From: Tom N. Jones (jfms@mediaone.net)

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Date: Wed Jan 21 23:00:20 1998

 

Armuchee Bluegrass Festival

 

Your web page brings back memories of a Labor day fest my wife and

daughter attended while visiting family in Rome. We had promised my

daughter a birthday gift of a trip to Ralph Stanley's festival in

Virginia that weekend, but were bequiled by a sign on Rt 27 and pulled in

to see what was happening. We never got to Virginia, but enjoyed

ourselves so much we stayed the whole weekend at Armuchee (we say

Amurchee)! There was a group called The Golden River Grass with Doodle on

the bluegrass harmonica, and a guitar player with an inexaustible

repertoire who enthusiastically dragged my daughter around to all the

jams. It seems that (this was about 1978 or so)no one had seen a girl

high school junior who played the fiddle, banjo and guitar, and no one

would believe it. They kept asking when would the fiddler she was holding

the fiddle be back!

 

(Reprinted from Bill's Bluegrass Guestbook)

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