Montana Rockies Bluegrass Association

Hey everyone dont forget the Kootenai River Bluegrass Festival ( http://www.krbgf.org/ ) is fast approaching….Wise River Mercantile will play a couple of set as will Mike and Tari i believe…the Merc might have some special guests as our regular band members (Rob and Chelle) are on baby watch this week…so it will either be special guests or a weeks old baby on stage!

See you on the banks of the river!

Brian

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Get the full story and flyer from this month’s Newsletter (page 9).

Band Schedule for Hardtimes Bluegrass Festival

Friday  July 24

6:00 – 6:35           Blue to the Bone

6:40 – 7:15           Bosco Land & Stone Mountain Bluegrass

7:20 – 7:55           JD Webb & the Downstate Ramblers

8:00 – 8:35           Will Williams & Gravel Road

8:40 – 9:15           Gravely Mountain

Saturday  July 25

12:00 – 12:35       Kids in Bluegrass

12:40 – 1:15         Bosco Land & Stone Mountain Bluegrass

1:20 – 1:55           Bill & Verna Molenda

2:00 – 2:35           JD Webb & the Downstate Ramblers

2:40 – 3:15           Will Williams & Gravel Road

3:20 – 3:55           Blue to the Bone

4:00 – 4:35           Darby Sireens

4:40– 5:25            Throw together band contest

5:30 – 6.05           Spring Thaw

6:10 – 7.00           Pioneers in Northwest Bluegrass

7:05 – 7:40           Fred & Emily Frank

7:45 – 8.20           3 Flats & a Spare

8:25 – 9:00           Mike & Tari Conroy & Friends

Sunday  July 26

10:00 – 11:55       Open Bluegrass Gospel Stage

12:00 – 12:35       3 Flats & a Spare

12:40 – 1:15         Fred & Emily Frank

1:20 – 1:55           Spring Thaw

2:00 – 2:35           Mike & Tari Conroy

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Check out this clip of Andy Dunnigan imitating Jerry Douglas on his dobro. Wow! I know his pa’ Johnny Dunnigan is bursting with pride at his son’s musical prowess. I can remember when Andy was just a wee lad still green in the horn on the dobro. phew!!! this shows you what some talent and practice can do for you. inspiring…..

Lil’ Smokies is made up of:

Pete Barrett, pistol – guitar

Ted Germanson – bass

Cameron Wilson – mando

Booking – (406) 381-0525

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Our very own, Salmon Valley String Band, have been invited to be the opening act for the nationally touring, Missy Raines and the New Hip in Salmon, Idaho.  Missy Raines’, the perrenial IBMA bassist of the year is touring with her latest band incarnation The New Hip.

Missy Raines is now stepping out to make a longtime dream come true; creating a fusing of bluegrass virtuosity, jazz-tinged groove and a song-driven sensibility with a hot band. – Missy Raines’ website

Curtis & I caught one of their sets at Wintergrass in February and we were both thouroughly entertained with Missy’s kick-ass energy and her musical phenom bandmates.

Date:  7/19/2009

Time:  8:00 PM

Location;  Island Park, Salmon, Idaho

for samples of studio versions of their music go to their myspace page.

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I’m working on the next newsletter which will be published the end of June. If you have items for the newsletter please get them to me by Wednesday, June 24th. Thanks.

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Translated from Norwegian; “Retreat! They’re sending in the banjo company!”

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Hello Montana, we’re the Urban Monroes, a Pacific Northwest bluegrass band from Oregon. We wanted to introduce ourselves and say hi.

Coming up July 17th-19th we will be at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival, in Darrington, Washington. We’re a couple of hunderd miles closer to Darrington than you are, but it would still be a chance to meet each other part way!

This will be Washington’s 33rd annual answer to Telluride, more traditional than Telluride  in the bluegrass sense, but nearly as dramatic in setting. Darrington is surrounded by the Mt Baker National Forest and is less than an hour from North Cascades National Park. The Darrington Bluegrass Music Park sits at the base of Whitehorse Mountain, which is supposed to have been the inspiration for Bill Monroe’s Whitehorse Breakdown. (What could be more bluegrass than that?) The small town of Darrington is less than a two hour drive from Seattle, but it feels like a whole different planet. With more than 30 years of practice, the bluegrass festival is more than an institution there and it has taken its place as the granddaddy of all bluegrass festivals in the Pacific Northwest.

This year’s festival will feature three days of music from 14 bands and campsite jamming that will probably start days before the performances do. The Urban Monroes are very pleased to be performing there along with Dailey & Vincent and Dale Ann Bradley. So all of us in the Urban Monroes invite you to come on out and if you see us there, be sure to say howdy.

Urban Monroes contact-Fran Kent  urbanmonroes@comcast.net

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