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Campfire Bluegrass Max and Weston entertain
We don't come from some " holler" in back woods Kentucky mountains with our best coon dog sleeping on our front porch, pop's favorite whiskey "still " covered by brush down by the river, grandma's hot fresh baked biscuits on the table and you better not...
Waiting to go on stage making new friends and seeing old ones is the best
Talking shop is a performer's best medicine. As one group finishes their set, the emcee steps up on stage and introduces the next group. There is a fifteen minute break between bands, enough time for people to stretch, take a walk, find the porta...
Cow Talk Sundown
County road 40, cutting away from Colorado State Highway 69, takes me straight to the Alvarado Campground in the nearby Sangre de Cristo mountains - the end of a long driving day from New Mexico. The campground,in the Pike and San Isabel National...
Westcliff, Colorado in the country
The mountain range, to the west, rises ten thousand feet plus into the clouds. These clouds, turning dark and ominous,prompt festival help to lower the flaps of our music tent to protect the performers and us, in the audience, from soon to come wind and...
Nothing Fancy On stage at High Mountain Hay Fever Festival
" Nothing Fancy" is the name of this bluegrass band. This is a good name for a band because we didn't just drive hundreds of miles to Westcliff to listen to frills and trills and a lot of Mozart licks. Nothing Fancy serves us country meat and...
Sitting by the Brook refresh yourself
Mother Nature makes her own music. This little brook gently runs through the Alvarado Campground, following a path of least resistance on it's way to join a larger river, and then, with that river, rambling all the way to the closest ocean. Nature's...
Jones Theater Established 1936
In 1936, television wasn't even someone's dream. In 1936, families and kids brought their dimes to this theater, looked at the marquee, found seats in what now are uncomfortable chairs, and watched westerns and newsreels from around a world just coming...
On Stage with Kody and the gang Kody Norris Band
One of the more entertaining bands at the festival, playing numerous sets over the four days, is the Kody Norris Show. The Kody Norris band features traditional bluegrass along with dancing, clowning around, comedy, and audience participation tossed in...
High Mountain Hay Fever Bluegrass festival Westcliff, Colorado
The High Mountain Hay Fever Bluegrass Festival runs July 10-13 at the Bluff and Summit Park in Westcliff, Colorado. A huge circus tent is set up in the town park with spectacular views of the mountains and valley nearby. In the 2010 census, the...
Fort Union Photo essay
There are artifacts to see at this national monument - wagon wheels and wagons, an empty jail, cannons, latrines, a visitor center, the only hospital for five hundred miles, ruts where wagons followed the Santa Fe Trail, pieces of adobe buildings that...
” All of Me “ 44th Army New Mexico National Guard Band
" All of Me " is a jazz standard, a song called often at jam sessions and performances, a standard that has been going strong since the 40's. Tonight's performance brings back the Big Band era after World War 2 when ballrooms,in big as well as...
Albuquerque Concert 44th Army New Mexico National Guard Band
In the American Civil War, drummer boys led troops into battle and were one of the first to be shot by opposing forces. Paintings in the White House show George Washington surrounded by a drummer and fife player when he was surviving Valley Forge and...
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