HARVEST FEST - This Saturday, Johns Island

Good times ahead! Bluegrass music, horse rides, hay rides, jump castles, BBQ, Beer, . . . and more.

MUSIC SCHEDULE
11:00 AM - Taped Music
NOON - The Plantation Allstars
1:00 PM - Southern Flavor Bluegrass Band
2:00 PM - Hungry Monks
3:00 PM - YeeHaw Junction
4:00 PM - Blue Stone Ramblers

TICKETS
Gold Pass Holders - FREE
12 & under - FREE
Everybody else - $5

MAP

County Park website

Hungry Monk's Bluegrass and Oldtime Jam is on!

Sunday, October 12th
7:30 pm 'til
@ Hungry Monks Music
1948 Belgrade Ave (West Ashley)
Charleston, SC

Great bluegrass venues of the Lowcountry

Fall is the best, people!

Perfect temperatures, lots of festivals & parties, roasted oysters, shrimping, . . . and lots of bluegrass.

Lowndes Grove Plantation on the Ashley River (Oct 3'08)

Sunset on the Ashley River (Oct 3 '08)

Sun sets on a nice crowd at the Goose Creek Music Festival (Oct 4 '08)

YeeHaw gets ready to take the stage GC Music Fest (Oct 4 '08)

. . . John's Island tomorrow!

BBQ & Bluegrass

I guess they go together. Seems like 60% of the gigs I play are catered by some BBQ joint. YeeHaw Junction has played at several of the annual Bluegrass and BBQ Festivals at Boone Hall in Mount Pleasant, SC. This picture is from the 2007 event, but was posted in the Fall '08 issue of Charleston Home magazine.

Tonight (Sep 25 '08) Col. George DelPorto and his clan are playing at the Hometeam BBQ in West Ashley. Hopefully I will be able to slip over there. It's always fun to grab a cold beer and listen to some Col. George banjo.

Ike, Galveston, Bluegrass

Monthly Bluegrass Jam is scheduled for this coming Sunday (the 14th) at Hungry Monk in West Ashley at 7:30 pm.

Tony Rice is perhaps my all-time favorite musician. Well, . . . a close second to Tim O'Brien. Anyway, He recorded this song many years ago about the big hurricane that hit Galveston, TX in 1900. Without satellite weather tools, the people were caught completely by surprise. It was devastating. Since I live in a coastal community, I really appreciate the song, and the story, and modern weather tracking technology!

Check this out: Tony Rice on YouTube

Just an update . . .

I haven't posted in a while, but Bluegrass continues to be prevalent in my life. YeeHaw Junction had a little practice session last night out at John's Island. It was fun. We kicked off the evening with an energetic rendition of "Fireball Mail" and ended it with a great old-timey number called "Hard Times." We're gearing up for Harvest Fest. What a great event that is every year. You should attend - Nov 1.

Two CDs are on heavy rotation in my car right now - Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot and The Infamous Stringdusters Fork in The Road. (I'm also listening to Sol Driven train a lot. It's not bluegrass, but it is some great music!)