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We are testing the waters. If we do one, and it goes well, it could be a regular thing. Since we are expecting people to travel to it and stay overnight, it won't be weekly or monthly.

"Focus on a few things" sounds helpful. Thanks.

Sure, change my user name from RevRichard to Richard Francis

Thanks. My email is 8stringster@gmail.com

A couple of us are looking to set up a Bluegrass/Old Time Acoustic workshop and jam in the Okoboji area of northwest Iowa. We have a retreat center we can use, but none of us has any experience...

I'm in Carroll, about an hour away. Guitar and mandolin, but I don't know anybody else in the area who plays.

I have just acquired an old bowlback mandolin and wonder how it would sound with nylon strings. Anyone have any experience with them?

Sign me up!

Well, thanks for the invite, but that's a mite too far for me.

I know I've posted this before, but...anyone in western Iowa jamming or interested in starting? I live on Highway 30 between Ames and Omaha and am willing to travel.

This has got to be the only place in the world where people fight over the privelege of paying the postage on a mandolin with a warped neck :))

Well, I was gonna ask a question, but you all answered it. Thanks!

Here's a picture of me playing in front of a bunch of kids at a church conference (Synod School of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., if you're interested). Most of...

For me, the greatness of Monroe comes in his innovation. Yes, there are better singers and better mandolin players, but Bill created a genre--and not many people can be said to have done that. A...

This is a great piece--and the bass solo (bass solo?) is worth the price of admission by itself. She is truly amazing.

Yeah, it was a good article. The heck of it is, I live in the area where the cafe is located, I've been by it a hundred times, and I never made the Bluegrass/music connection. Around here things can...

Wow! I gotta send these lists to my wife. She thinks I have too many instruments, and all I have are three guitars and a mando.

I stumbled onto Dunlop Big Stubbies a couple of years ago and that's all I use now. They do wear out, however, when I play hard, which I tend to do.

I love this thread! Thanks for posting.

I think it's interesting how many definitions of "sad" are represented here. My nominees:
"Red Dirt Girl," Emmylou Harris (I know someone else mentioned it)
"Lost Highway," Hank Williams
The...

Interesting that Bill Monroe, the guy who started it all, was a pretty snappy dresser and had the Blue Grass Boys looking pretty snappy, too--even String Bean.

I think it's interesting that Bill Monroe, the guy who started it all, was a pretty snappy dresser, and had the Blue Grass Boys dress up as well.

When Earl Scruggs hit the big time, banjo players noticed that he wore his banjo strap on his right shoulder. Pretty soon every banjo player who wanted to sound like Earl wore his banjo strap the...

>Would Bluegrass music have been different if that were the case?

I really don't think Bluegrass was out there waiting to be invented, like Bebop or Rock 'n Roll. I think it took one man to make...

Another striking thing about the High, Lonesome Sound recording is how many different keys the songs are in. My all-time favorite, "When the Golden Leaves Begin to Fall" is in E, not an obvious key...