes for a great Team. I would like to continue as part of that!

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Charlie Parr packed a rela-tively new venue late one night of Labor Day weekend. The venue, the Hook and Ladder, 3010 Min-nehaha Ave. So, Minneapolis, has been known as Patrick’s Caberet for many years and is now trying to become a performance space for all kinds of alternative and main-stream entertainment. The build-ing is an old firehouse used until about 1960. You enter by a small door in the back, go down a narrow hall, meet the bouncer and, voila, you’re in. It was at capacity, but not claustrophobic. Not many chairs… it’s the way of many venues these days. There were 3 rows of chairs up front and then standing room behind and about 125 people. It was cozy but not uncomfortable. LeAnne Smith opened the show, a gutsy singer with very wide dynamics, accompanying herself on electric guitar. Very intimate and soft at times, sometimes you

could hardly hear her, contrasted with assertive and full force singing and strumming. Very forceful and assertive. After a brief break Charlie Parr steps up to the stage, accom-panied by percussionist Mikkel Beckmen. Charlie just rips into his songs and is probably the best re-interpreter of the country blues that ever graced my ears. Com-pared to what you hear on pop radio these days, his resophonic guitar and banjo sound like they come from another planet, well, at least another century, yeh, the one before the 20th. His energy was solid throughout the hour plus that he played. Mikkel plays the perfect percussive back-up to Charlie’s old sounding guitars with solid rhythm on the washboard and stomp box. It sounds deceptively simple, but

ReviewCharlie ParrThe Hook and LadderSept 2, 2016By Doug Lohman

closer examination reveals com-plex patterns that complement Charlie so well. Charlie doses out some good advice sometimes. Like the song True Friends from the 2013 re-lease, Barnswallow. “True friends, true friends, to get one you gotta be one.” Other songs are about hobos, freight hoppers, working class peo-ple, the blues, gospel. Charlie’s all over the map when it comes to sub-jects. Towards the end of the show he did “Jesus on the Mainline,” from the 2007 recording called Jubilee. It all sounds so old and ancient while at the same time it feels current. He does such a wonderful job of making the old songs and his new ones sound so relevant and vibrant. Charlie is now. Real people, real stories. Real heartache, real love.

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Bluegrass Saturday MorningBy Phil Nusbaum

The Bluegrass Review in Minnesota Check www.bluegrassreview.com for a complete station list.

Station Day Time

KLQP-FM, 92.1 Madison Monday 8 PM

KMSU-FM, 89.7 Mankato; 91.3 Austin Sunday 10 AM

KBEM-FM, 88.5 Minneapolis Saturday 11 AM

KSRQ-FM, 90.1 Thief River Falls Sunday 11 AM

KQAL-FM, 89.5 Winona Saturday 9 AM

KDDG-FM, 105.5 Albany Saturday 9 PM

WTIP-FM, 90.7 Grand Marais Thursday 10 PM

KUMD-FM, 103.3 Duluth Saturday 4 PM

KRWC-AM, 1360 Buffalo Sunday 5 PM

KOJB-FM, 90.1 Cass Lake Sunday 6 PM

World of BluegrassIt was great to spend a week in Raleigh, NC at World of

Bluegrass, the annual event of the International Bluegrass Music Association. For many years, I’ve used the event as a source of recorded interviews heard later on the Bluegrass Review show. This time, I talked first with Valerie Smith. Anyone who has followed Valerie’s career knows her ear for a good song. When I heard about her latest project, a CD focusing on small-town people called Small Town Heroes I knew it was time for another Valerie Smith interview. Happily, Valerie consented to an interview where she sang some of her songs. At WOB, I also talked to Joe K Walsh. Joe teaches at Berklee College in Boston, has served as the Gibson Brothers’ mandolinist, and has recently recorded a CD under his own name. We talked about some of his pieces and their unusual inspirations. We also recorded interviews dealing with the creative process with Junior and Kati Penn Williams of Newtown and with Zoe and Cloyd, an old-time duet. Cloyd is from an old-time music performing family whose members have learned to sing and play through the oral tradition, while Zoe is classically trained. The interview focused on bridging their differences in musical approaches. Also, we recorded several bluegrass players who commented on the connections between their songs and their lives.

At World of Bluegrass, there are multiple showcase stages seemingly all the time, plus multiple venues in Raleigh featuring a different band every hour from the early hours of the evening to the wee hours of the morning. The experience is always an exhausting but satisfying one, and serves to inspire you throughout the year.The KBEM Fund Drive

The Fall 2016 KBEM fund drive is in the books! Bluegrass Saturday Morning and the Bluegrass Review combined to net about 140, including about 1/3 new pledges, considered a very good figure. The total of internet and telephone pledges totaled about $9,000. But if you count the matching funds that stimulated some of those pledges, the total jumps to about $12,000. About 10 years ago, the show stimulated higher returns. However, we think that overall, the fund drive is actually more productive that it used to be as KBEM now does a very good job of engaging listeners as sustaining members, contributors who renew without using the telephone or internet. Thanks to Pete Lee of KFAI who served as a guest pledge–rapper and took the discussion to some unexpected and funny places. Thanks, too, to general manager Michele Jansen and development person Janis Lane Ewart for their on-air and behind the scenes work to make it all run smoothly.Banjo Playing Workshop Coming

I will be setting up shop at the Homestead Pickin’ Parlor in Richfield for a banjo workshop over four Monday nights, Jan 30, 2017 and Feb 6, 13 and 20, 2017. The goal of the workshop is to lead players to the area of greatest banjo-playing satisfaction: creating one’s one solos and original music. These four sessions

will be popularly-priced, and give everybody space to create in an encouraging atmosphere. For info, talk to Marv at the Pickin’ Parlor ([email protected], 612/861-2208; or give me a shout to talk about the activities ([email protected]; 651/245-1527). Business Support for Radio Bluegrass

The Bluegrass Review is supported by a combination of grants and business supporters. To promote your business locally, statewide or nationally through the Bluegrass Review, contact Phil Nusbaum (651/245-1527; [email protected]). For promotion through Bluegrass Saturday Morning, your contact is Kevin Barnes (612/668-1735; [email protected]).Bluegrass Review Supporters• Hoffman Guitars www.hoffmanguitars.com (handcrafted

Hoffman guitars, authorized Martin repairs)• Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association

www.minnesotabluegrass.org (membership organization supporting bluegrass experiences)

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• Deep Roots Mountain Revival: www.mountainrevival.com (Bluegrass-based music festival Sept 25-28, 2016)

The Bluegrass Review is made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Weekly Playlists

Bluegrass Review playlists are located at www.bluegrassreview.com. Just use the “playlists” link you’ll find at the top of the page. Then click on “archives.”

Bluegrass Saturday Morning playlists are located at www.jazz88fm.com. At the top of the home page, select “programs,” then click on “programs A-I.” Then search the right-hand column for “Bluegrass Saturday Morning.” Link to on-demand Bluegrass Review segments from the KBEM-FM home page.

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Don’t miss these futureMBOTMA Events

Presented by The Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association

March 3-5, 2017Crowne Plaza HotelI-494 & Hwy 55 in

MinneapolisMBOTMA’s Winter Bluegrass Weekend is a Festival of Bluegrass & Old-Time Stringband Music & Dance. The Showcase of Bands features more than 50 groups on 2 stages all 3 days. The Saturday Night Headline Concert will feature Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands. The Old-Time Music & Dance Hall will feature Foghorn String Band and will have dances both Friday and Saturday.Plus the Gathering Place, “Spotlight On” series, work-shops, Grass Seeds Academy, instrument exhibitors, and jam sessions around the clock! All at the beauti-ful Crowne Plaza in Plymouth, Minnesota (on the NW edge of Mpls).

The 37th AnnualA Festival of Bluegrass &

Old-Time Music & Dance

For More Info: 800-635-3037 or www.MinnesotaBluegrass.orgThese festivals are presented by the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association (MBOTMA),

a non-profit 501c3 organization, and made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and

a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Call and ask to be on our mailing list.

Nov 18-20 2016Marriott Mpls West

9960 Wayzata Blvd, Minneapolis MNSaturday Night Headline Concert: Breaking GrassSaturday Afternoon Race For A Place Band Con-testSaturday Night Pre- Show DinnerComprehensive Band Development Workshop SeriesKipp’s Live Open Mic Fri & SatSunday Morning Gospel ShowMore Jamming AreasReduced Lodging Room Rate!

Marriott Minneapolis West9960 Wayzata Blvd, Golden Valley

Call 952-544-4400 for room reservations and ask for the Minnesota Bluegrass Festival rate.

The Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association (MBOTMA), is a 501c3 nonprofit, volunteer-based orga-nization serving Minnesota and the Midwest. Our mission is to preserve and promote bluegrass and old-time string band music in Minnesota.

Our activities include five annual festivals, plus numerous concerts, dances, jam sessions, workshops, and educa-tional programs. Our events and programs keep people who love to play and listen to traditional acoustic music busy all year round throughout the state of Minnesota. Check out our calendar of events for a full list of what is coming up. We encourage you to become a member of MBOTMA and welcome you at all of our events!

Funding for MBOTMA provided in part by a grant from the Minne-sota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and private donors

The 11th Annual

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MBOTMA Calendar of EventsConcerts and events presented or supported by the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association

The following events are presented by the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association (MBOTMA) or supported in part by MBOTMA, and made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Friday through Sunday, November 18-20, 2016, St Louis Park MN: Harvest Jam Acoustic Music Experience, Marriott Minneapolis West Hotel (9960 Wayzata Blvd). This 11th annual event will feature stage shows Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday morning featuring head-liner-Breaking Grass. Plus the Race For A Place Band Contest on Saturday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, the Saturday Banquet Dinner (get the best seats for the evening concert), Kip’s Live Open Mic in Kip’s Irish Pub throughout the weekend, work-shops, musical exhibitors, a Sunday morning gospel show, and lots of jam sessions. For more information 800-635-3037 or www.MinnesotaBluegrass.org. To book lodging contact the Marriott at 952-544-4400 and ask for the special Minnesota Bluegrass rate. Presented by the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association (MBOTMA).

MBOTMA Annual Meeting: November 19, 2016, Main Ballroom, Mariott Hotel as part of the Harvest Jam, 6:45pm

Friday-Sunday, March 3-5, 2017, Minneapolis MN: The Winter Bluegrass Weekend: A Festival of Bluegrass & Old-Time Music & Dance, Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West Hotel in Plymouth (3131 Campus Dr, I-494 & Hwy 55). Some fifty groups will be performing bluegrass, old-time stringband, and related forms of acous-tic music on several stages, including Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands for the Saturday Night Headline Concert and The Foghorn String Band in the Dance Hall. Plus workshops, dances, instrument exhibitors, and jam ses-sions around the clock. For more information call 1-800-635-3037 or visit www.MinnesotaBluegrass.org. To book

lodging contact the Crowne Plaza at 763-559-6600 or the nearby Residence Inn at 763-577-1600. Ask for the special Minnesota Bluegrass Festival rate

MBOTMA seeks newExecutive DirectorMBOTMA is seeking a new executive director, with an esti-

mated starting date of January, 2017. The executive director will be responsible for facilitating all aspects of MBOTMA’s opera-tions. Anyone interested in being considered please respond to board secretary Mary DuShane at [email protected] by the end of November.

Help Wanted: T-shirt teamThe MBOTMA T-shirt team is looking for new members.

They are in extreme need of volunteers to take charge of the merchandise booth at the Winter Bluegrass Weekend and the Minnesota Homegrown Kickoff.

Working at the t-shirt booth is a great way to meet people and support MBOTMA. If you’d like to coordinate the booth at a festival or co-run it with a teammate, please let us know. The team will gather in January to plan for the coming year.

And thanks to the current committee members: MBTOMA August Festival booth coordinator Barb Schommer, volunteer recruiter Maggie Jorgenson, and Bea Flaming who oversees it all.

Email Bea at [email protected] or call 800-635- 3037 if you’d like more information or would like to volunteer.

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Coming Up318: The 318 Café, 318 Water Street, Excelsior, 952-401-7902, www.three-eighteen.com331C: 331 Club, 331 13th Ave NE, Mpls, 612-331-1746, www.331.mnAGr: Amazing Grace Bakery & Cafe, 394 S Lake Ave, Duluth, 218-723-0075, www.amazinggraceduluth.comAPHC: “A Prairie Home Companion,” Minnesota Public RadioAST: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main St, Mpls, 612-379-3138, www.astercafe.comBSC: Black Sheep Coffee Cafe, 705 Southview Blvd., South St. Paul, www.blacksheepcoffee.comBTC: Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua, Bayfield, WI, 888-244-8368, www.bigtop.orgBoDD: BoDiddley’s Pub and Deli, 129 25th Ave S, St. Cloud, 320-252-9475CED: Cedar Cultural Center, 415 Cedar Ave S, Mpls, 612-338-2674, www.thecedar.orgCJ: Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Ave, St Paul, 651-330-4685, www.thecelticjunction.comCrH: Creek House Concerts, www.creekhouseconcerts.com, 651-633-5353. MUST call and reserve for these events.DAK: Dakota Jazz Club, 1010 Mall, Mpls, 612-332-1010, www.dakotacooks.comDUL: Dulono’s Pizza, 607 W Lake St, Mpls, 612-827-1726, www.dulonos.comDuG: Dunn Brothers on Grand, 1569 Grand Ave, St. PaulEAG: Eagles Club, 2507 E 25th St, Mpls, 612-729-4469, www.Mplseagles34.org

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10/26 – Wednesday• Lenz and Frenz, 331C,9:30pm• Sarah Morris, VC, 6pm• Irish Brigade, Half Time Rec, 1013

Front Ave, St. Paul, 6pm• Joan Baez, State Theatre, 805

Hennepin Ave, Mpls, 800-982-2787, 7:30pm

10/27 – ThursdayDan Rodriguez & Kari Arnett, WmH, 8pmThe Rockin’ Pinecones, EAG, 7:30pm

FITZ: Fitzgerald Theater, 10 E Exchange St, St Paul, 651-290-1200, www.fitzgeraldtheater.publicradio.orgGINK: Ginkgo Coffeehouse, 721 N Snelling Ave, St Paul, 651-645-2647, www.ginkgocoffee.comGKb: Grand Kabaret, 210 N Minnesota St, New Ulm, 507-359-9222, www.thegrandnewulm.comHB: Harriet Brewing, 3036 Minnehaha Ave, MinneapolisHOB: The Loft at Hobgoblin Music, 920 State Hwy 19, Red Wing, 877-866-3936, www.stoneyend.comMER: Merlins Rest, 3601 E Lake St, Mpls, 612-216-2419OAK: Oak Center General Store, 67011 Hwy 63, Lake City, 507-753-2080, www.oakcentergeneralstore.comRIV: Riverview Café & Wine Bar, 3747 42nd Ave S, Mpls, 612-729-4200, theriverview.comROCK: Rockwoods, 9100 Quaday Ave NE, Elk River, 763-222-4353, www.nograsslimit.com/RockwoodsCalendar.htmlSHL: Sheldon Theatre, 443 W 3rd St, Red Wing, 800-899-5759, www.sheldontheatre.orgTAP: Tapestry Folkdance Center, 3748 Minnehaha Ave S, Mpls, 612-722-2914, www.tapestryfolkdance.orgUMC: Underground Music Café, 1579 Hamline Ave N, Falcon Hts, 651-644-9959, undergroundmusiccafe.comVC: Vieux Carre, 408 St Peter St, St Paul, 651-291-2715, vieux-carre.comWmH: The Warming House, 4001 Bryant Ave S, lower level, Minneapolis, 877-987-6487, thewarminghouse.netZUM: Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Ave, Zumbrota, 507-732-7616, www.crossingsatcarnegie.com

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONSNovember 19

SaturdayDakota Dave Hull

Roots Cellar Music SeriesUniversity Baptist Church

1219 University Ave SE, Mpls, MN612-331-1768, 7pm

November 13Sunday

The RevelersCED

7:30pm

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10/28 FridayMonroe Crossing, Great River Arts Assn Concert, 122 First St SE, Little Falls, 7:30pmBrother Sun, Roots Cellar Music Series, University Baptist Church, 1219 University Ave SE, Mpls, 612-331-1768, 7pm

10/29 – SaturdayOne Ukulele, Fulton Farmers Market, 4901 Chowen Ave S, Mpls, 10amThe High 48s, OAK, 8pm

Bob Bovee & Pop Wagner, ZUM, 7:30pmAlternate Route, BSC, 10amAPHC - Hosted by Chris Thile, FITZ, 4:45pmDick Kimmel & Co, Holmes Ballroom, Detroit Lakes, Elle King, State Theatre, 805 Hennepin Ave, Mpls, 800-982-2787, 7:30pmLong Time Gone, HOB, 7:30pmThe Okee Dokee Brothers, CED,

November 14Monday

David BrombergCED

7:30pm

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11am and 1:30 pmBig Trees, DUL, 8pm

10/30 – SundayBob Bovee & Pop Wagner, Farmers Mercantile Hall, Garrison, IA, 2pmSingleton Street, Buffalo Bluegrass Sunday, 1207 St Hwy 25 Buffalo MN, 1pm

10/31 – MondayRoe Family Singers, 331C, 8pmNorthern Roots Session, Contented Cow, 302B Division St S, Northfield, www.contentedcow.com, 7:30pmCurtis & Loretta, Humphrey Manor, 311 3rd St SE, Wadena, www.krls.org, 3pm

11/1 – TuesdayCurtis & Loretta, Margaret Welch Memorial Library, Hwy 84 N, Longville, www.krls.org, 11amCurtis & Loretta, Brainerd Public Library, 416 S 5th St, Brainerd, www.krls.org, 5:30pmSt Dominic’s Trio, Driftwood Char Bar, 4415 Nicollet Ave, Mpls, 9pm

11/2 _ WednesdayCurtis & Loretta, Pequot Lakes Library, 31069 County Rd 112, Pequot Lakes, www.krls.org, 11amCurtis & Loretta, Cass Lake Library, 223 Cedar, Cass Lake, www.krls.org, 6pmMartha Scanlon, WmH, 7:30pm

11/3 – ThursdayCurtis & Loretta, Crosslake Area Library, 14126 Daggett Pine Rd, Crosslake, www.krls.org, 1:30pmCurtis & Loretta, Walker Public Library, 207 4th St, Walker, www.krls.org, 5:45pmGurf Morlix, WmH, 8pmSt. Dominic’s Trio, HB, 7pmThe Swamp Poppas, EAG, 7:30pm

11/4 – Friday Curtis & Loretta, Good Samaritan Society, 172 Summit Ave W, Blackduck, www.krls.org, 1pmCurtis & Loretta, Bemidji Public Library, 509 America Ave NW, Bemidji, www.krls.org, 6pmDan Mahar & Glenn Elvig, CrH, 7pmKatie Vernon & Natalie Lovejoy, AST, 9pm

11/5 – SaturdayPushing Chain, GKb, 7:30pmCurtis & Loretta, The Warehouse, 307 Norway Ave, Pine River, www.krls.org, 2:30pmMonroe Crossing, Mantorville Opera House, Hwy 57 and 5th St,

Mantorville MN, 2pmAlternate Route, BSC, 10amPig’s Eye Jazz Band, EAG, 6pmContra Dance with Greenwood Tree, TAP, 7:30pmSteve Earle & The Dukes, Pantages Theater, Mpls, 8pmWilkinson James CD Release with special guest Jim Walsh, AST, 9pm

11/6 – SundayCorpse Reviver, 331C, 3pmRebecca Loebe and Jesse Terry, GINK, 7:30pmMonroe Crossing, Mantorville Opera House, Hwy 57 and 5th St, Mantorville MN, 2pmOpen Mic, WmH, 6:30pm

Swing Brunch with Patty & the Buttons, AST, 11am

11/7 – MondayRoe Family Singers, 331C, 8pmSuzanne Vega, DAK, 7pmRichard Shindell, CED, 7:30pm

11/8 – TuesdaySt Dominic’s Trio, Driftwood Char Bar, 4415 Nicollet Ave, Mpls, 9pm

11/9 – WednesdayRoe Family Singers, Midtown Global Market, 920 E Lake St Mpls, 10:30pmChicago Farmer with Rachel Hanson, CED, 7:30pm

11/10 – ThursdayMother Banjo, WmH, 8pmSouth Side Aces, EAG, 8pmThe Mad Ripple Hootenanny 10 Year

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Anniversary, CED, 7pm11/11 – Friday

Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman, ZUM, 7:30pmThe Fish Heads, Sir Benedicts Tavern, Duluth, 6pmCurtis & Loretta, Thomas Ford Library, Western Springs, IL, Dick Kimmel & Co, GKb, 8pmLarry Long 65th Birthday & CD Release, CED, 8pm

11/12 – SaturdayOrganic Cowboys, GKb, 7:30pmBob Bovee, Blackhawk Folk Society, Mountain View Community Center, at N3137 21st Lane, Wautoma, WI, 7pmAlternate Route, BSC, 10amAPHC - Hosted by Chris Thile, The Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA, 4:45pmContra Dance with Northern Aire, TAP, 7:30pmCurtis & Loretta, Forest Park Nature Center, Peoria, ILDean Magraw, Sundin Hall, Hamline University, Snelling & Hewitt Ave N, St Paul, 612-677-1151 Dick Kimmel, Minnesota Songwriter’s Festival, New Ulm

11/13 – SundayRoseann Cash, SHL, 3pmGloryland Gospel Band, Church of Saint Joseph, Rosemount Yellow Ribbon Club Dinner, 13900 Biscayne Ave W Rosemount, 651-423-4402, 5pmDaniel Schwartz + Gabriel Andrews, AST, 8pmThe Revelers with Sister Species, CED, 7:30pm

11/14 – MondayRoe Family Singers, 331C, 8pmSuzanne Vega, DAK, 7pmDavid Bromberg Quintet, CED, 7:30pm

11/15 – TuesdaySt Dominic’s Trio, Driftwood Char Bar, 4415 Nicollet Ave, Mpls, 9pm

11/16 – WednesdayDar Williams, CED, 7:30pm

11/17 – ThursdayBrian Laidlaw, New York Mills Cultural Center, 24 N Main Ave, New York Mills, 218-385-3339, 7:30pmSister Tree, Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Ave W, St. Paul, 8pmThree Women & The Truth: Mary Gauthier, Gretchen Peters, and Eliza Gilkyson, CED, 7:30pm

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11/18 – FridayRoe Family Singers, Junior’s Bar and Restaurant, 414 So Main, River Falls, WI, 8pmBecky Thompson & Old School, EAG, 8pmKaren Savoca & Pete Heitzman, BoDD, 7pmThe Last Revel and The Lowest Pair, CED, 8pm

11/19 – SaturdayErik Brandt and Noah Reimer, GKb, 7:30pmMonroe Crossing, Hilltop Hall, 206 First St No, Montgomery MN, 7pmBob Bovee & Pop Wagner, Folk House, 4500 Culver Rd, Golden Valley 651-274-6604, 7:30pmAlternate Route, BSC, 10amAPHC - Hosted by Chris Thile, Broadcast from The Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver, 4:45pmContra Dance with Light of the Moon, TAP, 7:30pmDakota Dave Hull, Roots Cellar Music Series, University Baptist Church, 1219 University Ave SE, Mpls, 612-331-1768, 7pmJohn Gorka, CED, 8pmKaren Savoca & Pete Heitzman, CrH Willow Brae - Season of Thanksgiving (Laura MacKenzie & Andrea Stern), HOB, 7:30pm

11/20 – SundayCorpse Reviver, 331C, 3pm

11/21 – MondayRoe Family Singers, 331C, 8pm

11/22 – TuesdaySt Dominic’s Trio, Driftwood Char Bar, 4415 Nicollet Ave, Mpls, 9pm

11/23 - WednesdayStephen Earl Howard, Brookside Bar, Marine on the St. Crioux, 7:30pm

11/24 – ThursdayThe Rockin’ Pinecones, EAG, 7:30pm

11/25 – FridayDevil’s Flying Machine, 331C, 10pmRoe Family Singers, Midtown Global Market, 920 E Lake St Mpls, 5:30pmLeo Kottke, FITZ, 8pmSister Tree, Charlie’s Irish Pub, 101 Water St., Stillwater, 7:30pmThe Pines, CED, 8pm

11/26 – SaturdayLong Time Gone, HOB, 6th Annual Holiday Show, 7:30pmMichael Johnson, ZUM, 7:30pmNew Riverside Ramblers, VC, 9 pmAlternate Route, BSC, 10amContra Dance with Northern Aire,

TAP, 7:30pmCurtis & Loretta, Charles & Myrtle’s Coffeehouse, Chattanooga, TNSister Tree, Charlie’s Irish Pub, 101 Water St., Stillwater, 7:30pm

11/28 – MondayRoe Family Singers, 331C, 8pmNew Riverside Ramblers, EAG, 7:30pm

11/29 – TuesdaySt Dominic’s Trio, Driftwood Char

Bar, 4415 Nicollet Ave, Mpls, 9pm11/30 – Wednesday

Lenz and Frenz, 331C, 9:30pm12/1 – Thursday

The Swamp Poppas, EAG, 7:30pm12/2 - Friday

Sawtooth Brothers and No Man’s String Band, WmH, 8pm

12/3 – SaturdayAlternate Route, BSC, 10amAPHC - Hosted by Chris Thile, Broadcast from The Town Hall, NYC, 4:45pm

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