The fifth and final day of my mini-tour with the Fossil Creek Band began bright and early on Sunday morning with a gospel show at the WBRF radio station in Galax, Virginia.
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The first adventure of Thursday came in the form of a boat ride on Moses Creek, between the mainland of Florida and the island where St. Augustine sits, from Jan's brother Bob. We didn't see any alligators, but we did spot some cormorants and a few dolphins!
When I touched down at the airport in Jacksonville, Florida, last Tuesday afternoon for my five-day mini-tour with Fossil Creek, I was both exhausted from the day's flights and excited to be spending days in a condo right on the beach! As soon as I put my bags down in my room at Sea Haven Resort in St. Augustine and returned from a quick trip to the grocery store, Jerry - our bass player - and I went right out onto the beach, wading into the water, feet in the sand. I even found a cute little hermit crab! (Don't worry, I didn't take him home!) ; )
The music was jammin' last night at the Conn-Weissenberger American Legion Hall in Toledo, Ohio, last night when bands from around the area played a healthy set in special honor of the longest-running bluegrass jam in Ohio - 40 years now! One of its founding members, Chester, was also honored for his 90th birthday, too, with a sheet cake and much merry-music-making.
IBMA - short for International Bluegrass Music Association, and nickname of their huge yearly "meeting"... Which, of course, in case you've never been there, means every bluegrasser who can be there comes to jam with fellow musicians - friends and strangers alike - see their new and/or favorite bluegrass acts perform, and to promote their band, festival, products, etc. As they say, 'see one thing, miss a hundred other things'; and it's true.
Tom Galbraith and Jan Hudson - members of the Fossil Creek bluegrass band - and I all went mostly as a promotional tool, as we'd bought a booth in the Exhibition Hall. It's hard to say early on what you get out of a booth, at least in terms of future gig engagements, but we certainly met a lot of interesting and fun people there! If playing at a picturesque vineyard isn't a happy enough thought, I don't know what is. Last Sunday, I joined Fossil Creek up in Grand Rapids, Ohio, to play a show for a relatively small but happy crowd. (Well, they Were sampling wine, too, after all...) ; )
For all you Wooster-area fans, be sure to pick up a copy of next week's (Monday, Aug. 11th) AND the week after's (Monday, Aug. 18th) Wooster Weekly News. Next week's issue will have a bit about my upcoming recital with Peter at St. Mary's church in Wooster (keep reading for more details). The week after that, I will be a feature story!
In other news... Talk about busy! My birthday was July 25th and I'm just now blogging about it - I know, I know... but let me do my best to play catch-up here.
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