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Give the Fiddler a Dram

Halliehurst Porch Originally uploaded by kenf225 I passed the 1,000 mile mark just north of the Maryland-Pennsylvania border this morning, heading north from the Augusta Heritage Festival in West Virginia, where I’ve spent the last week playing tunes, working a … Continue reading

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The Woodsmen’s Festival

Timber-Felling Competition Originally uploaded by kenf225 The gig yesterday at the Woodsmen’s Festival was great fun. The day started off with a vicious thunderstorm and torrential rain, but cleared into a near-perfect day by the time we did the sound … Continue reading

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Lunch in Philipsburg, PA

Philipsburg was the western edge of our coverage area when I worked for the Centre Daily Times in State College. (I started that job almost exactly 20 years ago.) It’s got a pretty, but faded, downtown, where I’m eating at … Continue reading

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Protected: Bye For Now, or, Why I Quit My Job

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Protected: Back to the Bush Of Ghosts

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Kate Steps Out

This Friday night in Red Hook I’ll be playing a very special show with Kate Giampetruzzi. Some of you may remember the wonderful shows I used to get to play as part of the Kate and Lou Band. Lou died … Continue reading

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Rainbow Over Grey Fox

By the time we got the instruments under cover the sun had come back out.

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Postcard From the Hill

Sun’s going down, the Sparrow Quartet (a group in which Bela Fleck is just one of the band) is playing, it’s cooled off from the blazing afternoon heat, the view is pretty from the hillside, and all is generally right … Continue reading

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Stabbed By An Antique

On a crowded rush-hour IRT local, I said to this woman, “You’re going to hurt someone with that thing,” pointing to the six-inch hatpin with a sharp tip protruding at eye-level from her hat. “I’ve been told that several times … Continue reading

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